This October the nation’s biggest comedy festival will take over Galway’s pubs and theatres for seven joyous nights, transforming the city and county into Ireland’s Comedy Capital – in the process delivering an unforgettable celebration of humour, wit, and all things funny.

Russell Howard
Russell Howard is relentlessly funny, endlessly charming and undoubtedly the king of feel-good comedy. A mega-star for over 15 years, Russell Howard’s Good News showed him as a firm believer in comedy as a way to deal with a world in crisis, and boy does that feel timely again.

“It’s such a fascinating time to be a comedian because there’s this blizzard of political incompetence, societal meltdowns, and the planet is dying,” Howard told the New Zealand Herald. “I just like writing jokes about the world, even if it’s bleak. That’s what I do.”

A tidal wave of madness, mischief and merriment is heading West with the return of Galway Comedy Festival this October 22nd-28th, with Russell Howard, Dara Ó Briain, Deirdre O’Kane, Des Bishop, Dylan Moran, Ruby Wax, and Mario Rosenstock featuring in a Festival packed with comedy brilliance! Find out more here…

Photography courtesy of Galway Comedy Festival

Doors – 7pm // Show – 8pm