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IRISH comic legend Brendan Grace has appeared in movies and on the television “a thousand times” but always prefers a live audience.
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“I can get on stage and eyeball a person,” he says.
“My comedy is contagious because people laugh at people laughing ... I enjoy making people laugh and every performance is different.”
Grace is known to TV audiences here for his appearance as Father Fintan Stack, the most obnoxious priest in the world, in the second season of Father Ted.
Border comedy fans can see the amusing Grace at The Cube Wodonga on Saturday, November 14, when he delivers a two-hour show full of farce, music and mirth.
“Australian humour is a lot like the Irish,” he says, “It comes from the fact that over the past couple of centuries we were oppressed by the English.