Following our hugely successful Comedy Night last Christmas, Cobh Ramblers are delighted to announce that this year’s comedy night will take place on Wednesday the 28th of December 2016. Tickets are priced at €20.
Featuring Andrew Ryan as Host, Headline Act Fred Cooke, Chris Kent, and Red FM’s Jason Coughlan (All acts subject to change, Late Bar in operation)
Doors 19.30. Show Starts 20.30 Sharp. Tickets €20. for Bookings & Enquiries Contact (083)-3039922
Fred Cooke delivers a unique brand of comedy through his musical prowess and wild crafted physical story telling. He has work on “The Tommy Tiernan Show” both on RTE and 2fm. Fred became a regular on the highly successful RTE Show, “The Fear”. He has been seen preparing a choral specticel surprise at a proposal in the Electric Picnic, embarrassing one of his fans at the Vodafone Comedy Festival, and proposing to an unexpected lady in Dublin City Centre.
His musical sketches are a constant hilarious success with his Republic of Telly Hidden Camera Prank reaching 1,661,213 hits on YouTube.His collaboration of “Ireland the Musical” brought him around every country in Ireland through music and surreal sketches. It now stands at over half a million views.
Fred has frequently been invited to perform at the largest and most successful festivals both here andabroad, including the Cat Laughs Comedy Festival, the Vodafone Comedy Carnival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Tampere Comedy Festival in Finland, London Irish Comedy Festival, Kells Hay Festival, Mayo Summer Festival, The Trim Satire Festival.
He has supported Ardal O’Hanlon on his massive nationwide tour. He has also performed alongside such high profile acts as Tommy Tiernan, Eddie Izzard, John Bishop, Dara O Brian, Ross Noble, Kevin Bridges, Sarah Millican, Jason Byrne, Neil Delamere and Des Bishop. Fred Cooke has rapidly become a unique stand-up delivering a style of comedy that simply cannot be imitated. He made his debut on English television with the second series of the BBC Show “Vexed”.
Fred has already contributed to a variety of successful Irish TV shows, both as a writer andperformer, including RTE’s The Fear, Republic of Telly, The Savage Eye,The Cafe (as The Crazy Chef), Watch Your Language (The Mad Professor), The Modest Adventures of David O’Doherty, and The Liffey Laughs.
He has also regularly been the warm-up act for many different television chat shows including The Late Late Show, The Podge and Rodge Show, The Republic of Telly, The Craig Doyle Show.
“I love Fred, he has the real spirit of the Clown in him” – Tommy Tiernan
“Fred Cooke is ready to step into the premier league of Irish funnymen.” – Hot Press.
“Comedy genius; he has so much energy that he could power a small village in the west of Kerry” – The Laughter
