Brendan Grace has passed

SirChenjin · 11-07-2019 3:25pm

His daughter was on radio this afternoon and people were ringing in with their stories of him. A comedy legend, imo.

paleoperson · 11-07-2019 4:44pm

"Oh, worse than Hitler. You wouldn't find Hitler playing jungle music at three o'clock in the morning".

Rubberchikken · 11-07-2019 4:58pm

there are few that truly deserve the title of 'legend' but this man is one.

unbelievably funny and always seemed a lovely man.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 11-07-2019 5:07pm

xzanti wrote: »

Oh shut up.

whisky_galore wrote: »

People can't bring themselves to say the 'D' word anymore.

Would have enjoyed his routine as a kid, kind of grew out of it though. He had his audience fair play to him.
RIP.

I hate the nitpicking over saying passed or passed away instead of died. Welcome to the English language where euphemisms are commonplace. I doubt you were suffering any confusion over what people meant.

JP Liz V1 · 11-07-2019 5:08pm

flazio wrote: »

So sad, may he Rest in peace.

On a side note, some people need to watch how they use social media.

RIP a true Irish comedy legend

"If you ever say that to me again, I'll put your head through the wall"

https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.r...=0&w=205&h=154

I don't think anyone was being malice posting RIP tributes on social media believing he had passed before official confirmation

FFred · 11-07-2019 5:10pm

McCrack wrote: »

There was certain aspects to Brendan Grace off stage/screen that were not appealing and anyone that has had dealings with him over the years may attest to.

I’ve already responded to this with my personal positive experience of Brendan, but this post has really annoyed me. I can’t let it go. What a ****tty thing to say without any evidence. :mad:

Fast Twitch · 11-07-2019 5:15pm

Yes. Me too. Just slipped it in, no detail. The poster probably won't appear on the thread again but has cast doubts over Brendan Grace as a person to anyone who didn't know him. Very poor reflection on that poster.

branie2 · 11-07-2019 5:29pm

Agreed; and that poster is more than likely a troll

JP Liz V1 · 11-07-2019 5:35pm

I have never heard of any bad encounter from anyone anywhere with him

Laois_Man · 11-07-2019 5:54pm

I have been saddened by this today in a way I didn't expect.

My parents both died when I was quite young and one of my abiding memories of them from when I was very young was them laughing their heads off at Brendan Grace on the telly. It feels like another part of them died today - or joined them.

RIP Bottler

Small Wonder · 11-07-2019 6:32pm

I loved his song about the women with five legs.

"It could be worse, at least your knickers fit like a glove".

whisky_galore · 11-07-2019 8:52pm

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

I hate the nitpicking over saying passed or passed away instead of died. Welcome to the English language where euphemisms are commonplace. I doubt you were suffering any confusion over what people meant.

Calm down a small bit.

TheRepentent · 11-07-2019 9:01pm

Deleted User wrote: »

As a kid of the '80s I used to absolutely love when my dad arrived with cassettes of his shows. The material told in them long faded from memory but what hasn't is how wonderfully happy I was listening to the sets

This ^^ Loved him as a young lad...as an adult his humour didn't hold up for me..but always liked him.

Free the nipper

Amalgam · 11-07-2019 9:21pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNJBDa0tAp0

Rest in Peace.

I had a bone to pick with him as a young lad.

Brendan's nipper must have been taking steroids because young me got one after an insufferable amount of collecting points, only to go into the cashier and take home a nipper that seemed to have been liberated from Dachau..

Atlantic Dawn · 11-07-2019 9:27pm

RTE 2 showing the Father Ted episode 'New Jack City' at 9.30, RTE 1 showing Brendan Grace, Funny Man at 10.15 and Virgin Media One showing Living With Lucy featuring Brendan at 10pm for anyone wanting a quick fix.

bottlebrush · 11-07-2019 9:28pm

I once worked in a small company and we used to have our Christmas office parties in the hazel hotel in Monasterevin where Brendan was on stage before the dancing started. he was absolutely hilarious. always remember him telling the yarn of buying a talking weighing scales and when he stood up on it it said 'one at a time please'
Rip Brendan. fondly remembered.

ohnonotgmail · 11-07-2019 9:31pm

his fr ted episode is starting now on rte2

Grandeeod · 11-07-2019 9:38pm

RIP Brendan.

