Domhnall Gleeson and his dad Brendan Gleeson ham it up just for laughs (INDEPENDENT)

By Ken Sweeney Entertainment Editor
Friday December 07 2012


ACTOR Domhnall Gleeson has revealed how he teamed up with his dad Brendan Gleeson for a one-off TV sketch show.

'Immaturity For Charity' has a better-known cast than some Irish movies, but all the actors who took part gave their services for free in aid of St Francis's Hospice, Raheny.

Novelist Amy Huberman and 'Love/Hate' star Robert Sheehan are among the stellar cast who feature in the 35-minute-long fundraising comedy, which will air on December 27 at 9:30pm on RTE2.

One standout sketch features Domhnall as a grown man waking up in bed to his parents, played by dad Brendan and mum, actress Cathy Belton, giving him the facts of life.

"Being 28, the son tells his parents he already knows about sex, yet they persist – but what makes it funny is their unusual view on the subject," Domhnall told the Irish Independent.

"Dad giving me the sex talk was hilariously awful and hilariously funny at the same time," he said.

"Rehearsing with him made me laugh more than anything else I have ever done."

Coincidentally, when his father picked up a Rising Star Award on behalf of his absent son Domhnall at the IFTAs last year, he joked he could never get his son out of bed as a boy.

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Sherlock star shooting Dublin comedy (RTE)

Sherlock star Andrew Scott has joined Amy Huberman, Hugh O'Conor, Brian Gleeson and Peter McDonald in the new comedy The Stag, which begins shooting in Dublin next week.

IFTN reports that the film, co-written by McDonald and director John Butler, follows a group of friends on a stag party, with Dubliner Scott playing the best man.

Huberman plays the bride-to-be and the cast also includes Michael Legge and Andrew Bennett.

READ MORE: http://www.rte.ie/ten/2012/1108/scotta.html

Brendan Gleeson: Touching link to his parent in show (INDEPENDENT)

By Barry Egan

Away to Kilkenny, where I stayed at the adorable Pembroke Hotel, for the arts festival, which was a blazing mix of art, culture, literature and generally jolly times.

The turnout for John Butler and Liza Klaussmann's readings on a theme, Versions of America, was typical of the 10-day bonanza -- informed, eager and easy-going.


John Butler, meanwhile, who read brilliantly from his debut, The Tenderloin, has also penned a series of sketches, Good Will Fun Thing, starring Brendan and Domhnall Gleeson and Amy Huberman, which will be on RTE in December.

Proceeds go to the hospice in Raheny where Brendan Gleeson's parents were nursed.

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