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So weird when I've got to do reads for 3-4 minutes and my
guest is that rude in it, you know?
But my guest today is a good friend of mine, a guy wearing a
shirt that could be from any era of time.
My guest is Mark McCartney. No atmosphere in the studio.
I wish we had. Like you're good.
Hey, you've had media training. Yeah, that was a very good
artery, I was. Grown in a lab.
See, I I couldn't do that. I didn't add read for company to
go to business. No, Tell me what have you used
them? I have done has Mike who's
downstairs using it. And these shave your balls in
the dark much that the needs a flashlight on.
It's the best way. It's the best way.
It just means say you're in a in a situation where the lights are
right and you need to shave your purse.
But. If the lights, if the lights
went out in my house, the last thing in my mind will be just
about throwing my balls. Well, what if you're going to be
kidnapped? Lights go out.
And you're going to be kidnapped.
I definitely wouldn't want me balls fucking well because hey
kidnappers, at least I'm looking fresh for you.
Here's my logic, right? What if you're taken by Al Qaeda
or or is I call them I as you put what happens if what happens
if they they do a tiger kidnapping on Mark McCartney and
they strip you and they they film you that we camera doing
like you've got to do a message to your family back home.
I don't. Think I have a Bush?
It would in that circumstances it wouldn't matter because I'm
still ISIS of kidnapped me. So they're not going to go.
That beheading video of McCartney is awful, but at least
his balls looking well. That's remain you differ because
that's all I'd want people to think.
But I would say I was thinking of getting them, yeah.
Would I be afraid of a slip or? Anti snag technology.
Is that patent bending or anti bag technology?
What is it patent? Bending sounds like a guy.
You get your equipment. From my old boy has just has
these scissors that he's been trimming his nose with the years
and I've been using them just he doesn't listen to any modern
media so. You continue.
I think like you're from the countryside that much that it
almost doesn't matter, you know what I mean?
Like I think it'll be. Weird insinuate with that.
I think it would be strange if you did have like, you know, a
Brazilian down there, you know, like a like a very close cut.
I don't think it would be befitting.
Me in the bathroom later. Yeah, yeah.
I trim it up. We all trim it up.
So I trim it up, but there's no. It's very like, you know, you
know, these guys there would take a lot of effort in their
heads, in their garden. Yeah, I'm just kind of like, get
it down so we can see over it. And that's where I.
Just clear away the the main bit.
Of it the brush that's just Canada I.
It's been I haven't seen you in like a why is he see you and
there but like but you're a you're a what's a word elusive?
You're elusive. That's the.
Way I like it. You're elusive.
I kind of want to live my life like a like an ex MI sex agent.
They're like, where did he come out and why has he got a gun?
But my, my dream would be know to I want to own an island on
Loch Air and every six months or show I'll come out and I'll make
a video and I'll slag and slip everybody off, retreat back to
the island so we can't get any solicitors lathers or anything.
McCartney's island. Yeah.
I mean, when you start off a go, my dream is I want to own an
island, you go whoa. When you say unlocker and I
immediately go, it's achievable. Yeah, you can do it.
Absolutely, we log cabin. What do you reckon you'd pay for
a small island unlock? Because there's load like, I
mean there's thousands. Well I have locked this up and
there's islands but there is anything you can buy for like
200 grand. Well, that's more than I
thought. Have you ever tried to buy a
site in bills? No how big is this?
Like I don't want any. Couple of acres like.
Oh, that's that way bigger. I thought you just want one
that's big enough for like a log cabin and a wee bit of.
I will, I don't want to like open the door and land in the
fucking lock like a nice yard and stuff but.
Yeah, genuine. Would you live on a night like
it was? Absolutely.
I've seen people, I've know people that have done it, but
what they do is then build a road out that I'm like that's
you're just ruined, yeah. That then it's on island.
No, it's on island. You want to have.
No, it's not ideal. If you have a family, you have
to park the yard and get a boat. But that's the way I want to
live my life. But do you?
Do you like your own company? Oh, very much so.
Do you prefer your own company? Sometimes, yeah.
See, I think I'd love the idea of that.
I mean, I've got away from kids who appreciate and said, but I
love the idea of an island, right?
Live there by yourself. But I think I'd get there.
I'd get the house built. I get all set up and then after
10 minutes I'd go ah see if anyone wants to come round.
Oh no, no, don't come round. You don't want it.
You actively don't want people to come.
Up. No, actually I don't.
I don't make the money like I do.
I do I don't make my own company.
No, I could set happily. I'm an only chair, you see, so.
You're somewhere like you're, you're not off the grid, but
you're, you're not in the middle of the grid in general.
OK, on the side of it. You can see the grid.
You're sitting on the edge of the grid.
What's what are you calling the grid now?
Off grid. You know someone's off grid you
can't get in touch with. Sure, we're we are on an island,
everyone here is off the grid. That's.
Both physically and mentally. So I mean, I just want to go one
step further. It's not a big leap, but I have
no I can see that happening. In the last like in the last
year, I think people definitely know I want to do more things
like that, like just get away from it all.
But more Do you think see when people were going with with like
COVID and all this people go, that will have a long term
effect on people's like thinking on people's minds.
At the time I was like, it will. But now I'm thinking, will that
change humanity? It's very deep.
But I have to have some sort of. Oh, there will be like so like
it's unprecedented times. I was thinking imagine trying to
explain to someone in 20 years time what the pandemic.
Imagine, yeah, imagine being like 20 years ago.
I needed to pick up a camera from Curry's and you had to
order it online, text them when you arrive.
This happened you would have curries that go will text you
while parking Bay you're parking there's only like 3 of them as
far as said in Belfa. So you parking like Bay three it
goes stay in your car when we send you another text put the
window down on the back on the back seat.
Don't speak to the man that comes out.
Gerald will be out with your with your goods.
Don't look at Gerald. Don't speak the.
General definitely out of that in yeah but that's that's a good
thing because I think I was so sick of listening to my parents
about the troubles. It's great that we can dose the
next generation with. You should see the handle I had
to go through to get a screen protector and curries so.
Gerald give You give Gerald a semen sample, he'll give you.
He'll give you your product. You give him a semen sample.
Your mother's maiden name, Wink, Adam.
And then you drive off. It's fucking but we all went
along like I'm not, I'm not one who's like, we should have
rebelled. Obviously not.
