killinaskully - funny- yes or no

My Boyfriend loves this drivel, he can't turn on a computer.
I've heard this is the the last season ever! Yehay!

ruskin

Killnascully is complete and utter tripe. It is the same as all RTE Sunday viewing, something family friendly for simple minded people. Also the guy who plays timmy is a great actor and comedian (remember fr damo?) and I for the life of me cant understand why on earth he lowers himself to taking part in this shyte. He must only say about 3 words an episode. Then again I suppose, Shortt will never allow anyone other than himself to steal the limelight for a while - he will still peddle his collection of crap characters. Wouldnt it make more sense to concentrate on one character, develop them and give them some depth?

Dudess

ruskin wrote: »

Also the guy who plays timmy is a great actor and comedian (remember fr damo?) and I for the life of me cant understand why on earth he lowers himself to taking part in this shyte.

Yeah, Joe Rooney. He IS a great comedian - was surprised to learn he had a part in Killinaskully.

andrew1977

The first 2 seasons of it were a goood laugh in my opinion .
This season so far it has been absoulte s*hite of the highest order.

komodosp

Only saw a few bits of episodes... Struck me as a poor man's Father Ted... They took the piss out of rural things well..., (Funland, Telly Eireann, etc.)

corkproducers

It has its moments at best.

Pa the Knacker should have his own show in all fairness!

A comedy show about a travelling community.

It may seem politically incorrect, but i bet ye'd be breaking yer balls laughing at it!

Jack Sheehan

It reminds me of the show-within-a-show 'When the Whistle Blows' form extras.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGzCjxvoJNI

also, Are you avin' a laugh?

Tha Gopher

qwertplaywert wrote: »

Ignorant, bog stanard tv.

Is it just me, but everyone who lives with me in rural Ireland seems to think it is the television Citizen Kane

Half or rural Ireland regards Pat Shortt stand up DVDs in the same light as the rest of us hold Richard Pryors late 70s/early 80s material, or Eddie Murphy stand up in the 80s.

Father Ted was a brilliant take on rural Ireland. D`Unbelieveables never were tbh.

MOD(galway)

seriously killnaskully is quality + father ted. theres nothing serious, just a good laugh no need for a good story line

Tha Gopher

Rosita wrote: »

Likewise the guard being 'dick o'toole' (har har) and the B/B being 'Mount Bernadette' implies that the writer thinks that he is dealing with serious cretins for viewers. This is a society where the the Sunday Independent has a banner about Katy French's vibrator on the front page - the days when a public utterance of the word 'dick' raised a laugh are long gone.
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In fairness the same yokels who watch Kilnaskully buy rags like the Sindo.


And let that post be a warning never to leave anything around the house which your relatives may have to find in the event of your untimely demise......:eek:

Havermeyer

No. Pat Shortt is not funny. He was good in Fr. Ted, but that's about it. Killinascully sucks unfunny balls.

CareBear99

I hate killinascully! :mad: But my grandparents love it,i think all older people do!!

enniscorthy

cant stand it just go out and buy dunbelievables dvd class

Zipp101

Novelty wore off after first series.
Very badly done...Shortt thinks he has it down to a tee but he doesn't.

JonathanAnon

I think it was a good idea at the start and the first series WAS very good. But since then it seems that the writers have just gotten lazy. The plots are ridiculous, based around the most stupid of misunderstandings and laced with juvenile, predictable and contrived jokes.

The catchphrases "He tells this one lovely", "I'm not in the habit of repeating myself" etc etc... were never really funny, are have been beaten to death. The show is very popular with kids, maybe it should be put on before six.

With a better script, the show could still be funny, but they need to get some fresh blood in the writing department.

Elmo

It isn't returning.

mental07

Elmo wrote: »

It isn't returning.

Praise the Lord.

enniscorthy

cool good to see its gone maybe pat shortt can stay off the screens for a while 2give himself a break and us all break maybe come back better then ever ha ha

Tallspoon

I prefer to watch Curb your enthusiasm...a comedy thats actually funny, now theres an idea.

enniscorthy

love curb hahahaha have all the dvds probably my old humour

Syferus

enniscorthy wrote: »

love curb hahahaha have all the dvds probably my old humour

Ha ha ha.

JupiterKid

Killinascully has to be the biggest load of televisual tripe unleashed on the Irish popuation - and given the piss poor quality of much of RTE's output, that's saying a lot.

It is backward, gombeen hick and deeply unfunny. It's frankly an embarrassment to this country and I suspect viewers/supporters are like much of the cast of this show.

Delighted that it's gone for good.:)

Elmo

Tallspoon wrote: »

I prefer to watch Curb your enthusiasm...a comedy thats actually funny, now theres an idea.

Plenty of people who would find CYE dreadful, I know I have been trying to get people to watch, in fairness to them they aren't fans of Killinaskully. But they are to total different types of comedy.

It is backward, gombeen hick and deeply unfunny. It's frankly an embarrassment to this country and I suspect viewers/supporters are like much of the cast of this show.

Tad ironic that statement

fryup

JupiterKid wrote: »

It's frankly an embarrassment to this country and I suspect viewers/supporters are like much of the cast of this show.

but you're talking about half the irish population there, mate

room18

I thought it was funny enough when it first started, now I would flick to something else in a second than sit and watch it!

DenMan

NO I fcukin hate it. Stupid country show. I can't for the life of me wonder how it's so popular. Why does Pat Shortt get so much television time? I've lost count the amount of times he has appeared on the late late show, tubridy, ringing in the new year etc. Is that it? If he's one of our A-Listers then as a nation we must be the laughing stock of the celebrity world.

ScumLord

It's pretty awful, I wonder do they sell it abroad. I can see it working for plastic paddys.

Elmo

ScumLord wrote: »

It's pretty awful, I wonder do they sell it abroad. I can see it working for plastic paddys.

If the BBC can sell Keeping Up Appearances to us I think it only right that they suffer through this

SuperInfinity

It's nothing to do with portraying Irish people as being thick feckin eejits.

They could do that fine. But this show is just not funny at all, I don't like it. The only funny character/scenes in it were the ones involving Dieter.

Elmo

SuperInfinity wrote: »

It's nothing to do with portraying Irish people as being thick feckin eejits.

They could do that fine. But this show is just not funny at all, I don't like it. The only funny character/scenes in it were the ones involving Dieter.

A very very stereotypical German!

DenMan

Elmo wrote: »

A very very stereotypical German!

Written by an Irish 'writer'. :rolleyes:

Go away please Pat Shortt!!!