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Length: 23:00
Posted: 12/1/2009
Irish comedian Ardal O'Hanlon jokes about his native country in this Comedy Central Presents stand-up special. watch
Have you ever had a best friend you couldn't stand? Myles (Ardal O'Hanlon) has one - Austin (Ewen Bremner) - only he's too much of a slacker to do anything about it. In fact, each one of these layabouts is as useless as the other: a pair of thirty-somethings who laze around watching their lives flutter past. Fate, however, has plans to remedy their lack of motivation. Up to their necks in debt, they decide to help a dodgy entrepreneur, Gerard (Owen Roe), to create a new landmark in Irish tourism: a Famine Theme Park.
When they're not painting the makeshift famine ship pink, Myles and Austin have little to do but stay in their tin hut residence and play board games. Myles looks forward to turning his life around when the job is completed, while Austin finds a contentment, of sorts, in the monotonous labour and endless toil. Meanwhile, Gerard, a man with a shark's morality, is fighting off the attentions of wealthy landowner Leonie (Morwenna Banks), and chasing dubious businessman Liam ( watch