Patrick Kielty has discussed his return to comedy after his seven year break.
Speaking on Good Morning Britain on Tuesday, the NI comedian told what to expect from his new stand-up tour 'Borderline'.
The 51-year-old also gave viewers his humorous input on the Will Smith and Chris Rock incident at the Oscars.
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But first, Patrick explained why he moved back from the US with his family two years ago - and how it didn't go to plan.
He said: "Where have I have been? I have been in the states. Cat and I have been living in the states and we decided to come back at the start of 2020.
"We wanted to see family and wanted to get the kids into school over here and then ended up seeing nobody and teaching them ourselves for 18 months guys."
The comedian added: "[My new] show is called Borderline and I think that you know, identity and nationality is kind of the last great belief system that we have.
"I think it's sort of the last great religion in my opinion, that idea that people who wont kneel at an altar, they'll still happily stand for a flag and when you come from Northern Ireland and you are part of the UK, but you've got a sea border there and so you are not really part of the UK, and you look at how united the United Kingdom actually is, or disunited...
"I think it is quite a nice time for someone who grew up in a divided society to maybe get on stage and to and make a little bit of sense of.... it's a good time to get up there and try and make a wee bit of sense of it."
Patrick's dad Jack Kielty was 44-years-old when he was shot dead in 1988 by loyalist paramilitaries.
"My dad was one of the many victims in Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland was, I thought, a great place to live as a kid, and then something like that happens you and you realise that it wasn't - and then you realise that Northern Ireland came together as a society.
"That's a positive good news story and it would wrong of me to get on stage and talk about borders and identity if I didn't talk about who I am, where I'm from and what happened my family," he said.
The Co Down man added how "as time goes on, it's much, much easier to remember the funny stuff".
"And the good stuff, there's some poignant stuff in there about my dad as well, but I think if you're going to get up there and make some points about who we are and who we all think we are, you kind of have to have to say you have a wee bit of skin in the game.
"I'm more than happy to do it and the lovely thing is, audiences so far have been really lovely and have responded."
During lockdown, Patrick filmed a movie with actress Seána Kerslake.
He said: "It's called Ballywalter. It's more of a black comedy about somebody who is slightly washed up... I don't know why they cast me in that... She's a bright new thing. The two of them come together.
"It's all about whether these two people can maybe save each other and it's coming out this year.
"It has been one of the best things I have ever done."
Also on Tuesday's show, Richard Madeley asked the comedian what he thought of the Oscars incident involving Chris Rock and Will Smith.
"My take on that is that I started out in Belfast's first comedy club in pre-ceasefire Northern Ireland with an audience of, let's just say, people who may have been involved in certain things.
"I was getting up and telling jokes about them and I had never violence used to me in the six years at that club, so, when the Oscars become more dangerous than pre-ceasefire Northern Ireland, I kind of think we've crossed the line," Patrick laughed.
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