I just mean, we were all very quick to be like, OK, this is
the way you do things. But I think it's been a lot
worse in where I live. I didn't really notice much
difference. Yeah, the only thing I noticed
more was more people walk on their roads.
Everyone what about everyone go and make myself clued everyone
for a walk every day and then when we should just do this
always every day and then as soon as like lockdown get lift
that's just goes fuck that I've got a car.
What an awkward bunch of hers we are.
Like when you're told you can't leave the house, I'm fucking
leaving. The house.
But they could have done it anytime like I would do a right
but a walking about and wouldn't usually see nobody but this past
like 2 years you. Meander.
I see Meander. I'm a wander.
You wonder. Oh that's better.
I could genuinely see you hosting Lesser Spotted Ulster.
I would fucking love that. Dream of mine.
Do you like Leicester? Ulster?
Well the the videos I'd on the parishion videos was all like.
It's a power. Yeah, like I remember seeing it
was a clip on YouTube actually, of Joe Mahan.
He was in Cool Island and he was interviewing these two boys and
it was the most hilarious thing I've ever seen because Joe was
like so like level and calm and these but he's he's asking about
this. Is that a fucking place down
there? I know I wouldn't be that there.
I don't fuck no. They were so rough and rural and
it was hilarious to me and. Do you eventually want to think
Joe should eventually just come more inland, more into the
cities? Like that's about Ulster
Botanic. Well, that's no.
I think you should go more like I think when people do travel,
shows that tend to go, we'll do the big cities.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And funny like that's one thing
I've noticed the the clips or whatever they get the most views
would be the smallest towns. Because I think people think
when you're doing like a video like that, some of these people
go, we'll do the big ones because anyone who lives here or
whatever, everyone, they'll they'll share it, They'll like
it. Yeah.
Whereas it doesn't matter. But you could do like AI could
do a stand up clip about fucking Lurgan.
Yeah, it's not necessarily people.
And that's not only going to pay the people from Lurgan.
But you do think? But they're so used to it now.
Yeah, people from Lurgan and Larn and these bigger places are
used to getting the shit. Ripped through them.
If it begins with L, you're fucked.
But if you go to escrow, which has like 300 people on us,
they've sent it all over the world.
Fucking why? Came to escrow one time, right?
So it's it's and they're actually more fun.
I found like the ones, the smallest ones, the time people
see you right and go what are you doing?
Yeah, yeah. What are you doing here?
Yeah, and they get chatting and it's a lot more fun, like.
The first one, so it became like, I assume that 99% people
of people who watch or listen to this will have seen some of
them. But you did parish unknown,
which was like suppose a party of Leicester parts unknown as
well. Like it, like that's where the
title comes from. And then it'd be funny if you
were like, I don't know what that is.
It doesn't. It doesn't come from that.
I've actually never watched it, but it was the title.
I'm a simple man, it takes very little.
I'm like, he's really paying tribute to Anthony Bourdain with
this piece. Shadow Anthony Bourdain is and.
Then crowd is just me eating noodles.
Anthony Bourdain sounds like someone Joe Mohammed would speak
to in in Tomb, you know, but yeah, you so it's like a comedy
sketch kind of series where you're doing like a Quick guide
to a place, just pieces the camera.
And when you did the first one of those was that was just like
a one off or instantly were you like I'm going to do a series of
these. I had an idea for it for about a
year before done anything. I remember talent like friends
that love to do this and they're like are you ways no near well,
why? Why would you do that?
And I just one notion of one day I'm going to, I'm going to go do
this and I shot it and then a skill and then a skill like I
live between Noma and then a skill.
So I've done a place that I knew well and remember, I went and
shot it and took it home and edited and went this shape and
I've got up at 4:00. Shoot it yourself.
Well, everything I do, it's all me like that's why they're.
All people wouldn't know that. That's why they're all shake
loving. Nobody.
OK, it looks rough and ready, but people would think.
We see it is the way of it. It actually, because I'm in
places where it needs to be quick and get it done.
Now there's times where but I'm the cameraman, so I have to set
up the camera and pretend and get it in focus and then I go in
front of the camera and there's out of focus.
Anthony Bourdain did that for Parts Unknown too.
He shot it all himself. I've pretty much ripped him off
completely, but so it's all, it's all usually just me.
I enjoy it that way more. But the first time I shake and I
got back up at 5:00 the next morning because the time is
quieter, shot it again. I shot it again and I mainly
added it and went right OK. What's what's going on in Ennis
Skelton at 5:00 in the morning? Not on really, but that's it
Gives me the. Room 5 in the afternoon.
That's it, gives me the room to act the fucking blaggard.
But I main thinking before I post it, I was like we could be
born there to the house here because like I did give some
places a bit of a touch but it didn't the elect.
Well, towns are towns here are small, like everywhere small,
but fucking Belfast is. So if you're talking about so
much, like you pack so many references into that and it's
really, you know, the shop or this person or whatever or well
known person they're going to see.
It I have people said to me going, Jesus, you say some way
things how you not get like in bothering, but the way I said it
was like who's the people that you offend and take the piss out
of the most? The people you love, your
friends and only I know the places I wouldn't like I
couldn't take. I couldn't do a place that I've
never been in before. So if I'm if I come to a town
near you, I like the place. If you're in Hollywood.
Oh, well, I as soon as I came in here, I was like, I don't belong
here. I was like, you know, there was
a doll with a buggy with alloy wheels in it.
The KR park and the boys really give you a ticket of a couple
hours? Yeah, give me the ticket £1000
for. You mean like when pensioners
and stuff go here tickets followed for the day?
You have a right to report those.
People. Yeah, no, I'm not.
Like please see, I'm decent. I honestly if anyone does it,
you're going to my Galbury tonight.
See, it's different than Ryan. They didn't wrap the fucking
thing on the wall together. But, and this is my second time
in Hollywood. What was your first?
The rugby club. Oh, you shot there it.
Was an extra. You sketchy.
I was in it too sketchy Dermacor people might not, might not know
it now, but it was a wild thing, which was Dermot was a stand up
from call and and really good stand up.
And I think it's fair to say was doing stand up to get recognised
for actor. You want to be an actor, So he
saw stand up as a great way to like be on stage, perform, get
ATV show that would also showcases acting and it like
worked out that way for him. So he got a show from BBC and I
called Sketchy with Derman core and it was something like sex
episodes, sex half hour episodes or maybe even more like 12
episodes. They are.
