So that's one thing I'm looking forward to when I get me home.

Enya worked really, really hard.

I mean, anybody who can now get a house in Ireland is working their bollocks off.

Enya works so hard.

I didn't think that we were going to be able to get her or you into the play.

And so basically for anybody going, what's this play? Myself and Carl Spain, who's a fabulous comedian, and I think we can all agree, what a joke writer.

Yeah.

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Mm-hmm

... for some reason that's not your own.

I know that if I don't get booked on TV, it's my own fault, and I know if I never play the 3Arena, it's my own fault.

That's one.

And two, I changed what I thought success was, and success I had narrowed down then to being three things: connection, creativity, and compassion.

And I thought, "If I can live a life, if I can look back when I'm 80 at a life that has been defined by those three things," 'cause as a little kid, I was always creative, always playing dress-up, always performing in the mirror.

Creative, you don't have to lose that.

Yeah

So what's the thinking behind Algorithm? What can audiences expect?

Well, listen, I wanted to go back to doing just a purely funny show.

You know, I wanted I had come back on stage after years of, you know, being off stage to my own fault and a lot of kind of serious things that happened in the interim.

And I had come back with a show a couple of years ago, three years ago called Al Porter Now.

that dealt with lots of things like getting sober and making amends and, you know, realizing where your life is after you've made a big mess of it and all that kind of stuff.

And then when it came to writing a second show to go back on stage, I thought, what do I want to do? And I really wanted to do one that was just funny, like from start to finish and didn't really delve into anything too seriously.

Um, But as I was sort of writing this, and I mean, I say writing it, you work it out by telling stories at small gigs and seeing if they're funnier.

There's not much you can do to appease them.