The Comedy Cast Interview with Irish Writer, Actor and Comedian Tara Flynn

Summary: <p>Hello and welcome back to <a href="http://thecomedycast.com/2016/06/08/comedy-cast-comedy-podcast/" target="_blank">The Comedy Cast</a>; today you’ll be hearing from Tara Flynn.</p> <p>Tara Flynn will be well-known to anyone that has even the slightest interest in the Irish comedy scene and before hanging up her stand-up microphone to concentrate on writing was a regular face on the stand-up scene all over the world.</p> <p>We started off then talking about where Tara’s from in Ireland and why she has a definite Irish accent but one that’s hard to exactly place.</p> <p>Tara is well-known in Ireland too for appearing on approximately 20 million radio ads and when you have a voice as pure lovely as her it’s easy to understand why she’s in demand. But I had to ask her if she’d ever thought of getting into radio presenting. Lord knows Irish radio could do with a dose of humour on the airwaves.</p> <p>That led us on to talking about how to get projects from the pitch and script phase to actually getting it made and she revealed that she’s currently working on a new book and a TV show.</p> <p>We spoke then about Tara’s previous two books “You’re Grand” and “Giving Out Yards” and about how a satirical look at Irish life has led her into taking a more serious approach to writing and to becoming, accidentally, involved in activism.</p> <p>Tara then spoke about why she gave up her career in stand-up after 10 years and why she feels that the big issues we’re being faced with deserve more than just a comic response and how they should be tacked head on, protested against and goes into how direct action is needed.</p> <p>We returned to comedy then and spoke about how and why Tara got into comedy and how she had been an actor before embarking on a successful career in stand-up comedy. She spoke too about her undying love for improv comedy and that she still loves to performs with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DublinComedyImprov/" target="_blank">Dublin Comedy Improv</a>.</p> <p>We spoke about Tara’s regular articles over on the excellent <a href="http://www.headstuff.org/author/tara-flynn/" target="_blank">Headstuff.org</a> and they types of issues she writes about weekly.</p> <p>Finally then we spoke about Tara’s activism regarding the <a href="http://www.abortionrightscampaign.ie/repealthe8th/" target="_blank">Repeal the 8th</a> movement in Ireland; a movement in Ireland asking for a referendum on abortion rights and about why she’s proud of being a Social Justice Warrior.</p> <p>Tara’s website: <a href="http://www.taraflynn.ie/" target="_blank">here</a></p> <p>Tara’s Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/TaraFlynn" target="_blank">here</a></p> <p></p> <p></p> <h4><strong>Get in Touch</strong></h4> <p>Don’t be shy, get in touch with The Comedy Cast or follow us on social media</p> <p>If you’d like to get in touch, email me here: spud(at)thecomedycast.com</p> <p>The Comedy Cast on Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/thecomedycast/" target="_blank">here</a></p> <p>The Comedy Cast on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/The_ComedyCast/" target="_blank">here</a></p> <p>The Comedy Cast on YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4V6C8litx6D_2spkwxYFdA" target="_blank">here</a></p> <p>The Comedy Cast on Instagram: <a href="https://instagram.com/spudcast/" target="_blank">here</a></p> <p>The Comedy Cast on Google+: <a href="https://plus.google.com/107057462800823152469" target="_blank">here</a></p>