Dermot Carmody

Dermot Carmody has been a comedian since co-founding the Comedy Cellar in Dublin in 1988 along with Mister Trellis (Ardal O'Hanlon, Barry Murphy & Kevin Gildea), Alex Lyons, Karl McDermott, Comic Soufflé and Seán McDermott.

In 2004 Dermot was co-writer of The Write Stuff's 30 episode radio drama "Driftwood" on Radio 1. Dermot was script editor for "Bull Island" on RTE Radio 1 in 2002 & 2003. He was a contributor to Stand Up Sketches and wrote the half hour play "Galvin's Cross" for Stand Up Stories, both on RTE Radio 1 in 2003.

As well as his unreconstructed guitar stylings, Carmody is a fierce man for the comedy improvisation and can occasionally be seeing making things up along with Dublin's Comedy Improv. When he grows weary of the constraints of standing behind a guitar, he swaps them for the constraints of standing in ill-fitting underclothes and a flat cap as the deranged folklorist Séamus Brophy possesses him on stage.

Dermot has been described in the press as "one of the local greats", "deliciously deadpan" and "seriously funny". He continues to work towards the goal of removing the word "local" from the previous sentence.