Expect S'pore humour from this Irish comic

FOR his side-splittingly sardonic yet poetic take on love, politics, misery and the absurdities of everyday life, Dylan Moran's critics have quite aptly christened him as "the Oscar Wilde of comedy".

And despite doing the job really well, he deadpans it's a "stressful" one, over the phone from Darwin last week, where he's in the midst of his latest Australasia tour, Off the Hook. The Irish funnyman-actor-writer will be making a stop in Singapore early next month.

Best known for his UK television series Black Books (2000-2004), which he wrote and starred in as a moody shopkeeper - as well as his work with English comedian Simon Pegg, and parts in films such as Notting Hill (1999), Shaun of the Dead (2004) and Calvary (2014) - the 43-year-old is a mainstay on the stand-up circuit and regular fixture at the famed Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Just For Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival.