Saturday 1st June 2013
TOM STADE TOTALLY ROCKS!

Mandela Hall, QUBSU
Doors 7.30pm, Tickets £14 (18+)
www.queenscomedyclub.com

Tickets available from Queen’s Students’ Union for £14 and also online and instore at Ticketmaster.

http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/event/18004969ED997781?artistid=35564&majorcatid=10002&minorcatid=51

Star of BBC1’s LIVE AT THE APOLLO, MICHAEL MCINTYRE’S COMEDY ROADSHOW,
LEE MACK’S ALL STAR CAST, CH4’s STAND UP FOR THE WEEK & Dave’s ONE NIGHT STAND.

Following last year’s sell-out debut UK tour, don’t miss Canadian émigré Tom Stade with his brand new live show. Direct from his smash-hit run at the Edinburgh festival, join this “part devil, part dude” (Scotsman) as he shares his refreshingly laid-back and unconventional ethos on life; playfully leading audiences into a world where there are no boundaries, and anything goes. A rollicking, carefree show that is quintessential Tom Stade; brilliantly mischievous and charming, frequently cutting close to the bone and packed with sharp and inventive observations. Catch comedy’s coolest stand-up before he explodes into a household name.

“UNMISSABLE” ***** Edinburgh Evening News

“GLORIOUSLY FUNNY” ***** Scotsman

“ROCK ‘N’ ROLL COMEDIAN. ABSOLUTELY BOXFRESH; NOTHING IS STAID ABOUT STADE…HOT FAVOURITE” Evening Standard

“STAND-UP ELITE…GENUINELY CLASSY…INCREDIBLY FUNNY” Chortle

“SUBLIME, IMAGINATIVE, ORIGINAL & HILARIOUS” Rhod Gilbert

And that’s a rap for another term of club night gigs. We’ve really enjoyed this term’s shows and hope you have too. We couldn’t have had a better send off either, with Joel Dommett and Abandoman absolutely destroying the place. Our friend Paul Lawlor came down to take some amazing pictures. Go have a look:

Our next show is with Tom Stade on Saturday 1st June.

Wednesday 24th April
Abandoman
Joel Dommett
Colin Murphy

Queen’s Comedy Club, Mandela Hall
Tickets: £5 Doors: 9.00pm

Abandoman

Winners of the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year, Musical Comedy Awards and the Adelaide Fringe Festival “Best Comedy – Newcomer” awards, Abandoman create musical songs and sketches at lightening speed based on audience interaction. Come to the show, drop your suggestions in the ring and watch as Abandoman make musical magic.

“Flight of the Conchords meets 8 Mile… Nothing short of genius.”
Chortle

“…Star of the future!”
Time Out

Joel Dommett

Winner of the Stand ‘Up and Coming New Act’ 2008 and finalist of the English Comedian of the Year finals, Joel may be more familiar to you from appearances on E4s Skins, BBC2′s Popatron, and Russell Howards Good News. He can also be seen presenting the news everyday on MTV. A great live performer and a great way to close out a brilliant lineup!

Wednesday 20th March
Keith Farnan
Danny Dowling
Colin Murphy

Queen’s Comedy Club, Mandela Hall
Tickets: £5 Doors: 9pm

Show Starts: 10pm

Keith Farnan

Formerly a solicitor, Keith has performed as a stand-up all over the world, from the Boston International Comedy Festival to Hong Kong to the Middle East. He has appeared on television on the “Michael Mcintyre Comedy Roadshow” on BBC1 as well as “One Night Stand”(BBC) and “Liffey Laughs”(RTE)

Danny Dowling

Galway based New Zealand comic, Danny has been tearing rooms apart with his version of life in Ireland and a GAA fan that you won’t forget. Creator of The Mad Hatters Tea Party with back to back sell out shows, host of Comedy Comedy in the Roisin Dubh and Campbell’s Tavern Comedy. Danny has started strongly in 2011 supporting Tommy Tiernan, The Rubberbandits and touring with Glenn Wool.

Wednesday 6th March
Jarred Christmas,
Lucy Beaumont,
Colin Murphy

Queen’s Comedy Club, Mandela Hall
Tickets: £5 Doors: 9pm

Show Starts: 10pm

Jarred Christmas

Jarred Christmas has a unique style that deftly mixes gags with storytelling. He has a dynamic onstage persona and the ability to improvise and roll with anything that’s thrown his way, making his comedy sizzle with originality. Full of passion and charisma, Jarred takes the audience on a hilarious thrill ride of laughs and gasps with an edge of anger that manifests itself in his incredible rants against the small things in our lives.

Lucy Beaumont

Lucy is a hugely talented comedy actress and writer. She was the 2012 winner of The BBC New Comedy Award, and in August 2011 she was also a finalist in the Gilded Balloon’s nationwide stand-up comedy competition So You Think You’re Funny?.

