From winning a televised comedy talent show with a £100,000 prize to warming up studio audiences for sitcoms filmed at Elstree — Patrick Monahan has done it all, and he's done it with a grin you can hear through your speakers.
In this Spotlight Special, Patrick sits down with us to trace the unlikely path from open-mic nights in grotty flat-roof pubs to prime-time TV. He unpacks the craft behind crowd work that feels like a conversation, the art of guiding an audience without them ever noticing, and why a 70-year-old and a 25-year-old can laugh at the exact same joke.
We dive into his Edinburgh Fringe show — provocatively titled I'm Not a Terrorist, I'm Freddie Mercury — and the story behind growing up Iranian-Irish in 1980s Middlesbrough, where the nickname came long before the punchlines. Plus: Robert Plant vs. Robbie Williams as neighbours, what George Carlin understood that TikTok just rediscovered, and why someone once reported Ed Byrne's shed to the council.
Warm, witty, and full of stories from a career that refuses to slow down — this is Patrick Monahan in the Spotlight
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