Dave Young

Dave Young is an Irish comedian. He gained notoriety for having one of the craziest comedy shows in the country and has been honored with numerous industry accolades including the Performing Arts Award for outstanding contribution to the arts. He is the only child of Anne and Pat from Walkinstown, Dublin. After leaving school he worked as a butcher and then as a laboratory assistant in a Dublin Maternity Hospital, all the while doing magic shows and performances before becoming a professional comedian. He lives in County Wicklow with his partner Marta and numerous pets and divides a lot of his time touring Ireland and Europe. His first big break came at the age of sixteen when he played the role of a young Al Jolson at Dublin's Olympia Theatre, where he was selected from hundreds of audition hopefuls. The show was a resounding success and the start of many stage and TV appearances throughout Europe. During his late teens he formed his own band and played the local pubs and clubs of the capital where he featured as the lead singer. It soon emerged that he had a unique talent for making people laugh, which led to him going solo with his own brand of zany comedy. While touring with his show he also appeared on TV programmers "The Beat Box", "Ballykissangel" and "Upwardly Mobile" with walk on parts in the movies "The Commitments", "The Van", "The Snapper", "Brave heart" and "Michael Collins". In November 2003, he brought a national news campaign called "Chill-Blaine's" to raise awareness and funding for the plight of Irelands homeless community. As a parody to David Blaine's 44 days of starvation and deprivation in a glass box over the river Thames, he was suspended for 44 hours over Dublin's river Liffey in his own glass box full of luxuries and meals delivered by silver service waiters. He is now the charities leading celebrity patron and recently brought in over EUR50,000 from telephone voting when he appeared in the popular RTE Television series "Celebrity ICA Bootcamp" where he made it to the final. Other stage and theatre roles have seen him star as Fagan in Oliver at the Tivoli Theatre and he also appeared in the "Rat Pack" which played in the Olympia Theatre, Dublin and also theaters in Cork and Belfast. He was a special guest star at the Meteor International Music Awards Dublin's O2 alongside Amy Winehouse, Westlife, Ronan Keating, The Kaiser Chiefs and Pussycat Dolls. He is also an accomplished presenter where he works on the Corporate Event scene and has played host to Jack Charlton, Eileen Dunne and Michael Flatly to name but a few. He appears annually as a Special Guest Star at the hugely successful "Marbella Ball" in Spain and has his own weekly radio show there on Octopus Radio 98.3FM. He is touring internationally, his hilarious and outrageous show as well as appearing on and keeping audiences entertained for RTE"s "Late, Late Show", "The Miriam Show" and "The Saturday Night Show". His Discography includes; "Seriously Frank" a tribute album to Frank Sinatra & "Shush while I swing" a compilation of his favorite hits with a comedy twist. His DVD releases are "Dave Young Live", "Dave Young All Hushed Up", "Dave Young Up till Now!" and "Dave Young No Cutbacks on laughter!"