Return of Republic of Telly

Doodah7

Thought it was very funny last night. Some very funny pieces and Tubridy seemed to be a good sport for the LLS sketch.

JP Liz V1

tallpaul wrote: »

Thought it was very funny last night. Some very funny pieces and Tubridy seemed to be a good sport for the LLS sketch.

Will.I.Am is some pr*ck

Namlub

The Damo and Ivor thing will never be funny

DyldeBrill

Worst Comedy Show Evvvvvvverrrr!!

el diablo

Namlub wrote: »

The Damo and Ivor thing will never be funny

Maybe so, but they're still vastly funnier than them Elastic Bandits. :rolleyes:

Namlub

el diablo wrote: »

Maybe so, but they're still vastly funnier than them Elastic Bandits. :rolleyes:

Elastic Bandits? Good one.
Not saying either of them are sophisticated humour but Damo and Ivor is just a Ross O'Carroll Kelly rip-off five years too late and five times less funny.

Miguel_Sanchez

el diablo wrote: »

Maybe so, but they're still vastly funnier than them Elastic Bandits. :rolleyes:

That's why Damo and Ivor have been picked up by Channel 4 for their own show I suppose then! :pac:

el diablo

Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »

That's why Damo and Ivor have been picked up by Channel 4 for their own show I suppose then! :pac:

Ah that's great news. fair play to them.

Namlub

I think he was being ironic

KerranJast

Anybody catch this last night?

Pretty impressive that they were able to film this in one shot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POuq4DjtwS4

JP Liz V1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js-Yet5kskA

el diablo

Jesus, this show is pathetic. Or maybe I'm too old for this shít (I assume it's aimed at teenagers).

mike65

I'm mindyour****ingbusiness and have to say I quite enjoy it. Probably shouldn't but its got a bit of the old late night Channel 4 about it.

technocrat

Jennifer Maguire the most unfunny person on tv.
Her sketch tonight as the tourist official was cringeworthy!

DubArk

el diablo wrote: »

Jesus, this show is pathetic. Or maybe I'm too old for this shít (I assume it's aimed at teenagers).

Maybe it's you're not old enough?

JP Liz V1

Not the best finale show last night

el diablo

DubArk wrote: »

Maybe it's you're not old enough?

Yes. maybe that's it.

furiousox

What about that dress that "Jen" appeared in at the end...wow!

coffeeandshoes

I worked for Jen and I can pretty much confirm that yes, she is a twat. And a mean one at that.. Cost's nothing to be nice

Go Harvey Go

Bump for the start of yet another series - the seventh, if I'm right in thinking.



And, as surprising as grass being green, the other horribly cheap and painfully unfunny comedy that Jennifer Maguire does airs immediately beforehand.



If the folks at Montrose weren't ghastly dehumanised morons, they would know that they can do way better than this - and it wouldn't cost them a lot of money, either.

el diablo

Quite possible the biggest load of crap ever produced by RTÉ. I switched off after ten minutes.

I think this must be aimed at school kids/young students or maybe I'm just getting old.

johnpatrick81

I actually kinda enjoyed some bits of last years. So I was somewhat looking forward to this. Jesus H, I must have been high on crack or it got a whole lot worse, but that was shockingly bad. That robogarda sounded like one of the rubberbandits, if so, hang yer head in shame lad! Caught 10 minutes of the Fear, wow, 40 minutes of cringetastic badness. Never again.

Ash.J.Williams

The Robocop was f**in hilarious!!

lods

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

The Robocop was f**in hilarious!!

No it wasn't. pretty **** show last night. besst bits were taking the piss out of masterchef

johnpatrick81

yeah that was the only half decent bit. they're at their best when taking the piss out of current rte programmes like they did last year with the afternoon show, fair city, and that pet rescue thing. wanderly ****in wagon? talk about scraping the barrel.

Stevecw

Really enjoyed this last year, but was very poor last night.

That Robocop thing was brutal, and then they say if you want to see full Robocop version watch on website!! If that was the best 5 mins they could pull from however long it was, can't imagine how bad the rest was.

Need to up their game a bit to keep viewers.

Darth Floodric

Shocking show.hate to knock our own and I always root for Irish talent but this was absolutely tragic

Chocoholic84

Best bits - taking the pee outta Masterchef.

Worst bit - when Dermot cracked that Christian Brothers joke. Disgusting & unfunny. He's gone way down in my estimation after that

evil_seed

They're filming in eyre square today. Saw them earlier

Ash.J.Williams

This show had a lot of promise. It seems to have died.

Ash.J.Williams

not much chat about it so far this year! Don't think i even smiled watching last nights!

noodler

I watched today's one online in work at lunch today and I thought it was funny enough.

