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Karl MacDermott was amongst the new breed of stand-up comedians in the Ireland of that era.\n\n\nIn 1988 he helped co-found The Comedy Cellar at The International Bar in Dublin with Barry Murphy, Ardal O\u2019Hanlon and Kevin Gildea.\xa0\n\n\nAfter appearing in his own one - man comedy show Memoirs of a Midget at The Peacock Theatre in 1989 and he had successful runs at The Gilded Balloon in The Edinburgh Fringes from 1991-93 with shows like An Afternoon With Klaus Barbie's Pen-pal and Stand-Up Stories. In September 2021, his new humour fiction novel 58% Cabbage, about a sit-down nobody who tries stand-up comedy, was published by Black Spring Press Group.\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices