Dylan Moran laughing all the way to the bank with €1.1m

Dylan Moran, Co Meath comedian and one of the stars of hit movie Calvary, was sitting on a cash pile of €1.1m at the end of July 2014.

According to accounts just filed by Moran’s Venus Lucia Productions Ltd to Companies House in the UK,the firm’s cash pile dipped from £903,296 to £802,695 (€1.1m).

During the same period, the firm’s accumulated profits decreased by £145,308 from £888,526 to £743,218 in the 12 months to the end of July 31.

The two directors of the firm are Moran and his wife Elaine, who works as a script editor.

The drop in accumulated profits and cash last year follows a stellar year at the Dylan Moran firm in 2012 when his profits increasing to £1.036m at the Bafta- winning comedian’s firm.

The abridged accounts for 2014 disclose that revenues include supplies outside the scope of Vat total £1.027m.

Moran will soon add to his coffers with an exhaustive tour around the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Venues earmarked for multiple dates in his ‘Off The Hook’ tour include Vicar Street, Dublin, the Opera House in Cork, and the Black Box Theatre in September and October of this year.

Moran — who now lives in Edinburgh — left school aged 16 and initially sought to earn a living from cartooning before turning his attention to stand-up.

He has enjoyed a long career in comedy and was the youngest-ever winner of the prestigious Perrier award at Edinburgh when he scooped the prize in 1996 at the age of 24.

A career highlight for Moran was the acclaimed Channel 4 comedy series Black Books, which he co-wrote with Father Ted creator Graham Linehan, winning two Baftas.

The series — which ran between 2000 and 2004 — centred around a miserable, unsociable, drunken and disorganized book shop owner, Bernard Black.

Moran has also appeared in a number of movies, including Shaun and the Dead, A Cock and Bull Story, and Run Fatboy Run, as well as the hit move starring Brendan Gleeson, Calvary.