Get a couple of seasons. Yeah, you've got.
Two seasons, but it was like for a year, big budget because they
would do a lot. So it was stand up and sketches.
But the stand up there, the whole studio there was warm up
arts. It was like load of cameras and
the sketches were like well budgeted too.
And like that's not hot. I don't think that's happened
before or since. You know, BBC have gone like sex
because they with everything they go, yeah, they got one
episode or or night. It's probably started as online.
If they like it, it'll get a pilot on TV.
Then you might get a three-part series, but definitely not 6.
But he got 6 right right from the start.
And that that's weird because this probably 12 years.
Ago. Oh yeah, I was about 18.
Everybody was in it. Like everyone was an extra in
that column was an extra in it. Karen was an extra in it.
Me, you. I didn't know you were in it.
Yeah, that's had a bigger part in it with the.
Wandering Willy sketch. I can't remember, there's all a
members all over the bar of the blender was going to be in this
but he was literally in it for like 30 seconds.
That's the thing they did with him and I think he definitely
caught call on to this very quick.
If he was going to be doing a small part in anything or a gig
where when he was new to stand up, he was just going to do like
a 5 minute slot. They put him literally his face
first and his in the and it puts so much pressure naturally on
him and everyone's like we're here to see you do a whole set.
He's here do 5 minutes. So with that TV show they did
that and they like put him on the ad and he had like a couple
of lines in it. But that I did a sketch down by
the beach here. I did a few things for it and
then I did they did a stand up showcase.
So everyone who had been in it that was a stand up for the
first series got to perform and they turned that into a separate
programme and stuff. And if you ever see it, it's
online. I'm wearing a blazer, right?
Blazer, Led Zeppelin T-shirt. I couldn't I can name you two
other songs that I couldn't name Jenny there.
I look about 12. The Blazers from Primark and it
cost £18. Jeans and brown shoes.
And I talk in the weirdest way because that, because the TV
audience, so I speak like this and deliver everything like
that. And it's just odd.
It well actually went quite well on the night.
But like, that's still the way I hear you now.
The material are I remember my big line on it was my dad's so
old, but he's on. He's asked me to get him on
Facebook and I told him, someone wrote on his wall and he started
filling up a bucket with very liquid noir brush and that was
like my fucking bit. That was the bit.
Live with the follow. Just floored.
Hey, how is your dad? Well, he's good.
Your father. Oh no, you.
Used to do stick sketches with him didn't you?
Yeah, well, mainly me scaring him.
And you were doing like BBC don't to get us.
You were using them, yeah, to get the publicity because?
Shane thought live. Just my dad's.
You might be done the charity gig in Limelight.
Yes, I remember doing my set and I remember seeing your dad.
I remember he was like 3rd or 4th row.
I remember. I know that fell and it just
dawned who it. Was well, you probably know
because everyone at the Limelight gig is 21 and he was
72 year old. I've already had a LED ZAP and
teachers on, so we wouldn't know, but I remember after it
was over, we were at the bar and the bar was on the way out.
Yeah. And I remember people come on.
And I remember your dad. I remember as well, there was
like a gap. I was at the bar and then I
think Mckegney was one enemy and Robinson the other and your dad
just kind of stopped and looked at me and nodded.
But it wasn't like a how you doing?
It was more like a you look at the end of every 90s movie, the
game, like the mighty docks for the wind they go.
And he looked at me, my soul kind of just like I was all
made-up. So he's keeping well.
That is, that's like the sign of everything's going to be if you
get one of those from my dad, that's the monetary value.
That's about 5 million. Oh yeah, I felt it.
He does it by the way. He will not just give that out
like it's not like the next person.
He saw. He's given that to.
You it wasn't he's. Actually in Lanzarote at the
moment. Living it up, he it wasn't like
a how you doing? It was like a.
Yeah, that's, that's, you know, like you've been passed in
comedy. That's all I want.
My dad, he's done that for everyone.
Like I think about 10 years ago we had the Flight America to
give gift to Kevin Hart. All right, I said.
Don't take it away from me, but. No, no, no, there's there's four
or five people. You, Kevin Hart, Prior Kevin
Mcaleer and EH Alan Carr The big.
Leagues, yeah, yeah, but. No, he's case in Lance Roddy and
very good. Probably in a pair of budgie
smugglers right now. But I think it must be
something. Then use that these are very
like. You're very like that too.
Well, I'll give you props. Not props but umm, funny.
I remember my very first gig in the In the Pav was on a Monday
and you'd on Bogan's Bar in Omar on the Saturday I.
Said Craig David. 7 days. All right, how's he keeping now?
See you laughs around. As well there's.
The two boys with the pool going.
Soon as Craig released Seven Days by the Top of the Pops, my
dad was in the 2nd row. Craig, Mate.
He goes with him everywhere no matter what he does.
Good job. But I just like it's amazing
what you do for people when you don't know you're you're doing
it for them. Like and I remember you were on
the Saturday night. I thought I'm going to go see
this fella and just get into I've never seen you before.
I thought I'll go and I get in the humour of comedy and you get
up and I think you're headlining and a mango and well, if this
bollocks can do it, you killed it.
But a mango and it really it did help me to when I say help me, I
just talk all your material and start doing other places Monday.
But that seems like such a lifetime ago.
You've even seemed of like chains an awful lot since then.
Comedy style or off stage? Will you get rid of the Primark
Blazer for one? Yeah.
Maybe being a dog. Somebody do you know?
What I mean, I suppose you everyone should grow with.
Those. But I do like like the Internet,
like the given props thing, like I like to do that.
Yeah, but I've always said, I think I said this before, say I
always take wee things. They got there and they stay
with me. But the another charity gig
we're doing because we're we're great men.
I mean, Sean Haggerty and I had only just I just quit my job and
I was full time into the comedy and he was like, well, what,
what are you doing? And I was like, no, I've quit
cold Turkey. I'm giving this a go and I was
like, whatever, you know, I don't know what to do, but I'm
sure I'll get a Plan B. And then you put your head and
it's like there's no Plan B. No, I was talking about the
lineup. I.
Because we thought we'd book them.
I promise Steve, he's going to come on at the end and.
