Cork comedian Kyla Cobbler: 'I’d given up on love — and then I found him at a comedy show'

Five years after telling her first joke on stage, Cork’s Kyla Cobbler has quickly become one of the country’s most in-demand comedians. Kathy Donaghy meets her in the midst of her ‘Not My Lemons’ tour to chat discipline, sobriety and the power of women backing women

Comedian Kyla Cobbler has announced a 2027 3Arena date for her new show Not My Lemons. Picture: Presseye /Stephen Hamilton

While once she may have struggled with accepting that she was, in fact, a fully-fledged comedian, Kyla is now totally leaning into her work as an artist, making sure that her social battery is nice and high when it comes to taking to the stage.

Breezing into a Belfast coffee shop, where the night before she’d headlined a sell-out gig, the Ballincollig native looks positively zen. Dressed casually with zero make up (more on that later), Kyla declares that she’s coming into her Not My Lemons tour hot and strong with a “really good mindset”.