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Comedy Festival

Loads of Laughs in Kilkenny

By Irish America Staff
August / September 2003

August 1, 2003 by Leave a Comment

Kathleen Madigan.

Irish Comedy Festival. ℘℘℘ "Don't read Cosmopolitan for the advice. They told me that if I want to meet a man, I should go to the Laundromat. Yeah, like I wanna be 50 and dating a guy who can't afford a dryer," says 27-year-old comedian Kathleen Madigan, who is a headline act wherever she goes. Recently Madigan, who grew up in St. Louis -- Florrissant, to be exact, with a … [Read more...] about Loads of Laughs in Kilkenny

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