This was so sudden. I had tickets booked for me and my parents. Watched him as a child at various shows and charity events. He was so decent to charitable causes. I'll never forget the Christmas Panto in the Olympia. My first time there. Early 80s. Bottler Crusoe. Hilarious! Spent many a Sunday in the Blackchurch Inn as a kid, when Brendan owned it and he'd be in there givin it socks with punters. Nice memories. Thanks BG and once again RIP.

PressRun · 11-07-2019 9:41pm

His performance as Fintan Stack is hilarious and unnerving in equal measure. Cracked me up and creeped me out. A brilliant performance in a show full of brilliant one-off characters.

Atlantic Dawn · 11-07-2019 9:44pm

What is the tune Fr. Fintan Stack is playing on the ghetto blaster?

PressRun · 11-07-2019 9:51pm

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

What is the tune Fr. Fintan Stack is playing on the ghetto blaster?

It's called Limb by Limb.

Scorpion Sting · 11-07-2019 10:00pm

I have great memories watching one of his shows with my late father as a kid. The both of us would be in stitches. Brendan was a national treasure and will be hugely missed. Rest in peace Bottler.

branie2 · 11-07-2019 10:01pm

Nice, yet sad, to see that episode again

Small Wonder · 11-07-2019 10:15pm

whisky_galore wrote: »

Calm down a small bit.

Yours was a stupid comment in fairness.

Amalgam · 11-07-2019 10:19pm

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

What is the tune Fr. Fintan Stack is playing on the ghetto blaster?

PressRun wrote: »

It's called Limb by Limb.

Not quite! It's a very specific remix of Cutty Rank's Limb by Limb.

Here's the rather laid back original.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPeCHvAJCEQ

Here's the Fintan Stack, 3am version..

Cutty Ranks - Limb by limb (DJ SS remix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxcvVdIgyBA

Enjoy..

EDIT: Just to say, this is quite hard to get as a physical copy, for some reasion, a recent CD single reissue has been edited shorter by about 2 minutes. Removing some of the majesty of Fintan Stack's choice of music..

https://www.discogs.com/Cutty-Ranks-Limb-By-Limb/release/675067

Also, someone has payed close to £60 Sterling for a physical copy of the CD single, according to Discogs.

fryup · 11-07-2019 10:33pm

branie2 wrote: »

Nice, yet sad, to see that episode again

esp considering...that Dermot and Frank are also gone

Cork Boy 53 · 11-07-2019 10:34pm

Brendan used to be a smoker at least up to the end of the 80s. I don't know whether he gave them up in later years.

Zimmerframe · 11-07-2019 10:35pm

I never liked Brendan as a comedian, but a while back, I remember saying just that to a relation of mine who works on radio and has interviewed all the so called Irish showbiz celebs over the years.
He doesn't bull**** and he also wouldn't be a big fan of Brendan's comedy, but he told me that Brendan, both in interviews and meeting afterwards etc etc was one of the nicest guys he ever had anything to do with and was a 100% gentleman through and through.

Snow Garden · 11-07-2019 10:43pm

Zimmerframe wrote: »

I never liked Brendan as a comedian, but a while back, I remember saying just that to a relation of mine who works on radio and has interviewed all the so called Irish showbiz celebs over the years.
He doesn't bull**** and he also wouldn't be a big fan of Brendan's comedy, but he told me that Brendan, both in interviews and meeting afterwards etc etc was one of the nicest guys he ever had anything to do with and was a 100% gentleman through and through.

I heard the same. A very decent nice man.

RIP

DellyBelly · 11-07-2019 10:45pm

I've had Fun and that is all that matters in the end..

