Brendan Naughton is a comic who doesn’t get nearly enough work, and nobody ever pronounces his name properly (it’s pronounced NoKton).

Brendan comes from a farming background in Ireland where he learned the rudiments of slapstick from an old school teacher. Comedy was in his blood from an early age. Every time he bled, somebody would laugh. Brendan’s greatest achievement so far has been to remain undiscovered. Where other comics win awards and become successful overnight, Brendan has remained true to his art and has somehow avoided success and wealth at every turn. In light of this he likes to play obscure gigs in out of the way places to small numbers of abusive people who haven’t paid.

(Just in case there’s any confusion, that last bit was a joke. Seriously.)
Brendan has a car, which he made himself from spare parts off old typewriters.

Brendan’s first ever gig in 2005 got him to the semi-final of ‘So you Think You’re Funny’. Since then he has been in the semi-final of ‘The Laughing Horse New Act of The Year 2007’, he beat the gong at the gong show in the Comedy Store in London, he’s won the Comedy Café weekly new act competition and he’s done various other things not really worth mentioning.

Brendan doesn’t like competitions on the basis that they’re a breeding ground for elitism, and is heartened in the knowledge that Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look-alike competition and didn’t make it to the final.

Brendan has played The Comedy Store, The Comedy Cafe, The Kings Head Crouch End, The Galway Comedy Festival and assorted venues throughout Britain and Ireland. He gigs regularly for Mirth Control in the south and south west of England.

Brendan brought a show to Edinburgh Festival in 2007 with a couple of other comics, ‘The Johnny Foreigner Comedy Show’, which got a mention in the Sunday Times headline column as one of the ‘100 best things to See’ at the entire festival.

‘Explored subjects such as religion, terrorism and sexual repression with a fresh and depraved twist. Likeable, a little anarchic and cheekily self-deprecating, Brendan’s too short slot accidentally stole the show’  - Bromley News Shopper               (It was no accident)

Disclaimer: Brendan’s style of comedy tends to be earthy and slightly twisted. No subjects are off limits and no holds are barred. It is NOT family entertainment, unless your family is Austrian and lives underground.