David Mulholland

New Orleans-born comedian David Mulholland started out writing gags for other people until someone said, "Why don't you try getting on stage?" So he did. He found it so much fun being able to say all the things he was never allowed to as a political journalist that he decided to pursue comedy full-time. Since then he has been gigging four to six times a week for the likes of The Queen's Head, Downstairs at the King's Head, The Comedy Café, Up the Arts, Banana Cabaret, Mirth Control, Laughing Horse, You'r 'Avin' A Giraffe, Soho Comedy Club, TMA Management and others across England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and France. He also regularly performs in and co-writes the weekly topical news panel show The Comedy Manifesto, which he founded along with veteran comic, Kate Smurthwaite. Skits and excerpts of that show are also performed monthly at The Disestablishment, the revival of Peter Cook’s famous Soho comedy club.

He has also thrown himself into several festivals. At this year’s Edinburgh Festivals Fringe, David will be performing daily in The Mulholland Constant, The Comedy Manifesto, and Sing-Along-A They Joy of Sex, which was also performed at the Glasgow and Brighton festivals and at the 2007 Edinburgh Festivals. The critics said:

"It's a great hour to pass the time with, if you know what I mean - wink wink." ThreeWeeks.

"Comedians Kate Smurthwaite and David Mulholland … tell their tales and sing songs about cheesy chat up lines, things learned about sex after you leave school, threesomes and other such practices in a way that leaves you wanting more. The songs are actually funny and truthful. … Wonderful laugh out loud and sing-along fun. ****" Fresh Air FM (The festival radio station):"

David also co-wrote and performed in Comedy Cocktail, which ran every day of the 2007 festival, as well as appearing nightly in The F Show and gigging at many other shows, such as being invited to perform at the Comedy Tent on Fringe Sunday.

He compered and performed at the Bury St Edmunds comedy festival.

David was also a writer and performer in the 2007 Comedy Factory show and the weekly topical panel show This Week on Earth. He also co-wrote the 2006 show Adrenaline performed by Kate Smurthwaite. The critics said:

"There is a lots of very funny moments is this rambling tale of a woman looking for the edge. … The show as an entirety is well written [and] well rehearsed." The Groggy Squirrel.