{"id":2051,"date":"2015-07-10T02:20:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T02:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2016-08-01T01:05:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T01:05:46","slug":"memories-of-tullamore-at-irelands-smallest-comedy-club-setting-off-for-valentia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/memories-of-tullamore-at-irelands-smallest-comedy-club-setting-off-for-valentia\/","title":{"rendered":"Memories of Tullamore at Ireland&#8217;s Smallest Comedy Club &#8211; Setting off for Valentia"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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 &#8211; compered by another Tullamore man John Graham, so was familiar with his work.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3074\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3074\" style=\"width: 1239px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/memories-of-tullamore-at-irelands-smallest-comedy-club-setting-off-for-valentia\/the-dew-drop-inn-in-galway-scene-of-irelands-smallest-comedy-club\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3074\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3074\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/The-Dew-Drop-Inn-in-Galway-scene-of-Irelands-Smallest-Comedy-Club.jpg\" alt=\"The Dew Drop Inn in Galway - scene of Irelands Smallest Comedy Club\" width=\"1239\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/The-Dew-Drop-Inn-in-Galway-scene-of-Irelands-Smallest-Comedy-Club.jpg 1239w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/The-Dew-Drop-Inn-in-Galway-scene-of-Irelands-Smallest-Comedy-Club-300x80.jpg 300w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/The-Dew-Drop-Inn-in-Galway-scene-of-Irelands-Smallest-Comedy-Club-768x206.jpg 768w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/The-Dew-Drop-Inn-in-Galway-scene-of-Irelands-Smallest-Comedy-Club-1024x274.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/The-Dew-Drop-Inn-in-Galway-scene-of-Irelands-Smallest-Comedy-Club-700x188.jpg 700w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/The-Dew-Drop-Inn-in-Galway-scene-of-Irelands-Smallest-Comedy-Club-332x89.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1239px) 100vw, 1239px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3074\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Dew Drop Inn in Galway &#8211; scene of Ireland&#8217;s Smallest Comedy Club<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>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 &#8220;relationship&#8221; with the boss, taken to the ridiculous, as all good comedy is. I was left wondering which boss he was on about!<\/p>\n<p>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!<\/p>\n<p><b>A flavour <\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/155685741&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>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!<\/p>\n<address><b>Reference:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Irelandssmallestcomedyclub\">Irelands Smallest Comedy Club on Facebook<\/a><\/b><\/address>\n<blockquote><p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[2237,3123,1480,3124,3128,3125,2236,391,3127,2234,3126,2235,3122,2238,2358],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-bob-hannigan","tag-comedian","tag-comedy","tag-comedy-act","tag-comedy-club-in-galway","tag-comedy-set","tag-donal-vaughan","tag-galway","tag-galway-events","tag-irelands-smallest-comedy-club","tag-irish-comedy-scene","tag-john-graham","tag-jonathan-sheehan","tag-the-dew-drop-inn","tag-tullamore","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-x5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1442,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/a-right-pair-of-comedians-seeing-dave-mcsavage-in-galway-and-fergus-costello-in-tullamore\/","url_meta":{"origin":2051,"position":0},"title":"A Right Pair of Comedians &#8211; Seeing Dave McSavage in Galway and Fergus Costello in Tullamore","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"7th February 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I had the pleasure as part of Tullamore Rhymers Club of supporting Fergus Costello in his new show \"Tell Me Lies Horse\" last week in Joe Lees in Tullamore. 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