YOU can be as snooty and as culturally superior as you like but there's no doubting that Brendan O'Carroll, playwright, author and stand up comedian, is a phenomenal success. On Wednesday night he launched his new novel, The Granny, in Reynards (a nite club where you immediately feel like whipping on your white stilettos and dancing around your handbag).
The Granny's initial print run is a staggering 65,000 for a lot of Irish books 10,000 would be considered a wildly optimistic run.
Next year his first play, The Course, is booked into a West End Theatre for a year long run but Brendan won't be acting in the production there are rumours that comedian Bobby Ball will take the lead something that is thrilled about. In the bring the play to New York for a six week run.
The entire O'Carroll clan turned out for the book launch, as did many of the comedian's friends, including Tommy and Geraldine Swarbrigg, and Eamonn Coghlan and his wife Yvonne. Brendan has been urging the runner turned broadcaster to start work on his autobiography which Brendan has plans to turn into a film script to be directed by Jim Sheridan.