Fresh from a sold-out show in Vicar Street, Kilkenny comedian & host of the hit podcast Mike & Vittorio’s Guide to Parenting, Mike Rice, has announced that he’s bringing his brand new show Cruel Little Man to 3Olympia Theatre, Dublin on Friday 30th October 2026.
Tickets priced from €35.55 including booking fee & €2 restoration levy go on sale at 10am on Friday 27th March via Ticketmaster Ireland
Three Ireland presale on sale 10am on Wednesday 25th March with #Three+
There's a cruelty to Mike Rice, a wickedness. In this show Mike talks about doing psychedelics with his brother, an entanglement with a Spanish Sausage Dog named Nino, and many other such rotten adventures.
Currently living in London, Mike Rice regularly headlines clubs around the UK and Ireland Including Top Secret, The Glee Clubs, and the Laughter Lounge (Dublin). Mike has performed stand-up comedy twice on Irish National television (RTE) as Part of ‘The Ray Darcy Show’ (Dec 2019) and ‘Laughter in the Eyre’ (Feb 2020), and on the BBC 3 (BBC New Comedy Award 2022), and was recently nominated for Channel 4’s Sean Lock Comedy award.
Mike brought four separate solo shows to the Edinburgh fringe festival in 2018, 2019, 2022, and 2023. He has a successful podcast called “Mike and Vittorio's Guide to Parenting” which has been existence since January 2023, and is regularly ranked on the Irish and UK podcast charts.
'A phenomenal wordsmith, and world class raconteur' ****½ (Chortle.co.uk)
'Inbred and r*tarded' (Conor McGregor)
