Diet of Worms is an Irish comedy and theatre group based in Dublin, Ireland and London, UK, made up of Rory Connolly, Philippa Dunne, Niall Gaffney, Shane Langan and Amy Stephenson.

[1] The group took their eponymous first show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2006, only a month after their first live performance together at Dublin's Battle of the Axe comedy club.

The films were a collaboration with filmmakers Alex Gill and Michael Donnelly and were short portraits of odd Dublin characters, created and performed by one or more of the Worms at a time.

It was broadcast on BBC Four and RTÉ[11][12] In 2016 the Diet of Worms wrote and performed a well-received television "playlet" called "Quints" for Sky Arts.

[13] In 2017 the Worms produced a radio comedy programme called Kult set in a Norwegian Ikea-style furniture store based in Dublin.