Category Archives: Life in Ireland

Dueling In The 21st Century

Posted on August 6, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Comedian and Humourisms reporter George Fox, further documents his travels through a world he doesn’t understand.

I was handed this by a group of students distributing them on Grafton Street last week. Finally a portable dueling kit! Im assuming inside are two choices of weapon and you decide which one to carry into your battle to the death.
CHOOSE YOUR WEAPON!

OH DEAR GOD

SIR I CONCEDE…. YOU WIN!

George Fox is a Comedian/ Writer based In Dublin, Ireland. He can be seen performing live at numerous venues across Ireland. Follow him on Twitter or Facebook to find out dates for upcoming shows.

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Comedy Escort Available

Posted on August 2, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Lonely? Insecure? Need attention? If you answered yes, Christian Talbot is here to go over those new ten minutes you’ve been working on.

Are you a comedian based in Ireland? Is your relationship about to break up because you’re needy and filled with self-doubt? Do you often feel the need to discuss your gigs and comedy routines with your spouse or partner, whether they want to hear about it or not? Continue reading →

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It’s A Zombie (Cartoon) Apocalypse!

Posted on July 30, 2012 by | Leave a comment

This week in Ireland we celebrate the undead with the annual “Dublin Zombie Walk”, and to commemorate this wonderful day we here at Humourisms got our resident cartoonist, Rob Stears, to go wild on the topic of the “living-impaired”. Enjoy…

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The Morning After

Posted on July 26, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Several of Humourisms’ favourite people, including Seamus Hanly, Simon Mulholland, and our very own Conor Barry star in Heber Hanly’s excellent ‘The Morning After‘. Give it a look!

Heber Hanly is a very talented stand-up comic, filmmaker and photographer. Check out his tumblr, Rotating Photography, here.

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Hammersmith & Von Smüt

Posted on July 25, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Jon Hozier-Byrne & Conor O’Toole · with Aideen McQueen · Cranking by David Reilly
 Conor O'Toole is a comedian from Dublin who draws a series called Concerns. He plays Conor Shaw in Student Teacher and @ConorOToole on Twitter. He hosts The Death of Comedy once a month. He is currently writing a show about his impending funeral.

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This Is A Dark Knight For Mankind…

Posted on July 23, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Todays post comes from Comedian and Humourisms regular George Fox.

George Fox is a Comedian/ Writer based In Dublin, Ireland. He can be seen performing live at numerous venues across Ireland. Follow him on Twitter or Facebook to find out dates for upcoming shows. He was also VERY drunk when this happened, so it seemed like a much worse event.

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32 Counties and 50 Shades of Grey

Posted on July 19, 2012 by | Leave a comment

50 Shades of Grey is selling faster than hoverboards at a Humourisms fan convention, and Jon Hozier-Byrne wants to get in on the action. Armed with little-to-no understanding of modern sexual politics or modern sexual sex, he tries to write him a best-seller.

“Oh”, she sighed, as Chrissy produced his large, hard DVD jewel case from his carrier bag.

“Tonight is the night”, Chrissy whispered, as he warmed up the laptop, because no-one actually has a DVD player anymore. “We’re watching Secretary.”

“Class”, moaned Annie, who hadn’t seen it, but had heard good things. She loved James Spader in Boston Legal, so it would probably be grand. And she hears the paperback adaptation is a bit of a saucy cracker, or at the very least, a Jacobs that has been dipped into some variety of roux.

She looked Chrissy up and down. He towered over her, reminding Annie of some sort of a tower – a sexy tower, the kind of tower you would want to bang. His large, bulging calves, barely obscured by his GAA socks, sang to Annie, like two Greek Sirens, whose song rang out, “lick the shins off me.” Continue reading →

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