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comedy · Saturday 3 October 2026 · 8:00pm 
David Nihill: Taking Tangents - The Everyman Cork
At The Everyman · 15 MacCurtain Street, Cork City, Co. Cork
At The Everyman · 15 MacCurtain Street, Cork City, Co. Cork
David Nihill brings his stand-up show Taking Tangents to The Everyman on MacCurtain Street, drawing on his experience of having lived and worked in twelve countries and visited more than eighty. The show is built around his travels, the cultural misunderstandings that came with them, and his repeated, often failed attempts to pick up other languages, told with the observational, self-deprecating style that has built his international following well beyond Ireland. One review calls it “a superb night out. Highly recommended!”, and Nihill’s outsider-looking-in perspective on different cultures, including his own, gives the show a broader frame of reference than a typical home-turf stand-up set.
The show runs 90 minutes with no interval, and the age recommendation is 18+ due to adult-themed content, so it is pitched squarely at an adult audience rather than a family crowd. Because the material is drawn heavily from Nihill’s real travels and experiences abroad, the show tends to have a storytelling, almost travelogue-like structure running underneath the jokes, which sets it apart from more traditional joke-driven stand-up sets.
The Everyman is a well-established mid-sized theatre in Cork city centre with a strong track record of hosting touring comedians alongside its regular drama and musical seasons, and a single Saturday night date like this is typical of how the venue slots international and Irish stand-up acts into its wider autumn programme.
The Everyman is on MacCurtain Street on the north side of the city centre, a short walk from Kent Station and well served by Cork City bus routes. The MacCurtain Street area has a good range of bars and restaurants nearby for anyone making a full evening of it.
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