{"id":431489,"date":"2026-05-04T08:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T08:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/431489\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T08:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T08:56:11","slug":"comedian-serena-terry-i-was-falling-apart-then-my-daughter-showed-me-tiktok-and-i-laughed-harder-than-i-had-in-years-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/431489\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedian Serena Terry: &#8216;I was falling apart &#8211; then my daughter showed me TikTok and I laughed harder than I had in years&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Better known as \u2018Mammy Banter\u2019 online, the Derry stand-up reveals how a series of life-altering events, including the death of her twin brothers, marriage breakdown and an ADHD diagnosis, led her to find solace, and a career, in comedy\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Serena Terry. Photo: Lorcan Doherty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2de0cd76-5677-47ec-bd1c-7f9253644593.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Serena Terry. Photo: Lorcan Doherty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">For a woman who just turned 40, comedian Serena Terry has lived enough for several lifetimes. The death of her father and her best friend combined with an ADHD diagnosis, perimenopause, and all while trying to raise two children would be enough to stop anyone in their tracks. But she\u2019s managed to turn the hardest tuff of her life in the last year into comedy gold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Stand-up comedy, which she\u2019s been doing for three years, wasn\u2019t part of Terry\u2019s life plan. One of seven siblings who grew up in a council estate in Derry, she went to university to study business and marketing after finishing school, before heading up the marketing department of a software company. She then became its chief operations officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Better known as \u2018Mammy Banter\u2019 online, the Derry stand-up reveals how a series of life-altering events, including the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60,75204],"class_list":["post-431489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kathy-donaghy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}