Maeve Higgins
{{short description|Irish comedian}}
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{{Infobox comedian
| name = Maeve Higgins
| image = Maeve Higgins.jpeg
| imagesize = 200
| caption = Higgins in 2014
| birth_name = Maeve Anna Higgins{{cite web|url=https://progressive.org/magazine/the-luck-of-the-irish/|title=The Luck of the Irish|publisher=The Progressive|first=Maeve|last=Higgins|date=1 April 2018|accessdate=17 April 2019}}
| birth_date =
| birth_place = Cobh, County Cork, Ireland
| medium = Stand-up, television
| nationality =
| active = 2004–
| genre = Observational comedy, sketch
| influences =
| website =
| notable_work = Naked Camera ‘’Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!’’
Maeve Higgins' Fancy Vittles
}}
Maeve Anna Higgins (born 24 March 1981) is a comedian from Cobh, County Cork, Ireland and is based in New York City. She was a principal actor and writer of the RTÉ television production Naked Camera, as well as for her own show Maeve Higgins' Fancy Vittles. Her book of essays We Have A Good Time, Don't We? was published by Hachette in 2012. She wrote for The Irish Times and produces radio documentaries.{{cite web |url=https://www.rte.ie/radio/doconone/647545-documentary-podcast-valentines-bones-maeve-higgins-whitefriar-church |title=Valentines Bones|publisher=RTÉ Radio 1 |work=Documentary on One |accessdate=17 October 2018}} She previously appeared on The Ray D'Arcy Show on Today FM.{{cite web|url=http://www.todayfm.com/Article.asp?id=969228|title=What would Maeve do?|publisher=Today FM |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081110072059/http://www.todayfm.com/Article.asp?id=969228 |archivedate=10 November 2008}} She is a regular panelist on the NPR radio show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Higgins appeared in her first starring film role in the 2019 Irish comedy Extra Ordinary.
Career
Higgins started in comedy in 2005 and has written and performed at many festivals and shows. She began her comedy career on the national radio station Today FM after auditioning for The Ray D'Arcy Show in February 2004. She failed to win.{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/news-gossip/bridezilla-and-the-art-of-making-people-laugh-130640.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090429235428/http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/news-gossip/bridezilla-and-the-art-of-making-people-laugh-130640.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 April 2009|title='Bridezilla' and the art of making people laugh|date=28 May 2006|accessdate=26 December 2008|last=Hynes|first=Liadan|work=Sunday Independent}}
From 2005 to 2007, she took part in the hidden camera show Naked Camera with fellow comedian and friend P. J. Gallagher.{{cite web|url=https://presspack.rte.ie/2007/04/02/naked-camera/|title=Naked Camera|publisher=RTÉ Press Centre|date=2 April 2007|accessdate=17 April 2019}} She landed her own television show, Maeve Higgins' Fancy Vittles, in 2009.{{cite web|url=https://presspack.rte.ie/2009/09/19/maeve-higgins-fancy-vittles-2/|title=Maeve Higgins' Fancy Vittles|publisher=RTÉ Press Centre|date=19 September 2009|accessdate=17 April 2019}} Since 2010, she has occasionally performed with Josie Long and Isy Suttie.{{citation needed|date=March 2023}}
= 2006–2010 =
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;2006
- ‘Ha Ha Yum’ with sister, Lilly, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
;2007
- ‘Slightly Amazing’ at the Adelaide Fringe Festival
- ‘My News’ at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
;2008
- ‘Ha Ha Yum’ with Claudia O'Doherty at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
- ‘Kitten Brides’ at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- ‘I Can’t Sleep’, a children’s play written by David O'Doherty. Higgins performed this skit with O'Doherty at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.{{cite web|url=https://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/article/11691-i-cant-sleep-by-david-odoherty/|title=I Can't Sleep by David O'Doherty|date=13 August 2008|publisher=Edinburgh Festival |accessdate=17 October 2018}}
;2009
- ‘Kitten Brides’ at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
- ‘I Can’t Sleep’ at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
- ‘Kitten Brides’ at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival
;2010
- 'A Rare Sight' at the Brisbane Comedy Festival and Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Performed with Nick Coyle.