Then him, your dad and Craig. David, there's no plan on the
DAS but Craig David So it's worked out.
No, but I just mean like I just I just think you're like
definitely original, original enough to to just make it work.
And like I think the whole I think you have to you probably
have to have a plant like a Plan B, like even in the background a
bit just to be like responsible. But but you no, but you just I
disagree. I do too.
I'm just trying to make it seem like I'm a normal person.
I don't think shell plump. I literally there's nothing else
I can do. Funny, somebody said to me a
while ago was like, what, what would you consider when you've
made it? What's going to happen to me
that I go, I fucking made it now.
I didn't want to say I didn't say it out loud, but kind of it
was like I can't have I'm doing what I want to do what a stage
and Omar is as good to me as a stage in New York or it makes.
I think if you can get people to come and see you do stand up,
you've you've made if if five people come and see you do a
game. As long as you can make a lack
of pound and live and enjoy what you're doing, So what?
I think, I think there's definitely a new thing of people
get caught up in numbers and see see, like I think goals and all
are are great. But the the longer I do it, the
less I actually have goals. And that's not lack of probably
more ambitious than I've ever been.
But sometimes you just have to enjoy what you're doing and go.
I'll work hard at it and hopefully like that will lead to
cool stuff happening, yeah. But you do need a bit of a
pushing, you suppose. But what's that a cliche saying?
There's funny thing about the the usually the cliche sayings
are all through. Yeah, that's the hitful thing
about them. But if you do enjoy the journey,
what the fuck odds with them? If you enjoy the journey, then
every part of it must have been I don't know, I don't know.
But yeah, I just think, I just think having a plan BI think if
you already have a Plan B by default, like if you're if you
have a degree in law and you're like, I'm going to give stand up
you, you have a Plan B then. So that's.
But you can't like, I can't go back, do what I've done.
No love to go back, enjoy themselves like well, I don't
know but you, but I definitely think I could fit into a nine to
five now with the things that I've.
Said and done. I'm exactly the same.
Like there's no going back like. I mean, during the at the start,
not to bring it back to pandemic and but at the start, I
definitely like like mates that do stand up, we're definitely
like, we can't, we can't go and do what are we going to do?
We can't go and do normal jobs. And I was like, I definitely
could like. What would you do?
Fucking any delivery driver or whatever, whatever.
You couldn't. She and Todd don't give me that
shape you you live in for Tesco, Yeah.
You Amazon, mate? Yeah, you would.
There'd be a lot of. Happening.
You'd come to the door and you'd be like lettuce, let's change
this Punjana. They make sure about it.
You would have had, you know, the point where you have to do
something if comedy didn't come back.
But when it did come back, we did show on the limelight.
I did like a run of shows in the limelight, and one night I think
it was me, you and Butler remember.
They were class. They were brilliant, they were
good. And you remember we just got so
caught up in it because there was an early show on Late Show
early. She was 7 late, she was half
nine. I thought it was half nine, but
it was actually like half eight or nine.
And we went for a cup. Remember, we walked up to
Botanic September. But it was a nice night.
Somebody booked a table for you. That's right.
That was weird. Remember we went to this place
by chance, House and Botanic, and sat outside and had a coffee
in between the shows and then the like Hostess, whatever was
like your table's booked for like half an hour.
I just came here by chance. I didn't book a table and
someone's booked under your name, so someone's getting
reservations. Let.
Me tell you it's not going to buy you anything.
We see I'm glad I get this often consciousness.
It was me booked in the way up thinking that maybe you would
for buy the feed like but you didn't.
So how to just get to say? Yeah, yeah.
But that was so good because like that was the time where you
felt like you shouldn't have been doing stand up, not like
from responsibility point of view, but like it's like, I
don't think I'll be back this suit, like we're really getting
to do it. And those shows were?
Yeah, no, they probably the out of the two years of the
pandemic, they were there were the best gigs.
I'd say they were the most enjoyable.
Yeah, whatever reason. And what like, what have you,
what have you been doing for like, say like the last six
months? You see the gay in every town
that just stands that said of a super value.
That's me. You've been leaning against us.
You've been leaning against gates.
That's been these two years. Paper under the arm.
You're never going to read. I've been working away.
But I say working away. Like I try to keep a good
routine. I try to keep so like Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesdays my film and days 3rd Saturday stand up or
whatever. And so even when the day is like
I wasn't gigging, I just walked around the roads shouting to
myself, yeah, you know what I mean?
So but like I done a pilot like videos and stuff during the time
but it didn't release them. For what reason?
Some of them I look up and think that's shit and some of them I
go, I'm just going to keep that for myself.
I'm not very like, I'm not very smart that way, you know?
Well, I think you are because I have fallen into the truck
before of like I'm lucky with the pot.
We do a couple of podcasts a week, so there's always Eclipse
and I like every clip that I go. That's funny.
Let's put that out. But I definitely fell into a
thing a few years ago. I've gone, I'm going to put out
a sketch once a week and the first two were good and then I
did another one and when that's probably not that good, but I
did say it was going to. But no one gives a fuck if you
say you're putting it out once a week and if you miss it, no one
cares. But I was putting out stuff for
a while that it was almost for the sake of it.
So I think definitely the better way to go is if you think it's
good and you want to. Put it absolutely.
I mean like I remember before I started main reading stuff about
like online content not and they were like, oh definitely like at
least once a week, once a day if possible and no longer than 30
seconds because people have no you know, if it's not good after
the 1st 2 seconds, they'll. Just turn it off, click the
title. I do one maybe every 2-3 months,
so it could be 10 minutes long. So I never really subscribed to
that way of thinking. I just, I, it's like funny, I
was, I was always a big Saturday Night Live gay.
And I do think sometimes like, like they do it every week and
you might get one class yet in the entire show.
Yeah. Why not do it once a month and
have it deadly through? Yeah, Yeah.
They've been far more than thing to do that.
It's a wee bit the same with stand up and I like like a lot
of people. I do an hour, an hour year, an
hour year and everyone probably does do an hour year even if
they don't put on an hour long show.
You probably do if you're gigging regularly, an hour worth
of stuff every year. We should.
But there there there can be a trap of you've got to do a New
York every year and put on a big venue and do all this.
And this is the first year where even though I am doing that, so
it might not make sense. I didn't feel like I had to.
