Brendan O’Carroll has said that the death of his father and his mother’s grief inspired him to become a comedian.
Returning to his childhood home in Dublin after 40 years, the 67-year-old was hit with a wave of nostalgia as soon as he entered the living room, noting instantly how his father’s ashes used to sit on the fireplace.
He described his mum as an ‘incredible role model’, as she was the first woman elected to the Irish Labour Party.‘My mother’s bedroom was on the right hand side and I remember sitting on the third step down. I was 10, it was about two weeks after my dad died, I could hear her in the bedroom crying, that’s when I decided: my job is to make my mother laugh every day.
‘Every time I came up against a situation, she’d have a phrase, “Always remember, when you’re feeling at the bottom of the world, that it turns every 24 hours, but don’t forget that when you’re on the top as well”.’Maureen died in 1984 ‘In my thirties, I got a bit of work on radio, and I started to dream up a character, Mrs Agnes Brown,’ he said.‘Breaking into comedy wasn’t easy, though.
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