Ed Byrne
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Biography: Edward Cathal Byrne is an Irish stand-up comedian, voice over artist and actor. He has presented television shows Uncut! Best Unseen Ads and Just for Laughs, and is a guest on television panel games. As an actor, he played the title character in the 2000 ITV adaptation of the pantomime Aladdin.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Swords, Dublin, Ireland
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Mock the Week: Too Hot for TV
Overview: Produced exclusively for DVD, with nearly of 3 hours of the hottest standup comedians performing in the funniest program on TV. Mock the Week - Too Hot For TV contains all the best laugh out load moments that couldn't be shown on TV or anywhere else, for reasons of taste, decency and sheer outrageousness. For the first time see unbroadcastable material from Dara O'Briain, Frankie Boyle, Hugh Dennis, Andy Parsons, Russell Howard and a host of the funniest stand-up comedians on the circuit
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-26
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Ed Byrne: Pedantic & Whimsical
Overview: Ed Byrne is one of the most prolific young comedians in the UK and as an observational stand-up considered unrivalled. He has performed five hit UK tours and has made his London West End debut in a two-week run at The New Ambassadors Theatre. Throughout the spring of 2005 he performed a sell-out tout of the UK with his show 'Me Again'. This performance was filmed at the City Varieties in Leeds in March 2005 and contains all of Ed Byrne's best material from the past ten years.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-21
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Zemanovaload
Overview: John Davies suffers from multiple obsessive compulsive disorders. When his current model girlfriend leaves him, he decides to replace her with the number 1 babe on planet Earth - Czech model Veronika Zemanova. The film follows his attempts to curb his old obsessions in order to meet his latest obsession - Veronika.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-22
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I Could Never Be Your Woman
Overview: Mother Nature loves to cause mischief, and she steps in to help two love-starved souls find happiness. She helps an aging professional woman and single mother, Rosie, who's unlucky in love find her match with Adam, a much younger man. As their relationship blossoms beyond physical attraction, matters complicate when her adolescent daughter starts to fall for a handsome local boy.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-11
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Ed Byrne: Crowd Pleaser
Overview: Stand-up institution Ed Byrne brings the full force of his talent to bear in this barnstorming show. 'Crowd Pleaser' finds Byrne navigating the treacherous landscape of family and TV celebrity, all the while trying to stay true to his nerdy side.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-28
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Mock the Week - Too Hot For TV 2
Overview: Produced exclusively for DVD, three hilarious hours of the country's finest comic minds battling it out on TVs most outrageous comedy show. MOCK THE WEEK TOO HOT FOR TV 2 is the sharpest, rudest and funniest collection of Mock the Week moments so far, delving into the show's archives to unearth laugh out loud nuggets of comedy gold never previously allowed to be shown. Watch Dara O Briain, Frankie Boyle, Hugh Dennis, Russell Howard, Andy Parsons and a host of Britain s finest stand ups pushing the boundaries further than ever before
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-09
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Dara Ó Briain: This Is the Show
Overview: Dara O Briain - This Is the Show was recorded in front of a sell-out crowd on the final date of his record-breaking nine nights at the world famous Hammersmith Apollo. Dara is on top form as he effortlessly mixes off the cuff audience interaction with razor sharp material and a star studded finale that almost puts Hollywood to shame. "O Briain is loud and large and fast and feisty...............but the way he tells 'em is a joy" - The Times "O Briain has a laser eye for the absurd and the spurious amid the too-much-stuff with which we shore up our hapless lives" - The Guardian "Breakneck genius...... the entire audience was hanging on every sentence. And every sentence ended in a laugh. It was stuffed with dazzling observations, vivid vignettes and glorious gags." Evening Standard
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-22
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I Love Muppets
Overview: Gonzo the Great talks about the Muppets creator Jim Henson and what he did before the television show was made in 1976.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-31
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Are You Ready for Love?