- 'A Rare Sight' at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival. Nick Coyle could not attend due to surgery on shoulder.
- 'Personal Best' at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
=Film=
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- 2019: Extra Ordinary – Rose Dooley
=Television=
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==As herself==
- 2008: Spicks and Specks
- 2005, 2006: Tubridy Tonight
- 2009: The Podge and Rodge Show
- 2009: Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation
- 2009: The Modest Adventures of David O'Doherty
- 2009: Maeve Higgins' Fancy Vittles
- 2015: StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
==Acting work==
- 2005–2007: Naked Camera – various characters
- 2006: Magic – Chloe
- 2012: Moone Boy
- 2015: Inside Amy Schumer
- 2016: Doc McStuffins – Gillian
- 2019: Extra Ordinary – Rose Dooley
==As writer==
- 2005–2007: Naked Camera
- 2009: Maeve Higgins' Fancy Vittles
- 2012: We Have A Good Time, Don't We?
- 2022: Tell Everyone on This Train I Love Them[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/645596/tell-everyone-on-this-train-i-love-them-by-maeve-higgins Tell Everyone on This Train I Love Them] Penguin Random House, 2022-02-01.
=Books=
- 2018: Maeve in America{{Cite news |last=Gildea |first=Kevin |date=August 11, 2018 |title=Maeve in America review: insightful, honest and very funny |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/maeve-in-america-review-insightful-honest-and-very-funny-1.3587833 |access-date=2021-10-14 |newspaper=The Irish Times |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=April 9, 2018 |title=Nonfiction Book Review: Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else by Maeve Higgins. Penguin Books, $16 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-14-313016-1 |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-14-313016-1 |access-date=2021-10-14 |website=Publishers Weekly |language=en}}
=Radio=
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- 'What Would Maeve Do?' on The Ray D'Arcy Show
- 2016: The Unbelievable Truth (Series 16, Episodes 3 & 6)
- 2018–present: Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me{{cite web | title='Wait Wait' For Sept. 8, 2018: With Not My Job Guest Jenny Han |url=https://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/645556215/wait-wait-for-sept-8-2018-with-not-my-job-guest-jenny-han?showDate=2018-09-08 | publisher=NPR | work=Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! | date=8 September 2018 | accessdate=18 October 2018}}
- 2018: Everything Is Alive{{cite web | title='Everything is Alive: Maeve, Lampost' |url=https://www.everythingisalive.com/episodes/maeve-lamppost-of-brooklyn | publisher=Radiotopia | work=Everything is Alive | date=31 July 2018 | accessdate=27 October 2018}}
= Podcast =
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- 2018–present: Mothers of Invention
"Assistance dog" controversy
Higgins received criticism from disability campaigners when she stated on 30 March 2018 on the Irish Late Late Show that she purchased a service dog vest on Amazon and pretended that her pet dog was a service dog during a trans-Atlantic flight.{{cite news|last=Hopkins |first=Jacqueline |url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/anger-as-comedian-maeve-higgins-claims-assistance-dog-for-flight-469103.html |title=Anger as comedian Maeve Higgins claims 'assistance dog' for flight |newspaper=Irish Examiner |date=5 April 2018 |accessdate=15 August 2018 }}{{cite web |last=Walsh |first=Niamh |url=https://evoke.ie/2018/04/08/showbiz/gossip/maeve-higgins-late-late-show-complaints|title=RTÉ receives slew of complaints over Late Late Show Maeve Higgins interview |website=Evoke.ie |date=8 April 2018 |accessdate=15 August 2018 }} She has apologized to anyone offended by her deception.{{cite web |last=Lanigan |first=Michael |url=https://www.joe.ie/news/maeve-higgins-assistance-animal-621553|title=Maeve Higgins apologises after saying she faked a disability to bring her dog on a flight|website=JOE.ie |date=8 April 2018 |accessdate=15 August 2018 }}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=2072329|name=Maeve Higgins}}
{{Today FM}}
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Category:Irish expatriates in the United States
Category:Irish television actresses
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