In October, in a small room over the International Bar in Dublin, I recorded my first stand-up album. It’s called Maeve Higgins Can’t Stop Doing Comedy and captures a great hour of fun and banter ­with the lovely crowd who were there that evening. It’s a snapshot into where I am, comedy wise  and my [...]

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My sister Lilly has written a baking book, it’s called MakeBakeLove and you can buy it right here. Boy does she bring the cake. She brings it so bad, owwww! Let me tell you, oooh Momma, nobody be fooled into thinking they can bring it like Lilly Higgins and how she brings cake. As a [...]

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Hi all! I meant to tall you about this before it was on but it started on sunday. There are six shows though, and they’ll all be  available online afterwards thanks to the wizards in Today FM. The first show features one of Ireland’s best loved and most talked about comedians, Tommy Tiernan. He talks [...]

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I’m really looking forward to supporting Fred the band next week in Galway. I think they’re great! I don’t know them personally though (alert:name-dropping ahead) one of them went to Irish college with my friend Barry. Their new album is called ‘Leaving My Empire’ and this is my favourite song from their last album ‘Go [...]

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Techically this was not a comedy show, but we had laughed a LOT making it and also watching it back. The premise of the series ‘Two For the Road’ is that a celebrity (ah, that’s me – I’m basically Ireland’s answer to Jennifer Love Hewitt fyi) and a disabled person go on an adventure, and [...]

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I did this UK panel type show a couple of times, and it was really good fun. One of the episodes was broadcast last night. It isn’t a panel show where everyone yells over the girl and takes a drink from a mug when they’ve said something, anything, it’s just relaxed and silly – huzzah! [...]

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Everyone’s always hatin’ on me for not telling them what’s going on and forgetting to list my gigs/adventures and I agree, I am a terrible one for the old silences. NO MORE. I’ll be sending out a newsletter on the first of every month. I’ve already written the october one, but won’t send it in case something [...]

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Maeve Higgins: Ready For This? Maeve Higgins (me) presents ‘Ready For This?’ – a night of fun with brilliant comedy, a special guest, a couple of baking tips and maybe even some signature cat material!! Can you wait? Before you answer that – Shhh! [Maeve puts hand over reader’s mouth.] You’ll have to! [She removes [...]

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Maeve is going to Edinburgh again this year and has a brand new show called Personal Best. Now Maeve doesn’t say things like this lightly but… she has a really funny and good show this year, plus she loves watching other great shows, so the festival is really playing into her hands. Huzzah! This will [...]

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Before she heads off to Edinburgh for the whole month of August, Maeve is going to be at the brilliant Carlsberg Comedy Carnival with some excellent comics.  She’s playing three gigs over the weekend with Arj Barker, Jarlath Regan, Reggie Watts, Bo Burnham, Dave Hill and Gearoid Farrelly and there a whole host of other [...]

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