Abie Philbin Bowman

Dublin, Ireland
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Comedian Without Borders

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(89, 86, 66); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><i>"Way beyond superficial satire... Absorbing, intricately woven, challenging and highly entertaining."</i><br><b>– Malcolm Hay, TimeOut</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><b><br></b></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Abie Philbin Bowman has been&nbsp;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL35tN_uhLo" style="color: rgb(136, 100, 56); ">boycotted by Ian Paisley's DUP</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/01/20101277383676587.html" style="color: rgb(136, 100, 56); ">had his jokes stolen by the late Osama bin Laden</a>. He is the only Western stand-up to have performed&nbsp;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWsy54jSFIM" style="color: rgb(136, 100, 56); ">religious, political comedy in Pakistan during the 2007 State of Emergency</a>&nbsp;(while the Worlds No. 1 Terrorist was in hiding, in a secret compound, in the same country). On Barack Obama’s election night, Abie scooped CNN, BBC and Reuters by&nbsp;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pUV4V1GiMQ" style="color: rgb(136, 100, 56); ">exclusively interviewing the Ku Klux Klan</a>.<i><a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1725549,00.html" style="color: rgb(136, 100, 56); ">TIME magazine describes him as ‘a rising star’.</a></i>&nbsp;In July 2011, The Sunday Times declared him "the Best Irish stand-up under 30".</span></p></span>

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