NI Comedy

He used to be a priest, you know

FJ MURRAY

A former priest, FJ Murray began performing stand-up comedy at the age of 46. Originally from Mullingar, Murray’s brand of witty, observational comedy has seen him play all the major venues in Ireland, including the Laughter Lounge (Dublin & Galway), The International, Capital Comedy Club, The Empire and more. In 2007 FJ reached the final stages of the Bulmer’s Newcomers’ Comedy Competition. In 2008, he reached the Irish final stages of the ‘So You Think You’re Funny? Competition’ and the grand final of the Bulmer’s Nothin’ Butt Funny Competition at Dublin’s Laughter Lounge. He came 3rd in the 2009 Comedy Dublin Stand up Competition Final and is Winner of the 2009 Father Ted Toilet Duck Award for New Irish Comedy.

http://www.comedycv.co.uk/fjmurray/index.html

MARCUS KEELEY

Marcus Keeley was born in 1989 and the hilarity hasn’t stopped since. Or started. He established Voicebox Comedy club in mid-2008 in an attempt to distract him from the impending doom and banality of his choices in life. That and getting a job. It hasn’t worked, but Voicebox seems to be going well. His material focuses on his poor decisions, the futile disgust resulting from it, the horrible feeling of suspected mass peer-alienation, having a total-life crisis at 20 and the supposed catharsis gained from saying it all to a room of strangers. It hasn’t worked, but he’s still gigging.

Whilst fucking his life up in England, he has played to many venues in the eastern English circuit, including Norwich Arts Centre. He continues to do that in Belfast, playing Lavery’s, The Pavilion Bar, McHugh’s and runs/MC’s Voicebox Comedy.

He sometimes bokes in his sleep.

http://marcuskeeley.blogspot.com

LORCAN McGRANE

Beginning stand up in 2006, Lorcan McGrane has foisted his perversions and Peccadilloes on an unsuspecting public in Belfast, Dublin, Norwich, London, and Edinburgh with surprising success. If one counts success as making people laugh, rather than parlaying his brand of veiled self-therapy, blasphemy, gauging of audience’s perversity levels, and childhood (and adulthood) existential loneliness into a viable job. After a bumper Christmas season of gigs (in his room, to an audience of lego men and action figures) it’s time to hear what actual people will think of his new ramblings in 2010!

http://jhomunculus.blogspot.com/

MC: Micky Bartlett (BBC1NI’s Find Me The Funny)

Doors: 8pm / Show: 9pm (sharp) / Admission: £4.00 (with free entry into club afterwards).