David McSavage, is an Irish stand-up comedian, comedy writer and street performer, known for his television show “The Savage Eye”.
He has performed at national and international comedy festivals such as the Kilkenny Comedy Festival. He became widely known in Ireland for his street performance in Dublin city center; his street act consists of improvised songs often predicated on sardonic speculations about those passing by.
He is best known for the IFTA-nominated 2009 The Savage Eye, a show consisting of a mixture of comedy sketches and satire. During its four-year run on RTE, The Savage Eye satirised Irish public figures and society.
The programme outraged several individuals, and he contrasted himself against the “mimicry” of the impressionist Oliver Callan, stating that “his stuff is more tribute. Satire is more vicious than that.”
In 2008, McSavage devised and featured in Headwreckers, an episode of Channel 4’s Comedy Lab show. In 2014 he played a bishop in the film Calvary (2014 film), starring Brendan Gleeson and Chris O’Dowd. He played William Hall, the publisher of Charles Dickens, in the film The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017).