One of the funniest lines ever on fr ted

fryup · 11-07-2019 11:00pm

Cork Boy 53 wrote: »

Brendan used to be a smoker at least up to the end of the 80s. I don't know whether he gave them up in later years.

working the cabaret circuit back in the day wouldn't have helped either :cool:

smoked filled rooms

zcorpian88 · 11-07-2019 11:37pm

His accents were so funny like the typical drunken Irish fella everyone has come across, and the classic Chinese takeaway and Rhubarb Tart jokes, his Kerry accent had me in stitches too, I'm terrible sad he's no longer with us, I refuse to switch him off if any of his standup shows are on, especially at Christmas, he is an Irish institution and he'll be greatly missed by all in this country, and I give you "Bubbles the cat"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZrZyLd5FAY

nuyil simp · 11-07-2019 11:49pm

that was Saint Patrick when he was younger!

marvin80 · 12-07-2019 8:18am

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/world-famous-in-the-liberties-now-locals-want-a-plaque-to-honour-brendan-grace-38305273.html

A plaque would be nice but a statue be even better.

fryup · 12-07-2019 10:20am

statues get vandalised and some of them look awful ....no a plaque be better imo

eagle eye · 12-07-2019 10:54am

I think there should be both a plaque and a statue. A bottler statue would be great I think. I think it should be put up just as you arrive at the Liberties near Christchurch.

branie2 · 12-07-2019 11:08am

A toaster that only works in America

FFred · 12-07-2019 11:29am

branie2 wrote: »

A toaster that only works in America

Another wedding present was the pram delivered to the church marked ‘urgent’ :pac:

branie2 · 12-07-2019 1:08pm

FFred wrote: »

Another wedding present was the pram delivered to the church marked ‘urgent’ :pac:

They'll be laughing off in the Intensive Care ward

branie2 · 12-07-2019 2:02pm

Rhubarb tart!

Aglomerado · 12-07-2019 2:03pm

I was laughing at the curry song last night.

:D

Cienciano · 12-07-2019 2:11pm

RIP Brendan.

Zimmerframe wrote: »

I never liked Brendan as a comedian, but a while back, I remember saying just that to a relation of mine who works on radio and has interviewed all the so called Irish showbiz celebs over the years.
He doesn't bull**** and he also wouldn't be a big fan of Brendan's comedy, but he told me that Brendan, both in interviews and meeting afterwards etc etc was one of the nicest guys he ever had anything to do with and was a 100% gentleman through and through.

Can confirm, my da (who hates most famous people and wouldn't be a fan of his comedy) met him a few times back in the 70's and 80's when he worked in bars and in other business and said he was always dead sound and very genuine.

branie2 · 12-07-2019 2:17pm

Ever read his autobiography, Amuzing Grace? I have, and it's very good.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 12-07-2019 5:09pm

PressRun wrote: »

His performance as Fintan Stack is hilarious and unnerving in equal measure. Cracked me up and creeped me out. A brilliant performance in a show full of brilliant one-off characters.

When ever I see that episode, I’m like *chef’s kiss*.

He just fully commits. It is brilliant. He is so sinister in the role.

SirChenjin · 12-07-2019 8:11pm

branie2 wrote: »

Rhubarb tart!

No more rhubarb tart

FFred · 12-07-2019 8:43pm

SirChenjin wrote: »

No more rhubarb tart

Ham Sammwich ...

branie2 · 12-07-2019 8:49pm

White bread or brown bread?

SirChenjin · 12-07-2019 10:03pm

Come over here and don't move... Shut your mouth and eat your dinner

branie2 · 12-07-2019 10:29pm

If it was a strawberry shortcake, you'd have a fractured skull!

sligojoek · 12-07-2019 10:50pm

SirChenjin wrote: »

Come over here and don't move... Shut your mouth and eat your dinner

Look... at the duuuurt...... behind your ears.

Brendan Grace has passed

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