This is Nitelive....

Shane10

thought it was ok. some funny gags on it last night even if that bit with the girlband was a little weird. plus is it wrong to find "una" kinda hot ?!!!!

Banner

Seriously this HAS to be the worst (Comedy) show I have ever seen on RTE. There is no point in saying what has already been said. If Aids and Cancer had a baby this would be it.

irelandtvreview wrote: »

Hi Everyone, was googling this pile of tripe and came across this thread so had to post. The Programme Says it all really, Worst comedy RTE Have commissioned yet to date! This needs to go and only us the viewing public can do something about it. There are a lot of talented comedy groups and sketch artists in Ireland, but yet again RTE have given this idea to some gang of people who havent a clue. Im all for giving a chance to talented people but not to muppets who should go and just release their ideas on youtube or a personal website so they can look at themselves. Thats why im giving them this award. Well done to all involved!

Elmo

The show suffers from very many things: -

1. The main character
2. Lack of other settings
3. Far too much banter, which should have been used in different settings

They for some strange reason have made a skit of "Xpose" and "UTV Live". Why aren't they bad enough?

Shane10

id never heard of john ryan before have to say but i like his character on the show. think hes quite funny.

Elmo

Shane10 wrote: »

id never heard of john ryan before have to say but i like his character on the show. think hes quite funny.

Don't lie shane we all know you are John Ryan

Shane10

Elmo wrote: »

Don't lie shane we all know you are John Ryan

well if i am i wouldnt mind getting to know "una" a bit better. :cool:

irelandtvreview

Shane10 wrote: »

thought it was ok. some funny gags on it last night even if that bit with the girlband was a little weird. plus is it wrong to find "una" kinda hot ?!!!!

Shane, you must have something to do with this programme, There is no way in living hell where anyone with a funny bone in their body can say that any of this is funny at all! Tell me on e thing in it that was of "laughable" quality? There is no originality, no Humour, no talent. There is a lot of in-jokes where the people working on the show probably find it hilarious, but this is not what the RTE Viewing audiences should be paying for. If i ever(and it could be very soon) stop paying my tv license, and i get brought to court over it, im just going to bring every recording to the court, show it to them and then...your honour, my case is closed

Shane10

irelandtvreview wrote: »

Shane, you must have something to do with this programme, There is no way in living hell where anyone with a funny bone in their body can say that any of this is funny at all! Tell me on e thing in it that was of "laughable" quality? There is no originality, no Humour, no talent. There is a lot of in-jokes where the people working on the show probably find it hilarious, but this is not what the RTE Viewing audiences should be paying for. If i ever(and it could be very soon) stop paying my tv license, and i get brought to court over it, im just going to bring every recording to the court, show it to them and then...your honour, my case is closed

its not a laugh a minute but its not bad. dont watch it if u think its so bad,simple.

father_ted9t9

Shane10 wrote: »

its not a laugh a minute but its not bad. dont watch it if u think its so bad,simple.

Its not a laugh a minute...HA, Its not a laugh at all, i agree with irelandtvreview, there isnt any funny element to it anywhere! Im sorry to say it is the worst comedy ever on RTE, actually eorst on any channel ever i think to my knowledge. I Would have loved it to be brilliant, so then i could rave about it here, but i cannot, its sooooooooooooooooo bad i cannot even express my anger. I Pay my licence fee, and i want to see my money being spent on good programming. Its not a case of if i dont like it dont watch it, its more of a case of ive contributed to this pile of ass dust in someway with my licence fee and im unhappy about that. Simple

BTW i see you were unable to provide something funny from the show??

vivadeadponies

was the show really that bad, worse than the roaring twenties?
The bit I seen of episode 1 looked like it had a good bit more of a budget, which means it should be better by default surely?

irelandtvreview: that photoshopped image thing deserves one of those awards itself, utter crap

Elmo

father_ted9t9 wrote: »

BTW i see you were unable to provide something funny from the show??

I thought the Xpose girl was funny but then she has been doing that since X-it poll!

But yes it was dreadful.

dont watch it if u think its so bad,simple.

Ah Shane didn't think you would use that old suggestion people are entitle to their opinion. I certainly won't be watching again.

Also there are plenty of other genres that RTÉ do well.

