SOLD OUT – Kevin McAleer – Guru

Tyrone’s biggest living lama Kevin McAleer has just been voted ‘Ireland’s Most Humble Guru’ by Mindfulness Magazine for the eighteenth year running.

To celebrate this modest achievement, he has announced a majestic interplanetary tour for 2019, taking in the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus and Pluto, before returning to his home planet Earth for a series of spectacular live apparitions.

It’s almost fifty years since Guru McAleer first coined the word ‘mindfulness’, and he is still coining it today. He achieved global fame and fortune with the bestselling Be Your Own Brexit, and has appeared dozens of times on Celebrity Zen Master Chef and as an outspoken judge on Tibet’s Got Talent.

McAleer’s Advanced Awareness seminars promise total self-discovery on the night, or your money back; participants are gently guided to a state of deep relaxation, emptying the mind of all thought, and replacing it with meaningless laughter. An evening of divine light entertainment not to be missed.

Immaculate mastery of language’  The Scotsman
Will leave your head spinning and your cheeks hurting‘  British Comedy Guide

 

Doors Tickets 7.15pm | Limited Unreserved Seating 

SOLD OUT – Jerry Sadowitz: Make Comedy GRATE Again!

Jerry Sadowitz, Britain’s FAVOURITE COMEDIAN, is back!

Yes, the man with no visible demograph returns to make you laugh while simultaneously parting you of hard earned cash!

Affectionately known as ‘miserable c**t’ to his imaginary friends, Sadowitz is the only comic hardly working today who campaigns against human rights.

His television appearances include Love Island, Hard Talk, Michty Me!(still in production) and Loose Stools. He now suffers from Alzheimer’s disease and has to watch Netflix comedy specials so he can remember his own material.

Doors 7.45pm | Unreserved Seating

SOLD OUT Kevin McAleer – Guru

Tyrone’s biggest living lama Kevin McAleer has just been voted ‘Ireland’s Most Humble Guru’ by Mindfulness Magazine for the eighteenth year running.

To celebrate this modest achievement, he has announced a majestic interplanetary tour for 2019, taking in the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus and Pluto, before returning to his home planet Earth for a series of spectacular live apparitions.

It’s almost fifty years since Guru McAleer first coined the word ‘mindfulness’, and he is still coining it today. He achieved global fame and fortune with the bestselling Be Your Own Brexit, and has appeared dozens of times on Celebrity Zen Master Chef and as an outspoken judge on Tibet’s Got Talent.

McAleer’s Advanced Awareness seminars promise total self-discovery on the night, or your money back; participants are gently guided to a state of deep relaxation, emptying the mind of all thought, and replacing it with meaningless laughter. An evening of divine light entertainment not to be missed.

Immaculate mastery of language’  The Scotsman
Will leave your head spinning and your cheeks hurting‘  British Comedy Guide

Doors Tickets 7.15pm | Limited Unreserved Seating 

SOLD OUT – Tom Stade – ‘I Swear To…’

Following last year’s smash-hit UK tour, the Canadian comedy legend is back with a new show.  Welcome back to ‘I SWEAR TO…’ picking up just where he left off as an hour simply wasn’t long enough.

Direct from the Edinburgh Festival, join Tom as he attempts to figure out exactly where he fits into this emerging new world of feelings and FaceTime.  Exactly when did he, and all his stuff become vintage – and why didn’t he see it coming?

Armed with his usual swagger and playful sense of mischief, join Tom as he explores these generational conundrums, and a whole lot more….

One of the most prolific and engaging stand-ups of our time.  As seen on Ch4’s Comedy Gala, BBC One’s Michael McIntyre’s Comedy RoadshowThe John Bishop Show and Live at the Apollo (twice, bitches!)

Unmissable’ –  EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS

‘Sack loads of charm, poise and free-flowing spontaneity. Mischievous, high-spirited, no-nonsense stand-up from an expertly skilled Pro.’ – CHORTLE

‘Every inch the star. If comedy is the new Rock and Roll, then Tom Stade is Keith Richards! ‘– DAILY RECORD

‘So cool he could well be the answer to global warming. Gloriously funny.’ – SCOTSMAN

Doors 7:30pm  |  Unreserved Seating

SOLD OUT – Kieran Hodgson: ’75’

Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Show nominee 2018.

Passion. Betrayal. Harold Wilson. Character comedian Kieran Hodgson returns with the epic and surprising tale of how Britain joined Europe in the first place.

On a deeply personal quest for understanding, Kieran perfects a series of obsolete impressions and discovers that the 70s were about more than just TISWAS, the colour brown and the words ‘Let’s go on strike again’.

