Check out our 2024 line-up
with more acts and shows than ever before!
Follow our instagram @BrayComedyFest for all the latest info.
Bray Comedy Festival is back for 2024
Join us this February as we up the ante with SEVEN DAYS packed full of great comedy events in Bray
We’re bringing you some of the biggest names in Irish comedy, new and exciting acts plus some brand new events!
Monday 12th February
Gong Baby Gong
Bray Comedy Festival’s inaugural Beat the Gong competition.
Think you’ve got what it takes to make our audience laugh and keep a crowd entertained?
Plus we have a headline appearance on the night from Joe Dowlin!
When: Monday 12th February
Time: 8.30PM (Doors 8PM)
Where: The Harbour Bar (Upstairs)
T&Cs: Seating is on a first come, first served basis. Over 18's only.
THIS IS A FREE EVENT - NO TICKET REQUIRED
Tuesday 13th February
Best New Act Competition
Watch the best of new Irish talent battle it out to win our Best New Act Competition.
With a Special Guest Headliner to be Killian Sunderman.
When: Tuesday 13th February
Time: 8.30PM (Doors 8PM)
Where: The Harbour Bar (Upstairs)
T&Cs: Seating is on a first come, first served basis. Over 18's only.
Tickets: €5 + booking fees
Wednesday 14th February
David McSavage
Catch the brand new solo show from David McSavage (The Savage Eye) live at The Harbour Bar.
When: Wednesday 14th February
Time: 8.30PM (Doors 8PM)
Where: The Harbour Bar (Upstairs)
T&Cs: Seating is on a first come, first served basis. Over 18's only.
Tickets: €20 + booking fees
Thursday 15th February
Hardy Har Heroes with Sinead Culbert (Dirt Birds), Sharon Mannion, Pat McDonnell
Join us for a Thursday line-up with three of Ireland’s leading comedians under one roof!
Sinead Culbert (DirtBirds), Sharon Mannion (Comedy Cellar) and Pat McDonnell (Father Ted)
When: Thursday 15th February
Time: 8.30PM (Doors 8PM)
Where: The Harbour Bar (Upstairs)
T&Cs: Seating is on a first come, first served basis. Over 18's only.
Tickets: €15 + booking fees
The Great Big Small Screen Quiz
Join us for a quiz that will put all your telly trivia to good use. With trivia, photo & audio rounds spanning a range of genres and your favourite classics - from sitcoms, crime, documentaries, reality TV & more.
There will be prizes for the top three scoring teams, a spot prize for Best Dressed, plus interactive rounds for points & prizes including a Lovely Person competition (à la FATHER TED) and a performance of The Routine (from FRIENDS).
Tables for 4 people are €40.
Tables for 2 people are €20.
When: Thursday 15th February
Time: Doors / Registration & Photo round from 7pm
Where: ***NEW LOCATION*** Event has moved to The Martello, 47 Strand Road
T&Cs: Seating is on a first come, first served basis. Over 18's only.
Tickets: €10pp + booking fees (Tables for 4 people are €40. 2 people are €20.)
WOMP Events is an event company based in Galway. A bedroom business born from boredom in the early weeks of the 2020 lockdown, WOMP have since graduated from hosting comedy quizzes on Zoom to a string of sold-out themed quizzes, events, and club nights across the country.
In the past year, WOMP made their Electric Picnic debut and appeared at Galway Comedy Festival. Join them for their Bray Comedy Festival debut!
Stay tuned to WOMP Events on Facebook, X & Instagram @wompeventsd
Friday 16th February
Bingo Loco - Jukebox Jam
Bingo Loco is back in Bray baby!
Join the Bingo Loco crew at our 'Jukebox Jam' show in Koo Nightclub on Friday 16th February!
Expect everything you know and love about Bingo Loco with even MORE!!
Enjoy tunes from the biggest decades, sing-alongs, lip sync battles, dance offs and more!
When: Friday 16th February
Time: Doors from 8pm / Show start 9pm
Where: Koo, The Martello, 47 Strand Road, Bray
T&Cs: Over 18's only.
Tickets: €20 + booking fees
Fred Cooke & Julie Jay: Marriage Counselling
Fred Cooke ("I love Fred" - Tommy Tiernan) and Julie Jay ("Riotous Comedy" - The Irish Times) are back with their show 'Marriage Counselling,' so-named because their relationship is quite literally hanging on by a thread. This year they were thrilled to be up the duff again after Julie orchestrated a surprise pregnancy, with her truly gas ruminations on married life offset by Fred's high-octane storytelling and hilarious punchlines.
Expect "raucous riffs" (The Irish Times) and big, big laughs from Ireland's favourite comedy couple.
When: Friday 16th February
Time: 8.00PM (Doors 7.30PM)
Where: The Harbour Bar (Upstairs)
T&Cs: Seating is on a first come, first served basis. Over 18's only.
Tickets: €15 + booking fees
Saturday 17th February
Paddy Irishman, Paddy Englishwoman, Paddy Scotsman
Paul Marsh, Elinor Murphy & Ben Verth
When: Saturday 17th February
Time: 6pm
Where: The Harbour Bar (Upstairs)
T&Cs: Seating is on a first come, first served basis. Over 18's only.
