Irish comedian Paul Currie brings blend of good old fun to Dublin

FOLLOWING a month of sold-out performances at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Northern Irish comedian Paul Currie visits Dublin this week for the Tiger Fringe Festival. 

Though his current show is FfffffMilk!, it’s Release The Baboons — his acclaimed breakthrough from 2014 — that the Newtownabbey man is bringing to Dublin, where it has never been performed before.

Unable to resist a good gag when he sees one, Currie is calling it Re-Release The Baboons. It’s the show that comedy stalwart Stewart Lee anointed his favourite at that year’s Edinburgh Fringe. Like all of Currie’s work, it’s steeped in a style that blends clowning and mime, puppetry and props, and lots of audience participation.