The Irish Comedy Tour

The show functions less like a standard solo showcase and more like a late-night set at an Irish-American social hall. Rather than avoiding cultural clichés, the set leans right into them, using Catholic guilt, holiday drinking, and stubborn domestic spats as quick fuel for the room.

Filmed at Infinity Hall in Norfolk, Connecticut, the 57-minute concert was released in June 2019 by Comedy Dynamics. Richards co-directed the film with Brad O’Connor, cutting stand-up segments together with backstage road clips and pub songs like “The Wild Rover” and “Tell Me Ma.”

Richards taped the performance shortly after publishing his 2018 memoir about surviving throat cancer, but his set avoids medical drama in favor of road-tested club jokes. He focuses on his child-free adult life, his divorce, and the absurdity of family gatherings, sharing the microphone with Boston stand-up Mike McCarthy, singer Derrick Keane, and fiddler Damon Leibert.