224 - Tim McGarry (Live at Belfast Comedy Festival)

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Stuart Goldsmith

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2017

⏱️ 71 minutes

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One of the writers and stars of Northern Ireland's most successful sitcom "Give My Head Peace", wonderful Tim McGarry is adept at walking the tightrope of offence. We talk about his origins with The Hole In The Wall Gang; how it felt to write sketches about paramilitaries during the Troubles; and Stuart asks a "wanky" question that yields some interesting results...

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0:18.0	Hello, Stue here. This isn't an ad. This is me telling you that you have got to get hold of a copy of Adam Blooms book, Finding Your Comic Genius. It's just so great, and I want everyone to buy it for everyone else for Christmas. We discuss it in detail on episode 437 and at the time of recording this it has 66 5-star reviews out of 66 reviews on Amazon.
0:21.2	So go and find Adam Bloom's book, Repeat. This is not an ad and I'm not
0:24.7	being remunerated. Or remunerated. I can never get that right.
0:27.8	This is a podcast from comedians comedian.com. This is the Comedians, comedian pod
0:45.0	podcast.
0:49.0	Hello and welcome to the show, I'm Stuart Goldsmith and today I'm very
0:51.6	pleased to be bringing you this conversation recorded live at the Belfast Comedy Festival
0:55.7	a couple of weeks ago with Mr Tim McGarry.
0:58.4	Tim you may not know if you're listening outside Northern Ireland as he is a big cheese in Belfast and in Virens
1:04.8	but he's not as well known outside of it he cannot walk down the street to Northern
1:08.6	Ireland without people shouting catchphrases at him from the very provocative and very successful TV show Give My Head Piece, a sort of sketch,
1:17.4	well not quite a sketch show, not quite a soap. We'll find out a little bit more about it soon,
1:22.0	but some really fascinating stuff from
1:24.0	Tim about how he and the rest of the whole-in-the-wall gang with whom he started at
1:28.0	college were among and among if not the first people to tackle the political situation in Northern Ireland during the
1:36.4	troubles and to make sketches and get laughs at the expense of both sides in it and to make sketches about the paramilitaries and
1:45.4	to make to make humor out of the violence there and it's an interesting kind of
1:49.8	bounce on from some of the the topics that we raised in the Michael Leg episode a few weeks
1:53.8	ago. I'm really pleased with this conversation. Thank you so much to Tim for coming
1:57.8	along and thanks to John and everyone at the Belfast Comedy Festival for
2:00.6	having us. This is the fascinating, very wise and very funny, Tim McGarry.
2:07.0	So Tim, thank you very much for coming on the shut.
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