Kevin McAleer

{{short description|Irish professional stand-up comedian (born 1956)}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1956}}

| birth_place = Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland

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| nationality = Irish{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/kevin-mcaleer-here-s-my-id-1.2802854|title=Kevin McAleer: Here's my ID|newspaper=The Irish Times |publisher=}}

| years_active = 1980s – present

| notable_works = Nighthawks
Derry Girls{{cite magazine|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2018-01-11/raiders-radiators-and-a-row-over-chips-dominate-a-darkly-funny-derry-girls-episode-2/|title=Raiders, radiators and a row over chips dominate a darkly funny Derry Girls episode 2|date=11 January 2018|first=Sarah|last=Doran|magazine=Radio Times}}

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Kevin McAleer (born 1956) is an Irish stand-up comedian. He came to prominence on the RTÉ television show Nighthawks which began broadcasting in the late 1980s. McAleer became known for his three-minute sketches{{cite web | url=https://www.rte.ie/archives/2016/1024/826451-comedian-kevin-mcaleer/ | title=Comedian Kevin McAleer | website=RTÉ.ie }} of surreal rustic tales told in his slow County Tyrone drawl. One critic said that McAleer "put the dead back into deadpan".{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/magazine/2008/1011/1223560372962.html|title=THE QUIET MAN|date=11 October 2008|accessdate=1 February 2009|newspaper=The Irish Times|archive-date=8 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121008125326/http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/magazine/2008/1011/1223560372962.html|url-status=dead}} In 2022 he toured his one-man show entitled Why am I Here and played the part of boring Uncle Colm in Derry Girls on Channel 4.{{cite web | url=https://www.joe.ie/movies-tv/everybody-loved-uncle-colm-weeks-derry-girls-612481 | title=Everybody loved Uncle Colm on this week's Derry Girls | publisher=Joe | first=Kate | last=Demolder | date=11 January 2018 | accessdate=15 September 2020}} In 2024 he announced his retirement from stand-up comedy, with final shows in Dublin and Belfast.