Comedy trio Foil, Arms and Hog Civic show
By Mary Dennehy
RATHFARNHAM comedian Sean Flanagan is one-third of rising comedy sketch trio Foil, Arms and Hog – which are bringing their critically acclaimed show to the stage of the Civic in March.
For those of you that haven’t heard of these guys, read on because they are set to infiltrate Ireland with their bizarre, surreal and hilarious comedy sketches – plus they revealed to The Echo what they would change first about Ireland if they were voted into Government in the upcoming General Election.
Following sell-out runs at the Dublin and Edinburgh Fringe festivals, Foil, Arms and Hog have more than four million hits on YouTube, five exclusives on American comedy website Funny or Die and an endorsement from Black Adder and Mr Bean comedian, Rowan Atkinson – and here on home soil, comedians Tommy Tiernan and Des Bishop have also given the lads the thumbs up.
This week local lad Sean ‘Hog’ Flanagan took a few minutes to speak with The Echo.
Confirm whose who? Whose Foil, Arms and Hog?
Sean ‘Foil’ Finegan, Conor ‘Arms’ McKenna and Sean ‘Hog’ Flanagan. The names came from a party where we were slagging each other and about our performance styles. Foil kept getting the “straight man” part i.e. the boring part, the comedic foil. Arms couldn’t play the straight man part at all and was wildly swinging his arms all the time. Hog took all the best parts and lines for himself i.e. hogging the limelight.
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