Barbara Scully

And I went back to Dun Laoghaire.

I remember that well now.

And on the day of the show, I was still going to do a reading and I woke up that morning about then I had the running order and I saw that there was three comedians and then me and then three more.

And I remember thinking, I can't stand up there.

I'll kill the vibe just reading out of a book because it's a different experience to kind of performing it.

So I reworked it, rang my daughter who was working in the village nearby at the time and I said, can you come home at lunchtime?

And she was like, why, what's up?

And I said, I need an audience.

And she's this, this is the really straight daughter who doesn't like, she'll tell you as it is.

So she came home and I did it and she was like, yeah, that's not funny, but that's funny.

And she helped me edit it.

And I went in that night and it was honestly the most terrifying thing I ever did.

It was great, though.

But I didn't know that till after.

Like I was by far the oldest woman there.

I felt like there was about 10 times I thought, I'm just going to go home.

I'm just going to go home.

I can't do this.

Anyway, I did it and it went way better than I thought.

Well, the short version is, like I said, I'm 64.