Show Notes
Sickness and death brings with it a broad range of emotions, and one that is often overlooked is humour. Gearoid Farrelly is an Irish comic who has toured with the likes of Joan Rivers, Sarah Millican and a host more of stand-up legends, since breaking on to the Irish scene over 10 years ago. Today he shared his own story about his beautiful friendship with Anne Marie Buckley, who passed away on the 1st of March 2018.
Gearoid moved into an apartment 10 years ago, and after a series of unscheduled and at times unwanted call-ins from his new neighbour, he soon realised that she was actually in the market for a neighbourhood pal, as opposed to a cup of sugar or lend of tea bags. Soon Gearoid, Anne and his partner became really close friends - “a troika” as he described , as they would meet up at least 2 / 3 times a week for breakfast, coffee, dinners. A beautiful, normal friendship.
Gearoid’s chat with Sasha and Venetia in this week’s podcast is descriptive, emotive , sad and of course funny. As a stand up comedian, he speaks about the complexities of trying to make others laugh, while he was going through his own personal and self described hell, as Anne fell sick. He also talks to Sasha and Venetia about the importance and need for a release of humour, particularly when things feel completely full of darkness during an illness and after a loss.
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