
Comedy Festival
Aiken Promotions and Paddy Power are delighted to be returning to the Iveagh Gardens, Dublin for their second year as festival sponsors. Over 90 artists will perform 36 shows in four fully seated venues in the stunning city centre walled gardens across the four days from 27 – 30 July 2023.
The festival has always been proud to celebrate the brilliance and diversity of Irish comedy and this year’s festival is packed to the rafters with home-grown talent including household names such as Tommy Tiernan, Dara O’Briain, Deirdre O’Kane, Jason Byrne, Gearoid Farrelly, Jarlath Regan
Enya Martin, Kevin McAleer, Fred Cooke, Dirtbirds, Kevin McGahern, Neil Delamare. The festival will continue to champion emerging acts like Fiona Frawley, Sinead Quinlan and online comedy stars like Tony Cantwell, Emma Doran, Killian Sundermann, Justine Stafford, Sean Burke & Michael Fry.
There will also be an exceptional line up of American stars including house band star of James Cordon’s Late Show, Reggie Watts, star of HBO’s 2 Dope Queen’s Phoebe Robinson, Never Mind the Buzzcock’s Desiree Burch rising newcomers Ariel Elias and Caitlin Peluffo and Connor O’Malley.
They will be joined by amazing UK acts including king of the one-liner’s Milton Jones, Scotland’s Fern Brady, star of Live At The Apollo’s Helen Bauer as well as acts from across the world including The Last Leg’s Adam Hills, Wally Baram, Nghia Mai and many more.