Speaker 1: Welcome to them. Christian no Common show podcast.
Speaker 2: What a treat?
Speaker 3: Then a brilliant stand up comedian. Irish comedian Dara O'Brien
Speaker 3: is here in Melbourne tonight. He's at the Arts Center Melbourne,
Speaker 3: is playing Hamer Hall. He's played him many times over
Speaker 3: the years. Some of you might know there's a fantastic
Speaker 3: British weekly comedy show called Mock the Week. Dara has
Speaker 3: been the outstanding host over the last fifteen years for that.
Speaker 3: So I'm not the only fan of Dara O'Brien around
Speaker 3: the world. My dad's a huge fan. Last year I
Speaker 3: got on tickets to go and see Dara's show that
Speaker 3: you can see tonight.
Speaker 2: Dara.
Speaker 3: Before we actually catch up, I need to apologize because
Speaker 3: I know my dad actually became part of your show
Speaker 3: last year.
Speaker 1: Does a man in the audience I'm working the room boom,
Speaker 1: what do you do?
Speaker 3: What are you?
Speaker 1: Wow? I go, hey, what's your name? Your father's name
Speaker 1: is Liam, Liam with Liam? How a you Liam? And
Speaker 1: then Liam Stufton goes wait, I said, what, I'm Christian
Speaker 1: O'Connell's dad and the offer of this is as possibly
Speaker 1: is a human shield?
Speaker 2: Please?
Speaker 3: You know my son socally stopped you dead in your
Speaker 3: flow and try it.
Speaker 1: Brought unnecessary information.
Speaker 2: That is my dad, that's my relationship my dad. That's
Speaker 2: a kid.
Speaker 1: You'd be like if you're gone, I know your mother
Speaker 1: and I go, she's not here. This isn't helping the show.
Speaker 3: I know you turned fifty last year. I hit fifty
Speaker 3: this year. How are your fifties treating you?
Speaker 1: I'm okay with fifty. I mean I liked fifty as
Speaker 1: a number because there's a solid yes, yeah, it's an
Speaker 1: Innings forty. It stopped me having a party, and the
Speaker 1: COVID thing because of the timing of us meant we
Speaker 1: could have a bash. Because I really want to make
Speaker 1: a speech of fifty, because I think the speech of
Speaker 1: fifty is probably the last unconditionally great speech you can make.
Speaker 1: Because the speech is sixty.
Speaker 2: What's what's going to happen at sixty?
Speaker 1: Somewhere at some point you're turning to a different woman
Speaker 1: and going, hey, just wanted to hank you, you know,
Speaker 1: I want to. I want to think that Roras has
Speaker 1: been with meting some difficult times, you know, but I
Speaker 1: think fifty is the last clear it's all been great.
Speaker 1: Can we just count bank, So tell me about the
Speaker 1: new show.
Speaker 2: Then you're.
Speaker 1: The show is actually show's got a story to it.
Speaker 1: The show's got a real kind of a bit of
Speaker 1: a hard to other thing to it because normally come
Speaker 1: my hair with the bang bang bang and the funny, funny,
Speaker 1: funny and there's loads of that.
Speaker 3: I just called the next show that by the way,
Speaker 3: bang bang bang with the funny, funny, funny.
Speaker 1: Musical, honestly, because this one has a kind of a
Speaker 1: you know, there's a bit of a kind of emotional
Speaker 1: thing with Dli. The family story. It's an adoption story
Speaker 1: to finding.
Speaker 2: So you are you now talking about that? I know
Speaker 2: you're talking about that.
Speaker 1: And it turned out to be when I did the
Speaker 1: whole thing trying to be an amazing story, these little
Speaker 1: weird twists and stuff like that, like there, and so
Speaker 1: it trying to be really interesting to do this because.
Speaker 3: So if people don't know anything about it, you just
Speaker 3: southing amazing. Is it going to give anything away from
Speaker 3: the show?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, let me hold back the thing from within it.
Speaker 1: But like I did do the search for all that, like.
Speaker 2: And they're going to wonder what you're searching for, the
Speaker 2: search for cant.
Speaker 1: No no, for myself. I turned out I was there
Speaker 1: all along. It was for for my birth mother.
Speaker 2: And what made you do it? Was it turning a
Speaker 2: certain age or heading stain angel?
Speaker 1: Just something you felt like weirdly, they went to see
Speaker 1: a film. I went to see Philamine Steve Cogan, Steve
Speaker 1: Coogan film Beautiful about about the mother who gave the
Speaker 1: child up never knew what happened. So you want to
Speaker 1: find out your biological mother's version of the story. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: No more than I wanted to just let her know
Speaker 1: that it was okay. Oh wow, worked out all right.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm definitely I'm going to come along and see
Speaker 3: the show. I really want to hear the full story. Tar,
Speaker 3: It's an amazing thing to do.
Speaker 1: I'd love you to have you there. And then the father.
Speaker 2: Sit in the front road, you know my dad, you know,
Speaker 2: just see.
Speaker 1: You high fiving your father across the globe. Boom screwed
Speaker 1: him up both times.
Speaker 2: Darl, Thank you very much for joining us.
Speaker 1: An absolute pleasure. Yes, honestly, I love going back to
Speaker 1: I've been doing this for twenty years. I adored like
Speaker 1: whatever I want, just another brilliant night now. But I'm
Speaker 1: really looking forward to awesome.
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