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Unfunny Irish comedians <<MOD note in OP>>

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  • #392
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,340 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Stonedpilot wrote: »
    See Des Bishop was a guest on Late Late show, do they really need to scrap the bottom of the barrel so bad?. Tubridy and Bishop together like some sorta Smugness challenge between them.
    Why not pay for a proper guest, God know's they are collecting enough in TV license fees. Why this guy gets pushed so much by RTE is beyond me. Not funny one bit and his smugness walks into a room an hour before he does.

    Seen Al Porter at a thing I got free ticket to, seems like a nice genuine lad but sorry being gay doesn't automatically make you funny. Wish someone would inform him an act needs to be worked on. The ould 'aren't a gas man altogether cos I'm gay' wears reallllllly thin.

    Is it just me or does Des Bishop's hair look like a really dodgy hair transplant? I wasjust comparing old and new photos, and it looks seriously like he's done something. Started to notice it a few months back, but thought it might be just my imagination. But looking at it now-it's seriously entering Steven Seagal dodgy hair levels.

    I guess being 40, with a 25 year old girlfriend will do that to a guy.


  • #393
    BuilderPlumber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭BuilderPlumber


    Stonedpilot wrote: »
    See Des Bishop was a guest on Late Late show, do they really need to scrap the bottom of the barrel so bad?. Tubridy and Bishop together like some sorta Smugness challenge between them.
    Why not pay for a proper guest, God know's they are collecting enough in TV license fees. Why this guy gets pushed so much by RTE is beyond me. Not funny one bit and his smugness walks into a room an hour before he does.

    Seen Al Porter at a thing I got free ticket to, seems like a nice genuine lad but sorry being gay doesn't automatically make you funny. Wish someone would inform him an act needs to be worked on. The ould 'aren't a gas man altogether cos I'm gay' wears reallllllly thin.

    This is typical RTE and it is very offputting. I have nothing against Des Bishop or Al Porter per se but I can see your point. Des Bishop has been pushed for years. Surely someone else should get a chance?

    The standard operating procedure is that certain people are handpicked and then pushed to the limit. In comedy it is the same set of people. In music as all RTE seem to acknowledge is poor modern country music and modern pop and nothing else. There are audiences for much much more and RTE censor others in favour of their handpicked comedians, singers, celebs, sportspeople, etc.


  • #394
    ligerdub
    Registered Users Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭ligerdub


    Something I've noticed recently is the link to a production company, so rather than RTE going straight to an individual and say "right, we're making a show about [x], and we want to use you", they'll meet with a production company, who typically use the same people. RTE will rely on the production company to put the nuts and bolts together, and they'll have their pets.

    It's probably like how Katherine Lynch keeps getting on air.


  • #395
    Dyr
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    Jerichoholic wrote: »
    I said it before, but keep seeing it on Facebook every day and it absolutely bamboozles me how Rories Stories gets so many views and likes. Are people actually that braindead in this country that they find that funny?

    Good clean amateur fun.

    Though he's shot his bolt now


  • #396
    BuilderPlumber
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    ligerdub wrote: »
    Something I've noticed recently is the link to a production company, so rather than RTE going straight to an individual and say "right, we're making a show about [x], and we want to use you", they'll meet with a production company, who typically use the same people. RTE will rely on the production company to put the nuts and bolts together, and they'll have their pets.

    It's probably like how Katherine Lynch keeps getting on air.

    This surely is the case. I always get the feeling that someone just has to pay enough to these companies and they then push them onto our screens. In other words a poor or even middle income person cannot make it. If Luke Kelly, Elvis or any other talent from a poor background were around today in Ireland, they would not be allowed to make it. Sad. Truly sad. Shame on RTE and Ireland's media/government for this elitist attitude towards talent. Poor in talent, rich in cash = TV spot. Poor in cash, rich in talent = no TV spot.


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  • #397
    Jerichoholic
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    Bambi wrote: »
    Good clean amateur fun.

    Though he's shot his bolt now

    Although he's Jerry Seinfeld compared to "Darren Conway".

    "Ah but he's just a young lad having a laugh"

    He's also terrible.


  • #398
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,340 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Jerichoholic wrote: »
    Although he's Jerry Seinfeld compared to "Darren Conway".

    "Ah but he's just a young lad having a laugh"

    He's also terrible.

    Had to look that guy up-dear jeeze, he looks like a 'Dapper Laughs' kind of comedian-ie not funny, dumb, and cliched humour.

    The worst thing is that there is so much 'oh hes young, he'll find himself'...well, maybe, but in Ireland, some of those comics peak early-and that is that.


  • #399
    Jerichoholic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,585 ✭✭✭Jerichoholic


    Thing is there's no comedy. He just seems to turn on his camera and make noise with his mouth. That's not comedy to me. Dapper Laughs isn't close to being that bad. And I'm no fan of Dapper Laughs.

    That Darren chap will find out that calling someone 'gay' isn't funny, and won't get him far in 2016.


  • #400
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,340 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Usually if someone is calling someone gay, they 'upgrade' (and no, I don't mean that in actual positive phrasing, just I usually can spot a trend) to using more offensive gay terms, aka the word that also means a bundle of sticks.

