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Humour travels. It is universal; it doesn't matter whether you're nine or 90. My humour is not clever, it's not PC, it doesn't pretend to be anything else only laugh a minute. Comedy has gone astray in today's world. It's almost like you need to be controversial and many so-called comedians have omitted the word funny." I was born on Derry's Northland Road, and my in-laws still live in the city. Having spent what must have been a year of my theatrical life in the Millennium Forum - I've done the first five pantos there, in addition to all my stand-up work - I like to think my taste in comedy rubs off well on the city's people. They've a terrific sense of humour, like my son Rory. Relatively Speaking: A chat with Conal and Rory Gallen". Belfast Telegraph. 3 February 2015 . Retrieved 25 September 2020.

He certainly did panic, though, when I went with him to a gig as a child and the technician pulled out. He feared he'd have to cancel, but then I stepped in and helped out. At one point, he told my mother: "We'll do it with Rory this time, and get a new sound man for the next gig." We're still waiting for the new man to come! After I left school, I went straight into the entertainment business. That's not to say that I didn't think about going to university. I did apply for computer courses, but my dad could tell that my heart wasn't in it. So he said: "I'll take you on full-time." It all happened from there.I love Bridie. She is abrasive and funny. She's class, because she has no class," says Gallen, who admits to having a room full of Hawaiian shirts and dresses in his home – much to the embarrassment of his grandchildren. Gallen credits his career choice to a social-welfare officer, with a helping hand from Leitrim singer Charlie McGettigan and inspiration from Dublin comedian and singer Brendan Grace.

I was doing a show down in Castlebar and I met some friends before the show," the Donegal singer and comedian recalls. "As I was leaving to head off to the dressing room Sarah said to Evelyn, ''Horse it into ya, Cynthia", meaning 'finish your drink'. Conal Gallen reveals that his most successful song, Horse It Into Ya Cynthia, which tells the tale of a young Irish man's love for a country girl, was born when he overheard a conversation between Louis Walsh's sisters, Sarah and Evelyn. She was aware I earned money playing music and so told me I could continue signing on and risk being investigated or else sign off." The four nights were absolutely brilliant and were the stepping stone I needed to make me realise I could do this on my own," he recalls. After leaving school, Gallen attended agricultural college, where he jokes he learnt the valuable lesson "not to become a farmer". He then had a number of jobs, including working in a London pub and as a market researcher before opening his own record and video rental store in Donegal.Then along came A Bit On The Side. I'd never written a play before, and I don't think that it would have been a lot of fun to write it on my own, so I'm very glad Rory was involved. It was a hilarious process with lots of loud laughs along the way. Gallen, who has just returned from leading a group of Irish fans on a tour to Tennessee, admits "I still surprises myself". "This Joker stand-up tour we are doing at the minute is the most successful tour I've ever done."

I remember Louis [Walsh] telling me how he kept his sister going that 'any other girl would get a love song written about her, and you get that'." He's my ideas man. We came home from a gig one night a few years ago and just out of the blue he said, 'Why don't we do a play?' I said, 'What play had you in mind?' and he said 'We'll write one'. Friday Focus, Conal Gallen – A life of comedy and tragedy". Ocean FM. 24 July 2020 . Retrieved 25 September 2020.Gallen's local dole office was next door and he was advised, against his wishes, to apply for social welfare benefits. We're not your typical father and son; we're probably a lot closer than most. While my friends at secondary school were out socialising, I worked with my dad every week, and he has become one of my best friends. The plays were the brainchild of his son Rory, who started working with his dad at the age of 12, filling in on the sound desk. The pair of them went on to form Little Round Records Ltd in Ballybofey, where Rory is mainly involved in the production side of the business. We are currently writing a new play for this autumn," says 64-year-old widower, who has a particular fondness for the character of Bridie Murphy.