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Ringsend Comedy Festival: The Big Friday Show with Karl Spain & Emma Doran!

Join us for a stellar stand-up show featuring:

Karl Spain has been a staple of Irish stand-up comedy for twenty years.

Karl has also performed stand-up on television all over the world – the U.S, the Middle East, Australia and even as far away as England.

Karl’s radio work includes Don’t Quote Me with the late Sean Hughes for RTÉ Radio 1 and You Couldn’t Make It Up for Newstalk.

He regularly performs at festivals such as Kilkenny Cat Laughs, the Galway Comedy Festival, the Vodafone Comedy Festival, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Montreal Just for Laughs. Karl has toured Australia as well as the United States and South Africa.

In 2019 Karl toured internationally with Kevin Bridges. He also performed around Ireland with Bernard O’Shea in their show, Fat Chancers.

“The future of Irish comedy is in safe hands” HOT PRESS

Emma Doran

Emma has kept us all entertained for the past number of years with her hilarious online videos and sketches-particluarly her 'it's mad' video which was one of the most viewed comedy sketches in the country last year!

She has Performed at some of the country’s best and biggest venues like Vicar St, The Olympia Theatre and The 3Arena in Dublin for Comic Relief. She is a regular at various festivals and comedy venues across Ireland!

Hosted by the award-winning Danny O' Brien & Damian Clark (RTE, Virgin Media's 'Lockdown Comedy Special Live at O' Rahilly House)