Known for Acting
Dylan Moran (born 3 November 1971) is an Irish comedian, writer, actor and filmmaker. He is most famous for his sardonic observational comedy, the television sitcom Black Books which he co-wrote and starred in and his work with Simon Pegg in Shaun of the Dead and Run Fatboy Run. Moran also appeared as one of the two lead characters in the Irish black comedy titled A Film with Me in It in 2008. He is a regular performer at national and international comedy festivals including the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Kilkenny Comedy Festival. In 2007 he was voted the 17th greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups and again in the updated 2010 list as the 14th greatest stand-up comic.
Born
November 3, 1971 (age 54)
Birthplace
Navan, County Meath, Ireland
Filmography
40 films, 14 shows


Dylan Moran: Dr Cosmos
2021 · 1h 5m · AU
Filmed in front of a live audience on tour in Australia, Dylan Moran’s DR COSMOS offers his unique take on love, politics, misery and the everyday absurdities of life, all served with his trademark poetical panache. Dylan Moran has been called the Oscar Wilde of comedy and his famed style - deadpan, witty and with crackpot lyricism – makes for an unmissable journey through his interpretations of the world, swerving cliché to offer a cutting blow to our idiosyncrasies.


Dylan Moran: Off the Hook
2015 · 1h 15m · UK
Dylan Moran star of Black Books, Shaun of the Dead and Calvary is back with his new stand up show. Expect a master class in comedy when Dylan Moran takes his new show Off The Hook out on the road in 2015.


Dylan Moran: Yeah, Yeah
2011 · 1h 13m · UK
Dylan Moran, star of Black Books, Shaun of the Dead and Run Fat Boy Run is about to spread a little happiness with a brand new live DVD for 2011. Ageing, religion, kids and relationships intertwine with the general absurdities of life. Searing observations and sumptuous imagery, painted across a large fraying canvas with cruel, curmudgeonly 'Moranesque' brush strokes are all delivered with Dylan's renowned, shambolic charm… Simply unmissable.


Aim Low: The Best of Dylan Moran
2010 · 1h 10m · IE
The very best bits of Moran, all delivered with his renowned charm, including his take on aging, religion, kids, relationships and the general absurdities of life.


Dylan Moran: What It Is
2009 · 1h 16m · UK
Unpredictable, bizarre, elegiac, often cruel but above all painfully funny, What It Is sees Dylan ponder the joys and disappointments of human existence with the sensibility and intense perception of a man teetering on the edge. Critically and publicly acclaimed around the world for his previous Monster and Like, Totally shows, What It Is is Dylan's finest live performance yet.


Dylan Moran: Like, Totally
2006 · 1h 9m · UK
Dylan Moran returns with an all-new stand-up show. Unpredictable, startling, bizarre, elegiac, but above all brilliant and hilariously funny, Moran is a master of comedy.


Dylan Moran: Monster
2004 · 1h 25m · UK
Irish comedian Dylan Moran live at Vicar Street, Dublin.


Bernard's Letter
2004 · 2m
Iconic protagonist of "Black Books", Bernard Black receives a rejection letter from a publisher and, in anger, writes back a furious response. Bernard's Letter is a short vignette featured on the bonus features of the Black Books 3 DVD.