Donnchadh O Conaill – Original Review
Note: This review is from 2007
Review by Steve Bennett
This softly spoken Irishman has an impressive, innate ability to hold the audience transfixed, despite a wilfully low-key approach and comparatively little experience on the stand-up circuit.And even though his material, too, is delicate, his sharp one-liners reward the attention.
There’s a distinctively bleak feel to the set, too, which only adds to its appeal. O’Connail’s pessimism and social awkwardness finds its outlet in world-weary jokes about suicide, the pain of love and the loneliness of existence.
It sounds depressing, but the fine, intelligent jokes that emerge from this stance are anything but.
Review date: 1 Aug 2007
Reviewed by: Steve Bennett
