Friday Late with Vincent Browne on TV3. Guests: Keith Duffy, magician Jack Wise, Mary Louise O’Donnell (above left) and Paul Durcan.
Paul Durcan read his poem, ‘Man With A Bit of Jizz In Him’, which ends: “An attractive middle-aged housewife I may be, but there is nothing to beat a man with a bit of jizz in him”.
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Vincent Browne: “Do you know many men with a bit of jizz in them?”
Marie Louise O’Donnell: “It’s a very interesting word. Why did you use the word, Paul? Is it from your childhood?
Paul Durcan: “I’m aware of it all my life but about seven years ago I heard somebody say it.”
O’Donnell: “Yeah. It’s a great west of Ireland saying – ‘he’s great jizz in him’ – like a jump, like a dance in him you know?”
Browne: “Is there anyone in the new government with a bit of jizz in him?”
Durcan: “Enda Kenny.”
O’Donnell: “Enda has great jizz in him.”
Browne: “Oh no, oh Marie Louise…”
O’Donnell: “I’ll get into trouble about this now.”
Durcan: “Seriously, no, he really does. Which is why, with all the doom and gloom going on – and not going into the whole wretched thing – that, you know, cheers me up in the depths of anxiety, panic, melancholia and all the rest of it. That he has suddenly arrived and is what he is, our Taoiseach, prime minister, a man with a bit of jizz in him.”
O’Donnell: “I think Noonan has a bit of jizz in him as well. Noonan, Michael Noonan. He has a way of describing things and he’s a way of looking at the camera, you know, that you wonder, is he really taking this seriously?”
Durcan: “And a playing with words. Enda Kenny said when he went to Castlebar a few days after he was elected Taoiseach… He said, ‘You know, I’ve often said that I never take myself seriously but what I’m serious about is the job’… I like that. I really like that.”
Browne: “Who else would have a bit of jizz in him in the government? Pat Rabbitte has a bit of jizz in him.”
O’Donnell: “Oh. Aww yeah. And… a great sense of humour. Jizz is really humour isn’t it? A kind of dance in people.”
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