Did you see that funny comedy on TV3 last week?

irelandtvreview

vivadeadponies wrote: »

was the show really that bad, worse than the roaring twenties?
The bit I seen of episode 1 looked like it had a good bit more of a budget, which means it should be better by default surely?

irelandtvreview: that photoshopped image thing deserves one of those awards itself, utter crap

Firstly The roaring twenties was not great, agreed, but heres some facts for you. The roaring twenties was given a budget to shoot a pilot show. With the budget for the pilot they improvised and shot the entire series! I Can tell you that the budget for that pilot was not even a quarter of the WEEKLY budget for this rubbish. Of course your comment that because it had more of a budget it must have been better makes sense...DUH.

As for the 5 minutes my entire graphics department of 200 spent on doing the piss take picture, ill pass on your comments and make sure they do a better job next time. They did say to me that the were trying to encapsulate the style, genre and look of the nightlive show in it and i think they did quite well with that. funny thing also, all they did was copy the style of the pic on rtes website and text look, does that mean that the nightlive look is crap too...surely not! Apologies...

Elmo

irelandtvreview wrote: »

Firstly The roaring twenties was not great, agreed, but heres some facts for you. The roaring twenties was given a budget to shoot a pilot show. With the budget for the pilot they improvised and shot the entire series! I Can tell you that the budget for that pilot was not even a quarter of the WEEKLY budget for this rubbish. Of course your comment that because it had more of a budget it must have been better makes sense...DUH.

As for the 5 minutes my entire graphics department of 200 spent on doing the piss take picture, ill pass on your comments and make sure they do a better job next time. They did say to me that the were trying to encapsulate the style, genre and look of the nightlive show in it and i think they did quite well with that. funny thing also, all they did was copy the style of the pic on rtes website and text look, does that mean that the nightlive look is crap too...surely not! Apologies...

There was only 2 episodes of the Roaring Twenties. This series got 4 episodes AFAIK. I don't know the budget for either.

vivadeadponies

irelandtvreview wrote: »

Firstly The roaring twenties was not great, agreed, but heres some facts for you. The roaring twenties was given a budget to shoot a pilot show. With the budget for the pilot they improvised and shot the entire series! I Can tell you that the budget for that pilot was not even a quarter of the WEEKLY budget for this rubbish. Of course your comment that because it had more of a budget it must have been better makes sense...DUH.

As for the 5 minutes my entire graphics department of 200 spent on doing the piss take picture, ill pass on your comments and make sure they do a better job next time. They did say to me that the were trying to encapsulate the style, genre and look of the nightlive show in it and i think they did quite well with that. funny thing also, all they did was copy the style of the pic on rtes website and text look, does that mean that the nightlive look is crap too...surely not! Apologies...

a piece of sh!t with money going for it is generally going to be better than a piece of sh!t with no money.

I was moreso saying the crappy image thing stopped me from being able to take your comment seriously. Don't worry though, the style was perfectly fine... it was the joke that was crap.

irelandtvreview

vivadeadponies wrote: »

a piece of sh!t with money going for it is generally going to be better than a piece of sh!t with no money.

I was moreso saying the crappy image thing stopped me from being able to take your comment seriously. Don't worry though, the style was perfectly fine... it was the joke that was crap.

Not necceserily true, u can give a great idea little or no money and it can work. It's all about talent, and what joke?? I'm deadly serious, I'm giving it the awards of biggest pile of s?&t on rye and also the other covered prizes:D

vivadeadponies

irelandtvreview wrote: »

Not necceserily true, u can give a great idea little or no money and it can work. It's all about talent, and what joke?? I'm deadly serious, I'm giving it the awards of biggest pile of s?&t on rye and also the other covered prizes:D

em... attention scum had some of the best talent in england behind it and a teeny budget. it kinda worked, but that means its only kinda the exception to the rule too.

yeah, awards of sh!t,

ha


ha

JohhnyHanjob

Sorry just had to register to post This

this f**kin ting makes me shoot steam out my ears , Rte take TAX (ie License Fee) and throw it at C*R*A*P like this

I know comedy , I could write sketches which climb up a f**kin ladder and PEE all over nightlive but no .....Rte would prefer to give it to these chancers !!!!

