I was like ‘Okay, I don’t want to be known as the radio guy,’ so I added impressions. Filters were a big thing for a while, so I might have a lion’s head on and then I was ‘Rar-lene Foster.’….
Why didn’t he use his real name? “Tourism Ireland has a very strict social media policy,” he says. “I didn’t want to be found by my colleagues but then it just happened anyway. I got a call on a Friday from this woman who wasn’t on my team.
‘Can I just ask you a question?’ ‘Is it about the video?’ ‘Yeah, is that you?’”Ĭomedy and performing were just never on my radar, whatsoever. Why had he not considered comedy as a career when he was younger? “I never thought it was possible,” he says. “I’m from Navan in County Meath which is the same place as Tommy Tiernan and Dylan Moran and people like that which is odd because, I don’t know if you’ve ever been here, but it’s not a particularly funny town. So comedy and performing were just never on my radar, whatsoever.” I went to the same school as them but it’s a football school.
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While in school he studied acting at the Gaiety School of Acting where he learned about improv and, as a consequence, how to write, but “over the course of the five years in secondary school I was just kind of discouraged from any creative path whatsoever. I signed up to do a business degree in NUIG and dropped out because I was just far too young. Then I went back to do French and thought ‘Okay. I wrote for that, but I didn’t actually perform in it.” I’ll try and sneak into the creative bit by doing marketing or tourism after this.’… I did set up a kind of sketch troupe because we didn’t have a Cambridge Footlights type organisation….
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