Pat Cahill

Interview: rarely asked questions - Pat Cahill

Pat Cahill has been going since 2009 and has been tipped for greatness ever since he won the New Act of the Year Final in 2012. He is not your run-of-the-mill stand-up, but neither is he so off-the-wall he won't work on telly if that's what he wants to do.

Latitude Festival comedy review: Pat Cahill

Pat Cahill is a comedian who is almost more performer than comic, so full is his set with more than just straight forward jokes - costume (of sorts), music, visual gags with a microphone cable and a sexual word-play laden act out to a descriptive engineering track.

This week's best Edinburgh comedy

Previews of Tig Notaro, Pat Cahill and Mark Smith.

Edinburgh Previews this Sunday

Daniel Simonsen, Pat Cahill and more on the bill...

10 minutes with...Pat Cahill

Pat Cahill didn't know what stand-up comedy was until he got drunk with his brother Fred one night and stumbled upon a Lee Evans box set. Turning away from his degree in Theatre Design (who can blame him?), Cahill's not looked back since, winning awards left, right and centre in the past few years and even getting himself on Dave's One Night Stand.

Time Out's 2013: the up-and-coming stand-ups to watch

Profiles of up-and-coming stand-up comedians Lucy Beaumont, Matt Rees, Pat Cahill, Mark Stephenson and Alfie Brown.

The Spotlight on... Pat Cahill

Everyone wants a piece of Pat Cahill right now, but who IS he?

Radio 2 New Comedy Award: Winner Q&A

Last Saturday night Angela Barnes won this year's Radio 2 New Comedy Award 2011, fending off strong competition from fellow finalists Joe Lycett, Tez Ilyas, Chris Turner, Mark Restuccia and Pat Cahill.

On Saturday, the network took a tip from The X Factor with the live final of its New Comedy Award, presented by Patrick Kielty. Six hundred acts were boiled down to six, voted on by the audience. This being Radio 2, the audience sounded about as edgy as a Parent Teacher Association drinking Merlot, but that came as a relief to one comedian who said, "There's nothing worse than looking at the crowd and thinking I've got things in my medicine cabinet older than you." There was lots of encouraging applause and no one heckled. My favourite was the acerbic Joe Lycett, with his mordantly Frankie Howerd-esque story of a driving lesson in Manchester, but Pat Cahills ingenious rap about having your dog put down was also very good. The winner was Angela Barnes from Maidstone whose weapon was the one-liner ("It's no mistake that the anagram of Maidstone is I am Stoned - that's all there is to do!") and who should fit seamlessly into the throng of talented female comedians on radio and TV.