Patrick Monahan

Patrick Monahan (born 23 June 1976) is an Irish-Iranian comedian, who won the television competition series Take the Mike in 2001 and Show Me the Funny in 2011. He has performed regularly at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Monahan also holds the world record for "Longest Hug" at a time of 25 hours and 25 minutes, alongside fellow comedian Bob Slayer. They set this record at Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2013. Background Monahan's father was an Irish welder who met Monahan's mother in a bank in Ahvaz, Iran before the Iranian Revolution, where Monhen was born. When he was 3, he and his parents and siblings had to leave the country during the '79 revolution; in company with his brother and sister, the three-year-old Monahan had to pose as his grandparents' son, because only one boy per couple could leave the country.