I was like, if it don't feel like I've got the material or
the show won't do it. And this year I think I'll do.
I've got a good idea for sure. We've already got a bit of
material. But next year I could easily not
do that. And I think people can fall into
a trap of I have to put anything out here.
You don't. No one's going away.
They like your stuff. They're not going away.
The you can't force comedy can't you know as much as you'll try,
you'll not. So I can definitely me attitude
towards doing how many has changed throughout the pandemic.
Like I don't think I will gig as much even.
I think I'd rather sit and try and come up with maybe an air
show and then do like a work in progress instead of going up
here and doing 5 minutes and 10 minutes and.
Would it be a time thing as well?
Because like, you live far away, so if you're going to come do a
7 minute spot, yeah, it's fucking.
Hard, I mean it's it was it is good crack like it is nice to go
see you guys and laveries and and chat and stuff.
Oh, the hangout's better than the gigs sometimes.
But yeah, I think I'll do that more, a little bit less, but
more whenever I get around it kind of a thing.
And it means you enjoy it more. I think you enjoy it far more
so. And that's I didn't get into
this for hard work. I yeah, I I love doing sports
because I like being an atmosphere stand up.
You know you're backstage at lava reason everyone think a wee
bit giddy, but but also not like you have very like it's people
probably have a thought of what it's like backstage at a gig
user cracking jokes, roasting each other.
Oh, I cookie and. Yeah, and it's like strippers.
And it's like, no, we'll fucking.
I don't know. I mean, William Thompson has a
Diet Coke, but we're talking about someone's shoes.
Yeah. He's not as good crack now when
he's skinny. He used to like what he was fat.
I need to, I need to shape up, pay because all these boys are
getting better luck on the skinnier looking.
I don't know. I mean, we're comedy though.
You, you know what I mean? You don't what you don't.
You don't have to like. No, I'm just talking about me
health. I want to live a couple of years
longer. What do you see yourself doing
like in five years time? Like what would you would you
like to do? TV stuff?
Not comedy. I think current affairs comedy
is hardest day on national television.
I really do. Oh.
Shit. I agree, not not like there's
some people that is good at it, but I know for like if if I was
asked to do a show and then the last minute total, we can't do
that. I'm like, but that's an integral
part of the whole thing. It would just suppose it's the
course of. I don't I don't mind working
with people, but I work alone mostly.
So it's just I'm so used to just go on.
I really do that and go do it. Yeah, but I have a bit of a
documentary buff. So like I love them like them.
Last few ones about a Healy done I thought were class.
Unbelievable. If I was ever approached to do
something like that, I'd take on and all, but I was asked to do a
thing for radio but I said no. Because you didn't think you'd
get to do it the way you wanted to or.
Yeah, it was a couple of things. That timing wasn't right either,
but I don't. Radio was a completely different
beast for me because I was usually so used to video.
Yeah, yeah. And I didn't know I was like,
well, if I'm going to do the first thing I don't want to do
on this BBC Radio Ulster, what's going to hear?
So that was kind of a thing that was like, no, I'm not going to,
I'm not going to do, but maybe. It's tough to say no to things.
Thankfully I I'm quite good. You're saying no, no, it is.
It is genuinely a brilliant skill.
It's hard to do it and not be it full.
You don't want people to think this guy's a deck like, yeah,
yeah, it's just some things that you know you're not going to be
right for. Yeah.
And I'm happy enough to say no. What way do you get recognised?
What's a normal experience for you when you're in Enniskillen
out of vivo? What's your is it?
Just make it a selfie. So you can hear it over there
going, is that Mark Mcgarney? Yeah.
Thankfully it's settled down. Before the pandemic it was, I
knew a good rape the no more last Christmas, so the Christmas
before I'm not. I don't use that word lightly.
In what? In what way?
Sexually assaulted my genital area.
A woman? I think so.
Just out of note someone you just didn't know.
And and like you know the the. Sometimes that we top is getting
worse than a punch in the balls the way she went from me.
I was like, where was this? And OMA.
I've been like, got a gig. Nose bar, night out, Christmas,
Christmas night out with friends.
And I was like, what the fuck are you at?
And then she's like, oh, I can give it, but he can't take it.
He's like, what do you think I'm doing?
Yeah, I don't sexually assault people.
And yeah. That's a that's a crazy thing of
people thinking that they know you and your like public
property. Yeah.
And then I mean, I was, I was heading to the toilet.
That's when she and I got a toilet and it was all aggravated
and horned up and there's a gay in there.
Then they started going, oh, Martha McCarron.
And just, I was all like, I was like, well, well, and he was
drunk, full drunk, and he's passing all over the place and
he was trying to shake my hand. I was like let's wash your hands
and I'll shake your hand and I chatted him for about 5-10
minutes. I was completely sober.
Went down to the table again and then I got Adm on Instagram from
the guy going now. You're an ignorant fucker.
That's just sure that. And I was like, I'm getting
ready. That's the last time I was out.
No more. That's that's great.
Like, thankfully no one's like, no one's done that.
Yeah. Oh, it's it's pretty.
But like that is. It's pretty.
It was mental at a time like it was, yeah.
Until like just for her to just be like I there's nothing you
know, he's he loves. Comedy.
He loves the crack. You're like, yeah, that's not
comedy. Like should look at Bella Cosby.
He enjoys it. You must enjoy it too.
The yeah, the only, the only time I've had that was at a
Comedy Festival. I had a gate who umm right early
doors umm went into I went into a shop locking generally like me
with holes in me throws a mess when then got went in the shop
good milk went the deli counter got half pound of whack to harm
went the tell needed coal. I said give me buy a.
Coal you Did you shopping in the 1950s better?
Prices. I went out to the KR and the
yard came out with me and she opened up the thing of the coal
and I put the coal in the boat and as I was putting it in this
van full of men get her fast. It was like, oh, I've seen one
guy with a phone out through the window.
Pastoral remarks. Well, how you doing?
The time I got home I was sent a video of the gay that had
spotted me in the shop and had followed me from the milk to the
ham to the till to the coal to the yew, the whole way around
and I haven't left the house since.
I mean, you'll be OK, you've got half a pint of ham to work
through. I would like to be Jamie Dorn.
No, I mean it's just that familiarity thing.
I like, it's like I've no problem, like people don't say
hello and selfies and. Blah, no one's ever a Dick.
