Memories of Tullamore at Ireland’s Smallest Comedy Club – Setting off for Valentia
I was down tonight at Irelands Smallest Comedy Club, where fellow Tullamore man (Im not Longford now that its cool to be from Tullamore!!!) John Sheehan done a brilliant set, and am packing the bag for Valentia Island with the Tullamore Rhymers. I am also working on restoring more of the verses to the website, some on their original dates, and more as fresh posts.
Jonathan Sheehan is a porter in Tullamore Hospital, where I worked up until last September, which is a comedy all in itself! I knew he done comedy, thanks to the walking comedian which is Dave Plunkett, but never seen him live until I got an act of his at A-musings / The Circle Sessions in the International some months back. Id seen him before at Irelands Smallest Comedy Club – compered by another Tullamore man John Graham, so was familiar with his work.
What he produced tonight though, was nothing short of epic. Doubly funny when you used to work in the hospital where he worked. Its a short participatory set based on his work as a porter, and his “relationship” with the boss, taken to the ridiculous, as all good comedy is. I was left wondering which boss he was on about!
I thought sure I may as well join in and give authentic style to the piece, being a former security guard there as well, and fall asleep in the corner, but the gags were too good, they kept me awake!
A flavour
Two standards of the night Bob Hannagan and Donal Vaughan were on, the last done his standard set, with Bob having new material to me anyway about working as a chef, and the sandwiches gag brought back memories of Dooleys Hotel!
Reference:Irelands Smallest Comedy Club on Facebook
Ive been packing the bags for the trip to Valentia Island for the festival, where I will be joined by Richard Brennan and David Mallaghan, the latter of which is popping up at festivals and comedy gigs all over the country.