Wednesday 20th February
Kevin Gildea
Foil Arms and Hog
Colin Murphy

Queen’s Comedy Club, Mandela Hall
Tickets: £5 Doors: 9pm

Show Starts: 10pm

Kevin Gildea

Kevin is a comedian, writer, actor, reader, walker and list maker. He’s performed his stand-up all over the shop – Shanghai, Bankok, Dubai, South Africa , Vietnam and Portloaise. Kevin is very funny and an audience member actually poohed in themselves during one of his gigs in Portlaoise. This is TRUE. He made appearances on television turning up as Fr. Cave on Fr. Ted as well as being on a million stand-up shows on a zillion tv stations.

Foil Arms and Hog

Foil arms and Hog are an Irish Comedy trio who perform regulary on the UK and Irish Comedy circuit. They have appeared at numerous international festivals including four consecutive sell out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Their material has been described as ‘Fantastic and increasingly bizarre’ and ‘Deliriously funny and at time unexpectedly dark’.

Wednesday 30th January
Ardal O’Hanlon
Colum McDonnell
Colin Murphy

Queen’s Comedy Club, Mandela Hall
Tickets: £5 Doors: 8.30pm

Show Starts: 9.30pm

Tickets are now SOLD OUT

PLEASE NOTE SEATING IS UNRESERVED, SO YOU WILL NEED TO BE DOWN EARLY TO GUARANTEE A SEAT!

Ardal O’Hanlon

We are delighted to finally bring you one of the legends of Irish comedy and a childhood hero of everyone here at Queen’s Comedy! Ardal is an award winning comedian, actor, writer – and star of ‘Father Ted’ (C4); ‘My Hero’ (BBC 1) and ‘Val Falvey’ (RTE). A highly acclaimed stand up, Ardal has performed to sell out audiences internationally and has released two Top Ten stand up DVD’s. He continues to be one of the most sought after comedians working with regular sell out solo tours.

Colum McDonnell

Colum McDonnell is one of the best kept secrets in Irish Comedy. Over the past decade Colum has established himself as a regular on the Irish and U.K comedy circuits, with his unusual and often self depreciating outlook on family, life, love and the pain of being the last living hobbit in Ireland. Colum finished a successful 2010 by supporting Scotland’s newest comedy star Kevin Bridges on his UK and Ireland tour.

Firstly, we’d just like to wish you all a Happy New Year from everyone at Queen’s Comedy Club! We had a great 2012 and are currently planning out 2013. It’s already looking better than 2012. We’ll hopefully have some news to share with you in the coming weeks.

In the meantime here are some photos taken at our last show of 2012. Thanks to Brideen from Photography By Brideen for coming down to take them!

Wednesday 5th December 2012
Benny Boot
Dan Nightingale
compere Colin Murphy

Mandela Hall, QUBSU
Tickets: £5 Doors: 9pm

Benny Boot

Australian comic Benny Boot has been performing comedy in the UK for 8 years. He is considered by many comedians as a wonderful comedian to watch. He was a finalist in NBC’s Last Comic Standing and was invited to the Vancouver Comedy Festival in 2005. His 2012 Ediburgh Fringe show; Def-Con 4 was a sell out with extra shows added due to demand.

Dan Nightingale

One of British Stand-Ups hidden gems; Dan Nightingale is one of the best performers found on the comedy circuit today. Mixing brilliant observation and energetic characterisations with killer punch lines his comedy is original, playful, intelligent, exciting, sometimes ridiculous but always hilarious. And If you really push him he’ll admit to being an excellent swimmer and a near genius in the field of gourmet cheese on toast.

On this day in 1992, a happy young man by the name of Colin Murphy did his first ever standup gig at a brand new club in Queen’s Students’ Union. Over the past 20 years the club has seen a who’s who of the comedy world raise the roof and in some cases die a very embarrassing death. Here’s just a tiny snap shot of some of the now household names that have played the club; Peter Kay, Jo Brand, Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey, Sean Lock, Ed Byrne, Kevin Bridges and Sarah Millican. Not to mention the young man who started it all, Colin Murphy. He’s a good bit older and a hell of a lot more grumpy, but that’s what keeps us all coming back!

So why not help us celebrate our 20th year by giving us a little vote at the Dave One Night Stand Awards

BY TEXT
Simply text DAVE80 to 67777. It’s as simple as that. All you need to know is that texts cost 10p each.

BY FACEBOOK
Visit the link below, then click “Enter Now”. Select “Northern Ireland” as the region and vote for Queen’s Comedy Club @ Queen’s University Students’ Union.

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‘What’s in it for you?’ I hear you cry. Well other than giving a little 20 year old club what it wants on it’s birthday, lots. Prizes include a Panasonic Viera 55-inch LED, 3D smart TV, five iPads, ten PURE digital radios and tickets to Dave’s Leicester Comedy festival.