Bobby Mair (CAN)

Bobby Mair is a disturbingly exciting new comedian, who performed in the last season of Channel 4’s ‘8 out of 10 Cats’ and BBC3’s ‘Russell Howard’s Good News’. Most recently he was the opening act at the 2014 NME Awards and he also appeared on post Edinburgh Fringe best of highlights show, BBC3’s, ‘Seann Walsh’s Late Night Comedy Spectacular’. His most recent assault on TV screens shows him kissing audience members on the current series of ‘Sweat the Small Stuff’ for BBC3. Bobby made a second consecutive appearance at ‘Just For Laughs’ in July of this year, taping a Best of the Fest gala with ‘roastmaster’ Jeff Ross.

Bobby can also be seen on Series 11 of Live At The Comedy Store, , as well as Alex Zane’s Funny Rotten Scoundrels: Live from the Century Club as part of the London Live channel.

His debut Edinburgh show ‘Obviously Adopted’ garnered rave reviews. A dark and honest hour of Bobby’s stand up; The Guardian called it ‘a bona fide tour de force’ and he received four stars from The Scotsman which said rightly that Bobby ‘will stamp pictures in your brain that may never go away’. Half way through the run, Jimmy Carr came to see Obviously Adopted and said Bobby is “A brilliant stand up. He’s either going to be a huge international star or the funniest homeless man ever’.

Bobby was awarded the ‘People’s Choice Winner’ in the prestigious Canadian comedy competition ‘Stand Up and Bite Me’ in 2009. That year he was also nominated for ‘Best Newcomer’ at the ‘Canadian Comedy Awards’.

The UK move saw Bobby gain instant notoriety as he secured a three day stint opening for his favourite comedian Doug Stanhope at Leicester Square Theatre. “He let me go on stage because I hung around for 2 days staring at him in Montreal”. Bobby is definitely one to watch, carefully.

Danny O’Brien (Ire)

Following in the footsteps of Simon Pegg, Dylan Moran and Dara Ó Briain - Danny was hand picked to perform as part of the iconic “Best of The Edinburgh Fest” Show (which has run successfully for over 20 years). 

Danny has been performing stand-up comedy for over seven years, playing regularly at top comedy clubs and festivals to worldwide audiences, as well as being the resident host and owner of The Comedy Crunch in Dublin, Ireland's most successful comedy club. With his friendly, anecdotal style, this Irish charmer draws in an audience and brings on the big laughs with ease.

He performed his first solo show at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival to rave reviews and scooped the title of "Dublin's Funniest Comedian" at the prestigious Stand Up For FM104 that same year. In 2013 Danny took part in Irish TV show The RTE Comedy Awards and released his first comedy album on iTunes as part of the Irish Underground Comedy Show. He also beat sixteen of Ireland's best up-and-coming acts and took the coveted Toilet Duck Award at Tedfest (the now-famous Father Ted celebration).

In 2014 Danny performed at the Edinburgh Fringe with his second solo show 'Back To The Hills!' and had a hugely successful sold-out run, returning in 2015 with 'Ah Jaysus!', performing another triumphant run to full houses followed by shows in Ireland, the UK and Europe and appearances at The Forbidden Fruit Festival, Longitude Festival, and Vodafone Comedy Festivals.  


"O' Brien took to the stage like a force of nature...one suspects it wont be too much longer before stadiums come calling” The Examiner
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