"Funniest Comedian NEIL DELAMERE vs ROB DELANEY"

NEIL DELAMERE

Neil Delamere (/ˈdɛləmiər/ DEL-ə-meer; born 1979) is an Irish comedian. He is a regular on the BBC Northern Ireland television show The Blame Game....

Neil Delamere (/ˈdɛləmiər/ DEL-ə-meer; born 1979) is an Irish comedian. He is a regular on the BBC Northern Ireland television show The Blame Game. Delamere is from Edenderry, County Offaly. He has a degree in Computer Applications from Dublin City University (DCU). He began his career in 2004 at the Edinburgh Festival. Since then he has worked for both Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) and the BBC, in programmes such as the BBC comedy series One Night Stand, BBC radio and television panel quiz The Blame Game and RTÉ topical comedy show The Panel. He hosted Neil Delamere's Just For Laughs, a comedy television show in which he interviewed acts performing at the Montreal Festival. He featured on Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow on 4 July 2009. Delamere made his debut appearance on Radio Five Live's panel show Fighting Talk, broadcast on 11 December 2010, and won. In 2011, he hosted The Only Viking in the Village on RTÉ, in which he explored his Viking roots. The show was nominated in the factual category for an Irish Film and Television Award, and won. He has also acted as a stand-in for John Murray on RTÉ Radio 1. He presented the comedy documentary There's Something about Patrick which aired on 14 March 2013 on RTÉ 1. Delamere also works for Today FM, where he presents his own show titled "Neil Delamere's Sunday Best" which airs on Sundays.

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ROB DELANEY

Robby Thomas Delaney (born January 19, 1977) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and activist. He was the co-star and co-writer of the TV show Cat...

Robby Thomas Delaney (born January 19, 1977) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and activist. He was the co-star and co-writer of the TV show Catastrophe, and has appeared in minor roles in blockbuster action-comedy films like Deadpool 2 (2018) and the Fast & Furious spin-off Hobbs & Shaw (2019). Delaney was raised in Marblehead, Massachusetts. He attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and graduated with a degree in musical theater in 1999. Delaney first came to the attention of the public via Twitter, on which he started posting in 2009. By 2016, Delaney had over 1.2 million followers. While other comics were hesitant to share their material on social media, Delaney is considered one of the first comedians to use social media to publish jokes. Delaney credits comedy writer and director Graham Linehan with his rise in popularity after Linehan began responding to Delaney's tweets. In 2010, Paste magazine named Delaney one of the ten funniest people on Twitter. In May 2012, he became the first comedian to win the 'Funniest Person on Twitter Award' at The Comedy Awards hosted by Comedy Central.

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