To celebrate and exclusively reveal the line up for the 2016 Kilkenny Cat Laughs Festival, Anton was joined by the brilliant Irish comedy trio and sketch group Foil, Arms and Hog.
They had what can only be described as a chat that touched all bases, including Hog’s bottom, Jason Byrne’s bottom, tunnels for animals (the return), festivals, killing time, spare time, bad jobs, and their time as ‘The Ice Men’ when they were encountered abuse and, er, wet willies.
Have a listen back here:
Sean Finegan (Foil), Conor McKenna (Arms) and Sean Flanagan (Hog) formed at UCD, (studying respectively Engineering, Architecture and Genetics) and have been touring live shows in Ireland, UK, US and Australia over the last 9 years to audience and critical acclaim.
They work out of a regular office in Dublin where they write, film and edit own sketches for YouTube and their channel features new videos most Thursdays.
Their latest sketch to garner acclaim is ‘REMEMBERING THE HEROES (1916)’ a genuinely hilarious car crash sketch about a poorly researched TV show.
Other notable sketches is the ‘LEARN TO SPEAK DUBLIN’ sketch which went huge internationally with almost 300,000 hits. Set in a foreign language class, new Dubliners are taught how to speak Dublin by a gouger teacher.
Having sold out Vicar Street as part of their Irish tour, the guys return there for two nights on 13 May and 27 May, and they will also open the Cat Laughs on June 2. They are also appearing at a number of other Irish festivals and one-off shows and are about to embark on a major 16 Date UK tour. It’s only their 2nd tour, but bigger venues!
For more see their official site 
The final array of international and home-grown talent for Kilkenny Cat Laughs Festival over the June Bank Holiday weekend is now live!
The Anton Savage Show is broadcasting from Kilkenny on Friday June 3 and the festival runs from Thursday June 2 – Monday June 6.
Among the international names are the first Russian comic at the festival, Igor Meerson, plus Adam Hess, Tiff Stevenson, Joe Lycett, Nish Kumar, Shazia Mirza, Adam Hills, Jason Manford, Reginald D. Hunter, Glen Wool and regulars Rich Hall & Dom Irrera
Irish names include Foil, Arms and Hog, Maeve Higgins, David O’Doherty, Al Porter, Deirdre O’Kane, Barry Murphy, Andrew Maxwell, PJ Gallagher, Bernard O’Shea, Jason Byrne, Karl Spain, Neil Delamere, Sean Hughes, Eleanor Tiernan, Eric Lalor, Chris Kent, Waterford Whispers News and Joanne McNally.
It all ends with Cat Laugh Goes To The Races with Hector and Waterford Whispers News at Gowran Park Racecourse on Monday, June 6th.
For tickets and more info on times, venues etc, log onto the site HERE