Three-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, Star of Radio 4’s Earworms and Lance, and as seen regularly on BBC2’s Two Doors DownUpstart Crow and Dad’s Army: We’re Doomed.

 ‘A terrific show’ ★★★★ THE GUARDIAN

There’s a delicious perfectionism here to the writing, structure and delivery that puts most other shows to shame’ ★★★★ THE TELEGRAPH

‘Ravishingly entertaining, informative, full of insight and plenty of laughs’ ★★★★ THE TIMES

‘Incredibly dense in laughs…it’s not half as niche as it sounds, and ten times funnier’ ★★★★ CHORTLE

 Doors 7.45pm | Unreserved Seating

Nina Conti – In Your Face

Strap into the mask as Nina, Monkey and a bag of tricks improvise their way through an adventure of hilarious witchery. No two shows are ever the same!

She’s won a British Comedy Award, stormed Live at the ApolloRussell Howard’s Good NewsSunday Night at the Palladium, and made a BAFTA nominated film – all without moving her lips. Expect the unexpected…

Doors 7.45pm | Unreserved Seating

Sarah Keyworth

You’ve seen her on Comedy Central, you’ve seen her on the BBC. Now see Nottingham-born rising star Sarah

Keyworth’s debut hour.

Join Sarah as she tells you about her life with an important little girl and her battle against every expectation of what
being a girl means. Think Girls Just Wanna Have Fun but British, deadpan and in no way similar.

Best Newcomer Award Nominee – Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2018

Herald Angel Award Winner – Edinburgh Fringe 2018

‘Pulling in the biggest laughs’ – THREE WEEkS

‘Excellently deadpan’ – HUFFINGTON POST

Doors 7.45pm | Unreserved Seating 

Deirdre O’Kane – A Line of O’Kane

Footloose from a glittering turn on Dancing with the Stars and revelling in her return to stand-up, Deirdre has really hit her stride.

Don’t miss this hilarious and frank take on twelve frantic months in the life of a tango-tripping, family-minding, telly-making, house-moving, comedy dynamo.

‘O’Kane is an instantly charismatic stage presence and her brand of day-to-day anarchism stormed the place.’ – Three Weeks 

‘O’Kane dazzles the audience from start to finish.’ – The List

‘Unique star quality.’ – The Guardian Doors

7:45pm | Unreserved Seating

SOLD OUT – Stephen Frost’s Improv Allstars

Featuring Stephen Frost (Whose Line is it Anyway), Andy Smart (Comedy Store Players) with Steve Steen and Ruth Bratt (Showstoppers).

Stephen Frost’s Impro Allstars have been making people laugh all over the world with their very own brand of irreverent improvised comedy. You shout it out, they act is out – no safety nets! Fast, funny and furious. Not to be missed.

‘I’m so proud to bring Stephen Frost (The Young Ones, Who’s Line is It Anyway, Blackadder) to play the Bivouac Comedy club. These are four legends from the first wave of alternative comedy in the early 80’s scene performing in the Sunflower bar. A mighty second instalment of Belfast’s very own nomadic alternative comedy club night Bivouac. A guaranteed sell out.’ – PAUL CURRIE

Doors 7.45pm | Unreserved Seating

Rob Auton

The Talk Show is a comedy/theatre/spoken word show about talking by award-winning writer and performer Rob Auton.

Following on from his shows about hair, sleep, water, faces, the sky and the colour yellow, Rob now turns his attention to talking because he is ready to talk about talking.

Since 2012 Rob has chosen a specific theme for his shows and challenged himself to create an hour of material about each subject.  These shows have given rise to sell-out shows at the Edinburgh Fringe as Rob continues to build his audience through his unique use of words and humour.

After his appearances on the Russell Howard HourBBC at the Edinburgh Festival and Channel 4’s Random Acts, Rob now looks to talk to as many people as possible with The Talk Show.

The Talk Show was the second best-reviewed comedy show at the Edinburgh Festival 2018.

Doors 7:30pm | Unreserved Seating

SOLD OUT – Roy Walker

It is both good and right that we sign off the 20th Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival with one of Belfast’s (and the festival’s) favourite sons with the living legend that is Roy Walker returns to the Festival for one night only.

Roy’s career is well documented, building a reputation as a master comedian in the 60s and 70s in the clubs and on television, to hosting throughout the golden years of Catchphrase in the 80s and 90s, to his recent career as break out TV star in a range of shows including The Real Marigold Hotel and Celebrity Come Dine with Me.

His first love though, has always been comedy. Give him a microphone, an audience and a spotlight and Roy Walker is truly in his element.

One of the finest Irish comedians of his or any other generation, and a true friend of the Festival, ladies and gentlemen, we give you Mr Roy Walker.

Doors 7.45pm | Unreserved Seating 

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