Laughlines: Making His Marq

O Briain earned his stripes as a TV presenter back in the day – the more mature reader will remember him from RTÉ’s Echo Island back in the denim-tastic ‘90s, and later, as a team captain on the excellent Don’t Feed The Gondolas.

Having relocated to London some time ago, he went on to pen a book titled Tickling The English in 2009 – a tour diary type affair chronicling a stand-up tour of England he’d done the year before. In short – not one to rest on his laurels! O Briain brings Craic Dealer to the People’s Republic on June 28, as part of the Live at the Marquee series.
Meanwhile, Navan’s finest, Tommy Tiernan continues his series of ‘world tours’ – and this fortnight he’s got his sights set on (drumroll)… um, Kerry and Clare. Catch him in The Kingdom when he stops off at Brandon Hotel (14), Sneem Hotel (15) and Glen Eagle Hotel (16), and in Clare at Lakeside Hotel (21), Oakwood Arms Hotel (22), Pavillion Theatre, Lisdoonvarna (23), Armada Hotel (24) and Stella Maris Hotel (28).
Back to Dublin, where Ireland’s favourite adopted son Des Bishop continues his Vicar St. run. A more, shall we say, ‘light-hearted’ show than his previous outing My Dad Was Nearly James Bond, this latest one – Des Bishop Likes To Bang – explores Des’ love of banging drums. And women. Catch him on June 22 and 23.
Still in the capital, and Whose Line Is It Anyway? man Greg Proops makes his way to Whelan’s for two shows on June 17 and 19, which will be recorded for his new Smartest Man In The World podcast. The following night (20), his fellow WLIIA performers Stephen Frost, Andy Smart, Steve Steen and Ian Coppinger head to Galway’s Roisin Dubh for a one-off show.
Jarlath Regan – who dropped into our Speakeasy @ Forbidden Fruit – takes to the International’s stage on the same night, while our Hoot Press interviewee Rhys Darby (he of Flight Of The Conchords fame) performs in Vicar St. a week
later (28).