Fern Brady Shares Her Unromantic Reason For Marrying Her Partner | The Russell Howard Hour

welcome to the final part of the show it's time for my stand-up guest and this lady is one of the fastest rising comics in the country please welcome the brilliant fun Brady [Applause] hello it's me Scottish comedian farron Brady uh by the way I always get annoyed at getting described that way because I did one of those uh 23andMe DNA tests this year and I found out 98.3 percent Irish never lived in Ireland before in my life this is a testimony to the period of sectarianism in Scotland I'm only 1.7 British and to be honest that's from the time a homeless guys but in my eye when I first moved down uh and I go out with an Irish guy um we've been going out 10 years uh this week we don't want to get married I think marriage is disgusting very embarrassing the way a lot of you guys feel about talking about sex and uh discussing things like that in front of your family and friends that's how I feel talking about love and mushy emotions declare why they fell in love at their wedding day and I don't want everyone rolling their eyes at me when I declare my special love to my boyfriend at the wedding I don't want people rolling their eyes when I say oh we fell in love after they vastly improved my credit rating over a period of about three years and I do want you to think I'm not a romantic person because we might get a several partnership this year purely because at the end of the day I do want what every little girl dreams of I want to transfer the right of my father to switch off my life support machine over to my partner the farm and our vegetative state I trust that my boyfriend's a pragmatic guy and he's going to switch my machine off or at least smother me with a pillow while the doctor's out again but that's That's a hardcore Catholic he's against euthanasia anything happens to me when I'm unmarried you know what he's going to be doing man Wheeling me back and forth Disneyland to Lords back to Disney and box alerts forever and ever well I try and blink out the message let's take this matter to the high court me now Daddy [Music] changes your perspective on marriage the prospector death and decline because I'm against marriage until I get ill in any way whatsoever I was feeling sick at the end of last year the doctor sent me for an MRI scan of my brain he phoned me that night that's never good and he said oh miss Brady there's a growth on your brain you need to come in for tests tomorrow didn't even hear the rest of what the guy was saying I just started howling crying I was like I'm gonna die and I've wasted literally years of my life screenshot and people are here on Instagram so what's up to my friends steal this prick since that's all my deathbed memories of our deathbed memories will be lying on our Death Page remembering us lying in another bed holding her phone over our face what grown woman wishes herself a happy birthday no I dropped the phone on my face and accidentally liked her post and I don't even follow her that's my Instagram signature move so I I got diagnosed with this uh this terrible illness I immediately walked through the living room howling crying proposed to my boyfriend lets off the most Haitian normative wedding ever went to the doctor the next day oh miss Brady we've made a mistake we think you have a small harmless cyst we're doing more tests see you later thanks yeah went back home and my boyfriend I said listen they don't think I'm dying but we got engaged last night right we got engaged last night huh you just didn't even look up from starting the dinner he went pending diagnosis he's only gonna marry me if I'm terminally out the first time this has come up right because I was asking him one day our friends were getting married and they had one of those big cakes made entirely out of cheese and I thought that looks good and I said what do you think we'd have the on our wedding day and he just went whatever they're putting in your feeding tube that afternoon you know it's nice now being in a long-term relationship getting comfortable with the other person lounging around the house wearing your boyfriend's hoodie like a girly girl but the other day I'd been wearing a hoodie for a solid week and it was getting kind of stinky so I went to give him it back he was doing the laundry I said there's your hoodie he said that's not my hoodie and that was the moment I thought right enough you're quite a small man I'm actually wearing the very large hoodie of my elderly Albanian Builder and had been doing so for a full week in front of the belter like a psychopath offering him Cups of Tea wearing his clothes asking him how the progress in the ensuite was coming along dresses guys have been a lovely audience as always I've been very thanks very much good night

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Length: 5min 47sec (347 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 26 2022