Craic Den Comedy Club @ Workman’s Club – Kevin Gildea, Joe Rooney, Timmy Guinney + Becky Cheatle!
Event Date:
30 July, 2025
Event Time:
8:30 pm
Event Location:
Workman
WEDNESDAY 30TH JULY
Doors 8pm / Show at 8:30pm
Craic Den Comedy Club brings the best Irish and international comedians to the stage every week in Dublin city. As seen on their acclaimed TV show on Virgin Media and millions of views on social media, the Craic Den will deliver laughs all evening long.
Kevin Gildea
Kevin Gildea is a comedian, writer, award winning playwright, interviewer, Irish Times book reviewer and potential novelist. Kevin has gigged all over Britain and Ireland and the rest of the known world – from Singapore to Sligo. He’s headlined gigs in Johannesburg and Cape Town and regularly plays all the major comedy festivals in Ireland – The Electric Picnic, ATN, The Vodafone Comedy Festival in the Iveagh Gardens, The Galway Comedy Festival, Kilkenomics
As a TV art’s reporter he has interviewed – amongst others – Terry Gilliam, Will Self, Eddie Izzard, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy.
‘Highly original and Explosively funny’
The Sunday Times
He’s one of the most daring and committed comedians at work right now. Brave, unafraid and compelling…..and very, very funny.’
Tommy Tiernan
‘Comedy on another level.’
The Irish Times
Joe Rooney
Joe is arguably best known for his acting and in particular for playing Father Damo in the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted, appearing in the episode “The Old Grey Whistle Theft”. Rooney had a starring role as Timmy Higgins in the RTÉ television comedy Killinaskully, which ran for five series.
Joe also wrote on the fourth and fifth series of Killinaskully. He currently hosts the podcast PodaRooney, on which he interviews guests who are mostly involved in the entertainment industry. Joe has performed stand-up worldwide, including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Toronto, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Barcelona, Brussels, Moscow, Muscat (Oman), Manama (Bahrain) and Dubai. He has also performed at Irish festivals in Kansas City (Missouri), Milwaukee and La Crosse (Wisconsin).
Becky Cheatle
Since taking up stand up comedy in 2018, Becky Cheatle has gone on to perform at The Dublin Fringe, Edinburgh Festival Fringe & The Paddy Power Comedy Festival, as well as creating the movie-themed comedy show Retro Vision & the Night of 100 Comedians stand up comedy marathon for Culture Night.
During lockdown she co-created the online comedy collective Hysteria, which has since become the Hysteria Comedy Club in Sin É / The Sugar Club, which she also co-runs. She’s directed & co-written the award winning short film Punch Line, and before she began stand up she was a comedy writer of some acclaim. However, her 50 years spent as a man received mixed reviews.
Plus Timmy Guinney!
WORKMAN’S CLUB, 10 WELLINGTON QUAY, Dublin 2, D02 VX36
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* Please arrive before the show start time (8:30pm). Late arrivals may be refused entry.
** Refund Policy: refunds will be granted up until the day of the event. Refunds will not be given if applied for on the day of the event (Unless otherwise stated) however can be swapped for another date if permitted.
***Lineups Subject to change.