Its worse than father ted or leave it to mrs o brien or the panel

irelandtvreview and jazzy we should get together and get our ideas going nad send them in , be worth it to see what they say

I've been keeping a journal of sketches much better than anything there

banner you said
"If Aids and Cancer had a baby this would be it."
man got it in one

they should be jailed, who the f**k is john ryan anyway

irelandtvreview

vivadeadponies wrote: »

em... attention scum had some of the best talent in england behind it and a teeny budget. it kinda worked, but that means its only kinda the exception to the rule too.

yeah, awards of sh!t,

ha


ha

Are you retarded ie just a bit slow? That's exactly what I said, you CAN do good stuff with little or no money, proving my point that your comment saying it should be good cos it has budget is balls!

You're getting my shot award for being a retard. Congratulations:) you're parents must be so proud

Jonnyhanjob im in, let's do a sitcom about a forum user that hasn't a brain, call it "drop the dead vivadeadponies" maybe? What ya think?

Mr E

OK folks,

1. This is not After Hours, so stop swearing.
2. Personal abuse is not allowed (irelandtvreview I'm looking at you)

If people don't chill out and give measured arguments why the program is crap (without resorting to swearing or "this is teh ghey" type comments), then it'll be time to close the thread. Cheers...

irelandtvreview

Mr E wrote: »

OK folks,

1. This is not After Hours, so stop swearing.
2. Personal abuse is not allowed (irelandtvreview I'm looking at you)

If people don't chill out and give measured arguments why the program is crap (without resorting to swearing or "this is teh ghey" type comments), then it'll be time to close the thread. Cheers...

Apologies about the personal abuse, its just i get so worked up when trying to explain my opinion to idiots and they just reiterate my comment back to me. Sorry

Our man in Havana

I was going to give you a 7 day holiday.

I have reconsidered. One more false move though. Capice?

livingtargets

Considering that the man who wrote this tasteless rubbish tried to make a living out of publishing failed magazines about dogs in New York before returning to Ireland to make a terrible spoof show that`s been done a million times before,maybe a much funnier show would be the lifestory of this yuppie dope?

Cringeworthy.Disgracingly tasteless jokes about the Long Kesh hungerstrikes and...well I can`t really remember anything else...

humanji

But didn't he just insult people after being told not to? :pac:

JohhnyHanjob

Bond-007 wrote: »

I have reconsidered. One more false move though. Capice?

BRAVO to the boards.ie controllors and there cool way of imparting the power they wield although I like the cut of irelandtvreviews jib

Still I aint posting any of my material here cause any fool could run away with it and claim it as his own

Lenihan and MAtthews had to go abroad before they were recognised because the w**kers in dublin 4 wouldnt know good comedy if it plays the benny hill tune and hit them in the face with a chair

JohhnyHanjob

Bond-007 is a cool handle dude.

Elmo

JohhnyHanjob wrote: »

Lenihan and MAtthews had to go abroad before they were recognised because the w**kers in dublin 4 wouldnt know good comedy if it plays the benny hill tune and hit them in the face with a chair

Didn't Lenihan and Matthews start on NightHawks?

ScumLord

irelandtvreview wrote: »

If i ever(and it could be very soon) stop paying my tv license,

Paying your tv license is like paying to have your back garden turned into a skip for used heroin needles.

I missed it but it sounds so bad I want to see it now.

crustyjuggler

livingtargets wrote: »

Considering that the man who wrote this tasteless rubbish tried to make a living out of publishing failed magazines about dogs in New York before returning to Ireland to make a terrible spoof show that`s been done a million times before,maybe a much funnier show would be the lifestory of this yuppie dope?

Cringeworthy.Disgracingly tasteless jokes about the Long Kesh hungerstrikes and...well I can`t really remember anything else...

Remember that show from back in the day Night Stand presented by Dick Dietrick .

vivadeadponies

irelandtvreview wrote: »

Are you retarded ie just a bit slow? That's exactly what I said, you CAN do good stuff with little or no money, proving my point that your comment saying it should be good cos it has budget is balls!

You're getting my shot award for being a retard. Congratulations:) you're parents must be so proud

Jonnyhanjob im in, let's do a sitcom about a forum user that hasn't a brain, call it "drop the dead vivadeadponies" maybe? What ya think?

what I was saying is some people CAN, but that show had people like Stewart Lee and Simon Munnery at its core. I was just pointing out how you can have the very highest level of talent and still struggle due to a lack of financing.

Me wrote:

a piece of **** with money going for it is generally going to be better than a piece of **** with no money.

Does that say "show with money=good, show with no money=bad"?
Does "better"="good"?

