Barry Murphy (comedian)
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Barry Murphy is an Irish comedian whose notable appearances include a starring role in Après Match.[1] As a member of Mr Trellis he founded The Comedy Cellar in Dublin in 1989. He mostly appears as his German alter ego Gunther Grun and was recognised as one of The 10 Kings Of Irish Comedy over the last twenty years by Hot Press. Murphy hosted the 2002 Irish Film and Television Awards (IFTA) and was himself nominated for an IFTA for Script Television for Little White Lie in 2009 and Irish Pictorial Weekly in 2014.[2] He is the only comedian to have played at every Kilkenny Cat Laughs festival since it started in 1994.[citation needed]
Television appearances[edit]
- Father Ted (Channel 4)
- The Stand Up Show (BBC)
- Writer and presenter of The End (RTÉ)
- Writer and presenter of Melty Hughes' Olympics (RTÉ)
- Writer and presenter of Frank's Euro Ting (RTÉ, Euro 96)
- Writer and performer on Après Match - (RTÉ)
- Writer and performer on Couched (RTÉ, sitcom with Mark Doherty)
- The Empire Laughs Back (BBC Northern Ireland)
Writer and performer on 'Stand & Deliver' RTÉ 2 2010/11
- Time Trumpet (BBC, with Mark Doherty)
- Writer and performer on the soap opera parody Soupy Norman (RTÉ, sitcom with Mark Doherty)
Devised, wrote and co-produced "Irish Pictorial Weekly" 2014
References[edit]
- ^ "The comedy don". The Irish Times. 2 January 2010. Archived from the original on 19 October 2012. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
- ^ "Winners of the 6th Annual Irish Film & Television Awards". IFTA. Archived from the original on 22 March 2009. Retrieved 4 May 2010.
External links[edit]
- Barry Murphy at IMDb