David McSavage

David McSavage is an Irish stand-up comic, comedy writer and street performer. He grew up in Blackrock, Dublin, and acted in school plays at Willow Park School and Blackrock College before taking a short course in film and television. In Dublin city center, he became widely known for an improvised street act built around sardonic songs and observations about passersby. He also performed at comedy festivals in Ireland and internationally, including the Kilkenny Comedy Festival. He is best known for The Savage Eye, a sketch and satire program that RTE aired for four years; it earned an IFTA nomination for Best Entertainment Series in 2010 and targeted Irish public figures and society. In 2008 he devised and appeared in Headwreckers, an episode of Channel 4's Comedy Lab. On screen he played a bishop in Calvary (2014) and Charles Dickens's publisher William Hall in The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017).