So in the past couple days we have been laughing way too much at Irish comedians. First, we came across David O’Doherty via The Nerdist podcast’s live at Bumbershoot show (DOD’s bit is included in the podcast here). Basically he plays what seems to be an old-school lap-sized Casio keyboard while singing silly songs and making comedic observations. Both of the bits he does in the podcast are really funny, the latter one ‘my beefs 2010’ increasingly profane as it goes along (but that adds to it) – you can see earlier versions of these and some other stuff on YouTube (of course).

The second is Dylan Moran – of Black Books and Shaun of the Dead fame. After watching several pieces of the ‘like, totally’ standup act, we are now settling down to watch the whole thing (yes, it’s on YouTube in sequential pieces with Czech subtitles, spoken English). He has several other bits on YT also, including a two-part interview on an English tv show – which is pretty funny, but also amazing simply for the amount of subtle (and overt) zingers he gets in at the expense of the host (who doesn’t seem to notice them nearly half the time?). The host also talks like Baba Wawa despite being a *male* (weird, weird accent) and has one of the wackiest stage sets (funky 70’s era paintings, a very strange looking backing band and tv screens with water/paint globules moving around like a lava lamp). And he (the host) has an almost-mullet to boot – yet give DM crap for being ‘disheveled’? Too funny…

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Saw Manooghi Hi at The High Dive last night – another great show! They also played a few new ones that aren’t on CD yet – should be good. It was kind of weird since we got there WAY too early – around 8pm – it looked at first like no one was going to be there – it was us, bartenders and M.H. hanging out.

But then people started filtering in (including the opening band, who seemed to be showing up a wee bit on the late side). The openers – can’t remember their name and they never actually SAID it out loud – played some forgettable stuff for about 45 min-one hour, then M.H. played not long after, getting done around 1130 or so. Despite being a Sunday night show, it was pretty packed out, and it looked like there were more than a few M.H. family members in attendance – veddy cool!

This show came on the heels of eating at Delancey over in Ballard (finally) – also very good, it’s a gourmet pizza joint – basically Seattle’s version of A Pizza Scholls in Portland. While my personal fave here is still the nearby Crash Landing (because ‘grease is the word’) and in portland – Escape from New York – this was damn good. And *this* came on the heels of a wedding the night before that was catered by Via Tribunali! Between friends, family, relatives, music and pizza – it doesn’t get much better than that. 🙂

I will upload some abbreviated, way-too-dark videos from my phone/the show shortly, but in the meantime, SEE THIS BAND!

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