James O'Brien meets Chris McCausland | LBC

Liverpudlian comedian Chris McCausland gradually started losing his eyesight due to a hereditary condition called retinitis pigmentosa. His sight got so bad in his 20s that he was forced to give up his job as a web developer and ended up unemployed. He decided to give stand-up a try and is now a regular fixture on the comedy circuit. Tickets for his latest show, Yonks! are available at chrismccausland.com
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[@alanmcnamara9155]

What a wonderful conversation, what a fantastic man!

[@owenmcgheeandbdawg]

This has been such a tonic for me. What a great hour well spent.❤

[@AngelicusImmortus]

Chris is just incredible. It’s nice to see James interviewing interesting people!

[@KayosHybrid]

I love Chris’s comedy appearances and stand up, I’m glad to hear his perspective

[@ericawildgoose5736]

Loved watching this amazing conversation Thanx James x

[@pixelfrenzy]

This was great, thank you! Love Chris McC, and as a Manc to a Scouser that's particularly meaningful! ;-) Also my background was in computing before I escaped, so I'm empathising way more than expected. Thanks James for a great interview.

[@katefletcher7828]

Really interesting to watch and enjoying watching him on Strictly.

[@dudleyspikeclarke1355]

A new accolade for Chris is "Strictly Come Dancing Champion 2024". Yes, a blind man winning a ballroom dancing competition. Absolutely fabulous, and so unbelievably courageous.

[@cassandragough]

Brilliant interview. If you haven't watched Scared of the Dark I thoroughly recommend finding it on catch up if possible. An amazing and fascinating insight into human behaviour and frailties.

[@kimhewer1479]

Great conversation ❤

[@walmarian]

Fantastic episode, thank you!

[@davidhubbert9445]

Chris such a inspiration to all of us very funny man you almost don't imagine him being blind someone who doesn't have self pity but puts a positive way forward great interview.

[@strictlygrey]

Great choice for guest this time, always gound Chris facinating sp this is very enjoyable

[@grahamsmith6053]

another brilliant interview James..

[@vallee3140]

Now people might realise why, he won Strictly, he is so nice, and my gawd did he learn to dance.

[@MrMh722]

An absolutely wonderful human

[@treeofwoe-jl5hx]

Illuminating and informative as always. Heres a thought though that Chris might like; heritage fighting game Street Fighter is on no.6 of the mainline sequels now and has hit something of a blinder with both accessibility and "I'm new and can't do all the fancy stuff" malarkey. They have spent SO MUCH time on the sounds cues for visually impaired people that there is a 100% blind man in the top 0.5% of player *globally*...for a 1-on-1 fighting game 😊👌 I thought that, as Chris is driving hard towards visually-impared-inclusion in EVERYTHING (quite right too), that this was worth mentioning... He goes by the tag *Blind Warrior Sven* if anyone is interested 👍

[@serendipidus8482]

Love mc causland

[@zakshakey4686]

OMG 😲 it's the fruit and veg stall dude from Me Too!... 🙄.. Honestly I AM in my late 40s.. 👀..ok so I have 2 grown up daughters...🤷🏽‍♂️😂😂😂

[@dudleyspikeclarke1355]

I think he would be perfect for an edition of Knives Out, if they ever wrote a role for a blind character.... Him with Daniel Craig I think would be hilarious...

[@HJJSL-bl8kk]

I'd quite like to see disabled actors playing a part where their disability isn't the hook to hang the character on, you know, just auditioning along with other actors for a part.

[@heidivarnham5648]

The problem with comparing modern experiences to someone like the Two Ronnies, is that there were only two or three channels on TV when they were big, so entertainment is what the country was given or pushed on us. I don’t think they would be a big as they were today, even if their humour was modernised, as we have so many different channels and options, it isn’t as easy.

[@Lizzy1ES]

Also they didn’t become famous until they were older than Chris

[@joil6649]

This guys tastes are near identical to mine.

[@robertallardice8119]

❤

[@debbieparkinson8367]

Warm interviewee.Cold interviewer. Can James just occasionally look up and smile. Always appears bored.

[@mcculloch29]

Smile at whom? There is interest and engagement in his voice, and Chris no doubt responds to that.

[@vallee3140]

Doubt Chris realises James isn't looking up.

[@mariaa6918]

😂😂

[@jeffsimon9594]

😳

[@terrysmith5168]

I didn't have a clue who this guy was so searched his name and was informed his best known for his role in cebeebies 😂 quite ironic considering JOB regularly mocks a rival channel with this name 😂

[@highdownmartin]

He calls gb news GeeBeebies as it’s political stuff for adults with a mental age of four. Not knocking the kids channel at all

[@serendipidus8482]

Had no idea he was on that. Hes on would i lie to you and very funny on that. I think he did countdown and maybe qi as well. I cant wait to see him on taskmaster although they seem to have really bad people on it now.

[@serendipidus8482]

Its two guys. Which one did you not know?

[@vallee3140]

and now the winner of Strictly.

[@sheenacannon8176]

❤