‘It’s a funny old world’ with Brendan Grace

It’s a funny old world when seen through the eyes of Brendan Grace.The sanctimonious priest who knows more than he’s telling: ‘’Blessed is he who gets married in the nick of time’’; the father of the bride makes a speech at his daughter’s wedding: ‘’She could have married someone with money; she could have married someone who was working. She could have married someone who wasn’t working.. but was willing to work.’’Then there’s the schoolboy with the unspeakable personal habits and a fine line in sympathy pleas.Brendan Grace is all of these and more.Each cock- eyed portrait he paints has a ring of truth that brings audiences to the point of apoplexy.Brendan’s material owes more to the best of the traditional stand-up-comics than it does to modern alternative humour and his show is very much a show for all the family. There is a sincerity about his act that endears you to him, and his off-stage persona is very much a ‘man of the people’ as he makes himself available after each show for a photo and a ‘meet and greet’.You can catch Brendan with his new ‘Brand New Show’ at Hotel Castlepollard on Wednesday next August 25th.Tickets €25 at Hotel Tel. 044 9661194.Book Online: ticketmaster.ie