    It's what many of them folks start doing in order to try and gain laughs.


  • #401
    house45
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 290 ✭✭house45


    Has anyone mentioned "Brendan grace" yet ???,


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  • #402
    Jerichoholic
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    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    Usually if someone is calling someone gay, they 'upgrade' (and no, I don't mean that in actual positive phrasing, just I usually can spot a trend) to using more offensive gay terms, aka the word that also means a bundle of sticks.

    It's what many of them folks start doing in order to try and gain laughs.

    He's far too dumb to do that.


  • #403
    Barry Badrinath
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    house45 wrote: »
    Has anyone mentioned "Brendan grace" yet ???,

    If you say that again, I'll put your head through the wall!


  • #404
    Jerichoholic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,585 ✭✭✭Jerichoholic


    There were three of them on the Late Late last night. Nice to see RTE supporting the younger breakout comedians. I'm sure if Maureen Potter was still around she'd have been on it too.


  • #405
    RabbleRouser2k
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    Jerichoholic wrote: »
    There were three of them on the Late Late last night. Nice to see RTE supporting the younger breakout comedians. I'm sure if Maureen Potter was still around she'd have been on it too.

    I spotted Brendan Grace (who wasn't looking well-seems like he was coming off of a bad bug, like the one that's going around. You could hear it in his voice).

    Maureen Potter was at least more entertaining than half of the people we've listed in this discussion. She was practically contemporary compared to the likes of Al Porter.


  • #406
    Jimmy Garlic
    Registered Users Posts: 4,349 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    house45 wrote: »
    Has anyone mentioned "Brendan grace" yet ???,

    Brendan Grace is from a different era of comedians. He's had lots of good moments. He is a Leonardo De Vinci of comedy when compared to the likes of Andrew Maxwell, Jason Byrne, Niel Delemere and all the rest.


  • #407
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    Jimmy Garlic wrote: »
    Brendan Grace is from a different era of comedians. He's had lots of good moments. He is a Leonardo De Vinci of comedy when compared to the likes of Andrew Maxwell, Jason Byrne, Niel Delemere and all the rest.

    Brendan is still doing the same set from his 1988 Irish Tour.

    He's like the Gilbert Gottfried of Irish comedy.


  • #408
    Gringo180
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    Dylan Moran is the best Irish comedian out there. Rest are pure ****e.


  • #409
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    Gringo180 wrote: »
    Dylan Moran is the best Irish comedian out there. Rest are pure ****e.

    Would agree, Moran is excellent.


  • #410
    JimmyTClarke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 128 ✭✭JimmyTClarke


    darkdubh wrote: »
    Three words. Noel V Ginnity. Most of the people posting here are probably too young to remember him luckily. He was kidnapped and held to ransom by a Dublin criminal gang in the mid 90s. After he was freed he appeared on the Late Late with Gaybo where he subjected the nation to several of his stand up routines. If theres been an unfunnier so called "comedian" to emerge from Ireland then my names Donald Trump.

    I've never heard of Noel V Ginnity. But from your post, the story surrounding him sounds so bizarre and random that it's funny in itself.


  • #411
    Johngoose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭Johngoose


    Brendan O' Carroll is hugely over-rated and a mult-millionaire.People think it makes them seem intelligent if they say they like Darragh O' Briain. I've been to see Rosenstock and don't think he is as amazing as people make out. To watch PJ Gallagher being interviewed on a talk show is cringeworthy.Pat Shortt was good in The Unbelievables, Killinaskully was sh1t, he is hugely overrated.Shortt is well in with R.T.E., he will regularly appear on the Christmas R.T.E. guide.To watch Shortt being interviewed is painful, cue a lot of his own laughter at his own jokes.In general I'd agree with the consensus that Irish comedians are overrated, overpaid and severely lacking in talent.If you go to a gig of a well known Irish comedian the audience are pathetic,they will literally laugh their arses off at anything the comedian says/does. It's like they say to themselves I've paid €40 for this and I'm going to laugh for the next hour at the "comedian."


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  • #412
    Ulysses Gaze
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    house45 wrote: »
    Has anyone mentioned "Brendan grace" yet ???,

    Brendan get a pass for his role as Father Fintan Stack.



  • #413
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,340 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Ulysses Gaze wrote: »
    Brendan get a pass for his role as Father Fintan Stack.

    I laugh harder every time I hear the phrase 'ya dirty fecker'.

    Every time that line gets funnier to me.


  • #414
    Stonedpilot
    Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Stonedpilot


    So see Des Bishop and Blindboy on that God awful show of Des's where he tries in vain to be funny on topical issues, interestingly they both said thejournal comments section is the 'gutter'!. Me thinks their massive over inflated ego's of themselves must have been damaged by someone God forbid disagreeing with them. So the show is a topical opinionated show but when someone else has one they really don't like it!?!

    This nonsense of these two clowns trying in vain to be intellectual and funny is awful. Neither are funny or intelligent, just non stop grandstanding of their own self indulgent opinions. Really insane how people WILLINGLY pay TV licenses for such muck.


