Our new radio show ‘The Emerald Arts‘ launches this evening. It’s a 6 part series purporting to be episodes from a legendary long running arts show. The first episode will go out tonight at 9.25PM GMT on Dublin’s Near FM, and each episode will be podcast at our site shortly after it goes on air. Everything is creative commons or public domain, from the art on the website to the sound effects in the show.

The Emerald Arts is the oldest running arts show in Ireland and indeed the world. For over 220 years the programme – initially released as sheet music, then later on telegraph, wax disk, player piano, and finally the wireless (on Dublin’s own Nero FM) has brought Ireland news from the worlds of art and entertainment.

It’s main presenters – Hawthorn White, an ancient and mysterious figure. Bellicose as a bear and aristocratic as a Tudor. Lenny T, gaeltori, scholar of Irish history, staunch defender of the traditional arts. Sally Gob, a sprightly young woman of 60, dead set on having her generations voice added to the show’s conservative coverage.

For six brief episodes the producers have agreed to experiment with the podcast format.

Our first episode goes out tonight, Friday 11th November, and each Friday night for the next six weeks.

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From Marshmallow Ladyboy Jesus 11.

Over the past few months we’ve created a wide variety of photoshopped backgrounds, to be projected behind those individuals sordidly talented enough to perform at Marshmallow Ladyboy Jesus. Here are a few of those grotesques.

Irish blogger and journalist Fústar (John Byrne), talks about the outrageous literary genre known as slash. From Marshmallow Ladyboy Jesus 6.

From Marshmallow Ladyboy Jesus 5.

From Marshmallow Ladyboy Jesus 11.

Marshmallow Ladyboy Jesus is back with a bumper June show! Returning as always is your host, writer and comedian Gareth Stack. Joining him will be Dublin standup favourite and Shinoxy founder (the absolutely hilarious) Lucy Moffatt, DU Players Comedy supremos Valerie Lynch & James Belfast (both preparing to delight Edinburgh with their uproarious student comedy). We have up and coming Asian-Irish sensation Sarina Kajani. And finally, a special treat in the form of zinester, author and humorist Boris Belony!

This really is a night unlike any other, where veteran and fresh faced humorists alike push themselves to create smart multimedia and literary comedy for a bright comedy educmacated audience. Don’t miss it.

Next Friday June 10th at 8PM in Twisted Pepper, we present…

Boris Belony

Author of Transmorphosis & Other Short Story. We’ll leave the description of this surreal writer and storyteller to the infamous Ross O’Carroll-Kelly – “Franz Kafka meets Flann O’Brien meets John Kennedy Toole. Reads like a collection of your worst cheese nightmares and the essays that persuade primary school teachers to call in social workers. Surreal, hilarious and very, very smart – and then, just when you’re settling into a vein of laughter, unexpectedly, disquietingly, sad and touching. I loved every page.”

Valerie Lynch & James Belfast

Theatre people, what are they like? Find out when these two theatre stalls storm our stage with a brief preview of their muscially comedic edinburgh show. These two Trinity comedy society luminaries can bring an audience to life like a randy Nick Sarkozy in a morgue full of chillin’ beauties.

Here’s their blurb…

“Once upon a time the Earl of Belfast set out for County Cork. After weeks of tracking he caught a musical gypsy, leaving one choice: a two person comedy show. ‘Ireland’s brightest talents’
***** (Milkandcookiestories.com) ‘a winner with the audience’ (entertainment.ie). Winner of RTE Radio 1′s competition ‘Ireland’s Funniest’ x”

Lucy Montague-Moffatt

Returning after an uproarious performance at MLBJ 10, Lucy Montague-Moffatt is a writer, stand-up comedian and one of Dublin’s female sketch comedy trio ‘Shinoxcy’. She has been writing and performing comedy around Ireland since 2009, including performing an original satirical play by Shinoxcy as part of the 2010 ABSOLUT Fringe. She will be performing in two separate shows for the 3 week Edinburgh Fringe Festival this year, this will more that likely cause insanity and /or death.
Lucy’s other hobbies include hello kitty, cycling around town dangerously and trying her best to ignore the imminent apocalypse.

Sarina Kajani

Sarina Kajani once defeated a multinational child sex trafficking cartel using her left thumb. She also had help from an eccentric 5 year old who constantly exclaimed ‘ I need to wiiizzlllleee!!!’
She now spends her time making cakes, feeding lonely college students in exchange for their love. She’s that desperate for attention. She also has a particular affinity to the word asphyxiate but would never divulge in such an act as that is bold. She rarely abides by the Christian virtue of modesty, but who cares? Bitch be Muslim.

Tickets

€ 5 – Grownups
€ 3 – Student / OAP / Dole pigs (Hey I’m one too!)
€ 0 – Coinless Mario

Available on the door.
Facebook event here.

This months poster by the amazingly talented Caoimhe Lavelle.

Celebrate Friday the 13th of May with another dose of hack free alternative comedy from Shane Langan, Alan Bennet and James Moran. Your MC as always is popular Irish comedy man Gareth Stack.

Shane Langan

Shane is one fifth of comedy team Diet of Worms, creators of the web series’ Taste of Home, Dublin Stories and Adventures of the Puffincat. He is also the creator and curator of Dublin comedy storytelling club Not Also But Only as well as the author of the weekly Entertainment.ie comic diary Beetroot & I.

Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett stopped comedying it up for ages, but now he’s back and nearly as good as he was before! He has been a finalist in Edinburgh’s So You Think You’re Funny competition and a winner of The London Comedy Store’s King Gong Award. He has toured Ireland with David O’Doherty and Maeve Higgins. He tells loads of jokes about animals. And some about other things.

James Moran

James Moran’s surreal and self deprecating stories play delightfully with language, Irishness and irresponsibility. He’s a much loved regular at Milk and Cookies and provided support for the workshop performance of Cheaper Than Therapy at Twisted Pepper.

Place: Friday, 13th May, 8PM, Twisted Pepper
Price: € 5 / € 3 (concessions) / € 0 (penurious)
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This month’s poster is by the wonderfully demented Mr Declan Hurley.

Dublin’s most alternative comedy night returns, with new videos, power points and skits, and special guests Megan Nolan, Sarina Kajani, Gary Lynch. Your MC as always is Dublin’s most well liked comedian Gareth Stack.

Friday, 8th April, 8PM

Gary Lynch

Gary Lynch has been performing standup comedy around Ireland and the UK since 2009. He co-founded the infamous Underground Comedy Club, which rapidly became the home of original outrageous standup comedy in Ireland. Gary is infamous for his searingly honest and politically incorrect critiques of Irish culture.

Megan Nolan

Megan Nolan hosts the “Voice of the Youth” segment at Voicebox in Twisted Pepper every month. In 2007 she was awarded Cuisle Young Poet of the Year. She’s also a rapper and founder of the group ‘You’re Only Massive’. Megan was recently a featured performer at Maeve Higgen’s Enlightenment night, and regularly writes about comedy and culture.

Sarina Kajani

Sarina Kajani once defeated a multinational child sex trafficking cartel using her left thumb. She also had help from an eccentric 5 year old who constantly exclaimed ‘ I need to wiiizzlllleee!!!’
She now spends her time making cakes, feeding lonely college students in exchange for their love. She’s that desperate for attention. She also has a particular affinity to the word asphyxiate but would never divulge in such an act as that is bold. She rarely abides by the Christian virtue of modesty, but who cares? Bitch be Muslim.

€ 5 / € 3 / € 0
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