Dermot Carmody

“A powerful catalogue of musical comedy” - The Irish Times

“Seriously Funny” - Hot Press

Dermot Carmody started comedy life in 1988 when he co-founded The Comedy Cellar comedy club in Dublin’s International Bar along with Barry Murphy, Kevin Gildea, Alex Lyons, Karl McDermott, Ardal O’Hanlon and other villains.

In 1989 he came up with “The 1989 Show!” but due to problems with availability and focus the show was temporarily shelved. Carmody went on to gig in every comedy club and festival in Ireland and the UK, do telly, do radio, invent 2irish.com (the web site and the radio show) along with “1989″ co-conspirator Morgan C. Jones, write the comedy column in Hotpress magazine for a year, improvise like the blazes with The Dublin Comedy Improv.

After well over a decade of prolonged negotiation and a huge hiatus when everyone involved switched from filiofax to psion organiser, then to their phones and finally back to scraps of old envelopes again, the opportunity finally arose to get “The 1989 Show” off the ground.

Briefly the show was renamed to “The 2007 Show” but frankly 1989 just seemed like a lot more fun. And here we all are.

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