The Comedy Cast Interview with Irish Stand-up Comedian Aidan Shields

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 Aidan Shields.</p> <p>We kick off the interview by speaking about Dundalk, a town close to the Northern Irish border and how lucky Aidan is to have not taken the accent, nor that one of close rivals Drogheda.</p> <p>In Ireland the areas around the border are known lovingly as “Bandit country” so we spoke about that and the death of Martin McGuinness, former IRA leader and Sinn Fein politician.</p> <p>Aidan teachers English as a foreign language so we speak about that and the commonalities between teaching and stand-up comedy. We speak then about what he likes about the job and how he got into it.</p> <p>We chat about how and why Aidan got into comedy and he tells a brilliant story about his first gig. We talk then about how Aidan used to be a bit nervous before his first few gigs and it led us on to something interesting; Aidan tells me that he’s not the kind of comedian that can tell the same joke twice, always trying to improve on them from set to set.</p> <p>A few weeks ago, I met Aidan while recording in Dublin and saw his set, he speaks about having a new joke in it and how ‘it seemed to scare a few people’. We speak then about Aidan’s comedic influences growing up and the comedy shows he used to watch on tele.</p> <p>Aidan tells me that while gigging over St Patrick’s weekend he reveals to his audience a little-known fact about St Patrick; he was a giant racist. And finally then we get talking then about JuiceBox Comedy, Dundalk’s comedy club in The Spirit Store and Aidan’s role in running it.</p> <p>Aidan Shield’s Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AidanShieldsComedy/" target="_blank">here</a></p> <p>Aidan’s Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/TheAidanShields" target="_blank">here</a></p> <p>Juicebox Comedy’s Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/JuiceBoxComedy" target="_blank">here</a></p> <p>Juicebox Comedy’s Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/JuiceBoxComedy" 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>