Your Bad Self : RTÉ Two, Monday 11 January, 9.55pm

Mr E

YBS threads merged.

Black Magic

mike65 wrote: »

Liveline listeners are appalled, tune in at 1.45

Seriously?

MoominPapa

Only saw the last 10 mins, laughed a few times, didn't think any of it was terrible although a fair bit was so-so, in comparison the first BBC series of Armstrong & Miller was pretty dire, and they've been at it for 10 years they got it together for the second though. Comedy is very hard to get right, I've a lot of hope for this - the last sketch was delightfully crass and funny and very well acted

ScumLord

It had it's moments in places but that laughter track is just off-putting, they start laughing at bit's that just couldn't be seen as funny, it seems to kick off whenever someone starts talking sometimes making it hard to hear the actual punch line at the end.

I don't know why RTE can't do comedy, the crap direction and editing just ruins the flow and there's an abundance of scenes that seem to go on and on and pauses and gaps. It's seems like a pure accident when they get it right.

AnonoBoy

Should be a good liveline today. Might be funnier than the show itself!

AnonoBoy

I know everyone's down on the laughtrack but a lot of sketch shows use them.

Big Train, Fast Show, League of Gentlemen - all had laugh tracks.

I can get past laugh tracks if the content is good enough. We'll just have to see if they can improve over the next few weeks.

mike65

BBC do not use laugh tracks - the gurning idiots are real.

InisMor

Of course people here hate it.

It's Irish.

It was bloody hilarious.

What exactly will the Liveline callers be giving out about?

The Savage Eye was ten times more vulgar, even when it wasn't trying to be.

AnonoBoy

mike65 wrote: »

BBC do not use laugh tracks - the gurning idiots are real.

Ah yes, I wasn't differentiating between live and fake laugh tracks.

Not sure if Your Bad Self used canned laughter although I suspect not since they advertising for preview screenings at the end of the show, so I'd imagine they're recording them live.

AnonoBoy

InisMor wrote: »

What exactly will the Liveline callers be giving out about?

The Savage Eye was ten times more vulgar, even when it wasn't trying to be.

There's nothing about it on yet. But then again Liveline users will give about anything, logic and reason don't come into it.

Reginald P. DuM

I presume its the dumping in the bottle incident they will be giving out about.. Shall we call it cargate, or dumpgate! OK it wasn't the slight bit funny but talking to Joe about it is a bit much now. As someone rightly pointed out Savage's show was full of filth and no one batted an eyelid, to my knowledge.

AnonoBoy

Reginald P. DuM wrote: »

I presume its the dumping in the bottle incident they will be giving out about.. Shall we call it cargate, or dumpgate! OK it wasn't the slight bit funny but talking to Joe about it is a bit much now. As someone rightly pointed out Savage's show was full of filth and no one batted an eyelid, to my knowledge.

I laughed at the dump in the bottle.

Black Magic

On now

Reginald P. DuM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I laughed at the dump in the bottle.

No accounting for taste I guess...

If you were travelling in a car with a bunch of mates and this gag came up you'd hardly think it was hilarious now would ya. Whoever uttered it you'd say, in between choking through tearful laughter, man you should be on TV!! Can't see it.

Black Magic

That guy on Liveline should feck off. It was on at 10 o clock. Not RTÉ's fault that children might be watching. And I've seen stuff just as bad on Channel 4. Tosser.

AnonoBoy

Reginald P. DuM wrote: »

No accounting for taste I guess...

If you were travelling in a car with a bunch of mates and this gag came up you'd hardly think it was hilarious now would ya. Whoever uttered it you'd say, in between choking through tearful laughter, man you should be on TV!! Can't see it.

Well now if a lot of things in comedy were done in real life I'd not think they were funny but that's why we have this thing called television so we can watch stuff that we wouldn't do in real life.

AnonoBoy

I like the way he says he only watched a bit and then turned over but yet the first thing he talked about was almost the last sketch in the show.

Black Magic

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I like the way he says he only watched a bit and then turned over but yet the first thing he talked about was almost the last sketch in the show.

Exactly that. Someone will say it to him but he'll say he was surfing over and back or just came across it. The show wasn't hillarious but that guy is going to far.

It's an RTÉ rant. "RTE are terrible" etc. How often is he going to say it?

mike65

Beastiality and defication? Wasn't all that in the Savage Eye? That fella ain't paying attention.

Black Magic

mike65 wrote: »

Beastiality and defication? Wasn't all that in the Savage Eye? That fella ain't paying attention.

And Paedophilia and a Joe Duffy bondage scene! Won't somebody think of the children.

Black Magic

"You loved My Bad Self"


It's not My Bad Self Joe!

AnonoBoy

Black Magic wrote: »

Won't somebody think of the children.

Savage Eye had Catholic Church gags too!

Black Magic

Well that was great.

Black Magic

MY BAD SELF.

Feck sake Joe. You work for RTÉ. "Watch it on your laptop on RealPlayer". Joe's living in the past.

AnonoBoy

Brilliant - the young lad on now didn't even watch it and he's complaining about it.

Nodin

Scien wrote: »

Bring back The Savage eye tbh.

...I liked The Savage Eye......

JonathanAnon

Feck sake Joe. You work for RTÉ. "Watch it on your laptop on RealPlayer". Joe's living in the past.

You must have Windows 98 SE though. typical RTE, left hand doesnt know what the right hand is doing.

Got three to one votes in favour of the program all the same. A win for the makers. I didnt think it was fantastic, the pilot wasnt great at all. But there were some funny sketches to be fair.

InisMor

AnonoBoy wrote: »

There's nothing about it on yet. But then again Liveline users will give about anything, logic and reason don't come into it.

One 40 year old guy who hates RTE anyway, one guy who didn't like it but took no offence and two people who thought it was funny!!!

