A weirdo calls...

My friend Danny O'Hanlon is a comedian, broadcaster and a terrifically nice fellow. He sometimes hosts Dundalk FM's Drive Time show where he plays a selection of great music, informs listeners of local goings on and weighs in on the issues of the day. Last week Danny read out an announcement about an upcoming gig featuring the self proclaimed king of comedy, Louth entertainment legend Big "O", whom Danny challenged to a stand-up stand-off. Comedy promoter Nicky Fallon called Danny out on his hubris and the two set about organizing the increasingly violent competition.  

https://soundcloud.com/dannyohanlon/112615-the-stand-up-stand-off


The following week Danny played some old Woody Allen clips to celebrate the auteur's 80th birthday only to have the man himself ring up to discuss chippers, weight lifting and shooting Dundalk for Manhattan.

https://soundcloud.com/dannyohanlon/12-02-15-woody-allens-birthday

Elvis Costello call the Drivetime show on Dundalk FM to discuss the origins of NWA's 'Fuck the Police', his time as a video-store manager and eccentric air-travel with David Cameron.

https://soundcloud.com/dannyohanlon/12-03-15-elvis-costello-calls-in

The Alison Spittle Show

Colin, Alison and I in Brighton for the Comedy Festival, May 2015.

PILOT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtM4k6RfmIk

Alison Spittle is a really funny comedian from Mullingar in Westmeath. We've been friends for a few years through stand-up and have collaborated on a few sketches and scripts. She's a member of The Mess Around repertory players and has portrayed a number of diverse characters including Mrs. Godzilla, Malala and The Green M & M. Colin and I recently moved The Mess Around to the Workman's and they had a free night they wanted filling, so I suggested a chat show with Miss Spittle. Diarmuid O'Brien helped us produce the pilot which was a lot of fun. Our pal Andrea Farrel did the warm up, Big Monster Club served as our house band and we were very lucky to get Tara Flynn and Aidan Power as guests.

Producing a chat show for no money above a pub was a new experience. I acted as head writer and supervised our lovely team which included Ellen Tannen and Alan Maguire. Diarmuid ran the set with Tadhg Collins and Tom Rowley while Alison hosted the heck out of it.

The pilot is above and we had such a good time that we're planning episode 2 on January 8th in The Workman's. The clip below is a segment from the show entitled "Dog In The Street" about a lovely black pup who tells Alison quite libelous gossip.

Brody & Chadwick in The Great Blimp Deception

Coming to a Smock Alley Theater, Dublin near you!

Colin and I are doing our very stupid sketch show The Great Blimp Deception as part of the Collaborations Festival. The show also stars Alison Spittle, Simon Mulholland and Justin Brody with tech wizery from Diarmuid O'Brien, music by Brian Kelly and filmed sketches directed by Rory Walsh. It's running from March 6th to 7th before we take it to the Brighton Fringe in May.

Rory directed a few sketches for us that we've put up as mini trailers. Sure give them an ol' look sure  why dontcha?












Colin as Solomon R. Guggenheim

                                                       On the run and loving it in Inisboffin.

Paddy Angryman

Diarmuid O'Brien's "Paddy Angryman" is a satirical webcomedy about a nebbish civil servant called Liam (played by me), his online cyber terrorist alter ego Paddy Angryman and Liam's new co-worker Sile (Charlene Craig) who wants to topple the government. It also stars Tara Flynn as an amoral government minister, Bryan Quinn as Vincent Browne, Donnacha O'Brien as a smug newscaster and lots of other funny folks. Diarmuid wrote the series with contributions from myself (episode 3) and Colin Chadwick (episode 4) and directed the hell out of it.

All in all there's five episodes that should take up 20 minutes of your time. The show was shot beautifully by James McDonnell and looks, to quote Francis Ford Coppola, "the business". Although the show has yet to directly lead to tearing down the government we're all very proud of it

Diarmuid, Charlene and I spoke to the lovely Abie Philbin Bowman from Radio 1's "Arena" about the series a few weeks ago. Here's an auld link:

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/arena/programmes/2014/1127/663074-arena-thursday-27-november-2014/?clipid=1741351