Foil Arms and Hog

Foil Arms and Hog is an Irish sketch comedy group comprising Sean Finegan (Foil), Conor McKenna (Arms) and Sean Flanagan (Hog).[1] The group performs on TV, radio, the stage and online. The trio write, shoot and edit a new sketch every week in their office, releasing it for YouTube, Facebook and Instagram on IGTV.[2] Foil Arms and Hog do not have a specific genre, and make sketches that are often observational and occasionally topical.[3] Popular sketches released to YouTube include 'When Irish People Can't Speak Irish', 'An Englishman Plays Risk', 'WTF is Brexit', and 'How to Speak Dublin'.[4] Foil Arms and Hog also perform live shows, primarily in Ireland and the United Kingdom, but also in the United States, Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and a number of runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.[3][3]

Foil Arms and Hog
Logo
NationalityIrish
Alma materUniversity College Dublin
Years active2008—present
GenresSketch comedy
Members
  • Sean Finegan
  • Conor McKenna
  • Sean Flanagan
Websitefoilarmsandhog.ie
YouTube information
Channel
Years active26 October 2008 – present
GenreComedy
Subscribers430,000
Total views90 million
100,000 subscribers 2017
Updated 22 June 2020

The group's name evolved from nicknames each of the members had for each other, Foil (Sean Finegan) being the comedy foil, Arms (Conor McKenna) was 'All arms and Legs' and Hog (Sean Flanagan) because he ostensibly hogged the limelight.[5][6]

As of 2019, the group had just under a million likes and follows on Facebook and 380 thousand YouTube subscribers.[7][8] As of May 2020, the group had 420 thousand YouTube subscribers and 84 million views.

The group formed in 2008, after the trio met at University College Dublin in the drama society,[9] when they were studying architecture, genetics and engineering respectively. They were drawn together at first by a love of the TV show Father Ted and a common interest in comedy. This was at a time just after the financial crash, and the group say that it "was absolutely the best thing that could have happened. If the Celtic Tiger had still been going and all our mates were making shedloads of cash, we would have been under pressure to get proper jobs. But instead, we had the perfect excuse to play around for a while and see what happened."[3] Another result of the crash was the rent on the office they use for their sketches being far cheaper, which they say helped make their enterprise viable.

References
  1. "About". Foil Arms & Hog. Retrieved 2017-02-21.
  2. "Interview with Conor McKenna from Foil, Arms & Hog — LondonCalling.com". londoncalling.com. Retrieved 2017-02-21.
  3. "Meet comedy's three-headed monster - Foil, Arms & Hog put the 'ho ho ho' in Christmas - Independent.ie". Independent.ie. Retrieved 2017-02-21.
  4. "Foil Arms and Hog". YouTube. Retrieved 2019-08-02.
  5. "Foil, Arms and Hog are a comedy trio perfect for each other". 2016-03-17. Retrieved 2017-02-21.
  6. "Meet comedy's three-headed monster - Foil, Arms & Hog put the 'ho ho ho' in Christmas". independent. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  7. "Foil Arms and Hog". YouTube. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
  8. "Facebook - Foil Arms and Hog". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
  9. "About - Bio". Foil Arms and Hog. Archived from the original on 8 December 2016.
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