Watch: These are the comedians making us laugh online during lockdown
Clockwise from top, Laura O'Mahony, Tadhg Hickey, Seán Burke. Killian Sunderman.
One of the surprising perks of the pandemic for many of us has been the opportunity to open social media and within seconds be entertained by an online sketch. While we miss live gigs, many of those who saw their livelihoods stall thanks to Covid-19 have moved their material online. One of these is Cork comic Tadhg Hickey, creative director of local sketch troupe CCCahoots.
“There’s definitely more of a focus on online,” he said. “I'd been preparing to tour a show around Ireland and the UK for the year and all my dates were gone within a week or two. When all that went up in smoke, I thought I've just got to do something and not feel sorry for myself. That's where my putting the effort into Twitter came from.”
