2011 Edinburgh Fringe

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The ever funny Neil Delamere is returning to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with a brand new show, Divilment. Catch the Irish funny-man nightly throughout the Fringe at Pleasance Above at 7.40pm.

Neil is currently one of the biggest names on the Irish comedy scene thanks to his regular appearances on RTE's The Panel and taking over from Ed Byrne to present Just For Laughs in which he interviews fellow comedians at the Montreal Comedy Festival in his own charming County Offaly lilt.

You may also recognise him from this side of the water after his guest stints on Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow (BBC1), Stand Up For The Week (Channel 4) and Comedy Central at the Comedy Store as well as regular appearances on BBC's weekly comedy panel game-show, The Blame Game.

With his likeable manner and proneness to flights of fancy, Neil takes joy in the mundane aspects of life, rendering them hilarious to his audiences. This is proven by the successful 5 star rated tours of his Bookmarks and Crème Delamere shows which have taken him to the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as well as performances all over Ireland and at the prestigious Kilkenny Cat Laughs festival. Between his riffs on the everyday weird occurrences in his own life and his delight in direct crowd interaction and rapport Neil's stand-up is equally genius on and off script. No gimmicks, no hooks, this is simply comedy at its finest and most intelligent.

Need any more assurance of this Irish man's charm and wit then check out his DVD's, No Message (2007) and Crème Delamere (2009) which have achieved platinum status, before heading up to see the man himself. Neil's third DVD, Implement of Divilment, will be released this autumn.