RTE: The Savage Eye

DangerMouse27

This is so funny...i think there is something wrong with you if you dont like this.
Rte comedy had gotten so stale,Sarah and Steve...ur kidding me right!
Jason Byrne...shoot him! The Panel...aka The Andrew Maxwell state of the nation address.

Long Live McSavage

Ash.J.Williams

I found that show to be very funny. Deffo the best Irish hope this year, I began to really detest Irish comedy, but Savage has redeemed himself in my book.

unemployed

What a load of crap.

We have some many funny characters in this country. Why are they forcing the bleeding muppets down our throat. Jason Byrne is not funny, period!! Mc Savage , while his character was remotely funny in that other crap RTE produced, is not funny. That other Muppet from the republic of telly, is not funny. Jake Stevens is not funny. I did love Podge and Rodge a few years back, but it is just the same old tired show now. Sarah and Steve is actually quite good, well at least Sarah is very good, very believable. Baz and the other two Muppets are not funny.

I sat through 2 episodes before making my decission. In the first episode I lol'ed at the stories spreading. From there on, I did not laugh once.

Oh and Please RTE. Father Ted is genius comedy, unfortunately they cannot make any more episodes. Please, Please, Please stop showing it. This classic stuff should be off our television screens for a few years. So that when people see it again, they look at it afresh. Instead of "Not that ****e again".

Johnny Giles

Byrne is useless but with this series McSavage has shown what he is capable of - Classic Comedy Gold.

Deep Easterly

Clip of McSavage from 1998:

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

"Danish is one of the most beautiful languages...."

:D:D

Power-surge

Last nights episode was hilarious

claiva

I thought is was very funny.
Possibly parts of it are cheap shocks to get laughs....but who cares.
I laughed out loud several times.
Thats what its all about.....right ?
Fair play to them. We need a few laughs at the moment.

I love the barman guy....whaaaa !!

Vincent Vega

Lads, is there any way to find out how many complaints that Sex in the City scene got last night?:D:D
If the progression from ep1-ep2 is indicative of how the show will continually gain momentum I can see this series causin small murder by the time it finishes:rolleyes:

masteire

savage

fryup

I think its without doubt the best comedy sketch show RTE have ever made. (would'nt be hard i suppose)
Its self-deprecating, critical and honest look at irish society is the sharpest since scrap saturday.

The writing and editing is for the most part spot on, having said that i taught last night was a wee bit OTT in parts but overall i say well done RTE.

michelplatini

Johnny Giles
never smiles
cos his arse is full of itchy piles

bending over
the cliffs of Moher
facing the ocean's miles

with a funt
up the hole
the ****
is sent swimming with the sole
by his old friend Nobby Styles.


(the cheers from the crowd are deafening)

Jazzy

the 3 b's for McSavage.

Beaten. Bullied. Burnt.

WolfForager

michelplatini wrote: »

Johnny Giles
never smiles
cos his arse is full of itchy piles

bending over
the cliffs of Moher
facing the ocean's miles

with a funt
up the hole
the ****
is sent swimming with the sole
by his old friend Nobby Styles.


(the cheers from the crowd are deafening)

Nolanger

"The very first time that I realised that sex existed in the world was when I came across a porn magazine" Literally?

mike65

http://www.rte.ie/player/#v=1061336

Aidric

currythis wrote: »

the two uncomfortable farmers

Ah now.

leoshiner

I thought the first show was the funniest thing on Rté for years and the second one thankfully was just as good,there is a lot of vitriol directed at McSavage on these types of boards,but I've always found him funny if not likable and at the end of the day that's a lot more important when you're working in comedy

el diablo

Now we know where he got his inspiration for the auld culchie barman.

Johnny Giles

The barman's IRA dance was funny in the first episode.