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-09
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My Freaky Family
Overview: On the cusp of her 13th birthday, Betty Flood – budding musician and magical being – just wants to be like the rest of her fabulous, but very different family, so why is her magical Mum so against it? As Betty wrestles with this, she also learns the amazing truth about her family and discovers that the not so normal, the magical and the musical are all a part of her fabulously freaky family. It's very freaky, so be freaked freaky ahh deaky peaky neaky seaky peaky poo.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-25
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The Best of The Panel
Overview: Compilation of the best bits from RTE's The Panel. Featuring the cream of Irish comedy.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-03
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Rat
Overview: After a night of drinking Guiness at the local watering hole, an ordinary, working-class, family man in Dublin's life is turned upside-down when he wakes up as a rat.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-06
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Ed Byrne: Different Class
Overview: Half toff, half pikey, all comic! Ed Byrne is undoubtedly one of the funniest comics working today and his Different Class tour has been his most successful show ever. Lauded by critics and audiences alike, this blistering one man show takes in such diverse topics as WAGs, Goths, the class system and DVD piracy as well as frank and honest tales about Ed s upbringing, his parents and his recent nuptials. Filmed in Glasgow, the city where he started as a stand up 16 years ago, Different Class shows Byrne at the very top of his game and demonstrates why he really is in a class of his own.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-23
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Reunited
Overview: Six former friends reunite eight years after their houseshare ended in acrimony and recrimination. But is newly-engaged Martin playing with fire by seeing old flame Hannah?
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-30
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Round Ireland with a Fridge
Overview: The movie tells the story of a disillusioned television personality whose career has stalled and who is looking for answers but doesn't know the questions. When his best friend taunts him for losing his sense of adventure Tony accepts a drunken £100 bet and sets off with his unconventional traveling companion for an adventure that proved to be entertaining, educational, challenging and at times downright silly.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets
Overview: Gadget aficionado Stephen Fry chooses and presents his 100 all-time favourite contraptions, from the tin opener, trouser press and answering machine to the apple peeler, iron and iPod
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-28
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Ed Byrne: Spoiler Alert
Overview: Mock the Week star and Munro bagger Ed Byrne performs his Edinburgh Fringe sell-out stand-up show Spoiler Alert at Glasgow’s Tramway. In the show, Ed explores the thin line between righteous complaining and brat-like whining and asks, ‘are we right to be fed up, or are we spoiled?’ Ed is always happy to perform in Glasgow, where he took his fledgling comedy steps while at university. He set up his own club in the town and began to perfect his style and technique, which has gone on to earn him plenty of accolades.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-24
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Ed Byrne: Roaring Forties
Overview: A self-confessed miserable old git since the age of 23, Ed Byrne is now in his forties. While for others this might result in a crisis that prompts the purchase of a sports car, Ed embraces middle age with open arms. Come join him, as he truly comes of age and gives out his clarion cry: "I am in my Forties. HEAR ME ROAR!"
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-13
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Ed Byrne: Outside, Looking In
Overview: More classic Byrne on fine anecdotal form. Join Ed on his amusing meander through the joys of parenting, doctors, dating and being a dad. Masterfully turning the mundane into an imaginarium of fun, our renowned Irish joker's take on gender politics will have all the boys rushing out to buy that pair of pink trainers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-21
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Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime
Overview: A televised pantomime of Aladdin with characters played by well-known celebrities.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-25
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Creation Stories
Overview: The true story of the rise and fall of Creation Records and its infamous founder Alan McGee; the man responsible for supplying the “Brit Pop” soundtrack to the ‘90s, a decade of cultural renaissance known as Cool Britannia. From humble beginnings to Downing Street soirées, from dodging bailiffs to releasing multi-platinum albums, Creation had it all. Breakdowns, bankruptcy, fights and friendships… and not forgetting the music. Featuring some of the greatest records you have ever heard, we follow Alan through a drug-fuelled haze of music and mayhem, as his rock’n’roll dream brings the world Oasis, Primal Scream, and other generation-defining bands.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-04-15
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Comic Act
Overview: When the comedy duo Gus and Andy are forced by their manager to form a trio with a talented actress, their working relationship gets strained.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-22
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