That was it. Joe was gabbing about in the preview on Ronan Collins show. That it would be a argument or something at least.:(

weldoninhio

Watched 10 minutes of it, didn't laugh once. Also for a professional show, someone should have told the guy in the Xman sketch (the manager type) that its not professional to look directly into the camera and smile mid-sketch. He did this when walking away from Xman idiot.

InisMor

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Brilliant - the young lad on now didn't even watch it and he's complaining about it.

Probably on the the RTE haters here:P

InisMor

weldoninhio wrote: »

Watched 10 minutes of it, didn't laugh once. Also for a professional show, someone should have told the guy in the Xman sketch (the manager type) that its not professional to look directly into the camera and smile mid-sketch. He did this when walking away from Xman idiot.

it's X-Men, actually. You obviously weren't even listening in those 10 minutes.

BTW, were you watching for exactly 10 minutes?

Black Magic

InisMor wrote: »

it's X-Men, actually. You obviously weren't even listening in those 10 minutes.

BTW, were you watching for exactly 10 minutes?

Xmen, Xman.

Obviously you didn't watch the show. I suppose you could have looked at it and yet got the name wrong. You make it sound like it's impossible to do so. :pac:

Black Magic

weldoninhio wrote: »

Watched 10 minutes of it, didn't laugh once. Also for a professional show, someone should have told the guy in the Xman sketch (the manager type) that its not professional to look directly into the camera and smile mid-sketch. He did this when walking away from Xman idiot.

Funny

weldoninhio

InisMor wrote: »

it's X-Men, actually. You obviously weren't even listening in those 10 minutes.

BTW, were you watching for exactly 10 minutes?

Watched it for exactly 12minutes 13seconds on RTE player. And sorry for mistaking X-Men for X-Man, are you any relation to Comic Book Guy???

Kipperhell

The canned laughter was awful and sounded like it was from the 70s. You can't help but think that many people who work in the RTE are very old school and have no idea how to edit a show in modern times.

It didn't appear to be funny either. Watched maybe 10 minutes

InisMor

weldoninhio wrote: »

Watched it for exactly 12minutes 13seconds on RTE player. And sorry for mistaking X-Men for X-Man, are you any relation to Comic Book Guy???

Well, you said 10 minutes, now your saying 12 minutes 13 seconds.

Why didn't you just tell the truth from the start? How can wetrust you now??:D

Now, how do I explain this next bit??? About the differences between a cartoon drawing and an actual person???:pac:

Lemondrop kid

InisMor wrote: »

Of course people here hate it.

It's Irish.

It was bloody hilarious.

What exactly will the Liveline callers be giving out about?

The Savage Eye was ten times more vulgar, even when it wasn't trying to be.

Yes, that is interesting, considering the Savage Eye skits. Didn't hear liveline (i have a life) but i suspect it was the aul horse humping. Beastiality - just to close to the rural bone...:D

Read through later posts - so it was the horse humping was it?

ScumLord

I thought the x-mans bit was hilarious.

Black Magic

Lemondrop kid wrote: »

Yes, that is interesting, considering the Savage Eye skits. Didn't hear liveline (i have a life) but i suspect it was the aul horse humping. Beastiality - just to close to the rural bone...:D

Read through later posts - so it was the horse humping was it?

It was Brendan Gleeson's son having anal sex with a horse and pooing in a bottle.

Dags Bllx

i thought it was great, bar the laughter track.
Fair does to rte for doing something risky-i'm fed up of pat short humour!

ianrush

As everyone has been saying, get rid of the laughter track. I'm guessing they won't because the danger is that it will expose how flat the comedy really is. The majority of the sketches were very ordinary, like half-remembered re-heated left overs from the fast show. The best sketches were the actor willing to do anything and the x-men shop assistant. The rest were instantly forgettable.

AnonoBoy

Black Magic wrote: »

It was Brendan Gleeson's son having anal sex with a horse and pooing in a bottle.

Not at the same time though. That would be too immoral.

ScumLord wrote: »

I thought the x-mans bit was hilarious.

It was bizarre alright. I liked it.

ianrush wrote: »

As everyone has been saying, get rid of the laughter track. I'm guessing they won't because the danger is that it will expose how flat the comedy really is. The majority of the sketches were very ordinary, like half-remembered re-heated left overs from the fast show. The best sketches were the actor willing to do anything and the x-men shop assistant. The rest were instantly forgettable.

Sketch shows without a laugh track (be it canned or live) are very very rare. I can't think of any sketch show that doesn't have one. It will stay.

tunguska

Holy crap RTE really cant do comedy. This was shockin' stuff altogether. Awful.

SprostonGreen

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Brilliant - the young lad on now didn't even watch it and he's complaining about it.

He should post here, if he doesnt already.

Hank_Jones

The sketches are pretty hit and miss, and a lot more miss than hit.
But I did find a few of them funny.

We're an awful cynical bunch. :pac:

SprostonGreen

I'll be watching again, its good stuff.

Teacherman

I like it.It was fifty? fifty with the sketches-hit/miss. Thank God Rte have opted for something with a bit of meat on it rather than the usual total slap stick. The Guard giving the bad news was class-what is the name of that actor as he is well suited to this type of stuff. Pleasure to see Amy of course-she is gorgeous.

el diablo

Teacherman wrote: »

The Guard giving the bad news was class-what is the name of that actor as he is well suited to this type of stuff..

Think it was the same bloke that's in Path to Freedom (Rats). Not sure of his name.

Nodin

I lasted 2.42 seconds, as the canned laughter just put me off.

Black Magic

el diablo wrote: »

Think it was the same bloke that's in Path to Freedom (Rats). Not sure of his name.

Michael McElhatton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_McElhatton

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0568385/maindetails