  • #415
    ligerdub
    Registered Users Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭ligerdub


    Agreed completely, it's so rampant on RTE now too.

    A post I made on another thread:

    I see that Blindboy Boatface was on TV again tonight. He was giving a spiel on "post-truth" being the word of the year and what it means. To me it is the absolute peak of how low rent the sorts that were on the wrong side of the major votes this year are. It's described as a sense of "the facts don't matter", what a load of bollox! The extremely thinly veiled story here is that "we know the reality, the idiots voted on lies, we're better than you". It just couldn't be any other reason could it.


  • #416
    Stonedpilot
    Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Stonedpilot


    ligerdub wrote: »
    Agreed completely, it's so rampant on RTE now too.

    A post I made on another thread:

    I see that Blindboy Boatface was on TV again tonight. He was giving a spiel on "post-truth" being the word of the year and what it means. To me it is the absolute peak of how low rent the sorts that were on the wrong side of the major votes this year are. It's described as a sense of "the facts don't matter", what a load of bollox! The extremely thinly veiled story here is that "we know the reality, the idiots voted on lies, we're better than you". It just couldn't be any other reason could it.

    Whatever happened to people simply being funny, good point. American comedian Greg Morton, very funny guy makes the mundane hilarious. Now in Ireland we have these self indulgent ignoramuses like Bishop trying to push his own opinions (and those of RTE, he is on RTE remember) as gospel. The sad thing is I see audiences whooping for this crap on these shows, have to remind myself they must(have!) be drunk as no way could a sober person find such meaningless rhetoric funny.
    Blindboy pushing the 'Aren't I a profound witty academic sthick hard'
    Sorry pal you ain't. Least you aren't as bad as Bishop but hey, cancerous tumours are funnier than that lad.


  • #417
    RabbleRouser2k
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    Don't get me wrong-I like funny people, I do-but when they start making themselves the 'height' of intelligence, you're in trouble. George Carlin could do that, but even he got it very wrong on occassion.
    Too many comedians do that-far too many. The insult thrown at the 'comments' section of the Journal-really? Really Des and BBBC? The commenters on that site (I know, I've left a few of my own) are often the one's who can see clearly through the total BS him and his ilk put out in the media(I speak of others, mind-I'm not as intelligent as some on there-seriously, no sarcasm intended). If someone has an opinion, that is well informed, then challenge that, look it up-if it's complete BS, grand, call em out-if it isn't, then let it stand. Debate is a good thing, too many soft skinned people can't even answer a question without being offended.
    As the great Steve Hughes would say (criminally underrated comedian-absolutely great) 'if you're offended-then fine, be offended'. But Des can't be offended-or he'll cry. He needs to be called out on his unfunny histrionics.

    Tommy Tiernan even took a swing at him-saying that watcing Des on Dancing with the Stars will be like watching 'a friend going through a nervous breakdown' and that it was 'an awful day for IRish comedy'. I can't really disagree, but I think sometime long ago it was an awful day for Des-he stopped being funny.

    Blindboy-oh dear. Like, he's the guy saying that in order to cure depression, 'men need to embrace feminism' with such delightful idiocy as the whole thing of 'if you have a problem with a woman paying for food, you've a problem-you need to let a woman take care of you'. Ummm, no, because that's what our mom's did. So trying to push an outdated ideology, which is what feminism has come to be, is not going to help mental health issues.
    Mental illness is a complex, and challenging, condition. Both for the sufferer and those treating the illness. You cannot just claim it can be cured or treated by a change of mindset. That's precisely the heart of the condition, as well as brain and chemical disorders. IT requires a whole host of treatments.
    Just stick to making jokes, and being comedic-don't try and push potentially dangerous opinions. And when discussing mental illness, that's what too many opinions are.


  • #418
    Parchment
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    Skommando wrote: »
    Might be a much shorter thread if we listed the funny ones, are there any ?

    Dylan Moran - he is excellent.


  • #419
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Jason Byrne: 20 odd years of talking about his childhood and all the crazy shenanigans his Da, Ma, and bro and sis got up to. You're heading for 50 ffs. Get some new material, and try make it borderline funny too.


  • #420
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,340 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Agricola wrote: »
    Jason Byrne: 20 odd years of talking about his childhood and all the crazy shenanigans his Da, Ma, and bro and sis got up to. You're heading for 50 ffs. Get some new material, and try make it borderline funny too.

    Tommy Tiernan too-the same stuff about school and other crud. We have far too many 'man baby' so-called comedians.


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  • #421
    MadDog76
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    Stonedpilot wrote: »
    So see Des Bishop and Blindboy on that God awful show of Des's where he tries in vain to be funny on topical issues, interestingly they both said thejournal comments section is the 'gutter'!. Me thinks their massive over inflated ego's of themselves must have been damaged by someone God forbid disagreeing with them. So the show is a topical opinionated show but when someone else has one they really don't like it!?!

    This nonsense of these two clowns trying in vain to be intellectual and funny is awful. Neither are funny or intelligent, just non stop grandstanding of their own self indulgent opinions. Really insane how people WILLINGLY pay TV licenses for such muck.

    How long did you watch it before you realised you didn't want to watch it?


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