Ronan Grace, Frankie Boyle & Tuesday at Six

Summary: <p>This week on The Comedy Cast, we speak to Kerry comedian Ronan Grace, Frankie Boyle is our Legend of Comedy and our band guest is Tuesday at 6.</p> <h3>Comedy Podcast</h3> <audio class="wp-audio-shortcode" id="audio-712-50" style="width: 100%;"><a href="http://thecomedycast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Ronan-Grace-Frankie-Boyle-Tuesday-at-Six.mp3">https://thecomedycast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Ronan-Grace-Frankie-Boyle-Tuesday-at-Six.mp3</a></audio> <p>Follow Spud on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/The_ComedyCast" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a></p> <p>Follow Seamus on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/Seamusnojokes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a></p> <p>Ronan Grace is our stand-up guest and we speak about comedy in the age of social media. We speak too about his time with the Fact YouTube channel, how he became involved and the troupe of Albuquerque kids who still follow him on Twitter thanks to it. We speak too about him falling a bit out of love with comedy and how thankfully he’s back in love with what he’s best at and how he keeps motivated to become better.</p> <p>Social media is a weird thing and as someone who would be instantly recognisable to fans of the Facts videos I wanted to speak to him about people of our vintage, as he says himself, and how we don’t really get social media properly. We do get nerdy about comedy, Ronan has been at stand-up a lot longer than the Facts channel has been around so we speak about how and why he got into it, how it lead to him leaving college over his pursuit of a career in stand-up and how it all kind of lead to him falling out of love with stand-up.</p> <p>He took a long, hard look at himself then and came to the realisation, thankfully, that he still wanted to do stand-up so he’s got a new vigour for the craft and personally I’m delighted. Ronan’s a brilliant stand-up and I hope loads and loads more people get to see him all across the country over the coming years. Follow Ronan on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/RonanjGrace" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.</p> <p>Next up myself and Seamus Kelly speak about none other than Frankie Boyle. We’re both huge fans of one of Scotland’s most famous comedians so it was a delight to speak about one of our favourites on the podcast.</p> <h3><strong>Frankie Boyle</strong></h3> <p><strong>Legend of Comedy</strong></p> <p>Francis Martin Patrick Boyle was born on August 16 1972 to Irish Catholic parents in Pollockshaws, Glasgow. After leaving school he worked as a library assistant before going to college to study Urban Planning. He soon left the course and instead enrolled in a BA in English Literature at the university of Sussex.</p> <p>At 22, he had graduated college and began working at a mental health hospital but soon returned to Scotland and went to a teacher training college. He worked in a couple of school on placements but by then his career in stand-up was kicking off and he didn’t have to stay teaching long.</p> <p>In 2005 he got his big television break on the new BBC comedy panel show, Mock the Week, the first episode aired on June 5th, 2005 and Frankie Boyle was a regular guest on the show until he left in September 2009.</p> <p>Of course the show is hosted by Ireland’s Dara O’Brian who once described Frankie Boyle as ‘the dark heart of Mock the Week.”</p> <p>In a Facebook post when he quit the programme he said that the show did not cover enough major news stories, and was too restrictive on his risqué comedy act because the producers and the BBC Trust were afraid of “frightening the horses”. We can all certainly agree that the show went to shit when Boyle left.</p> <p>In 2008 while the whole Russell Brand, Jonathan Ross phone call thing was going on, Boyle came to the attention of of a Tory MP, </p>