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Kevin McAleer

Kevin McAleer.

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Kevin McAleer is an Irish stand-up comedian. He came to prominence on the RTÉ television show Nighthawks which began broadcasting in the late 1980s. McAleer became known for his three-minute sketches of surreal rustic tales told in his slow County Tyrone drawl. One critic said that McAleer "put the dead back into deadpan". In 2022 he toured his one-man show entitled Why am I Here and played the part of boring Uncle Colm in Derry Girls on Channel 4. In 2024, he announced his retirement from stand-up comedy, with final shows in Dublin and Belfast.

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Influences

Influenced by: Brian O'Nolan, Don DeLillo, James Joyce, Nikolai Gogol and Umberto Eco.

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