Oh and can I be involved in writing this sitcom? Since I've had offers from publishers to write stuff, since I "know comedy":P, since I've performed comedy(admittedly very little)




EDIT-Mr E; sorry bout that. I censored the letters and whatnot, wasn't aware there was a full ban, sorry.

AnonoBoy

crustyjuggler wrote: »

Remember that show from back in the day Night Stand presented by Dick Dietrick .

Vaguely remember it. I think I liked it but I was stoned for most of the 90's so don't quote me on that.

Jazzy

you see the amount of great comedy on the BBC and then reflect it back to RTE and just cry. take a look at Time Trumpet which went out on BBC 3 back in 2006. do you think RTE would have the talent to realise why a script for this show would be incredible if it had got to them first?

What worries me about RTE is the fact that its entertainment division seems to be very clique orientated. its just one giant circle jerk where they are telling each other how great they are... if im wrong then explain how andrew maxwell has a tv show. their way of advertising is simply to tell us how amazing and funny shows are and to pile drive that message down our throats. the RTE cant let shows rest on their own laurels simply because if they were to do that then they would be shown up for what they are and nearly everything would be a failure.
RTE is out of touch with what makes quality comedy and has been for some time. Ian Fitzgibbon and Michael McElhatton have been gone a good while and that was the last bastion of high brow comedy RTE had. instead it seems like the greasy a$$ lickers jumped into that void and have been producing poor comedy ever since. its all a deception, all a circle jerk. look on this very thread for the proof - they have so little confidence in their show that they have to create false boards.ie accounts to pimp it.. and im led to believe that isnt the first time that has happend.


as i said - put some cameras in krystle or renards or lillies or whichever sordid little grief hole ( ) they are going to and film them snorting charlie with other models while they tell each other how great they are. i think that would make absolutely great comedy. RTE wouldnt get the joke by the seems of it though

JohhnyHanjob

face it lads and lasses , nightlive is a sittin duck

i say we put some material together and send it to rte to show them what REAL comedy is

im thinking
* profile of a D4 looser who gets paid in pints of HEINO to talk up rte's new "comedy".....but gets CREEEEAMMED by a 46A as he crosses the road lol

Shane10

just bring back rats

vivadeadponies

Jazzy wrote: »

take a look at Time Trumpet which went out on BBC 3 back in 2006. do you think RTE would have the talent to realise why a script for this show would be incredible if it had got to them first?

Armando Iannucci's Time Trumpet

Of course RTE would need someone of his quality as a producer to make something like that even work too.




Comedy's a fine art; few places outside of England(with their whole radio 4 grooming thing and, more recently and less successfully, BBC3) and America(where each station does a ton of unaired pilots first) can pull it off on a television level(Australia being the most obvious I suppose).

In other words; if Irish acts have any ambition at all, they shouldn't even consider RTE and aim for England. RTE shouldn't waste funds on this when they could focus on their strengths.

father_ted9t9

Shane10 wrote: »

just bring back rats

I Agree, Paths to freedom, although cringeworthy, was a good tv series. But then lets look at fergus wedding...TERRIBLE. Comedy is hit and miss and you dont need to have letters saying youre good or offers(Looking at vivadeadponies!!) to see this, there will never be a comedy that everyone likes, but when programmes are getting slated by 90% of its viewers, its time for the commissioning editor to put hands up and say, DOH i've done it again.

Shane10

paths to freedom wasnt cringeworthy atal, it was great. ya fergus's wedding wasnt nearly as good but still ok. the guy that was in paths to freedom - he was rats friend in the band with long hair cant remeber his name. always thought he was funny in bits ive seen him in.

vivadeadponies

father_ted9t9 wrote: »

I Agree, Paths to freedom, although cringeworthy, was a good tv series. But then lets look at fergus wedding...TERRIBLE. Comedy is hit and miss and you dont need to have letters saying youre good or offers(Looking at vivadeadponies!!) to see this, there will never be a comedy that everyone likes, but when programmes are getting slated by 90% of its viewers, its time for the commissioning editor to put hands up and say, DOH i've done it again.

