Joanne McNally

I'm like, you try and fucking hook me off this stage, just gently gyrating the chair.

Never, like me and Vogue did Ghosted there.

Like I've done all my stand-up shows there and they do come in, like they come in, the tourist board come in and they have a look and I think they kind of get a bit of a kick.

I think they enjoy the...

Dubai to me was never difficult.

Dubai to me felt like an extension of the UK, actually.

I was like, that was... And it was somewhere where, like, there's so many Irish out there.

And actually, I had an interesting conversation with a young gay guy in my DMs.

Yeah.

Because Geroad came with me and Geroad opened the tour and Geroad's gay.

And he messaged me saying, I'm really disappointed you're going to Dubai because...

you know, they're like gays, criminal offence over there, et cetera, et cetera.

And I said to him, because me and Garaud had discussed this, and Garaud had the same kind of moral conundrum.

Bearing in mind, like, there's a lot of gay acts.

You know, it's, look, you choose your battles.

Well, I think it's actually, and I don't know, I'm going to be very careful with what I say here.

It's not the Emiratis.

It's how they treat, actually.

like say there are a lot of Indian workers and stuff there's more like international yeah yeah yeah workers international workers that's okay to say isn't it yeah yeah but anyway so I was in having this conversation with this guy and I was like there's a huge gay scene in Dubai as there is everywhere yeah and I said do you not think they deserve entertainment to come out and dance and sing and perform and do stand up as well

And he was like, oh, actually, I never really thought about it like that.