Comedian Patrick Kielty reveals how his black humor about The Troubles failed to resonate with the audience on his first appearance on The Late Late Show, highlighting a cultural disconnect between North and South Ireland.
Patrick Kielty has told how his black humour on The Troubles failed to raise laughs on his first ever appearance on the Late Late Show with Gay Byrne.
READ MORE: Patrick Kielty's wife Cat reveals she won't hesitate to 'walk away' from This Morning if issue arose “And then to go to the capital of Ireland and to do material which seemed to be working on one part of the island and for that audience to go ‘what is going on here?’ I would say they were trying to get out of the studio, it wasn’t pretty.”
“Whenever you actually try to work out and calibrate, ‘Well, where does the horror that was visited on my family kind of sit with pretty much everybody else?’ Oh, no, you went through that, you went through that... you went through... Yeah, OK, we’ve all been through it,” he said, adding that it didn’t “set you apart”.
The hour-long show examines seismic cultural moments like The Commitments and Riverdance of that year which helped build an “Irish swagger”. He also points to the coining of the term Celtic Tiger in 1994. “So those American multinationals that some British people would view with envy, Irish people would have been involved in those companies.”
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