Laugh Please Comedy Presents COLIN MURPHY Wed WK5
Oct
Colin Murphy Wednesday Week 05, October 7th
Tickets - €10
Como Ticket (for all 4 comedy gigs)- €30
Murphy in a hurry ……… Went to art college, graduated in 1990 with BA in Design. Did various jobs, laboratory technician, door to door salesman, factory work, painter and decorator, labourer, window cleaner, dish washer then lectured part time for four years in graphic design and worked as an illustrator for magazines like Elle etc. Filled in for a sick friend who was supposed to be doing improv at the Irish Student Drama Awards in 1991 and won. Fell into acting with Sightlines Theatre Company in Belfast. Performed in Edinburgh Fringe in 1994 where he played a dog in a ginger body wig, eating his own testicles on stage every night for three weeks. Started doing stand-up in 1992 in Belfast. Did first Edinburgh in 1995 with Alternative Ulster. Returned in 1997 to do Young Gifted and Green and then first solo show in 1999. Followed that with sell out runs in 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005. Have played New York, Boston, Montreal, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Prague, Brussels, Antwerp, Singapore, Paris, Milan and Helsinki where he performed the first ever English language comedy gig in Finland. Not many people can say that! Married with two children living in Belfast. And……..breath
Other people talking……
“He explains why wasps should be used in crowd control. He knows what goes through a sprinter’s mind after six seconds. From Liverpool to Queensland, Murphy brings out the best in all of us.”
“He is distinguishably good.. His delivery is immaculate, ultra-fast but never unintelligible. More infectiously, he has a knack of making each member of the audience feel like a friend, delivering pin-sharp observations in the form of sharedconfidences..Hilarious, although his mime piece illustrating an English person having sex could do untold damage to the nation’s sexual health.”
“Proving that swearing is both big and clever, Murphy paces the stage with great confidence in his material. With superb stage presence and upbeat enthusiasm, the show is a great presentation of all that is great and good in stand-up comedy.”