As well as segments on RTÉ 2fm, McNally co-hosts a podcast called My Therapist Ghosted Me with Vogue Williams.

McNally was born in County Roscommon; her biological father left her mother before Joanne's birth.

McNally supported Gallagher on his stand up tour Concussion, around Ireland in 2015, and she was then signed by Irish comedy agency Lisa Richards.

McNally and Gallagher went on to write and star in a comedy show Separated At Birth, co-written with director Una McKevitt about their adoptions.

She wrote and performed her one-woman show Bite Me for the Dublin Fringe Festival, directed by Una McKevitt.