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Comedian and actor Roisin Conaty spoke on the season finale of the Tommy Tiernan Show about what it was like growing up in London as the daughter of Irish parents and painted a larger-than-life portrait of her “really funny” mum.
“Growing up in Camden in the ‘80s, I never spent one single school holiday in London. The second the bell went, it was straight out and dumped into a field in Cork.
“My mum was from a family of 12 sisters and one brother. A lot of women… and none of them quiet. They inspired me. They were very glamourous, loud, very funny Irish women.”
While Conaty’s dad had a very dry sense of humour, her mum is “mad funny, you just don’t know what will come out of her mouth”.
The comedian spoke about her “really, really close” relationship with her mother.
“We speak 10 times a day. It’s always been that way.”
And she spoke of the tenderness she feels towards her parents who split up at a time when it was “unusual for Irish people to divorce in London”.
Tiernan wondered if there’s “a part of” Conaty that loves taking care of people.
“Yeah…making people laugh, you’re taking the emotional temperature of the room, and can I fix it is definitely a thing,” Conaty said.
Tiernan was also joined by musician Mik Pyro who opened up about being shy.
“Yeah, I’m very shy. Not as bad as I get older. I’ve found certain ways around it. Might not be much healthy ways. I’m deeply shy. I also love talking to people, but still I find it hard to make eye contact as you can probably see.”
Pyro said his father had similar social anxiety and recalled how “freaked out” he’d be going into a shop.
“He was terrified of the world but he ran a company that had 200 employees,” he said of his dad.
The show’s final guest was weightlifter Thammy Nguyen, who became very emotional while speaking to Tiernan about her early life in Ireland after she arrived here as a six-year-old with her dad, having left her mother and brother back in Vietnam.
“When I talk about my younger life I get really emotionally upset….I’m crying already because I actually don’t talk about my past. I didn’t have money, English, friends, no family… so it was just a sad time.”
Telling Tiernan that she is tough and she likes achieving goals, Nguyen spoke about how her biggest fear was not qualifying for the Olympics. Now she has accepted that she won’t qualify – and is no longer fearful.
“I’m still here. I have no fear now,” she said.
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