Galway Comedy Festival is bursting at the seams with comedy brilliance, all part of a 70-strong line-up of international stars, homegrown comedy greats, and emerging talent, playing 69 shows across 16 venues over 7 days and nights. You’d best start planning your week of ‘carefully curated craic’.

Barry Murphy
Barry Murphy is, simply, a living legend of Irish comedy. Alongside Ardal O’Hanlon and Kevin Gildea, he co-founded The International Comedy Club in Dublin, a key breeding ground for the Irish alternative-comedy boom of the 1990s, the repercussions of which are still felt today. He was also one-third of Aprés Match where his turns as Frank Stapleton and Liam Brady were nothing short of inspired, while his German character, Günther, is a brilliant means through which we can laugh at the absurdity of some of our own social norms in Ireland.

Phill Jupitus
Phill is a British comedy legend, but while comedy has taken a back seat in recent years as he pursues his love of the visual arts, Galway Comedy Festival always gets Phill back on stage. Phill makes his annual pilgrimage to Galway in October, where he will regale us with stories witty and humorous, indulge in some improv, recite some verse as Porky, and maybe even get us to sketch and draw along with him. Comedy’s Renaissance Man? Probably. Great to have him back? Definitely.

DOORS: 12:30 | SHOW: 13:00 | Age 16+