'A lot of my shtick is Cork versus Kerry': Ballyclough comedian Cornelius Patrick O’Sullivan
Cork comedian Cornelius Patrick O'Sullivan.
Cornelius Patrick O’Sullivan was working in London running a bar about 20 years ago. Mondays were his day off. He persuaded a couple of his Monday drinking buddies to enrol in a six-week comedy course in Stratford. It would be something to keep them out of the pub on their day off. His friends didn’t get the memo about staying sober, however.
On the first day at the course, they were ejected for being tipsy. O’Sullivan stayed sober and stayed the course, which concluded with him delivering a stand-up gig at an old Victorian theatre. He was smitten; the bug had bitten. It brought him back to his days as a teenager performing on stage with the Mallow Pilgrim Players musical society.