Tickets: €10 + booking fees
Colm O’Regan
Catch the brand new solo show ‘The Small Pale Nerd at the End of the World’ from Colm O’Reagan (Irish Mammies)
When: Saturday 17th February
Time: 8PM
Where: The Harbour Bar (Upstairs)
T&Cs: Seating is on a first come, first served basis. Over 18's only.
Tickets: €15 + booking fees
Karl Spain
A Bray Comedy Fest Favourite Returns!!
Catch the brand new solo show from Karl Spain live at The Harbour Bar.
When: Saturday 17th February
Time: 10PM
Where: The Harbour Bar (Upstairs)
T&Cs: Seating is on a first come, first served basis. Over 18's only.
Tickets: €20 + booking fees
Sunday 18th February
Bray Comedy Fest Wrap Party
Join us as we Wrap Up Bray Comedy Fest with lots of special guests!
When: Sunday 18th February
Time: 8PM
Where: The Harbour Bar (Upstairs)
T&Cs: Seating is on a first come, first served basis. Over 18's only.
Tickets: €10 + booking fees
We have also linked up with Mermaid Art Centre Bray and Whale Theatre Greystones to host even more shows as part of Bray Comedy Fest.
Mermaid Arts Centre
Jarleth Regan - Yer Man - The Standup Comedy Show
Thursday 15th
Friday 16th
Following millions of downloads and views on Youtube, TikTok and Instagram Jarlath Regan’s epic new standup comedy show “Yer Man” has landed. Ireland’s favourite Irishman Abroad is back after appearances on Tonight At The Palladium (ITV), Russell Howard’s Good News (BBC) and Goggle Box (Channel 4). As recommended by Ardal O’Hanlon, Marc Maron, Jack Whitehall, Joe Wilkinson, Deborah Frances White, The Guardian and Tripadvisor.
‘Side-splitting stuff’
★★★★ Metro
‘A master at work ’
Patrick Kielty
‘More laughs in the first 15 minutes than most comedians can muster in an hour’
★★★★ Herald
‘Comedy genius’
The Irish Times
Jason Byrne - The Ironic Bionic Man
Sunday 18th
Jason Byrne, half man, half natural disaster. Over the course of his accident-prone life Jason has been rebuilt from the ground up. Bits removed, metal pins, new knee, and an eye that’s been treated, over the years, by the medical profession like a game of Pong. This all culminated last year with heart surgery, twice! He enjoyed it so much he went back for more.
Join the most gifted live comedian on the planet as he invites you to laugh at his misfortune.
If he tried to say Schadenfreude, he’d probably dislocate his tongue.
‘The Outright King of Live Comedy’
The Times
‘There is nobody else on the planet who makes me laugh like that. Your world will be a better place after seeing Jason live’
The Newcastle Chronicle
Whale Theatre Greystones
Danny O’Brien - Sweet Child O’Brien
Thursday 15th
Friday 16th
After a complete sell-out nationwide tour including full houses at both The Whale Theatre and Bray Comedy Festival last year, multi-award-winning Wicklovian comedian Danny O' Brien is back in Greystones this February with a brand new nostalgia-packed high-energy stand-up show bringing the big laughs home to his native county! O' Brien has revisited all the simple joys of a late 80s/early 90s
Irish childhood (to find the undisputed winner!) and sought to find out if a simpler time was indeed a happier one.
This year he has toured all over the world, including a month-long tour around New Zealand, Canada & Newfoundland representing Ireland with various International TV appearances as well as several worldwide comedy festivals in Asia, Europe, the US, and a month of sell-out solo shows and rave reviews at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival!
(he also may or may not have accidentally killed two Tamagotchis along the way!)
He has toured nationally with John Colleary, Today FM's Dermot & Dave, and he also opened for American comedian Bill Burr in front of over 8,000 people in Dublin's 3Arena!
He is also a regular contributor on Irish Television and Radio.
"Danny is one of our favourite comedians, go see him live this year wherever you can!" Foil, Arms & Hog
“He opened for me at the 3Arena and f*cking murdered it! Bill Burr
“O’Brien is genuinely, uproariously funny with a huge stage presence and wicked timing”
The Sunday Independent
Colin Murphy - WHATCHAMACOLIN
Saturday 17th
Colin Murphy's last tour Colinization was a sell out. Since then he has survived covid and a royal funeral… just. But in 2023 he's back out on the road with his biggest and best stand up tour yet, WHATCHAMACOLIN.
As well as starring in twenty series of the BBC's award winning ratings topper the Blame Game, hosting IMRO award nominated Great Unanswered Questions, acting in BAFTA winning People Like Us, being a team captain on panel show Clear History, over a hundred appearances on the hugely popular, multi IFTA award nominated show The Panel, plus hosting and co-writing six series of the cult classic show Blizzard of Odd on RTE, Colin has also taken his stand up to all corners of the world. From Montreal, to Melbourne, New York, Edinburgh, Shanghai, Madrid and Strabane.
If you’re a fan of the telly stuff then you’ll love WHATCHAMACOLIN; a show full of pin perfect observations, self righteous indignation and a bit of swearing. To still be performing stand-up at this level after thirty years he must be doing something right.
Age Guidance: Over 18's
