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Author: Judy Murphy
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Arts Week with Judy Murphy
The various Covid lockdowns were pretty grim but there were some unexpected positives – including the comedy collaboration that developed between Pat Shortt and his daughter Faye. That’s resulted in a touring show, Well, which will come to the city’s Galmont Hotel this Saturday, February 11, having been touring since last March.
Well was preceded by two online shows, The Wellness hour with Paaah and Sile, and Pat Shortt’s Comedy Heads. But he loves the buzz of live gigs, despite audiences being initially cautious about returning to venues following all the lockdowns.
“Apart from Tommy Tiernan, Christy Moore and Joanne McNally, who seem to have had a dispensation,” he says with a laugh. Now, “we have full houses all over the place and the show is going really well”.
“Well is about two characters – it’s a dad and daughter relationship, and we do various sketches on that.”
The two characters are musicians who return to gigging after lockdown, but really it’s about them “facing into each other and how they embarrass each other”.
Any parent of a teenage daughter will know that merely existing embarrasses their child.
“You know, the rules around picking them up from discos in the GAA hall,” Pat says with a guffaw.
And as a father, being embarrassed can come from asking the wrong question, “something like ‘how did you get on at the disco?’ only to hear about the lad she wanted to snog who was snogging her friend. I don’t want to hear that”, he shudders.
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