The Irish sense of humour

SirChenjin

fryup wrote: »

are you irish?

No, she isn't.

timthumbni

If that ****e mrs browns boys counts as Irish humour then I’m out.... about as funny as a kick in the balls....

blinding

timthumbni wrote: »

If that ****e mrs browns boys counts as Irish humour then I’m out.... about as funny as a kick in the balls....

No way as funny as a kick in the balls.....especially somebody else balls .

Edgware

timthumbni wrote: »

If that ****e mrs browns boys counts as Irish humour then I’m out.... about as funny as a kick in the balls....

Ah Mammy! Oh thats hillarious.

whisky_galore

timthumbni wrote: »

If that ****e mrs browns boys counts as Irish humour then I’m out.... about as funny as a kick in the balls....

A lot of people enjoy that. Then again a lot of people enjoy eating KFC shyte as if it's gourmet food.

ChikiChiki

Agricola wrote: »

Agree. The single greatest ingredient with McSavage is he doesn't give a fúck. He mercilessly rips into all the sacred cows in Irish society and you can tell hes doing it, not just to make a few quid, but because a lot of it really does boil his piss. Comedians with an axe to grind are usually a cut above the rest. I'm actually surprised RTE gave him the time of day such is their preference for safe establishment types.

I have the height of respect for how he takes the piss out of Irish authority groups especially come from a strong Fianna Fail family. He has took the absolute piss out of FF.

blinding

ChikiChiki wrote: »

I have the height of respect for how he takes the piss out of Irish authority groups especially come from a strong Fianna Fail family. He has took the absolute piss out of FF.

Only fair . As FF having been taking the Piss out of all of us basically forever .

whisky_galore

McSavage is hit and miss at times, but still probably one of the better things to come out of RTE.

For all our talking up about our supposed sense of humour, the comedy output from the state broadcaster is mediocre at best. For far too long RTE comedy had been dominated by unfunny panto types.

blinding

I suppose when you are from a small country beside a much bigger one that speaks the same language then it it hard to compete .

The BBC and probably ITV back in the day would find some talent and help it develop in a way that RTE / Ireland could not .

Look at Dave Allen in Britain . He would never have reached those heights in Ireland .

Father Ted ( ok a sitcom ) was developed by Channel Four .

DrumSteve

blinding wrote: »

No way as funny as a kick in the balls.....especially somebody else balls .

On a side note, I would have voted for "Football In The Groin" with Hans Moleman.

Steve F

Chaim Beautiful Specialization wrote: »

Agreed. It's absurd to suggest that any nationality, as an unit, has no sense of humour. Styles and incidences of humour depend on sociological factors and differ from person to person. Thankfully humour seems to be a basic human instinct that looks set to last.

Correct
I'm English and quite a lot of Irish just don't get my "dry" wit
This is evident at family get togethers when English/Irish are mixed and who does/doesn't laugh at particular things
I believe sense of humour runs in families too
My Daughters (Irish) insist myself and my brothers have the same "dry,sarcastic"
sense of humour :eek:

fryup

blinding wrote: »

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Look at Dave Allen in Britain . He would never have reached those heights in Ireland .

the way he took the mickey out of religion not a chance

blinding

fryup wrote: »

the way he the mickey out of religion not a chance

Is he Ireland’s greatest ever Comedian .

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

blinding wrote: »

Is he Ireland’s greatest ever Comedian .

Frank Carson?

Hal Roach?

blinding

Chaim Beautiful Specialization wrote: »

Frank Carson?

Hal Roach?

Ah no !

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

blinding wrote: »

Ah no !

Too true.


Cringeworthy.

KevinCavan

We probably do have an exaggerated view of how funny we are. A lot of funny stories come from people being pissed and the fall out from that.

shakeitoff

Mrs. Browns Boys is very much Irish humour, very on the nose and slapstick. We certaintly don't have the dry wit of the Brits(I personally prefer American comedy)

blinding

shakeitoff wrote: »

Mrs. Browns Boys is very much Irish humour, very on the nose and slapstick. We certaintly don't have the dry wit of the Brits(I personally prefer American comedy)

I thought Mrs Brown’s Boys was some sort of therapy for People with Mental Difficulties....Like...... I may be Mental Myself but I am not as bad as that lot ( Mrs brown’s lot ) so I might as well Perk up because I could be so much worse off ( like that lot )

Public Broadcast Television at its best .

fryup

shakeitoff wrote: »

Mrs. Browns Boys is very much Irish humour, very on the nose and slapstick. We certaintly don't have the dry wit of the Brits(I personally prefer American comedy)

good god no, don't think MBB is typical of irish humour..maybe inner city dublin knacker humour..but not irish in the main

Fr Ted i think is typical of irish humour in broader sense

Steve F

shakeitoff wrote: »

Mrs. Browns Boys is very much Irish humour, very on the nose and slapstick. We certaintly don't have the dry wit of the Brits(I personally prefer American comedy)