But there is some people that do take it to extremes like.
Yeah, like there was, and I would probably fall for this.
I was chatting to a guy like, like it was like a farm and it's
part of the farm, like a public farm that a play park and my
son's going down the slide and all this.
And he's at the age where like you got to watch him all the
time, you know, because he can walk.
But just about this guy come up, oh, where's Dave Elliott?
You know, and he genuinely said that and we were there with Dave
and his family. He was where's Dave Elliott?
I was like you said, the fucking llamas over there and the guy
was chatting to me and he wasn't getting a lot back.
I'm being like I'm never addicted any like I'm being
polite to the guy, but I'm sort of like not looking at him
because clearly I'm paying attention to my son and the
guy's all well, the no rave lockdown anymore.
I'm like, Nope, no, no, no, that's that's that's the way I'm
a sudden and he goes, you're not much chat.
I said it's just I'm here my son and he said he said something
else and what my son came down to slide and wasn't like
dangerous. He wasn't hanging off the slide.
But I stopped to turn to chat to this guy and in the three
seconds my son nearly like fell or whatever and I just picked
him up and said I said sorry mate.
I was like I'll get chatting to you another time and I know he
will have gone away and been like he was.
A Dick and. That and that's weird that I
would also let that not get to me.
Like I'm not upset about it, but also I'd be like shit, I hope, I
hope I didn't ruin that guy. 'S I'm not, I'm the exact same
because I like what? What age did you start stand up
and stuff? 18.
I see. Like I'm so used to just being
so inconspicuous, so when they will shout my name, I'm kind of
like, what? What did I do?
But then when you started doing it, you started at the peak of
like the online time. So when I started doing stand
up, it was all like word of mouth type stuff like you
weren't. And I always say, I don't know,
it's probably me like, but I think when people come up to say
hello, they expect me to do like a 10 minutes at yeah, yeah, 5
minutes new stuff here. And so I like, I get in the head
of that too, because you're like, you just get in your head
about things, of course. But yeah, I remember one time me
and McCann went for a walk around the forest.
I'd say cash. I've talked McCann.
See this past year. Aaron McCann, Jeff Setter.
Yeah, New Year, LA. London has never been to cash.
Foxy. I mean, why would?
And even he's like this is this is the deli counter in cash.
Oh, don't think I don't know cash.
The Bear. You've been a performer.
Mayfly been the mayfly. Oh I would grow up when you
perform or something date free country.
That's amazing. You didn't say worry many years
it was this. Months, months ago.
And you? Didn't tax me to go here.
I literally live 20 minutes from there.
Let's just say I spend a little time on cash.
We have a caravan near there. Oh.
I know what part of the world I see.
What do you call that time? It's called something time near
cash. Why is this going on in my head?
Everything Urbanstein. Nicest people in Northern.
Ireland, that's right, got me first guess.
In Urbanstate? Whereabouts in Urbanstate tennis
court? Molly's used to be a place
upstairs, so it was six months ago.
Was there a like disco? It's.
Just like a hifi in the corner, just mamo #5 blast.
Yeah, like I like I people say, like I say my address is
Phantna, but I literally live in the middle of like I'm halfway
from Oman and Skelon, so I like the more Phantna.
Irving's towns Literally all 20 minutes.
Please please one of our listeners remix that India dance
song when you named all those places.
So quick. Please someone turn that into a
beat. I need the Spotify money If you
do so like I like that's that's where I grew all around there
always like. What weird, what weird?
You said you know someone else you do, maybe a radio thing.
What weird things have you been asked to do?
Whether it's live or would you come round to my house?
So I was doing a gig in might have been Antrim and some guy
went me to see you in Antrim. I'm not coming to the gig but
would you stop on the way up and roast my 13 year old son?
And I said no, probably not. There's one guy that was after a
gig with Mickey and the Nerve Centre feels like I think I've
just done the podcast to Get Us or something after and he
listened to Get Us and then he watched all my stuff and he's
like he said, I love very funny, very funny.
And then he's like, this is my wife Collar a cunt.
I swear to God, I bet you know that guy was he blitzed
unbelievably blitz. That he wasn't too bad.
Mid 30s. I.
Know that. He's like, she looks like a
lovely woman. I'm not going to cut collar a
cunt. She's.
Like. No, I'm not going to do it and I
fuck. You and she won't she won't it
she. Just stood there with her
handbag like I'd have felt well about of a dead coloured that is
strange on the weddings are strange to me.
You don't any. Asked Loads said I'm sorry, like
I would ruin someone's day. So that was all.
That was always my. I was always like never, not for
any amount of money. And then?
But you're not so bad because, like, you're a better comedian
than me. I just do.
No, no, no, like I'm. Not going to get him somebody's
wedding Ding. What about their mother or the
bride? Horny old bitch.
But then you're saying I'm a better comedian, but that it's
obviously subjective to the point where you showing up and
people would fucking some people would.
But I think that. I show up and do a set and
sometimes people look at me and go, what are you doing?
But I think in their head they thought it was a better idea
that actually was. Well, that's always what that's
why the first few times I got booked, they go, we're looking
an hour of him to do stand up and I was doing, I was doing 45
sometimes and I was like, I'm never going to keep doing these
weddings. As soon as I went, I'll bring an
opener who'll do 10-15, then I'll do 20.
All of a sudden, their class. Far better.
If I've done 10 in the last say 2 years, it were really good.
And sometimes the ones you don't think like, I did one in a like
a TP tent at a massive one of these venues were like they had
booked a hotel, they were told they couldn't do it.
The improvised big massive TP tent like you'd say at
Glastonbury and it was unbelievable.
It was class. It's so funny, venues.
There was what me and Butler did one in OMA and Silver Birch and
I could say this and a wedding. Yeah.
No, we just went there for R&R, but.
For anyone that asked me but doing Wednesday is when she and
thought. So we go up to the gig and he's
doing 15, then I'm doing 25 and he goes up and like normally out
weddings, obviously it's adults, but we always say beforehand,
well, shine to go. Is there anything off limits?
Is there anything that shouldn't be said?
And I get that before the gig and I stick to it.
But these ones when no, like we love a laugh.
