Lisa Mcgee
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![A black taxi tour in West Belfast: “You have to [include jokes]. You’d crack if you didn’t.” Photograph: Stephen Wilson/Pacemaker A black taxi tour in West Belfast: “You have to [include jokes]. You’d crack if you didn’t.” Photograph: Stephen Wilson/Pacemaker](/polopoly_fs/1.3448040.1522667931!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_140/image.jpg)
This has been a good year for Northern Irish comedy. From the unexpected return of original conflict caper Give My Head Peace, through to the riotous (...)

Can RTÉ respond to the challenge of Netflix and Amazon?
- TV, Radio, Web
- February 24, 2018, 05:00
Played for dark laughs, there is a moment in coming-of-age comedy The Young Offenders when a dropped hammer takes a comically long time to bounce off (...)

Derry Girls: ‘I’m not enjoying this bomb. I’ve an appointment at Tropicana at 12’
- TV, Radio, Web
- January 24, 2018, 06:00
“I don’t think 10 years ago I would have been able to set a show in Derry,” says Lisa McGee, the writer who’s put the city front and centre of comedy (...)

‘Derry Girls’ is hot; ‘Friends’ is definitely not
- Life & Style
- January 20, 2018, 06:00
WHAT’S HOT Samantha Barry The Cork woman is now editor-in-chief at Glamour in the US. Aungier Street Press Up Entertainment is renovating a long der(...)

1990s Derry seen through the eyes of a 16-year-old girl
- TV, Radio, Web
- January 11, 2018, 22:35
When Derry Girls (Channel 4 , Thursday, 10pm) began last week, Lisa McGee’s zippy new comedy series featured a terrorist act in its opening moments. S(...)

From Derry Girls to Cork offenders: unmissable TV for 2018
- TV, Radio, Web
- December 30, 2017, 05:00
It’s still so young as a medium: not even a century old. But so much has happened to television recently, it’s hard to say how we’ll be watching it by(...)