June Show: Owen O’Neill, Carl Donnelly, Paddy Lennox

The English Comedy Club proudly presents:

**LAST SHOW BEFORE SUMMER BREAK**

Sunday, 7 June 09: Owen O’Neill (Ireland) Carl Donnelly (UK) Hosted by Paddy Lennox (Ireland)

Substanz Live Club & Bar — Ruppertstr. 28 (U3,U6 Poccistraße) — 80337 München

Door: 7:00 pm - Show:  8:00 pm - Tickets 18€

An award-winning playwright, poet and subscriber to the theory that redheads are genetic “mutants” (having conducted the required research for a BBC documentary), OWEN O’NEILL was one of the first Irishman to perform in the UK stand-up circuit and almost certainly the first to do so inadvertently. ‘Between about ‘84 and ‘89 there was only really myself, Ian Macpherson, Kevin McAleer and Michael Redmond, ‘ the County Tyrone-borne O’Neill recalls. I’d been performing poetry at a vegetarian restaurant in north London, the Earth Exchange, very PC where you used to speak from behind an open fire. Once, I left my notes on the tube, so I just went on and talked about losing them. The audience were laughing and I remember thinking this is great. Gradually the poetry became less and less and the chatting inbetween more and more. Nowadays, in intimate venues like the Stand, O’Neill mixes stand-up and verse with passages from his intensely personal one-man plays, loosely and variously based on him ‘being an alcoholic, having an obsession with Mick Jagger, wanting to go to LA and my son being a footballer.’ His recollections of his rambunctious father have caused friction with his family, yet O’Neill cites Richard Pryor’s autobiographical inclination and Alan Bleasdale’s blending of the comic and tragic as precedents. WC Fields is another inspiration and, perhaps most surprisingly for such a verbal performer, so is Buster Keaton. 

‘O’Neill is first and foremost a brilliant raconteur - combining expert, intimate yarn-spnning with affectionate characterisations of people we will never meet but instantly recognise’ LONDON METRO

CARL DONNELLY started performing stand-up regularly in early 2005 and quickly established himself as one of the most exciting new comics currently climbing the comedy ladder. Despite being a relative newcomer, htis confident, conversational style and silly sense of humour has seen him win a host of awards and bekome a regular act and MC at clubs all over the country.

‘The reason why Donnelly is one of the highest-rated emerging stars on the UK circuit is his incredible ability to turn the seemingly mundane existence of the 21st-century slacker into gripping, unmissable stand-up. In Donnelly’s hands, something as simple as getting out of bed can be the springobard to a hilarious anecdote’ THE GUARDIAN

 Irish comedian and actor PADDY LENNOX first burst on to stage as a Stand-Up in 2001 only to be interrupted with a couple of comedies at the Shakespeare Globe Theatre and filming in far off lands, before returning to his new found passion. An engaging and instantly likeable comic, Paddy combines topical material with observational routines. Paddy’s had a great start in 2008, he’s been working the corporate scene including gigs for the BBC, ITV and Jysk (the new Ikea) and he’s also featured on Sky Poker and Talksport Radio. But the big one for him this year was the Edinburgh Festival as part of the Bound & Gagged AAA Show along side Maff Brown and Tom Craine at the Pleasance Courtyard. He’s also and excellent voice-over artist and has voiced numerous commerical in the UK and Ireland.

“…simply a scream.” THE TELEGRAPH
“comedy the way it should be: a laugh-a-minute which leaves the audience whising the show was just a little bit longer…gently Irish lilt belies a mischievous sense of humour” THE FEST