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Irish comedian Dylan Moran was born in Navan, County Meath in 1971. Leaving school without any qualifications at age 16, Moran quickly became attracted to stand-up comedy and debuted, in 1992, at a comedy club in Dublin, The Comedy Cellar. A year later, he won the Channel Four comedy newcomer's "So You Think You're Funny" award at the Edinburgh Festival, and began developing his comedy routines into a one-man show, "Gurgling for Money", for which he won the prestigious Perrier Comedy Award in 1996, and which he subsequently took to a nationwide tour of the UK. His exposure at the Edinburgh Festival also led to him getting programmed at international stand-up comedy festivals, worldwide.
Subsequently, Moran took to writing and performing for British television. He has starred in the BBC sitcom, How Do You Want Me? (1998), and - more importantly - in 2000, he was commissioned by Channel Four for the sitcom, Black Books (2000). He wrote and starred in three 6-episode series of this comedy. Co-starring popular British stand-up comedian Bill Bailey, who was nominated for the Perrier Award the year Moran won, Black Books (2000) sees Moran play a character close to his stand-up comedy persona: an unsociable misanthrope, reminiscent of the John Cleese sitcom character, "Basil Fawlty", that shares a great love of wine with one of razor-sharp put-downs of all things human. Also, his character Bernard Black's often surreal views on everyday things and on human behavior is close to his stand-up persona's dealing with them.
The same year the first series of "Black Books" aired, Moran took his one-man show, "Ready, Steady, Cough", on a UK tour, followed two years later by Dylan Moran: Monster (2004). This was followed by Monster II in 2004.
In the late 1990's, Moran also moved from doing stand-up to working on a film acting CV. He played opposite Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant in Notting Hill (1999), co-starred with Michael Caine in The Actors (2003) and had parts in the Simon Pegg comedy, Shaun of the Dead (2004) and the Michael Winterbottom film, Tristram Shandy (2005).
Moran's live stand-up comedy is unique in that it merges two strands of stand-up that seemed incompatible for a long time: sharp observational humor, and surreal and fantastical language-based absurdity. On the one hand, he has a clear influence from what could be called an American school of stand-up comedy that is heavily observational. On the other hand, Moran's comedy is characterized by a use of language similar to the stand-up comedy of Eddie Izzard and Ross Noble: surreal associative leaps between on the one side observations and on the other fantasies, verbally painting bizarre and absurd worlds, often through a use of stream-of-consciousness narration. His language is often highly poetic, resembling a James Joyce that has had one too many.
Moran is very reluctant to give interviews on his personal life and even on his career, a fact parodied in a staged interview inter-cut with the recording of his live stand-up show, "Monster", on its DVD release.- Moya Farrelly was born in 1973 in Navan, Co. Meath, Ireland. She is an actress, known for This Is My Father (1998), The Sleep Experiment (2022) and Jack Taylor (2010).
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Hugh Johnson was born on 25 April 1946 in Navan, Co. Meath, Ireland. He was a cinematographer and assistant director, known for The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), Kingdom of Heaven (2005) and G.I. Jane (1997). He died on 4 June 2015 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Michael Hayes was born in Navan, County Meath, Ireland. He is known for Rory O'Shea Was Here (2004), Game of Thrones (2011) and The Cured (2017).
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Hector Ó hEochagáin was born in Navan, Co. Meath, Ireland. He is known for The Haunting of Hell House (1999), Knocking on Death's Door (1999) and Hanging with Hector (2004). He is married to Dympna Griffin.- John Cowley was born on 8 September 1923 in Navan, Co. Meath, Ireland. He was an actor, known for The Field (1990), The Avengers (1961) and The Riordans (1965). He was married to Annie D'Alton. He died on 13 February 1998 in Navan, Co. Meath, Ireland.
- Shamus Locke was born on 3 February 1924 in Navan, Co. Meath, Ireland. He was an actor, known for It's Alive (1974), You Can't Fool an Irishman (1949) and The Turners of Prospect Road (1947). He died on 30 September 2003 in Rancho Santa Fe, California, USA.
- Christy Leech was born in Navan, County Meath, Ireland. He is known for Beautiful Youth (2018) and Worn with Pride (2024).