Nothing's off limits. Butler goes up and does the sets
and and he but there's something like not risky stuff, but like,
you know, he talks about sex and his like this kind of thing and
it but it's all fairly like fine and team and he he he makes the
set even tamer for doing this. So he's doing a set and he
mentions he says, oh, when I was younger, I had the nickname.
I'm I'm called Aaron Butler, one of the nicknames.
I was but plug to set up this bit and I'm waiting to go on and
I can't hear anything, but I can see the gig happening.
So I'm like behind some glass watching and I just see the
mother of the bride straight up to me.
She comes into the room and shows that that man needs to
come off stage right now. And I was like, shit.
I said, well, I can't like what do you want me to do?
And she went you need to go and see take the microphone off him.
I was like, Butler must have said something horrendous and
out of character. I said, what do you mean?
She goes? He used the term he used the
term butt plug. And I don't think the reverend
appreciated it. There was like a minister
little. Gino you.
Probably did. So I was like I said, I don't
even think that's that bad at all.
See, there's there's, there's definitely is like there's
different levels of team, but I have found there's the
hypocrisy. I don't trust anyone that
doesn't enjoy a dirty joke. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think you're hiding something. If you don't like a spot plug
joke, there's probably somebody teddy or editor at home.
Well, how often do we do? Do you hear stories about, you
know, and using this as a complete example, but a guy
who's who's like on this crusade, you know, to get rid of
fucking sexual predators from from, from like, say the, the TV
world. And then you find out he
himself, you're, I'm using that as an example.
There is 9 out of 10 people doing like standing up for stuff
or doing for the right reasons. But there's that one person
every once in a while that makes it tougher for them by being
like like a fucking paedophile hunter.
It is the, it turns out like I remember, of course I say stuff
and no one has ever came to my face.
No one's ever said, see that thing you said.
I don't like it. You've always heard secondhand,
but I was asked to go to a charity do a while ago, not to
perform, just to go. And I went.
And as soon as I went in, the people get up to say hello and
take selfies, whatever. And at the far end of the hall I
could see this one woman and nowhere not nor well do this.
Yeah, I know where, and she knows me.
And because the way the crowd was at me and I could see her
all on her own and I could see she locked behind, seen me.
And women have a great way of going.
Like if I seen you and I didn't like you, I'd just go.
Yeah. Women.
No, she just went. Just a real.
And and then I heard afterwards I remember saying to a gay
because I was like, what's wrong with because I know she doesn't.
She like completely avoided me because she just really Roman.
But the joke of it is like that dog I was told she doesn't like
your stuff just too much for it. I mean she just thinks it's
crude and just not homely at all.
And the joke of it is this woman, a week before her wedding
was called raiding her father's way works for her father in the
back of Sally's hill. And you think the fucking
hypothesis? No, Sally's Hill.
And that's the truth. Yeah.
So usually the people that act like they're disgusted really
are doing worse than people are talking about.
It Yeah, and it's like to go, I don't like your stuff because
it's not whole. The world can't be exactly what
you want. To do I understand people are
going, that's not funny because everyone has different sense of
humour. But if you can't go, if you
can't, take it in jest or move on instead of getting offended
by it. It's not.
I don't even think it's because I do stand up, but there's
nothing I'm really ever going to watch and go that offends me.
Even if it's, if it's something I don't like, I'm going as long
as you tried to be funny with. It just because I don't like
something you said, Yeah. It doesn't give me permission to
make a statement about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know what I mean? Yeah.
I'm a white middle-aged woman from Lurgan.
I'm now sticking up for all black people in the world.
Well, congratulations. That's great.
It makes no let's take the doll Insteban the time I said the
autism on stage, literally just. Said the word autism.
Didn't take the best set of autistic people just literally
said the world and she get up left on Facebook.
Fuck me. I mean like, so my sister's
autistic. If I go and see you on stage,
you do joke about autism. I don't think you're personally
attacking me and my sister does. That makes sense.
Well, every time I get honest is if I feel like I'm personally
attacking you, but that's just but I like I've I have.
I'm sure I've said stuff that annoys people and I'm sure I'll
say stuff from the future, little like people, but I know
deep down that I'm not racist or homophobic or of any of people
with disabilities. So I've not explained to you.
Yeah, if it's your, it's your problem now.
Of course, but but when you go to your comedy night, it's not
all going to be your way. You might hear something that
you don't like, but. But the fact that she was just
triggered by the word. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, You know, it's completely out of.
Yeah, You know, I thought, I thought that was amazingly.
Yeah. But instead of making me worried
that being cancelled, it made me worse.
Just double down and double down.
But I think that I've said it on podcast before, but you know, if
there was like ATV show on 10 years ago and there's something
in it where someone did blackface or whatever, I I'm not
the person to be like my opinion on that is like, well, yeah,
don't do it now. But if it was done at the time,
you know, the way they're like we're deleting this episode from
the history books that will I go use keep the episode up, but use
it as a way to go. This fucking isn't acceptable.
Yeah, absolutely. Use it as a tool to be like this
doesn't happen anymore. But when you when you delete
stuff, when you delete it, all that dollars is in five years
time make people go. What can I I need to see?
That yeah, it's. Making it worse, it glorifies
it, but I personally think, you know, whereas you can use it to
go like this is not the way we we do it.
But I find like it's never. I seen a video a while ago and I
thoroughly enjoyed it. There was a gay in New York and
he had set up his camera and a make and he walked through New
York with a sombrero and a poncho and he asked people, what
do you think of this? You're a racist piece of shit.
Your cultural appropriation. There were women running past,
not even a part of it going racist.
Same boy went down to Mexico with the same outfit on and he
said to this boy, what do you think of this?
She does a fucking nice outfit. Where'd you buy that?
So people in America was outraged on behalf of Mexico.
It's like, I mean the what do you call that film Space Jam?
The new one with fucking Michael Douglas.
I know what you're thinking, there's nothing to do.
Like Jake Fox, not back to the duty.
Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan was the 1st.
One I thought when you were, I thought you were making it.
I told you I don't make fallen people with disability.
That's not what I was. No, this new one with the what
do you call that basket, LeBron? Is it LeBron or Michael Douglas
who plays the lead role in the new space job?
Because it'd be it'd be great if it's Michael Douglas the actor.
Which ones is the Batman? LeBron James?
No. Michael Douglas?
No. Michael Sheen?
Michael Keaton? Too many.
Fucking Michael. Michael Sheen.
