In advance of his show at the 3Arena, the American stand-up tells Richard Fitzpatrick about his role in Breaking Bad and the rise and fall of Kari-Jokie.

FILM TIPS: The revamped version of The Jungle Book is the big draw at cinemas this weekend, and both trailer and early reviews suggest it’s well worth seeing.

IT wasn’t so much a case of the cat laughing as the cat scratching at last weekend’s Kilkenny Cat Laughs Festival after a controversial comic was booed off stage after making a reference to the Mr A underage sex case.

Ireland is to become home to a second international comedy festival this autumn, it was announced today.

More than 30,000 people are expected to flock to Kilkenny to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Ireland’s main comedy festival over the coming bank holiday weekend.

Ten of Ireland's top comedians launched the Murphy’s Cat Laughs Comedy Festival today.

GLORIOUS sunshine and revellers from around the world have descended on Kilkenny for what has all the hallmarks of being the best-ever Murphy’s Cat Laughs comedy festival weekends.

CAT Laughs festival revellers have begun arriving in the Marble City for five days of non-stop comedy and side-splitting craic, beginning tonight.