Offaly comedian, actor and viral internet sensation Tadhg J Devery has announced a new show – Pints, Dentures & Rock and Roll – touring 14 different venues countrywide from March.

It follows on from his leap from viral country-inspired comedy videos to his very first sell-out stage show, A Day in the Country, earlier this year, which featured all of his popular characters from his weekly videos.

There’s Noel, the typical farmer dad, who is often reading the Irish Farmers Journal in the videos, or Breda, his more dramatic and slightly raunchy other half.

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Then there is Christy, the well-meaning but utterly hapless builder; Seamus, the worst plumber in a generation; a garda who couldn’t piece together a jigsaw; and the local undertaker.

From bad breakfast rolls to the car salute in the country, picking stones or a builder with no tape, Tadhg and his host of rural characters have milked laughs from familiar scenarios for anyone who has spent time on a farm, building site or in a small town or village.

In doing so, the Ferbane native, who grew up on a farm, has struck a chord with 100,000 followers on social media all over Ireland and beyond, resulting in sell-out shows over the last year.

New show

He promises that the new show, kicking off in Tullamore on 7 March next, is “another level entirely” and he’ll be bringing his madcap comedy with echoes of D'Unbelievables to Portlaoise, Kilkenny, Wexford, Antrim, Thurles, Kerry and many more.

“I learned so much from doing A Day in the Country that I kept pushing it, changing it, adding to it, until eventually I realised I couldn’t change it anymore.

"So I said, 'Right – time to build something new from the ground up'. And everything I learned from that first show is now fuelling this new show.”

Along with the chaos, there’ll be a raft of new characters making their debut. One of them - a failed country-rock singer from Roscommon, aka Johnny 'The Jelly-Tot' Kelly - has never appeared in any of Tadhg’'s videos and is set to bring a whole new kind of mayhem to the stage. Joining him is Brendan, the now-infamous undertaker and many more.

Asked what audiences can expect from the new show, which he has spent seven months writing, he replies: “Possible jump scares. A tear or two. People rocked clean out of their seats. And maybe even a Full Monty like you’ve never seen before.”

Asked about the popularity of his videos and the live show developed on the back of them, Tadhg previously told Irish Country Living that the beauty of his countryside cast is that everyone knows the characters.

“I think they are very relatable characters to country people. Anyone who lives or lived in the country can connect to them. They know a Noel, Breda, the priest,” he explains.

Tickets are on sale now via Tadhg's social media bios or see @tadhgjdevery.