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CRUEL AND UNUSUAL – COMEDY VERSUS THE DEATH PENALTY “Keith Farnan: Cruel And Unusual manages to be genuinely informative about death row, genuinely realistic about the possibility of change, and genuinely funny enough to receive several rounds of applause.” – Three Weeks “Spellbinding!” –Chortle “The Show you should try to see this festival!”-The List Cruel […]

BRAINSKIP 25 – LEADERS OF THE FREE ..WTF This has been a strange week by any accounts for leaders, both spiritual and former leaders of the free world. The Dalai Lama decided to ignore the growing conflicts across the Middle East and go to Limerick…because he thought they needed him more. On top of that, […]

BRAINSKIP 24 – Fortune Favours the Brave…and the Foolish. After BrainSkip’s adventures down a mountain last week, where BrainSkip went Ski-ing and therefore couldn’t do a Brainskip,but could have done a BrainSKi, if he’d had his pun on, we felt it was time to honour some of the bravest/stupidest things we’ve seen online recently. THROWING […]

BRAINSKIP 23 – FREE THE BEAST! In a week when the UK’s services are getting cut to shreds and George Osborne is promising to unleash his inner Hawk in terms of looking at costs and fuel and all sorts of other elements that do not resemble mice in any way, it felt like the right […]

BRAINSKIP 22 – REASONS TO LOVE ST. PATRICKS DAY. Ok, so today most people are re-enacting the Hangover, desperately trying to reconstruct the events of the night before, while trying to figure out where their lost friend is. (He’s on the roof! Whatever building you are in right now, your lost friend is on the […]

BRAINSKIP 21 – GUILTY PLEASURES Ok, so this week sees the release of the first of the major, alien invasion wildly overblown effects movie with Aaron Echart playing a soldier on the ground in Battle LA, a la Tom Cruise in War of the Worlds. But with weapons. Chances are it will be terrible. Chances […]

BrainSkip – The Ugly, The Bad and The Good The Ugly This week saw the ongoing trailblazing antics of the misunderstood artist Charlie Sheen, whose ongoing inability to fully reintegrate with the universe that once loved and cherished him is causing him to be compared with Gadaafi in terms of quotes that are so indistinguishable […]

BrainSkip 19 – Election Day, Doomsday, Radiohead Day! ENDA THE WORLD As the song goes, todays the day the teddy bears have their picnic. But just who exactly will lead that picnic. That’s the question being answered by the Irish People. There’s a lot of support for Independent candidates who are claiming they’re part of […]

BrainSkip 18 –  Valentines Day Massacre The falling of Valentines day on a Monday this year meant that many were saved the torment of whether or not to take their loved one to an overpriced under-serviced eatery of dubious regard in an effort to fit in with the international Day of Love © Hallmark). Of […]

BRAINSKIP 17 – THE BEGINNERS GUIDE TO HECKLING.DON’T! HECKLER Last week, while gigging in the lovely town of Birmingham, I asked the question, of the ladies I add, of what they liked about Irishmen. Several shouted the voice, accent etc.. While one gentlemen shouted Passports. When asked why he shouted passport, he said, it’s good […]

BRAINSKIP 16 – THE JOY OF ELECTIONS – BACK TO MY GAFFE! In a week when all of Egypt has followed Tunisia out the door of revolution and into the main squares of ousting autocrats, it seemed the right time to reflect on the banana skin that is politicking to lead a country. Only this […]

BRAINSKIP 15 – THE RICKY GERVAIS TRIBUTE ACT This week was a tough one for RG, creator of the Office and his own cartoon show based on the true comedic mutterings of Carl Pilkington, who in my mind is truly the engine behind most of Ricky G’s success.(I’m just trying to come up with various […]

BRAINSKIP 14 – I WISH I WAS SOMEONE ELSE, BY BRIAN COWEN. In a week where it was revealed that Brian Cowen, aka BC, leader of Iceland, sorry I meant Ireland, was discovered to have been having dinner with the leaders of Anglo-Irish, the bank that brought Ireland to its knees, his departure from the […]

BRAINSKIP 13 – WHAT TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN 2011! It’s January, everyone’s brain is still stuck in the mud of leftover Roses and Belgian Biscuits before we go back to our real lives of Rich Tea Biscuits and no chocolates whatsoever. This is the atypical month when bookstores sell more Self help books than […]

BRAINSKIP 12 – THE TWELVE FILMS OF XMAS Avoiding all the misery that snow has brought those travelling home this xmas, and all the political disasters that will no doubt continue into the new year as well as world war 3 starting on the Korean peninsula, lets just all shut the world out and watch […]