Patrick Kielty
Stand-up comedian

Patrick Kielty

Who Patrick Kielty is

Patrick Kielty is a stand-up comedian and television presenter from Dundrum, County Down, who began his stand-up career as host of Northern Ireland's first comedy club, The Empire Laughs Back, in Belfast. An award-winning stand-up, he has built a career across television, radio and live stand-up tours, with television credits including Channel 4's Last Chance Lottery, and in September 2023 he became the fourth main presenter of RTÉ's The Late Late Show, the longest-running live television chat show in the world. The same year he made his feature-film debut in Ballywalter, playing Shane.

At a glance

Podcasts and radio
Patrick Kielty
On screen
The Late Late Show, Last Chance Lottery, Ballywalter and 7 more
Official site
patrickkielty.com ↗

On stage

No dated show on D.O.C.'s Comedy Calendar right now — their own site has their dates: patrickkielty.com ↗.

Lineups belong to the rooms and the comedians, and can change; each listing has the last word. Their nights on the Comedy Calendar →

Specials, shows and podcasts

On screen

Podcasts and radio

Their stand-up

While studying psychology at Queen's University Belfast, Kielty and his friend Jackie Hamilton opened a comedy club at The Empire on Botanic Avenue in Belfast, and he went on to be a finalist in a national comedy search for RTÉ's The Late Late Show; his BBC Northern Ireland show PK Tonight won him Best Newcomer at the 1996 Royal Television Society Awards.

He hosted the opening ceremony of the Special Olympics at Croke Park in Dublin on 21 June 2003, returned to stand-up touring in 2006 with a show filmed for DVD at Belfast's Grand Opera House, and took his Borderline show on tour in 2022; as a documentary presenter he was named UK documentary host of the year at the 2018 Grierson Awards and won a Royal Television Society award for best presenter for One Hundred Years of Union.

Career timeline

  1. 1999Patrick Kielty Almost Live (BBC Northern Ireland, 1999–2003) On screen
  2. 2002Fame Academy (co-presenter, BBC One, 2002–2003) On screen
  3. 2005Love Island (co-presenter, ITV, 2005–2006) On screen
  4. 2010Stand Up for the Week (presenter, Channel 4, 2010) On screen
  5. 2016Debatable (BBC Two, 2016–2017) On screen
  6. 2021One Hundred Years of Union (presenter, BBC One, 2021) On screen
  7. 2022Patrick Kielty (Saturday morning show, BBC Radio 5 Live, from 2022) Podcast or book
  8. 2023The Late Late Show (host, RTÉ, from 2023) On screen
  9. 2023Ballywalter (Shane, film, 2023) On screen

Questions and answers

Where is Patrick Kielty performing next?

No date is on D.O.C.'s Comedy Calendar right now; their own site has their dates: patrickkielty.com ↗.

What podcasts and radio shows have they been on?

Patrick Kielty.

What TV shows and films are they in?

The Late Late Show, Last Chance Lottery, Ballywalter, PK Tonight, Patrick Kielty Almost Live and Fame Academy, among 10 credits.

The full SUCDb record

The full record — the career in order, the specials and credits, and the sources for each — is on SUCDb, with a button to add them to your D.O.C., your twelve.

Their SUCDb record →Their own site ↗

Sources

Updated 9 October 2026 · the record checked 8 October 2026