Comedian Joanne McNally has revealed that she calls her boyfriend "Prada Peter" because he is so tidy and she is like "a feral barn animal".
The 39-year-old Dublin funny woman met her partner, model Alan Byrne, on a dating app and it quickly turned out that they have very different domestic habits.
Speaking on Friday night's Late Late Show, she told host Ryan Tubridy, "We call him Prada Peter. He’s very different to me. He’s tidy. I’m quite chaotic, being honest, I am.
"I’m not very domestic, I’m kind of like a barn animal, I’m quite feral. There’s my knickers hanging off the chandelier. I just never know what I’m doing. I’m just not that way inclined.
"On the other hand, he folds his knickers. When I went to his house, all the condiments were facing the same way. He’s a serial killer! I’m in the house ten minutes, and there’s mayonnaise on the door handles. I accuse him of having OCD and he accuses me of having ADHD. There’s a lot of compromise and I am learning.
"It’s like having a little slave, he just cleans up after me," she added. "It’s like doing community service. You’ve committed a crime and you have to spend two years with Joanne McNally."
The comedian is about to undertake a remarkable 62-night run in Vicar Street in Dublin with her stand-up show Prosecco Express and she said, "I feel good, confused. It kinda started after lockdown and it kept going and we added dates. I had nothing else to do!
"There is definitely a giant cohort of women out there who weren’t been looked after. There has to be! Where else would they come from?
"I guess there’s an honesty there. I don’t have a lot of filters. I can overshare at time. It’s almost tribal with my audience. They must feel very similar to me. It’s a night out for sure. There’s definitely a hen party vibe. They like a night out, they’re smart women."
Asked if she always so confident, McNally said, "I think I was, but I don’t even think it’s confidence. I always loved performing, as a child I loved performing. I wanted to be Annie, there was definitely jazz hands there.
"I thought about acting but then my mother was worried if I got into acting, I’d starve under a bridge so when I did go into comedy by complete accident and when I told her, she was really embarrassed.
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"I think she saw it as clowning, and I think she would have liked me to have a profession. I did a three-year arts degree in seven years. I didn’t know what I wanted to do. I was just floating; I have no focus at all and this just kind of happened by accident and I really enjoyed it and it gave me something to work towards."
Speaking about My Therapist Ghosted Me, the hugely successful podcast she created with TV presenter Vogue Williams, she said, "We were just lucky. We didn’t work hard, it wasn’t as if we were sitting there strategizing and pushing little boats around a map. We just got lucky with the dynamic and during lockdown all my work went, and I had to do something.
"I’d worked so hard up to that point and I wasn’t just going to let that go so I thought what will I do? I can’t do nursing now. It’s too late. I realised the audience you can reach through a podcast, it’s crazy! Me and Vogue are just two women sitting there, talking."
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