MICHAEL SMILEY

DOUR-FACED Irish comedian Michael Smiley has been amusing, informing and entertaining punters for nearly 20 years. He first broke into public in 1993, when he took the runners-up sot in the prestigious So You Think You’re Funny new act competition at the Edinburgh Festival. Michael Smiley has since become a popular and regular face at Edinburgh as well as spreading his wings to become a favourite at all the major clubs and comedy festivals at home and around the globe. Born in Belfast in 1963, Michael Smiley uses his experiences of growing up in Northern Ireland during the troubles to good effect, proving that, in the right hands, even terrorism can be funny. His quietly unassuming Belfast drawl and hangdog appearance, makes the audience listen to everything Michael has to say and boy do they appreciate it. An anecdotal comic, Michael Smiley ploughs a fertile furrow of amusing material from both his own childhood and that of his children with wife Miranda. Also the master of the one-liners, delivered in a disarmingly lateral style, Michael Smiley keeps his audience guessing his mix of the serious, the surreal and the stupendously funny. A cycle courier in a previous life (hence the contsant look of fear), his doomladen and world-weary expression warms him to audiences from the word go, leaving them ready for the surprise of a sudden burst of anger when he vents his spleen at some incident from the past, the present or even the future. A regular face on TV stand-up shows like The Comedy Store and Live at Jongleurs, top stand-up Michael Smiley has also taken his laconic look into the world of acting and comedy drama, with appearances as cycle courier Tyres O'Flaherty in Spaced, a handful of different roles in Al Murray’s Time Gentleman Please, an Irish itinerant in Sean Lock’s 15 Storeys High and even a dash for Dickens as Phil Squod in the 2005 adaptation of Bleak House. WHAT THE CRTICS SAID "Not many comedians have the skill to talk about terrorism and not only convince you that they know what they're talking about but also to make it funny! The slow, Belfast drawl and the appearance of being trapped in one of the worst hangovers ever known to man, does make you warm to Michael Smiley quickly!" - www.funny.co.uk

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