{"id":16030,"date":"2015-11-03T09:46:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T09:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anfocal.ie\/?p=16030"},"modified":"2015-11-03T09:46:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T09:46:07","slug":"breaking-news-this-just-in-karl-spain-not-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anfocal.ie\/index.php\/breaking-news-this-just-in-karl-spain-not-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News: This just in, Karl Spain not Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Comedian, Karl Spain performing at UL Comedy Society\u2019s SoUL Arts Fest event<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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By Seamus Toomey<\/p>\n

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Karl Spain was top notch comedy, immediately you could see his years of experience and his confidence on stage made all the difference in comparison with UL Comedy society\u2019s beginners. \u00a0 It\u2019ll all come to them eventually but it\u2019s definitely a tangible difference and straight away Karl was getting laughs and he executed each one of his jokes flawlessly throughout the night. I don\u2019t remember any awkward silences or jokes bombing and it wasn\u2019t like he was reserved or conservative with his topics.<\/p>\n

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Abortion and holocaust jokes a plenty this was not comedy for the light hearted and we loved it. With that though he was also down to earth and light hearted, he made fun of himself and through gritted teeth told us of the praise he once got from Ed Byrne. And how that ended with Ed Byrne laughing at how unbeautiful Karl is, a story only a modest head could admit to a crowd.<\/p>\n

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Karl worked the crowd for the majority of his set, he got around to several groups, made fun with some of the nights other comedians, slagged some of the international students and even gave me a roasting.\u00a0 Again you could see his experience come in, it didn\u2019t matter what was talked about he had a gag or a story about everything, from other comedy gigs, from his life or from his travel.<\/p>\n

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Karl came in and regardless of if he had material prepared I don\u2019t think he needed it, he was casual, calm and callous with us. It was like he was a friend, one who knows a little too much, his observations were a little too close to the mark and he didn\u2019t hold back but it was all in good fun.\u00a0 We all laughed especially the lucky few who got Karl\u2019s scathing attention, perhaps we allowed him some lean way being a little star struck that he, a celebrity (kind of), was actually chatting with us.\u00a0 Then again maybe it was just his charming good looks *queue Ed Byrne laughing*.<\/p>\n

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Story after story Karl made sure people were laughing at themselves and each other.\u00a0 Our countries and course choices were attacked and mocked but my favourite joke from the night had to be when Karl was addressing a young Erasmus student from Hamburg in Germany.\u00a0 He started off explaining that they handled and organised the World Cup fantastically from a public transport perspective.\u00a0 And finished with \u201cthe Germans were always good at getting tens of thousands of people onto trains and moving them around the country\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Amy Lee Fox, comedy society president and performer on the night said \u201cAll in all despite a few hiccups, namely the fire alarm and late start the night was a resounding success. Karl Spain wowed the crowd over and was very complimentary of the crowd and the scholars. I\u2019m very proud of all the acts and our MC for \u2018bringing it\u2019 as it were. Our next gig is Monday of Week 10 so be sure to come along\u201d.<\/p>\n

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