Featuring tonight on Shaun Micallef’s Origin Odyssey is comedian Lizzy Hoo who joins Micallef on a heritage trip to Ireland.
Shaun takes comedian Lizzy Hoo on an origin odyssey, to figure out who is Lizzy Hoo – by ignoring the Malaysian Chinese side of her family, and instead exploring her Irish roots inherited from the person who is not a Hoo: her mother.
Hoo’s connection to Ireland comes from her great, great grandfather, Dan Connole, an Irishman who settled in Toowoomba, Queensland in 1863. It’s this connection that leads to the southern town of Cork, where Hoo and Micallef visit Ger Buckley, a fifth-generation cooper at Middleton Distillery, where Jameson Irish Whiskey is made. There, Hoo learnt about her family trade in coopering, also known as barrel making.
While Hoo proves an adept hand at coopering, it’s Ireland’s gift of the gab (as well as TV and comedy work, she’s also the host of SBS podcast series Grand Gestures) that runs stronger in her veins (She began performing comedy after receiving an email from Sydney Community College about a stand-up comedy course, having already partaken in courses on sewing and millinery. That storytelling trait is also something she shares with her mum.
7:30pm Tuesday on SBS.
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