Yearly Archives: 2013

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Served between the Murdoch gags (with any luck).

A promo for the re-tooled Kilkenny Comedy Cat Laughs Festival, sponsored by Sky.

Featuring: Laurence Kinlan, Aoibhinn McGinnity, Charlie Murphy, John Purcell, Michael Burke, Tracey McKeon, Aisling Flynn, Pauline McLynn, Neil Delamere, Chris Kent, Barry Murphy, Gearoid Farrelly, Eleanor Tiernan, Fred Cooke, and Karl Spain.

Fair play though, in fairness.

Meanwhile,

Screen-Shot-2012-10-26-at-17.51.19The line up for the first Cat Laughs festival in 1997

The Cat Laughs

Video directed by Hugh O’Conor; Written by Mark Doherty; Director of Photography – Piers McGrail; Camera Assistant – Tommy; Fitzgerald; Sound recorded by Hugh Fox; Sound mixed by Graham Bolger; Assistant Director – Nick Thomas; Produced by Andy Bradford for Sweet Media; Edited by Niall Campion; Post production by NOHO

thatch

Don’t remember this in the movie.

“Children who need to be taught to respect traditional moral values are being taught that they have an inalienable right to be gay.”

Margaret Thatcher, at the Conservative Party conference in 1987.

 

She had Jimmy Savile around for Christmas that year.

G0od times.

Margaret Thatcher Delivers Anti-Gay Speech In 1987 (VIDEO) (Huffington Post)

Thomas_Sheridan-2Och here.

Thomas Sheridan.

He was literally high-brow.

Sibling of Daedalus writes:

Further to the dialect post from Friday. This is Thomas Sheridan, born in Capel Street, Dublin, whose Course of Lectures on Elocution, delivered in Edinburgh in 1761 to an audience ‘anxious to cure themselves of a provincial or vicious presentation’, led to the development of the famed Morningside accent.

Sheridan’s subsequent Academy for the Instruction of Young Gentlemen in the Art of Reading and Reciting proved a financial failure, and he returned to Ireland and the management of the Theatre Royal.

His most enduring legacy, the pronunciation of ‘girls’ as ‘gels’, lives on today in the so-refined tones of Maggie Smith as Morningside resident Miss Jean Brodie in her prime…

 

Pics via Ebay

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How Lance Armstrong Ruined My Life.

By David O’Doherty.

RayRay writes:

A hilarious story read by David O’Doherty at the Fan Fiction show at Melbourne International Comedy Festival at the weekend…

 

Filled out a bit.

*reaches for fourth bun of morning*