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Brendan Grace, get well soon

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    #62
    SirChenjin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,111 ✭✭✭SirChenjin


    Andrew00 wrote: »
    Wha you wa

    In the chinese takeaway
    branie2 wrote: »
    Wha you ga?

    Far q! :D


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    #63
    Oasis1974
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    Didn't he get the nickname Brendan Disgrace in later years at the quality of his *coughs* comedy?


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    #64
    ctrl-alt-delete
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    SirChenjin wrote: »
    Far q! :D

    There's no f in duck


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    #65
    Strumms
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    topper75 wrote: »
    One minute he could be fingerpicking My Ringsend Rose. A man of broad taste.


    Careful now !


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    #66
    branie2
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    SirChenjin wrote: »
    Far q! :D

    Do you want to wake with a crowd around ya?


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    #67
    Force Carrier
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    Like his joke about going to a communion and a funeral the same day. Gets a mass card and a communion card. But accidentally he puts a ten pound note* in the wrong card...





    *Ten Quid is all you got in 80s


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    #68
    [Deleted User]
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    branie2 wrote: »
    His Father of the Bride routine is another classic.

    They'll be laughing it off in the Intensive Care ward!

    Feh feh feh feh fish fingers and chips


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    #69
    Dual wheels
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    I hated Brendan grace as a comedian he’s about as funny as a p45, however he is one of Ireland’s enduring characters and brought a lot of joy to a lot of people in challenging times over the years, who can forget Fr Stack! Hope he makes a full recovery


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    #70
    Allinall
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    Oasis1974 wrote: »
    Didn't he get the nickname Brendan Disgrace in later years at the quality of his *coughs* comedy?

    He didn’t.


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    #71
    Mad_maxx
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    artanevilla wrote: »
    From Liberties, not Sheriff St.

    Anyway, he is a clean comedian, old ones are the best kind of fella and you can see the punchlines coming a mile off. I love him though, genuine character, bit of fun and no politics and not up his own arse.

    A funny man indeed in sofar as he himself was funny, his act however is old hat and was thirty years ago


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    #72
    SEPT 23 1989
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    Very funny man

    A comedian you could sit down and watch and laugh along with your parents

    Different times

    Hopefully he beats it


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    #73
    Standard Toaster
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    Up there with Foster Brooks for playing an excellent drunk.

    Comedy aside, I've heard numerous stories of his generosity, a true gent if there ever was one.

    I hope he can beat this.


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    #74
    StolenKrone
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    Get well soon Brendan, surprised at the criticism but that's how things are now. Everyone has an opinion


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    #75
    ToxicPaddy
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    I have to say I have many fond memories watching him when I was younger with my grand parents, they two of them in stitches. My grandmother would be wiping the tears away in hysterics.

    I loved the sketch he used to do about going to the local dance, how the mammy would give the lads a feed of raw onion sandwiches to keep the girls away from their precious sons. Before the dance they would go for a feed of Guinness to give them courage.

    Well the combination of both would cause a chemical reaction that would have the lads being propelled across the dance hall involuntarily as they made their way over to ask a girl to dance.:D :D:D

    Get well Brendan, many fond memories from your sketches.


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    #76
    MintyMagnum
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    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    He recorded a lot of stuff that made me cry laughing as a child and young boy so just want to record my best wishes to him in his hour of need in return.

    Indeed
    Anyone remember his 'hissing around the pit' yarn when the snakes hadn't a pit to hiss in?


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    #77
    MintyMagnum
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    Or
    'I come from a laarge family,
    there were only two of us;
    but we were hewage'


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    #78
    NickNickleby
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    It was about 1977, I had a cassette player in my Cortina, and a tape of the bould Brendan. In mass of a Sunday, and some scrotes broke in to my car and stole my tape!!!

    It was great - the visit to the eh-zoo. But my favourite was the visit to the sausage factory and one of the young fellas falls into the sausage making machine, so when he comes out the other end they put 'him' into a basket with some rashers and pudding to make it more presentable and bring it home to the mother "Ah Jayziz" she screamed "i'ne after winnin' a hamper!"

    So sorry to hear of his illness. Saw him live in the 70's quite a few times and he always brought the house down. Hope he gets some good treatment and a good prognosis.


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    #79
    SirChenjin
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    To a lovely girl, to a beautiful boy, I'd love to be there...
    But I'm locked in Mountjoy...
    And that's signed ... Daddy...

    :D


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    #80
    Blaizes
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    What I’ve always liked about Brendan Grace is the jokes were funny by themselves without bringing smut into it. He’s just a naturally funny man.


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    #81
    branie2
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    She was still nagging when we took her off the roof rack of the car!


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    #82
    Lucy8080
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    Around the mid 70's when he brought out albums with a comedy sketch/song/ comedy sketch/ song format.. a lot of houses in Ireland had a Brendan Grace album. Bottler was a great favourite around the country. I loved his singing voice too.

    "youse are all looking at me"...a lot of us are thinking of you now. Well wishes to Brendan/Bottler.


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    #83
    branie2
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    His autobiography, Amuzing Grace, is very good


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    #84
    LithiumKid1976
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    Hope he makes a full recovery, plenty of haters out there, i always liked his stuff, but each to their own. Get well soon.


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    #85
    silverharp
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    I remember his bottler sketch where they were at the church for a wedding where they “thrun” the rice at the couple who weren’t happy, it was the tinned rice….

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    #86
    Hamsterchops
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    Thought he was good in the 80s....


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    #87
    KevRossi
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    NickNickleby wrote: »
    It was about 1977, I had a cassette player in my Cortina, and a tape of the bould Brendan. In mass of a Sunday, and some scrotes broke in to my car and stole my tape!!!

    .

    Black tape with a yellow label on it? I still have that at home - belonged to the oul fella.

    Brendan O'Carroll 'borrowed' a lot of his material, he wouldn't be fit to sharpen Brendan Grace's pencil.


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    #88
    FrancieBrady
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    KevRossi wrote: »
    Black tape with a yellow label on it? I still have that at home - belonged to the oul fella.

    Brendan O'Carroll 'borrowed' a lot of his material, he wouldn't be fit to sharpen Brendan Grace's pencil.

    Wait! You stole it or Brendan O'Carroll stole/borrowed it from NickNickelby's car? :eek::D


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    #89
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    Hal Roach had a good one about Brendan.

    He showed up backstage at a show one night and Brendan said 'Ah Hal, what are you doing here?''

    Hal responded: ''I said I'd come down and see how my material is going over.''

    Apparently Brendan like most young comedians was prone to nicking the odd joke back in the day. :pac:


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    #90
    NickNickleby
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    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    Wait! You stole it or Brendan O'Carroll stole/borrowed it from NickNickelby's car? :eek::D

    Ah, that's a bit harsh, Francie. It was his oul' lad wot dun it. Wouldn't mind, but I drove around with a hardboard rear quarter light for months, because I couldn't afford new glass. And believe it or not, no one ever punched it in to get into the car. Probably realised the tape was already gone :pac::pac::pac:


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    #91
    branie2
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    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Hal Roach had a good one about Brendan.

    He showed up backstage at a show one night and Brendan said 'Ah Hal, what are you doing here?''

    Hal responded: ''I said I'd come down and see how my material is going over.''

    Apparently Brendan like most young comedians was prone to nicking the odd joke back in the day. :pac:

    Hal Roache was another great clean comedian


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