Oh, that was, you were doing sound, were you, in the beginning?

Yeah, sound and playing sax phone for the first couple years.

But I was also doing sketches with him.

But John was predominantly, it was John Kenny Show.

Um, I'd be playing sax on one or two pieces and doing sound from the desk, and I lead the desk to come up.

And I just, we were just having so much craic.

We had living and creating the space and doing daft things with...

What about the motorbiking? Is there anywhere you want to go?

No.

And I didn't even know I was watching something on YouTube recently.

I thought it wasn't real.

I thought it was in your made-up name.

Oh, only one step short of a smeg.

Yeah, I think it's beyond it.

Is it? I think it is.

course.

I haven't a

rashers what I was doing.

You had no clue what you were at.

I still don't, Pat.

And we laughed with Sepp and Faye so much because we were sitting there and there was times when you were very good to us, you were very nice and you were going, oh, Pat, but you were pushing knobs and pulling things and shouting out the door to producers, what are we doing next? Grabbing pieces of paper and we just like wandered in and we should not have wandered in.

Yeah

... which is fantastic.

Yeah.

So that's we- where we get together.

And then once a year we go on a European rally, which this year was Teramo down in the south of Italy.

And, uh, yeah, it was f- it was a great, it was an incredible trip.

We drove down on the motorbike and then myself and about 40 guys, it was about 20 of us went down, four of us came back up through Albania, Montenegro, and that.

And you didn't know he was collating them all.

them

anyway.

No, but you know, that kind of way, I suppose, from a very early age, I worked on the road a lot, Seth and John and... prior to Dumb Believables so you kind of toured all the small towns in Ireland and we were doing intimate little gigs 14 people 20 people massive would be maybe 30 people at a gig or something that for a first year but you got to know people at the gig because you were practically talking to them one to one And I got a lot of friends around the country as a result like that.

So it's interesting listening to you talking about school, early days, primary schools.

I don't have any friends from school whatsoever because when it came to after the Leaving Cert, I left Turles.

And it was the 80s too.

About two years later, I was touring abroad with John in Holland and places like that.

Do you think it's easier or more difficult for younger people now to make friends, to maintain those friendships? It's a tough one.

them

anyway.

No, but you know, that kind of way, I suppose, from a very early age, I worked on the road a lot, Seth and John and... prior to Dumb Believables so you kind of toured all the small towns in Ireland and we were doing intimate little gigs 14 people 20 people massive would be maybe 30 people at a gig or something that for a first year but you got to know people at the gig because you were practically talking to them one to one And I got a lot of friends around the country as a result like that.

So it's interesting listening to you talking about school, early days, primary schools.

I don't have any friends from school whatsoever because when it came to after the Leaving Cert, I left Turles.

And it was the 80s too.

About two years later, I was touring abroad with John in Holland and places like that.

Do you think it's easier or more difficult for younger people now to make friends, to maintain those friendships? It's a tough one.

Was it Scrap Saturday where it first came up? I'd forgotten that.

Yeah, Scrap Saturday.

And, I mean, look, I'm not one to say who penned it.

I always say Limerick people have a great sense of humor and a great way of laughing at themselves.

But the wonderful Jerry Stembridge was involved in that team.

And Jerry's one of our – we're all very proud of Jerry and Limerick, one of the greatest writers and film directors.

And he directed all of Scrap Saturday.

you go ahead first and then we'll go to Emma.

them

anyway.

No, but you know, that kind of way, I suppose, from a very early age, I worked on the road a lot, Seth and John and... prior to Dumb Believables so you kind of toured all the small towns in Ireland and we were doing intimate little gigs 14 people 20 people massive would be maybe 30 people at a gig or something that for a first year but you got to know people at the gig because you were practically talking to them one to one And I got a lot of friends around the country as a result like that.

So it's interesting listening to you talking about school, early days, primary schools.

I don't have any friends from school whatsoever because when it came to after the Leaving Cert, I left Turles.

And it was the 80s too.

About two years later, I was touring abroad with John in Holland and places like that.

Do you think it's easier or more difficult for younger people now to make friends, to maintain those friendships? It's a tough one.

Who turns up in Australia? Is it expats? Is it a mix? It was a

mix, Patricia, because we... consciously decided to do all the international comedy festivals we didn't go targeting the Irish audiences so we were playing in Sydney but we were on the outskirts of Sydney in a comedy festival that was they were coming from all over the world to be part of so we were like being in Edinburgh any of those big festivals we only had a one hour turnaround sorry 15 minute turnaround with an hour long show Me and Faye, anyone who comes to see us would know we do two-hour shows and it's a different big lighting set-ups and costume and sound.

We had to tailor it right down, which is really good for the two of us because it made us sharper in that respect.

We had to choose and pick material, put it together, each night do something different.

So it kept us on our toes.

But it also then...

While we had maybe 40% of the audience Irish, 60% were international because it was an international festival.

Yeah,