I was just being childish with yer man:D

were Fergus's Wedding and The Cassidy's on back-to-back?

did they ever give the two of them(Fitzgibbon and McElhatton) a third chance? Considering the success of Paths to Freedom, you'd think they deserved one.

lbyrne1981

JohhnyHanjob wrote: »

face it lads and lasses , nightlive is a sittin duck

i say we put some material together and send it to rte to show them what REAL comedy is

im thinking
* profile of a D4 looser who gets paid in pints of HEINO to talk up rte's new "comedy".....but gets CREEEEAMMED by a 46A as he crosses the road lol

Better still, would anyone on this site be open to getting a petition to send in to rte? im trying to get online signatures together from the other message boards This is worse than FAS. If fat cat Roddy can lose his job over a few upgrades then surely this should be taken off the air. The greatest waste of money I have ever seen. Thanks, Liam. PS Say NO to Lisbon

TheBlock

irelandtvreview wrote: »

Firstly The roaring twenties was not great, agreed, but heres some facts for you. The roaring twenties was given a budget to shoot a pilot show. With the budget for the pilot they improvised and shot the entire series! I Can tell you that the budget for that pilot was not even a quarter of the WEEKLY budget for this rubbish.

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The above is not fact.

JohhnyHanjob

lbyrne1981 wrote: »

Better still, would anyone on this site be open to getting a petition to send in to rte? im trying to get online signatures together from the other message boards

there are no other message boards dude this is tha no1

im on for a petition but dunno if rte will listen to JohhnyHanjob

They should though cause I'd love to see my comedy sketches on tv

i will use my real name if your serious re : petition altho I could claim that Hanjob is Egyptian

you might want to drop the 1981 from your name - you might have a hard time convincin them that your some kinda f**kin robot lol

Hey BOND 007 if i want to post some comedy sketches can i do it here

lbyrne1981

JohhnyHanjob wrote: »

there are no other message boards dude this is tha no1

im on for a petition but dunno if rte will listen to JohhnyHanjob

They should though cause I'd love to see my comedy sketches on tv

i will use my real name if your serious re : petition altho I could claim that Hanjob is Egyptian

you might want to drop the 1981 from your name - you might have a hard time convincin them that your some kinda f**kin robot lol

Hey BOND 007 if i want to post some comedy sketches can i do it here

I am serious about the petition. This is our money, money that could help people NOW. This 'comedy' is aimed at our age group so if they know that we have standards they'll stop making rubbish. We should be famous for our comedy. It's a pity the 'boys' aren't still active.

Hey, I have some sketches if you want to swap?

JohhnyHanjob

TheBlock wrote: »

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The above is not fact.

i agree, it's not the federation against copyright theft (FACT) lol

mike65

Time Trumpet wasn't even an great series by Armando Iannuccis' usual standards.

irelandtvreview

TheBlock wrote: »

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The above is not fact.

Apologies, i dont know 100% but i know a few people who were working on this and also knew the guys from BCFE that were doing it and they told me it was fact. If this is untrue i stand corrected. maybe you can correct the point?The Budget was still minimal for it i guarantee comapred to nightlive...which sucks by the way...did i mention that

JohhnyHanjob

lbyrne1981 wrote: »

Hey, I have some sketches if you want to swap?

ya what about the nitelive gimps keepin an eye on this thread then???

you wanna see john ryan rob your material and use it???

f**kit i wouldn't care as long as it got on tv

YA HEAR THAT GIMPS???

JohhnyHanjob

lbyrne1981

can you PM me re : sketches

also let me know what music you like cause im not sharing a table with someone who might like cr*p like My Chemical Romance aka My Musical No Pants

if your stuff is any cop then we could go places I'm in D11 btw

lbyrne1981

JohhnyHanjob wrote: »

ya what about the nitelive gimps keepin an eye on this thread then???

you wanna see john ryan rob your material and use it???

f**kit i wouldn't care as long as it got on tv

YA HEAR THAT GIMPS???

Ryan is a west brit. He probably loves owen harris and thinks Thatcher was the greatest. why doesnt he go back to his dogs in new york.

What sounds are you listening to at the mo?

Aidric

I'm surprised nobody in RTE has commissioned someone to adapt a screenplay from the Ross O Carroll Kelly series of books.

JohhnyHanjob

officially im listenin to lil wayne
unofficially im listenin to the new animal collective which r*o*c*k*s

f**kin curfew

gotta go

talk tomorrow dude

Pigman II

Aidric wrote: »

I'm surprised nobody in RTE has commissioned someone to adapt a screenplay from the Ross O Carroll Kelly series of books.

Nobody in that position would be able to detect the irony.