Comedy Podcast | The Comedy Cast Interview with Irish Comedian Alex Byrne
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 Irish stand-up comedian Alex Byrne.</p> <p>We kick off the interview in unusual fashion and speak about peanut butter and jam, or jelly, sandwiches, I’d just discovered them and wanted to share their amazement with the world.</p> <p>Alex comes from Lucan in Dublin, so we get the lowdown on the village withing a city’s borders. We speak about Alex being half stand-up comedian, half magician, and not half-Michiganian, coz I’d thought I seen the word Michigan when I should’ve been reading magician and proceeded to make a right tit of myself.</p> <p>We chat then about what attracted Alex to magic in the first place and about what he does for a living. He reveals a great tactic for getting rid of drunks that want to talk about his job on nights out.</p> <p>Alex has previously attended Dublin’s Gaiety School of Acting so I wanted to know more about its acting courses, what he learned from it and what has been transferable to stand-up comedy.</p> <p>Alex enjoys gigging all over Ireland so we speak about whether he finds there’s differences between city and country audiences.</p> <p>We speak about Alex’s influences; Fr. Ted & Fawlty Towers both get a special mention.</p> <p>And finally then, we tackle that old myth about comedians being miserable and needing the validation and love of strangers.</p> <p>Alex Byrne’s Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/alex.byrne.560" target="_blank">here</a></p> <p>Alex’s Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/alexnowtweets" target="_blank">here</a></p> <p><strong>Get in Touch</strong></p> <p>Don’t be shy, get in touch with <a href="http://thecomedycast.com/2016/06/08/comedy-cast-comedy-podcast/">The Comedy Cast</a> 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>
