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Maeve Higgins

Maeve Higgins
Higgins in 2014
Maeve Anna Higgins24 March 1981 (age 44)Cobh, County Cork, Ireland
Naked Camera ‘’Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!’’ Maeve Higgins' Fancy Vittles
2004–present
Stand-up, television
Observational comedy, sketch

Maeve Anna Higgins (24 March 1981) is a comedian from Cobh, County Cork, Ireland and is based in New York City. She was a principal actor and writer of the RTÉ television production Naked Camera, as well as for her own show Maeve Higgins' Fancy Vittles. Her book of essays We Have A Good Time, Don't We? was published by Hachette in 2012. She wrote for The Irish Times and produces radio documentaries. She previously appeared on The Ray D'Arcy Show on Today FM. She is a regular panellist on the NPR radio show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Higgins appeared in her first starring film role in the 2019 Irish comedy Extra Ordinary.

Higgins started in comedy in 2005 and has written and performed at many festivals and shows. She began her comedy career on the national radio station Today FM after auditioning for The Ray D'Arcy Show in February 2004. She failed to win.

From 2005 to 2007, she took part in the hidden camera show Naked Camera with fellow comedian and friend P. J. Gallagher. She landed her own television show, Maeve Higgins' Fancy Vittles, in 2009. Since 2010, she has occasionally performed with Josie Long and Isy Suttie.

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2006

  • ‘Ha Ha Yum’ with sister, Lilly, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

2007

  • ‘Slightly Amazing’ at the Adelaide Fringe Festival
  • ‘My News’ at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

2008

  • ‘Ha Ha Yum’ with Claudia O'Doherty at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
  • ‘Kitten Brides’ at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
  • ‘I Can’t Sleep’, a children's play written by David O'Doherty. Higgins performed this skit with O'Doherty at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

2009

  • ‘Kitten Brides’ at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
  • ‘I Can’t Sleep’ at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
  • ‘Kitten Brides’ at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival

2010

  • 'A Rare Sight' at the Brisbane Comedy Festival and Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Performed with Nick Coyle.
  • 'A Rare Sight' at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival. Nick Coyle could not attend due to surgery on shoulder.
  • 'Personal Best' at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
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  • 2018–present: Mothers of Invention

Higgins received criticism from disability campaigners when she stated on 30 March 2018 on the Irish Late Late Show that she purchased a service dog vest on Amazon and pretended that her pet dog was a service dog during a trans-Atlantic flight. She has apologised to anyone offended by her deception.

  • Maeve Higgins at IMDb
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