Nail on the head there
Very few "get" me here

shakeitoff

fryup wrote: »

good god no, don't think MBB is typical of irish humour..maybe inner city dublin knacker humour..but not irish in the main

Fr Ted i think is typical of irish humour in broader sense

Yeah but father ted is very on the nose as well, it doesn't seem like a British comedy. It might to Americans because of the accents(they just lump an Irish accent as British) but the humour is very different to Falty Towers, Not the 9 O clock news, only fools even, Father Ted is much more like an American comedy imo. Dougal's character is very American. Ted is a brilliant character and very Irish but more similar to Frank Drebin than Basil Faulty.

whisky_galore

fryup wrote: »

good god no, don't think MBB is typical of irish humour..maybe inner city dublin knacker humour..but not irish in the main

A lot in common with British 'saucy seaside postcard' humour, tits and mickies lolz.

Not sophisticated at all.

fryup

whisky_galore wrote: »

A lot in common with British 'saucy seaside postcard' humour, tits and mickies lolz.
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the likes of Benny Hill & Carry On movies are saucy..but MBB is just plain vulgar for the most part

Billy86

Were quite funny conversationally but our written/staged/etc comedy is often brutal and little more than "look at the man with the funny voice and the whacky clothes hyuck hyuck!" witless garbage.

Dylan Moran is phenomena though.

divillybit

https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soccer/soccer-news/england-fans-tiocfaidh-ar-la-12882985.amp


It's coming home in Irish!

Heres Johnny

Disproportionate number of Irish comedians make it onto British panel comedy shows if we don't have a good sense of humour and make ourselves and the Brits laugh

Mock the week
Have I got news for you
8 out of 10 cats does countdown
QI

Most episodes have an Irish comedian on a panel. We're nearly a token gesture at this stage

Irish humour is awesome. If you find a romantic partner that has good sense of humour hold on to them

I once dated a Moldovan girl for nearly a year. She was gorgeous and all my mates were jealous. She was great to be seen with but her complete lack of understanding of what the hell I was saying most of the time when taking the piss made me pine for a nice Irish cailín again.

British women also have great sense of humour unless you get one of the ditzy dopey ones.

I don't compliment Britain that often but their comedy is excellent mostly and as 2 nations that share tv stations and a language (ooh, controversial I know) we get each other's comedy and sense of humour.

Capt'n Midnight

The best of Myles
- Myles na gCopaleen,
- AKA Flann O'Brien
- AKA Brian O'Nolan

It's a must read. An anthology of a newspaper colum written at a time when it was Neither Profitable Nor Popular. It's a mixed bag. Lots of incomprehensible passages (especially when in German, latin or as gaeilge) with some some of the worst puns ever, but some lovely word-play and when it's good it's excellent.



The long joke was that while he complained about critics and the lip service paid to force fed Irish language literature like Peig and An t-Oileánach, he wrote the parody An Béal Bocht which outsold a lot of "worthy" books in the language.

Hector Bellend

Billy86 wrote: »

Were quite funny conversationally but our written/staged/etc comedy is often brutal and little more than "look at the man with the funny voice and the whacky clothes hyuck hyuck!" witless garbage.

Dylan Moran is phenomena though.

Capt'n Midnight

Chaim Beautiful Specialization wrote: »

Frank Carson?

Hal Roach?

There was a docu on about Frank a while back.

He saw action while in the Parachute Regiment.

His catch phrase was in response to one member of the audiance he just wasn't getting through to, because yer man said he'd heard all the jokes before. "but it's the way I tell 'em!"



He was also Mayor of Balbriggan, that I did not know.

lalababa

shakeitoff wrote: »

Irish humour is more based on being as mad as a hatter than actual funny quips, anecdotes, observations or however else you can be funny. This thread came up like a month ago basically, all my friends who are funny are gas men but they are just funny because they slag nonstop and have no boundaries, they aren't witty or anything.

Most people you see having a natter and a laugh ; one of them is slagging somebody else or 'grounding' them in a exaggerated hyperbole way letting their imagination run wild. Or one of them is grounding the other with real or made up/imagined digs. Or one of them is grounding themselfs just to get in before they get the digs. The two may only barely know each other. Otherwise they are gossiping. Saw a YouTube vid by a yank or Canadian resently where he was only in the country 4 days and said the Irish sense of humor/conversation on first meeting and suseqient encounters is to sound you out by taking the unmerciful piss outa you with very few boundaries and see how you take it? Defo goes back to the peasantry where anybody showing notions would be put in there place. Ireland is extreamly conformist. Just look around .

lalababa

Steve F wrote: »

Correct
I'm English and quite a lot of Irish just don't get my "dry" wit
This is evident at family get togethers when English/Irish are mixed and who does/doesn't laugh at particular things
I believe sense of humour runs in families too
My Daughters (Irish) insist myself and my brothers have the same "dry,sarcastic"
sense of humour :eek:

Deffo agree with this, very little place for dry humour in Eire.

Esel

Yeah, not many dry wits; plenty of dry shìts.