Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Shane Daniel Byrne’s swirling new stand-up show riffs on the milestones of his first year as a full-time comic
’s swirling new stand-up show is how a freewheeling comedian with a gift for bending rules adjusts to a gruelling career that already seems pretty lawless. “This is my difficult second album,” he jokes in Trouble Denim, twisting his face into the grimace of a nervous artist under pressure.
Following his immensely popular debut, But He’s Gay, Byrne explains that he’s taking a peer’s advice to create a show riffing on the milestones of his year, his first as a full-time comic. At its centre is a nerve-racking tour to Australia, from which he discovers he’s in a depression and launches into an attack on the Catholic Church to blame.
With Byrne’s punchlines the delivery is as important as the content – it often involves quicksilver impressions of smug Dublin suburbanites. There is a giddy tension, as his performance has a sense of lacking order. When explaining a demanding tour’s impact on his sleep, he pops off a half-baked improvised joke before staging an apology as a misdirection .
The show doesn’t exactly exude the confidence of controlled chaos, as the links between monologues become tenuous. A skewering of a self-serious London comic’s advice segues first to a comic family portrait and then to concerns about adulthood. He’s still taking charge of his destiny.
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