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Hello, my friends. welcome the Five Brilliant Things,

where I sit down with fascinating people to talk about the things they love.

My guest today is one of the biggest Irish stand-up comics alive today.

You've seen him hosting mock the week.

It is, of course, the incredible Dara O'Brien,

and here he is with his five brilliant things.

Dara O'Brien, nice to meet you. Yes, most to meet you as well. I've been a long time in my eye of your work. It's nice to see you again. We're like bosses. I haven't seen you for years. Many, many years, yeah. And then we did mock the week again the other day. Thank you so much for doing the first and back. Pleasure. But very strange feeling to be in the same chair. I mean, I had a weird in a three-year gap, but you had a 15-year gap.

A 15-year gap.

And, but it was nice to see you. Are you the only one now that's done every show ever? Yeah. Yeah, I think I'd done the pilot, though. And that was always... All right. It's like Vickestry or over again. Yeah. Yeah, for anyone who isn't, there's a brilliant venue in Ireland called Vickistry.

Yes.

And I play many, many, many times. There is a, this beautiful tussle going on between Dara and Tommy and lately, Joanne Neary. Yeah, who's kind of come up. Jan McNally. McNally rather, but Joanne has shifted promoters so she, she could have comfortably walked away with this because Joanne arrived in with this massive big audience of, like huge, I was doing loads them, but has gone to a different promoter who don't you do that room. Oh great. So she has exempted herself from the competition. So it's like when Harry Kane went to the Bundeslie? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's, so it's Shira and...

Yeah, it's Syrian and Honoree, like, yeah.

But the thing that, my favourite thing about it is that,

where I'm from, I can brag about as much as I want

about how many nights they do in a set, but like every large goes,

it's less than Tommy though, isn't it?

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