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He was spot on with Ray Darcy as well.

johnpatrick81 wrote: »

Aye one of the weakest episodes. Even when it fails though the production is a pretty high standard which is nice to see.

Next one the last? Hope it ends on a high. Overall it's been massively better than Mario's ****e.

It may have its critics but it's still way superior to the Mario show (which is really shocking IMO). At least Callan tries to build in the topical news stories of the week - which takes some doing when your show goes out every Friday night. It's by far the most (and only) topical satire show we have.

And am I the only person who's getting tired of silly Miriam O'Callaghan impressions?

waggs wrote: »

I think what Callan has going for him is he's not afraid of being disliked whereas Mario clearly is. Mario takes the piss in a much softer way and I suspect he overdoes Miriam cos she's talked publicly about loving his impression of her. I think Mario is a lickarse, personally. Callan on the other hand may soon have no friends left in the business.

He wont have any friends in ballymaloe any way.

I was mightily impressed with the last episode myself. Actually to the extent that I can't believe I was watching RTE! It was sharp and practically every sketch pulled a punch and was very funny to boot. The GAA sequence was absolutely excellent. I've said before that I measure shows like this against great shows from the past like Dead Ringers or Bremner Bird and Fortune and, to be honest, that last show was in that ballpark, even if it might have been more walking in from the carpark in comparison but still, it was an excellent effort and if they can stick to this for a second season (if they get a second season now!) then it'll be great!

It's brutally unfunny 👎️

That was excellent. Well done OC (and crew) Irish satire at it's finest.

Just watching on the +1 now and its very good

The Enda Kenny impression was great, 'some say Fine Gael are so useless they couldnt even do fascism right, I disagree' and then 'Ireland is the best small country in the world in which to be a fascist' 😂

And the very final impression of Michael Lehane outside Government Buildings "reporting from the David Davin-Power Memorial Kerb" 😅

Biddy as Peig

Think the only 1 he upset was Joe Duffy who didnt like the sketchs that werent far off the truth

I was spending the night with my parents and they were watching it. One of the worst hours of television I've ever watched. The moderately amusing Burke Family sketch aside, it was wretched.

Callan is a terrible impressionist; they have to put the name up on the screen of who he is attempting to take off. Tired, unfunny, cliched.

Ironically enough, Callan is exactly the same kind of talentless no-mark as Tubridy himself. Stealing a living from RTE.

Hopefully Kielty has put the foot down and said he doesn't want Callan appearing so he can do Marty Morrissey impressions.

Coupla smiles in a few places but overall terrible, the Mescal skits were cringe inducing and far too many

Thought it was quite funny. The Burke stuff and tubridy puppet and impression was spot on. Anyone saying that was a bad impression I don’t really get.

Going to go against the grain here and thought it was alright. Wasn't that gone on the Burke's sketch as I've long thought that has had media coverage much outsized relative to its importance.

Was fairly cutting on Tubs and McEntee, most other political and public figures got off very lightly (Burkes aside).

I thought the Burke sketch was very amusing. Some of the other sketches had bits that were funny. I think the writing varies in it. Some good, some bad. The impressions are entertaining - Callan, particularly, is quite a good mimic. He does a good over the top lampooning of his subjects.