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Hal Roach RIP

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  • 28-02-2012 2:03pm
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    Guramoogah
    Registered Users Posts: 193 ✭✭


    Waterford-born comedian Hal Roach has died at the age of 84.


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    mike65
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    has a place in the Guinness Book of World Records - longest engagement at the same venue.


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    Guramoogah
    Registered Users Posts: 193 ✭✭Guramoogah


    Yes, he worked 26 years at Jury's Cabaret in Dublin. "Write it down, it's a good one"


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    Finneen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 121 ✭✭Finneen


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJSKU3VGlGU


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    danjo-xx
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    Always thought he was a dub, and Frank Carson last week, wonder who no.3 will be :(


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    mccarthy37
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    danjo-xx wrote: »
    Always thought he was a dub, and Frank Carson last week, wonder who no.3 will be :(

    Na Hal was a Blaa .He was number three what about David Kelly.RIP to three very funny men.


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    giles lynchwood
    Registered Users Posts: 935 ✭✭✭giles lynchwood


    Finneen wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJSKU3VGlGU

    4.38.Is that a young Enda Kenny.


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    tawdy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37 ✭tawdy


    never heard of him:confused:


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    Finneen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 121 ✭✭Finneen


    His funeral service was on the RTÉ news - the church appeared ½ empty?


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    tawdy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37 ✭tawdy


    Finneen wrote: »
    His funeral service was on the RTÉ news - the church appeared ½ empty?

    thats because nobody ever heard of him


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    marlin vs
    Registered Users Posts: 1,630 ✭✭✭marlin vs


    That's cause your too young Billy.


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    tawdy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37 ✭tawdy


    marlin vs wrote: »
    That's cause your too young Billy.

    my name is tawdy, frank.


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    marlin vs
    Registered Users Posts: 1,630 ✭✭✭marlin vs


    tawdy wrote: »
    my name is tawdy, frank.
    How did you know my name.:D


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    membersonly
    Registered Users Posts: 479 ✭✭membersonly


    tawdy wrote: »
    thats because nobody ever heard of him

    billy if you haven't anything nice to say about a man who has passed away don't say anything at all.


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    batm!ke
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    membersonly wrote: »
    tawdy wrote: »
    thats because nobody ever heard of him

    billy if you haven't anything nice to say about a man who has passed away don't say anything at all.

    +1

    Matt Cooper had Brendan Grace on this evening, and he said Roach was one forefathers of Irish Comedy, a comedian who they all looked up to.


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    tawdy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37 ✭tawdy


    membersonly wrote: »
    billy if you haven't anything nice to say about a man who has passed away don't say anything at all.

    i didn't say anything bad, i just said i never heard of him and most people my age that i spoke to never heard of him,
    i heard of gilbert o sullivan, val donigan, jim beglin, kate bush, john o shea, keith barry, chris doran, richie hayes, 3dog keating, harry debromhead, dawn run, steven hunt, noel hunt, martin hunt and mike hunt,
    but i never heard of hal roach until last week.


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    membersonly
    Registered Users Posts: 479 ✭✭membersonly


    tawdy wrote: »
    i didn't say anything bad, i just said i never heard of him and most people my age that i spoke to never heard of him,
    i heard of gilbert o sullivan, val donigan, jim beglin, kate bush, john o shea, keith barry, chris doran, richie hayes, 3dog keating, harry debromhead, dawn run, steven hunt, noel hunt, martin hunt and mike hunt,
    but i never heard of hal roach until last week.

    Ehhhhhm, no. Not what you said at all billy, you said "nobody ever heard of him". Which is very disrespectful to a professional comedian who had just passed away, hope none of his family read your bull.


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    tawdy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37 ✭tawdy


    membersonly wrote: »
    Ehhhhhm, no. Not what you said at all billy, you said "nobody ever heard of him". Which is very disrespectful to a professional comedian who had just passed away, hope none of his family read your bull.

    ah shut up boy and stop twisting things around,
    i meant nobody i knew ever heard of him.


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    membersonly
    Registered Users Posts: 479 ✭✭membersonly


    tawdy wrote: »
    ah shut up boy and stop twisting things around,
    i meant nobody i knew ever heard of him.

    Good man billy.

    I'm not going to derail another thread taking the piss out of you.

    Just have a bit of respect for the man or don't post at all.


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    marlin vs
    Registered Users Posts: 1,630 ✭✭✭marlin vs


    tawdy wrote: »
    i didn't say anything bad, i just said i never heard of him and most people my age that i spoke to never heard of him,
    i heard of gilbert o sullivan, val donigan, jim beglin, kate bush, john o shea, keith barry, chris doran, richie hayes, 3dog keating, harry debromhead, dawn run, steven hunt, noel hunt, martin hunt and mike hunt,
    but i never heard of hal roach until last week.
    See Billy I told you you were too young.


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    tawdy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37 ✭tawdy


    membersonly wrote: »
    Good man billy.

    I'm not going to derail another thread taking the piss out of you.

    Just have a bit of respect for the man or don't post at all.

    shut up membersonly a gobshyte


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    wellboytoo
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    tawdy wrote: »
    why should i have respect for someone i don't know ?

    If you don't know the answer to that...... your mammy did a bad job


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    giles lynchwood
    Registered Users Posts: 935 ✭✭✭giles lynchwood


    tawdy wrote: »
    why should i have respect for someone i don't know ?

    The word's Pig and Grunt come to mind.Again


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    takola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭takola


    Tawdy is banned.

    Please show some respect for the deceased and any family that may read this thread.


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    #25
    Tonytonytony
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭Tonytonytony


    RIP Hal. I just came on and saw this now. A good friend of my Grandads and without a doubt one of the forefathers of Irish comedy.


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    STIG83
    Registered Users Posts: 3,588 ✭✭✭STIG83


    Is Hal short for something? Where in Waterford was he from? City or County?

    My parents have one of his shows on cassette tape at home somewhere!!


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    FishBowel
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 363 ✭✭FishBowel


    There's an old show of his online this week: http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=1145380


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    marlin vs
    Registered Users Posts: 1,630 ✭✭✭marlin vs


    Very good FishBowel.


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