MOVING to London can be a massive culture shock for anyone – let alone a country boy from the mean streets of rural Ireland.
Jack McKenna, who recently moved to the English capital from Mayo, is an up-and-coming comedian who is using his experience as a recent emigrant to poke fun at the differences between Londoners and the Irish abroad.
The self-confessed country bumpkin has documented his arrival on the London stand-up scene in hilarious fashion.
In his video The McKenna Dilemma, he takes to the streets lamenting the expensiveness of the city and the irritable nature of passers-by he has encountered along the way.
“In London, I had the complete opposite experience from my country bumpkin childhood,” McKenna says. "London is a fast-paced concrete stress jungle, with more raw and animalistic predators than you’d believe.”
The Irishman proceeds to apologise to a passer-by he accidentally brushes shoulders with on Oxford Street, only to be called a “d***head” in response.
"Too much of a Paddy for London, too much of a drama queen for Mayo," he adds.
We feel his pain all too well.
