Ardal O’Hanlon

LCD Soundsystem and Fever Ray highlights of Electric Picnic 2010

Stradbally, Ireland, 3-5 Sep 2010

15 Sep 2010

The Picnic is one of two major events bookending the Irish festival season, and it feels like all of Ireland has turned out for summer’s last gasp. Which, as it turns out, is a rather wet one. But no matter, for the craic is good, the pies are hearty…

Ardal O'Hanlon

Come in, come in!

20 Aug 2010

There's a distinctly homely feel about Ardal O'Hanlon's Fringe 2010 outing. Following priestly celibacy and superhero capers, his current material addresses losing to the kids at Connect Four, the challenges of sex with a pregnant wife and the weather…

Comedians you might know from TV at the Fringe 2010

Five faces from the telly making a beeline for the stage

3 Aug 2010

Alex Zane He’s the cheeky wee chappie from Rude Tube and a man described as a saviour to sensitive lads everywhere. Pleasance Dome, 556 6550, 7–30 Aug (not 16), 10pm, £10–£10.50 (£8.50–£9). Previews until 6 Aug, £5. Norman Lovett There will be…

EIFF 2009 - Wide Open Spaces

11 Jun 2009

Wide Open Spaces was a co-production between the UK and Ireland. I raised the money from the UK end. Co-productions are becoming much more important for any producer, really just in order to raise enough money to make films. Normally it’s difficult to…

5 Things you might not know about - Ardal O’Hanlon

19 Mar 2009

1. O’Hanlon’s very first TV role was in Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews’ iconic priestly sitcom as Father Dougal, the doe-eyed buffoon sidekick to the more subtly daft Father Ted. He insists that he played Dougal not as an unreconstructed idiot, but…

Top comedy gigs to look out for

10 Sep 2007

Tom Stade It takes years of hard, dedicated gigging to appear as relaxed as Tom Stade does on stage. Charming, handsome and unflappable he may be, but the Canadian émigré also possesses that indefinable knack of drawing you completely into his offbeat…