Comedy: Fred Cooke and Aidan Greene
123A Parade Quay, Waterford, Ireland
52.260577
-7.106520799999998
Description
Central Arts July Comedy Club
Part of the Summer in the City Festival
Have a midweek laugh with us as Central Arts in association with the Lisa Richards agency presents a double-bill of two top stand-up comedians each Wednesday in July!
Some of Ireland’s hottest – and funniest – comedy acts perform brand-new new, one-hour, work-in-progress shows. Check them out, for this bargain price, before they head to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
17 July - Fred Cooke and Aidan Greene
FRED COOKE
Fred Cooke delivers a unique brand of comedy through his musical prowess and wild crafted physical story telling.
Fred became a regular on the highly successful RTÉ Show, The Fear. He has been seen preparing a choral spectical surprise at a proposal in the Electric Picnic, embarrassing one of his fans at the Vodafone Comedy Festival, and proposing to an unexpected lady in Dublin City Centre.
His collaboration on Ireland the Musical brought him around every county in Ireland through music and surreal sketches. Fred has frequently been invited to perform at the largest and most successful festivals both here and abroad, including the Cat Laughs Comedy Festival, the Vodafone Comedy Carnival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Tampere Comedy Festival in Finland, London Irish Comedy Festival, Kells Hay Festival, Mayo Summer Festival, The Trim Satire Festival.
He has supported his comedy hero, Ardal O’Hanlon on his massive nationwide tour. He has also performed alongside such high profile acts as Tommy Tiernan, Eddie Izzard, John Bishop, Dara O Brian, Ross Noble, Kevin Bridges, Sarah Millican, Jason Byrne, Neil Delamere and Des Bishop.
Fred Cooke has rapidly become a unique stand-up delivering a style of comedy that simply cannot be imitated.
He made his debut on English television with the second series of the BBC Show Vexed.
Fred has already contributed to a variety of successful Irish TV shows, both as a writer and performer, including RTE’s The Fear, Republic of Telly, The Savage Eye, The Cafe (as The Crazy Chef), Watch Your Language (The Mad Professor), The Modest Adventures of David O’Doherty, and The Liffey Laughs.
He has also regularly been the warm-up act for many different television chat shows including The Late Late Show, The Podge and Rodge Show, The Republic of Telly, The Craig Doyle Show.
‘I love Fred, he has the real spirit of the Clown in him’ TOMMY TIERNAN
‘Fred Cooke is ready to step into the premier league of Irish funnymen.’ HOT PRESS
‘Comedy genius; he has so much energy that he could power a small village in the west of Kerry’ THE LAUGHTER
AIDAN GREENECavan man Aidan Greene is undoubtedly Ireland’s foremost stammering comedian. Since starting comedy in 2010 he’s become a regular in comedy clubs across Ireland. Along with this he has played at major festival including the Vodafone Comedy Festival, Longitude, Indiependance and the Edinburgh Fringe.He had a sold out run at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival with his show (500) Days of Stammer , a one man show about stammering and falling in love. The show was performed to acclaim in Dublin, Albuquerque and most importantly, Cavan. He co-hosted Cavan the Craic, a stand up compilation show, with fellow Cavan comedian Davey Reilly to full rooms at the 2016 and 2017 Edinburgh Fringe festivals.As well as a comedian Aidan is also an accomplished storyteller. In 2016 he was runner up in the Moth Grandslam in Dublin. His story The Early Days of Stammer was featured on the Moth Radio Hour and broadcast on over 400 radio stations globally, to a listenership of over 30 million. In October 2017, he was invited to speak at National Stammering Awareness Day.
These events are BYOB – you may bring your own beverage.
Tickets €10 available from www.centralarts.ie (booking fee applies online)
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Start:
2019-07-17T20:00:00+01:00
End:
2019-07-17T22:30:00+01:00
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Comedy
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