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  • Patrick Kielty

    Though Paddy McDonnell and Micky Bartlett win over the Falls Park audience, it's not all plain sailing for the hard-hitting headliner

  • Tim McGarry's Irish History Lesson

    The veteran comic on finding the funny side of invasion, war, famine and the Troubles

  • Planet Belfast

    Rosemary Jenkinson takes a satirical swipe at big business and avaricious community leaders in 21st century Northern Ireland

  • Frank Carson: It's the Way He Told 'Em Memorial Concert

    Northern Ireland's glitterati come out in force to celebrate the life and work of the famed Belfast comedian at the Grand Opera House
  • Fifty Shades of Red, White and Blue

    50 Shades of Red, White and Blue

    GBL Productions' adaptation of Leesa Harker’s mommy-porn pastiche is an x-rated antidote to good taste

  • One Rogue Reporter

    Former tabloid hack Rich Peppiatt lampoons the industry he was once a part of and ingeniously confronts its worst offenders

  • Lennon v McCartney: Beatlemania at Out To Lunch

    Playwright Stephen Kennedy on bringing a little bit of Beatlemania to the Out To Lunch festival in Belfast on January 17

  • Jon Richardson

    How does the 'reliably sophisticated font of witticisms' as featured on 8 Out of 10 Cats transfer to the stage?

  • Beating Berlusconi

    The story of one Liverpool fan's incredible experience of the 2005 Champions League final in Istanbul comes to the Belfast Festival

  • David O'Doherty

    The Belfast Festival's new marquee plays host to the shaggy-haired comic who is unusually grouchy and all the better for it

  • Michael McIntyre

    A 'flawlessly constructed, expertly executed' set from the King of UK Comedy

  • Alan Davies

    The Essex actor and QI stooge returns to stand-up after a 12 year wait. Perhaps he should have stayed sitting down

  • Black Humour with David O'Doherty

    The Dublin comic talks Belfast hecklers, heartache and honing his craft. 'Children's books warp your mind'

  • Walking With Dinosaurs

    Adapted from the BBC series, this arena spectacular features life-sized T-Rexes and much more

  • The Producers

    The Theatre at the Mill Summer Youth Group do justice to Mel Brooks' hilarious musical satire

  • Molly Wobbly's Tit Factory

    Paul Boyd's musical comedy is a five-star romp 'populated with sleazy, strutting grotesques'

  • FNT Live

    The taboo-tacking comedians keep the laughs coming in the preview of their Edinburgh Fringe show

  • Steve Backshall

    The Deadly 60 presenter engages young naturalists at the Ulster Hall with sharks and rhinos, but isn't too fond of Giant Pandas

  • RISING STAR: Lauren Kerr

    She finds most Northern Irish comedians 'stomach churning', but the Bright Club Belfast MC admits she still has a lot to learn

  • From South Park to Ormeau Park – US Comedian Toby Morton Relocates

    Comedy writer Toby Morton on swapping the US for Northern Ireland, meeting Radiohead and our dark sense of humour

  • Dave Allen – A Journey through Life

    Newry actor and writer Kieran Cunningham pays homage to one of Ireland's greatest satirists

  • Patrick Kielty

    Near-the-knuckle humour, celebrity girlfriends and the Titanic are what the comedian brings Home

  • Michael Redmond

    Famous for a deadpan appearance Father Ted, the Dublin comic battles with an unresponsive Belfast audience

  • Mirthathon 2012

    100 comedians in 12 hours, and all for charity – it was a tall order for organiser Andrew Johnston

  • Simon Munnery

    The cerebral comic is always entertaining, whether singing about airships or making misogyny funny

  • David O'Doherty

    Don't mistake the Dublin comic for Chris O'Dowd – he's likely to lampoon you in musical form

  • Obituary: Frank Carson

    Belfast-born comedy legend passes away aged 85  

  • Grease

    The 'teenagers' are a bit long in the tooth, but after 30 years this polished show proves Grease is still the word

  • William Caulfield

    The sharp-tongued comedian cuts out the middleman and heckles the audience

  • Fly Me to the Moon

    A 'world-class Northern Irish production' sees Marie Jones at the top of her game

  • Conal Gallen

    Ballybofey's finest gag man delivers a clean set to 'people with dirty minds'

  • Hostel

    Homelessness, suicide and unexpected pregnancy. Somehow, playwright Fionnuala Kennedy shows the funny side

  • Josie Long

    The Tories are bad. Bankers are bad. You get the gist. Andrew Johnston is not impressed

  • Sam Millar on New Play Brothers in Arms

    Belfast crime novelist and former republican prisoner on his new play about 'the elephant in the room' – the dissidents  

  • RISING STAR: Johnny McCarthy

    The ‘sit-down stand-up comedian’ from Lisburn talks disability, offensive comedy and wanting to be heckled

  • Rhinestone Mondays

    A country music Full Monty? More like a line dancing version of Give My Head Peace

  • Batman Live

    If you like your Dark Knight camp and gothic, this exciting, bat-shaped show is for you

  • Thriller Live

    The celebration of Michael Jackson's life is just as thrilling third time around

  • Avenue Q

    This adult puppet show is the perfect mix of 'show tunes, satire and seediness'

  • Adult Theatre Perfected in Avenue Q

    The bawdy puppet show comes to Belfast - it's not for the faint-hearted

  • Kevin Eldon Is Titting About

    The publicity-shy comedian on his one-man show, working with Steve Coogan and the downsides of touring

  • Spamalot

    The Queen's visit is making the headlines, but Phill Jupitus as King Arthur is far more entertaining

  • Stewart Francis

    The master of the deadpan one-liner is closer to Woody Allen than Russell Howard - that's a good thing

  • Mark Thomas vs Russell Howard

    We like radical lefties, and we like a mainstream hipsters. But which is better? Only one way to find out...

  • Abandoman

    The improvised hip-hop comedy duo miss their chance to trade 'pithy putdowns' with a heckler, but are still 'devilishly funny'

  • Lockerbie Unfinished Business

    David Benson cracks open a can of worms in a play Andrew Johnston describes as 'essential'

  • Ed Aczel

    The unorthodox comic is a strange mix of the good, the bad - and it gets ugly at the Black Box

  • David O’Doherty

    Despite a 'gaggle of noisy women', the Dublin comic ingratiates himself with the Empire faithful

  • Stand-Up and Be Counted

    Andrew Johnston talks to comedy club promoters about the new wave of Northern Irish comics

  • Chinese State Circus Comes To Belfast

    The Chinese Ministry of Culture will be present - artistic director Phillip Gandley hopes they like it
  • Adolf, Pip Utton

    Adolf

    Based on Hitler's writings and rants, this provocative piece of theatre is uncomfortable but essential viewing

  • Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour

    Saucy comments, a passable pasodoble and Anne Widdecombe: there's only one word to describe the Strictly Live show - fab-u-lous!

  • Fela!

    The latest production from NT Live is a dramatised biography of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti

  • Doctor Who Live

    Daleks a go-go, Neil the Hippie cast as the anti-hero and a 16-piece band - 'the very definition of crowd-pleasing'

  • Armstrong & Miller

    Swearing airmen, saucy parlour games and streamers fail to paper over the cracks

  • Kevin Bridges

    The Glaswegian comic's rapid ascent continues at the Ulster Hall

  • Al Murray, Pub Landlord

    Laugh with him or at him, all that matters is that you laugh

  • Sunshine on Leith

    Mamma Mia! for Proclaimers fans. Andrew Johnston is blown away