Karl Spain (born 20 October 1971) is an

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comedian from

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. He is from the Corbally area of the city and was educated at

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. In 2000, Spain won the

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award for Best New Act. Spain appeared at the

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'' Just for Laughs'' comedy festival in 2003, which was later repeated on RTÉ Television. He is a regular at the Kilkenny Cat Laughs comedy festival. Spain later ran a series on RTÉ entitled ''Karl Spain Wants a Woman''.http://www.rte.ie/tv/karlspain/ He appeared as master of kung-fu on the fifth series of ''

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'' in October 2008. In 2009 he had yet another TV show on

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, ''Karl Spain wants to Rock''. In March 2010 Karl began a tour as supporting act to fellow Irish comedian, Ed Byrne. Toured with Kevin Bridges in 2015. Karl Spain has also been known to attend University of Limerick Comedy Nights.

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