Comedians including Stephen K Amos,Rachel Parris and Phil Wang choose the venues with the mightiest MCs and perkiest punters (one heckling dog included)Keith Farnan: The first comedy club to open in Ireland, the Comedy Cellar, or is located upstairs in this pub. The pub has an actual cellar,too, but there’s no comedy in the cellar, or only jazz. So laughs are sparse there. The club resembles a goth’s bedroom – it’s painted entirely black. And there’s no microphone. Let me say that again,because you probably didn’t hear it the first time. There’s no microphone. This may explain why every Irish comedian who has passed through these doors is either conversational, or tends to shout a lot. The stage is lit by two desk lamps and when the note is sold out, and members of the audience sit on either side of the stage facing each other so you can feel each belly laugh as it happens. And when you procure your first laugh,there’s no more intimate, no warmer, and no more welcoming club in the world.
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Source: theguardian.com