Who's he? No.
He's doing the best. He wasn't well for a while.
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Shout out to their dad, Mr as well.
News to him the the space jammed Who?
There was a wee mouse and he was Mexican and Warner Brothers went
cut that out. That's not the maximum people.
He's our favourite 1. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Cutting him out, this everyone loves them, Yeah.
So I think there's a lot of, it's a lot of people doing it on
behalf. Of I know what you mean, yeah.
Yeah, and there's not really. Yeah, I mean, there is obviously
stuff where you're like that's fucking bang out of order, but
every needs to be looked at like individually and.
It's all of it. Context.
I mean, if somebody says something and you know, they're
clearly joking, I mean, there's some gays, you know, you know,
you mean not like. Yeah.
Do you say guys there? You said guys there, Thank God
just for your accent. For a second I thought you said
there's some gays and I was like, no, no gays, thank God.
Oh, plenty of gays too. Michael Shake.
Oh man, do you what you're saying about like, you know,
want to do less gigs and stuff? Will you will you do you think
do like a show next year? You think you might have a?
Funny, I was thinking with this last night.
Actually I think my do we tend to try and like put an error
together here? I'm thinking of trying to put an
error together elsewhere. And they and me ask because they
can't. Understand the word I'm saying
and then come back and just tour Ireland.
You go on stage, you go how you guys doing and people walk out.
They just leave the venue. How you guys doing there?
I mean, I think you like. So for the show I did at the
Waterfront, which was called somebody told me and then the
SSC was called Chancer. They were different hours and I
only got to preview them twice each.
The first one I did Glasgow and Edinburgh, second one I did in
Manchester and Liverpool and while it was a lot of people
from home with those shows, there was a good few people who
weren't. So it you weren't getting that
free pass on a lot of jokes. Whereas if you only try it here,
I think you lean into a lot more local stuff.
Absolutely. Well, I don't need something
wrong with, but no, because. I often hear people say about
doing local stuff. Go to any content in the world,
the Queen is doing local stuff. You watch Dave Chappelle on
Netflix, he's talking about local stuff.
And there's a way to make that universal, too.
When you were when you know, Yeah.
If I'm watching a guy from New York talk about only New York, I
won't know the places he's talking about.
But you still get it. Stuff.
Yeah. Yeah, but no, I think it's.
Just probe more. It'll be good to be better
because you're, as you say you're doing in front of
strangers. But I think just excuse of
getting out and about and I think you live, you have far
better stories and you probably as well will have you've never
had that. No pressure on you did not no
pressure, but because you, you know, did the videos and then
that kind of blew up and then you were maybe just doing 10
minutes spots, 5 minutes here and there, you know, still
feeling your way a bit in the stand up.
People were though coming to see you, but like Collins thing
being on a poster, people were coming to see you being like, we
don't care about the headline or anyone else.
We're here to see McCartney and you're maybe trying a new 5
minutes. So that's a lot of pressure.
So if you go do spots in London or Glasgow or Edinburgh or
whatever, you probably get the feel like, yeah, I'm under the
radar here, I'm trying this. Yeah, absolutely.
And as you say, like, I'm sure there's a pile of people.
From home over there of course, but even just the like.
I love travelling. I think people think that I am a
hermit and I don't believe something, but I do.
I do love getting away and seeing places and I love coming
home. But yeah, because I I told, I
know you got to go here, but. I told you when I was doing gigs
in the States a couple years ago, you were that you were.
Everyone was asking about you at the gigs.
Smart. Bring McCartney over get.
McCartney to come over? Can he come over especially like
Boston and Galway? No, not go.
That's not in America. The Galway Bay in Chicago, but
those two places. Everyone's in Chicago, you know,
New York. I did.
Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, NY.
See, I'm thinking I might just do like.
Elvis never left America. I'll just stay.
Yeah, residency so much easier. But no, I do like getting out
and. About and but I was thinking
like maybe take a year and just like go about England, Scotland,
Wales, Europe, wherever, and then get your whole show
together and then just tour all around here.
Yeah, I think there's a nice. That's a good plan.
Like I always love people that like, you know, like everyone
hears like being in Australia and they always bring back these
stories. Yeah.
And they used to love listening to hearing them, what they were
getting up to out there and all. So, yeah, something like that'll
be cool. Yeah.
Well, look, you start in. Cash and then you what more do
you want? Where next?
Thank you very much for coming on.
I appreciate it. Nice sit down over.
What did you think of the tea that I made you medal enough.
Tell me, what's the? L stand for one L Studios, so.
We're obviously in Hollywood here, which has 1L, so we're the
1L Hollywood, you know, So with the underdog where the down,
why? I don't know why it's called 1
Li thought it was loser. 1 Li was like why would you call
yourself that? No, it's like there's, yeah,
there's 1L you. Know we talk Big L there's 1L
in. Hollywood.
And that's our we. That's our a production couple.
You still friends with Dornan? No.
And Rory, No, fuck you off. Fuck those guys.
Yeah. No, I am.
You're. Getting a gay.
History. History Podcast, Post Maloney's
We're good. Friends them.
No, we're actually. No, of course I'm still friends.
Those guys were actually. Playing badminton here half half
twelve I am region I thought them an actual celebrity here
McDonald's in her or. Somebody I thought maybe doing
some of the Love Island, she's like BBC so.
She could be. On that could be be.
On we get all the Goss and that could be my Ave in.
The series mainstream television yes me telling the news heard in
the voiceover for your for your documentary.
Yeah, yeah, that'd be fun. Yeah, no, of course I'm still
friends. Which guys?
The three. Amigos, me, Jamie and Rory.
Have you ever met them? Yes.
Yes, I seen them last. Week.
Well, I seen them last week. All the two of them together.
No, no, no good, because I would have been passed.
On, Rory told me in. Florida the whole week.
And I was friends with them. And it wouldn't be a crush me.
No, Jimmy was in the. Hotel in Belfast.
Oh yeah, you get a chance. The Premier.
Premier Inn? No.
What's the one? The big fancy one.
I'm not good with the names. That's a Travelodge.
Aye, that's it. That's it.
Yeah, sure. To me and they looked at me.
Like you're right away, just must get my dad to.
Do it to me, senior portion. He's never done that to me.
I know, rightfully so. Cheers Mike.
Good luck.