Last night he rid a woman and a bee landed on his mickey and it shtarted bladin.

philstar

or the sex education from the 1970s......

as brief as f&ck........."and now children lets learn how the British raped Ireland"

Deep Easterly

The 'Sex in the City' skit in last nights episode had me in tears!

yosser hughes

Great show,well done to all concerned. Finally, a comedy that really takes the piss out of Ireland.I laughed out loud quite a bit and that's saying something. I find most Irish comedians and their comedy to be very very unfunny.
This was a refreshing change.

TOI4PHKc

To tell you the truth I have not live in Ireland for about 10 years and I don't know who this McSavage guy is, so the savage eye is the first time I have come across him.

It was very funny in parts, but mostly it was all old stuff, most of those jokes where around when I left. It was not controversial. I get the feeling he would love for people to think that it was controversial and that he was the new Bill Hicks. But I'am afraid when a guy is making jokes your mother has made he is no Bill Hicks.

The best thing that has been said about this show is that it is the best comedy that RTE has done. I' am afraid this would still make it a crap show. Some of it is genuinely funny, it looks like RTE are starting to learning how to put a show together (there not there yet don't get me wrong), they seem to have put a lot of writer into the show which has resulted in a few good jokes.

I do think it is unfair that people have brought this guys family into, if his funny his funny.

However it is very clear, that people that are involved in the show are posting things on this website. This I find very sad, if you cant leave the public judge your work on its merits you will not go very far.

Overall I think it was ok at best some good jokes, but Its just not funny enough the jokes are old, there trying to be clever but I don't think this guy is smart enough. But I don't know the guy so I don't mean to make personal comments.

Ann22

Like last weeks, I loved it. I didn't see the jokes as old at all. The mammy giving instructions on the bj, the chap at the social welfare only qualifying for a bj from your man with the gappy teeth...the enthusiastic girl in the sex and and the city sketch, the creepy barman..all are fresh and original. Anyone who says they sat and watched without laughing at least once is either fibbing or incredibly straight laced.

TOI4PHKc

look I am not saying that he has copied old jokes. I'am just saying that most of the jokes you could hear in ever comedy club in the country 10-15 years ago. I don't think you can call it fresh and new when you can see most of the same kind of jokes on ever second youtube video on Ireland.

I am not saying that it was completely crap it a ok show and by rte standard its a great show. but It makes me sad that we are happy to say its good enough for RTE. We should keep asking for better until we get it that. Something fresh and that comes at things at a new angle. I don't think this does I think the style is old not 50 years old but its like something from the 80s but its not fresh. I think RTE can do better then this but I am not saying it was not funny in part but still best Irish comedy ever its a bit far off that don't you think.

TOI4PHKc

Anyone who says they sat and watched without laughing at least once is either fibbing or incredibly straight laced.[/QUOTE]

I do agree that you would have to be missing your funny bone to not have laugh at some bit. But I think that with more and more people in Ireland getting Sky etc RTE shows will have to take on US and Brit comedies and the savage eye is NO WHERE NEAR that standard

Vincent Vega

TOI4PHKc wrote: »

To tell you the truth......

TOI4PHKc wrote: »

look I am not saying that ....

TOI4PHKc wrote: »

I do agree that.....

Neil Delamere would ye give it a rest already.:rolleyes:

Jip

DangerMouse27 wrote: »

Rte comedy had gotten so stale,Sarah and Steve...ur kidding me right!

Alot of people liked Sarah and Steve, the only people who seemed to not like it are those who thought it was based in the northside or those who got offended on behalf for the poor downtrodden Tallafornians. In fact it was quite the opposite of stale, it was fresh (even though Dan and Becs preceded it) and the format is not used too often.

TOI4PHKc

Neil Delamere I' am afraid not. I' am a little hunt particular in light of the republic of telly which I think everyone here agrees is a bad show. no you are right I' am in industry but from the tv side of things but I don't work in Ireland.

DangerMouse27

True Jip....but getting it sort of right with Dan and Becs didnt mean the lazy shower didnt have to just throw it in the washing machine and air it again..ala Sarah and Steve...lazy comedy!