Let me start straight off with an audience observation...unlikeliest audience member for an Ardal O'Hanlon show (IMO) was a shaved headed chap...all except for a circle of hair right at the back that had been grown very long and French plaited...just didn't scream "Father Ted/My Hero" fan.
Photo from www.edfringe.com
Ardal was exactly as I imagined he would be, ie every sense of the words lovely, sweet & funny. What he gave was a thoroughly enjoyable show. There were lots of laughs throughout the whole thing, the occasional big hearty laugh, but generally a good level.
He came out on stage to a huge round of applause & cheers, playing up to it saying it made him feel all worthy so could be possibly have just one more? (which was duly given). About two minutes later two later comers arrived and he informed them they were to do their part re cheering...which they eventually did. Ardal then told them we'd also made a bear noise for him, and could they make a bear noise too? Bless the chap from the couple if he didn't make the tiniest bear noise ever!
Various highlights for me. Discussing his horny pregnant wife looking like an Easter egg in her dress with a big bow on it, who would then get distracted by a sudden need for food before crying - ah I remember those days. Discussing his eco-daughter and Alvin/Beelzebub son.
Ardal proceeded to call the Pope a liar, demanding that he resign as should various high ranking Priests...and that God should also consider his position because "he really had to know what was going on". Possibly the childishly funniest line has to be about the Pope hiding priests under his cassock...and "which is basically an anagram of cock and ass and we all know that anagrams don't lie!"
So overall the show was lovely, glad I've seen him. If you haven't seen him and are a fan of the shows he's been on, then he's worth going to see...but possibly only the once.
Oh...and he's starting to look very like Greg Kinnear...
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