Much better (or consistent) then last two.

grenache

el diablo wrote: »

Quite possible the biggest load of crap ever produced by RTÉ. I switched off after ten minutes.

I think this must be aimed at school kids/young students or maybe I'm just getting old.

You've been telling us on pretty much every page how "crap" it is. If you dislike it so much, why keep coming back to watch it, and then coming on here bitching about it.

Just don't watch it. We don't need to hear you repeating yourself over and over.

Basq

Hadn't seen this show in a year and two and decided to tune it for the most recent one..

.. good jesus, it's poor!

Is it just me or do the audience genuinely seem like they're not enjoying themselves? Everytime there's a joke made by Dermot Whelan, it focuses on a group of audience members that stare at each other or around and do the most exaggerated laugh possible.

Absolute trash!

Ash.J.Williams

Basq wrote: »

Hadn't seen this show in a year and two and decided to tune it for the most recent one..

.. good jesus, it's poor!

Is it just me or do the audience genuinely seem like they're not enjoying themselves? Everytime there's a joke made by Dermot Whelan, it focuses on a group of audience members that stare at each other or around and do the most exaggerated laugh possible.

Absolute trash!

I doubt any of the crowd reactions are related to the jokes, looks heavily edited.

Gibbonw2

I just seen a video of a sketch on this show making light of paedophelia within the church and the Jimmy Saville affair. Crude, insensitive, unfunny and all funded by the taxpayer. Imagine making jokes on a state broadcaster circa 98 about Omagh or about the 2 kids killed by their father last year? What is the difference? Cheap, distasteful and ultimately unwitty.

el diablo

grenache wrote: »

You've been telling us on pretty much every page how "crap" it is. If you dislike it so much, why keep coming back to watch it, and then coming on here bitching about it.

Just don't watch it. We don't need to hear you repeating yourself over and over.

Maybe you should read my post again. It states that I switched off after ten minutes of the first episode this season and haven't it watched since..

JP Liz V1

Dermot must be happy Maura Derrane is back on tv now

Ash.J.Williams

Gibbonw2 wrote: »

I just seen a video of a sketch on this show making light of paedophelia within the church and the Jimmy Saville affair. Crude, insensitive, unfunny and all funded by the taxpayer. Imagine making jokes on a state broadcaster circa 98 about Omagh or about the 2 kids killed by their father last year? What is the difference? Cheap, distasteful and ultimately unwitty.

You're little analogy about omagh and infanticide makes no sense...

Gibbonw2

My analogy isnt subjective. I am merely saying that serious sensitive issues like this shouldn't be used for cheap, crude 'humour' by a responsible state broadcaster. You cant compare crimes like the Omagh bomb, paedophelia and kidnapping etc but all were, are and will continue to be seriously sensitive issues which when highlighted in a joke become grossly offensive to most people. I just said that imagine a fictional scenario where Republic Of Telly did a sketch on the Omagh Bomb or MM being abducted. I over complicated it with the analogy but surely you get my point? If not, i'm not too bothered. If you find it funny, thats your perogative!

Our man in Havana

It has certainly gotten worse over the years.

Gibbonw2

Ah, in fairness, from what i've seen, this is a one off. Most is innocent, childish humour with some funny bits when they take the pi$$ out of tv. The worst bits are the 'real republic' which is just a gag going on 3 years and the video on the street at night (again its the same drunken antics over and over). That jen one is intolerable also, comedy really isnt a path she should take and your man Bernard must be desperate for the shillings to characterise himself as that. But as i said thats all harmless, silly humour which some people find funny so so be it. I rarely watch it, if ever, but sharing an apartment, sometimes you dont have a choice. But making light of the paedophelia issue wasn't appropriate. Just my tuppence.

Elmo

Gibbonw2 wrote: »

But making light of the paedophelia issue wasn't appropriate. Just my tuppence.

In fairness BBC Ulster did that themselves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lj8Qtkred8

JP Liz V1

Bernard is gas, lol'd at 50 shades of tea

homeless student

40% of the show is pretty funny but some is painfully unfunny like the real republic and when they take the camera to whatever small town and let drunk people make a show of themselves CRINGE

Ash.J.Williams

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Bernard is gas, lol'd at 50 shades of tea

i find even mentioning 50 s o g means you have no material (not "you" liz, people on tv)

Israel_Dagg

...is absolutely shocking.

Not funny at all. Crowd don't look too amused either.

RVD420

They took a swipe at boards too, describing one of their features "like boards.ie but without the typos or racism". :rolleyes:

passremarkable

that martin muff character is dreadful, how do they let it go out on air

Sully34

First time Ive sat down to watch Republic of telly and to be honest I would rather take a hammer to the face than sit down and watch that rubbish again. What has gone wrong with Irish comedy,Dermot Morgan must be rolling in his grave. And dont get me started on that ****ing Savage Eye