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‘Everyone has one cancellation in them’: standup Joanne McNally on her unfiltered comedy
From career doldrums to fending off pantless stage invaders, the straight-talking Irish comic’s journey to becoming a must-see act has been a wild ride
At a recent gig, an audience member was so taken with Joanne McNally’s standup that she tried to get on stage with her. It wasn’t the first time the comedian had come into contact with overexcited fans during her bumper Irish tour – which includes a whopping 50 nights at the Dublin venue Vicar Street – but this one was particularly out of control. “Apparently she’d no pants on – maybe she lost them when she was scaling the stage?” muses McNally. “I took a selfie with her while she was getting held by two security guards.”
McNally was only slightly perturbed by this turn of events: she knows the vibe she cultivates at her shows encourages her fans to let their hair down – to put it mildly. “I think she got caught up in the night and was completely carried away,” she says. “The main demographic is women who wine, basically. So you can’t then be annoyed when it spills over into stage invasions.”
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