{"id":14118,"date":"2022-04-20T14:42:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T12:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1629501"},"modified":"2022-04-20T15:07:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T13:07:10","slug":"patrick-kielty-on-why-it-was-the-right-time-for-borderline-uk-tour-after-six-year-break","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/patrick-kielty-on-why-it-was-the-right-time-for-borderline-uk-tour-after-six-year-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Kielty on why it was the right time for Borderline UK tour after six-year break"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Grace Henry\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 20 April 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Six years since he last did a Stand Up tour, comedian Patrick Kielty is back on the road for his Borderline UK tour.<\/p>\n

Speaking exclusively to RadioTimes.com<\/a>, the funnyman revealed what it was like to get back on the stage again, and why now was the right time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t done a tour in six years because we were living in America and I didn\u2019t want to be away from the kids,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo you\u2019ve kind of got that thing off thinking it\u2019s going to be like just slipping into a comfortable pair of slippers whenever you\u2019ve done stand up for so long, but because every stand up show is different \u2013 you know comedy is the opposite of music, so when you go to see a music artist you love, you want them to sing the old stuff that you know, but with a comedian, even if you love them you want them to tell you some new stuff, so it was like learning to dance the first show, but once you get your moves down, you chill out.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Patrick Kielty Borderline tour<\/span><\/figcaption> Steve Ullathorne<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

While Kielty says his move back to the UK with wife Cat Deeley and their two sons \u2013 Milo (six) and James (three) \u2013 made it possible for him to get back, in terms of creativity, he believes he was more ready than ever.<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cI mean, there\u2019s two things obviously: to be back in the UK and to be able to do UK dates and still see your family. The brilliant thing is that people want to laugh at the weekend, so it\u2019s quite good that you can still do family stuff at the beginning of the week and then you can go do live shows from Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo from a practical point of view, it meant that I could do a show now that we\u2019re back here in the UK. And I think from a creative point of view, it felt like the right time to do something about where we are as a society, because a comedian kind of shouldn\u2019t be getting on stage unless you\u2019ve got something to say.\u201d<\/p>

Touching on the theme of his show, he added: \u201cVery few places actually make peace and function as a society afterwards, and Northern Ireland has really thrived. You know, we\u2019ve got so many tourists now and we\u2019ve got so many movies been shot there. We\u2019ve got so much going on there that you couldn\u2019t have dreamed of as a kid, so it\u2019s interesting. I kind of feel that when you\u2019re from Northern Ireland, it used to be about history, and now it\u2019s not, so maybe there\u2019s a little message in there for the way things are going in the rest of the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Patrick Kielty\u2019s Borderline UK tour, 11th<\/sup> May \u2013 2nd<\/sup> July. For tickets and venues: www.patrickkielty.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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