Kevin McAleer

Kevin McAleer born 1956 is an Irish standup comedian He came to prominence on the RTÉ television show Nighthawks which began broadcasting in the late 1980s McAleer became known for his threeminute sketches of surreal rustic tales told in his slow County Tyrone drawl One critic said that McAleer put the dead back into deadpan In 2022 he toured his oneman show entitled Why am I Here and played the part of boring Uncle Colm in Derry Girls on Channel 4 In 2024 he announced his retirement from standup comedy with final shows in Dublin and Belfast McAleer lives in Omagh County Tyrone he believes his comic talents blossomed in the classroom and he lived in Barcelona Spain for a period In July 2009 McAleer stated that he has completed a first draft of a book about John F Kennedy The book remains unfinished He writes in his office in Omagh and cites Flann OBrien James Joyce Don DeLillo Umberto Eco and Nikolai Gogol as influences McAleer writes occasional comic pieces for the Irish Times responding to current events such as Brexit