‘I will drown myself in a toilet if I have to spend another year renting in my 40s’
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Last year Joanne McNally took to the stage to talk about how everyone around her was getting married and having kids. A year on, she’s changed. And so has her stand-up. The comedian, 41, is touring again after her sold-out run of Prosecco Express last year – which was the booziest in the London Palladium’s history, breaking the venue’s wine consumption record. In short: she’s a legend.
‘Maybe if I’m still touring at 80, me and the entire audience will have finally gone to rehab,’ she jokes in a chat with Metro. ‘But I think for the moment, not enough time has passed for any of us to have improved ourselves that much.’. You may recognise Joanne from a little TV show called Taskmaster (she came second in the 17th series). If not, you will definitely know her voice from My Therapist Ghosted Me; her uproarious side-splitting podcast with bestie Vogue Williams.
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But Joanne is a thriving stand-up comedian. That’s her bread and butter, and something she has mastered over 10 years of comedy, with her intense woman’s woman likability, shrewd observations and outrageous gags. While the Prosecco Express was a show filled with Joanne’s late-30s terror of weddings and kids popping up around her like whack-a-mole, the Irish comic’s new show Pinotphile sees her make a transition: she’s moving on from that pressure and away from talking about herself.
