The 2 Johnnies Late Night Lock In

JP Liz V1 · 18-10-2023 9:58pm #1

RTE are giving them another tv show

https://youtu.be/mJuwkokKz5s

Thursday 9.35pm RTE 2

squonk · 19-10-2023 7:56am

I think I’d be happier if they were still spending their money on flip flops and doomed musicals

StevenToast · 19-10-2023 7:58am

RTE think these clowns are like the 2nd coming of christ....

Just leave us alone....

Beechwoodspark · 19-10-2023 8:17am

The title of the show alone is cringe, hard pass here.

squonk · 19-10-2023 8:40am

It is. If this was 11:35 you’d say something. Nighthawks it won’t be I guarantee.

thinkabouit · 19-10-2023 9:14am

The case for letting RTE go to the wall just getting stronger & stronger.

Hangdogroad · 19-10-2023 10:19am

They're the new Amy Huberman.

Sorolla · 19-10-2023 10:25am

God love them - they are a dose.

StevenToast · 19-10-2023 2:53pm

Una Healy and Marty Morrissey!!

If the late late show are scraping the bottom of the barrell for guests then where are these clowns sourcing theirs??

They' ve gone through the barrell and down into the dirt ...

SuperBowserWorld · 19-10-2023 3:04pm

I never find anything funny/comedic coming out of Irish broadcasting. It's terrible. Bland and unfunny. Like failing the leaving cert / have a pint / emigrate unfunny.

Foil, Arms, Hog can be very funny. And they produce their own stuff and distribute for free to the world on YouTube. It looks way more professional than anything done on the traditional broadcasting channels here.

MrMusician18 · 19-10-2023 3:08pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121259165#Comment_121259165

....And arrived at the rat infested rte canteen.

Gusser09 · 19-10-2023 3:10pm

Dreadful stuff. The two lads and their version of bog comedy just isn't good enough. They should be on Tipp FM or something. They are absolutely atrocious.

bogmanfan · 19-10-2023 4:03pm

And they wonder why people aren't paying licence fees

Samsgirl · 19-10-2023 10:16pm

Gave it 5mins and couldn't take anymore. Absolute rubbish

cute geoge · 19-10-2023 10:32pm

Sure tis only a bit of a crack ,crack on a thursday night!!1

timple23 · 19-10-2023 10:37pm

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supereurope · 19-10-2023 10:45pm

I lived in the UK for 16 years until the start of 2022, living a (mostly) happy life blissfully unaware of the existence of these two unfunny clowns. Then I came home and saw them everywhere. If they weren't guests on the Late Late Show, they were guests on Today, and if they weren't on Today, they had some RTÉ 2 show, and if they weren't on RTÉ 2, they were on the radio.

RTÉ seems to have this thing where every so often, in an attempt to counter claims that its too Dublin-focused, they send some executive down to counties Tipperary, Clare or Limerick to find some locally-popular DJ or comedy act, and bring them back to Dublin where they're put in front of everything because "all the rural folk will love it." It happened about 25 years ago with Pat Shortt and now it's happening again with The 2 Johnnies.

Apparently, this show is promising "celebrity guests." If the flagship RTÉ chat show on Friday nights can't get high-profile guests, how the heck are these guys going to find anyone? I saw the start of it in the pub earlier this evening and saw they had Una Healy on, a whole fortnight after her Late Late appearance.

BTW, I grew up on a farm in Co Cork. I'm now back living there, and absolutely no one I know around here likes The 2 Johnnies.

mullinr2 · 19-10-2023 10:46pm

Shocking stuff altogether. Looking around the audience, our dress sense as a nation hasn't improved at all

Royale with Cheese · 19-10-2023 10:49pm

I've never seen a single these guys have done but saw they're having an open air concert/live podcast thing in Dublin next summer and I assumed somebody out there must like them. This thread suggests not.

HarryMolloy · 19-10-2023 10:53pm

I'm a culchie, I like culchie things, I speak like these two johnnies act yet I can not stand them. This is in response to people who usually say its Dubs who don't like hearing culchies in the media.

The fat Johnnie has a really big opinion of himself. He thinks he's fcuking hilarious.

I just can't stand the stereotypical culchie craic. It just looks all fake and scripted. I remember the first time they were on the late late and they were asked "how are ye" and fat Johnny says "it's like driving the back roads with no tax, not great but we're getting away with it".

A pal of mine had a free ticket to their podcast thing in 3 arena last year so I went along. I couldnt believe how bad it was. The show opened with women dressed in christmas attire dancing. All those around me started laughing their heads off. I didn't know what they were laughing at.

Then random shouts were made like "would she dhrink oil"

Anyways, the show goes on and they have a skit of a character with a ladder. Reminded me of Pat Shortt, basically a carbon copy of his character from 15 years ago or so.

The same spiel fat Johnnie had on the late late show a few weeks back about marriage and say yes to the dress, he said the exact same thing at the show nearly a year ago!

Then they finished with songs...the fcukers actually think they can sing!!

HBC08 · 19-10-2023 10:54pm

Obviously going against the grain here but the two lads are likeable and some of that was a bit of craic.

Man Vs ManUre · 19-10-2023 11:06pm

Hardy Bucs was great comedy. It was culchie west of Ireland, but culchie rebels. All about drinking, drugging and trying to get laid. Hardy Bucs and Podge and Rodge is the only funny things RTÉ have done.

Atlantic Dawn · 19-10-2023 11:12pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121261116#Comment_121261116

I'd also include Paths To Freedom. 😁

bop1977 · 19-10-2023 11:16pm

dont feed the gondolas

Gusser09 · 19-10-2023 11:18pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121261079#Comment_121261079

Yeah grand. They shouldnt be anywhere near national tv or nationl airwaves though. Its tragic.

bop1977 · 19-10-2023 11:19pm

these two im liking less and less as each day goes on.

Mrs B on the other hand loves them.

the fat lads joke is he played minor for Tipp. The bigger joke is it was tipp football.

Man Vs ManUre · 19-10-2023 11:27pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121261158#Comment_121261158

Oh yeah I was young then but I remember that was great. Ahascraghhhhh!!

mikep · 19-10-2023 11:34pm

They remind me of Maeve Higgins, where some people believe saying unfunny things but with an accent, in their case, a fake bogger Tipp accent, seems to miraculously make it funny...

Maeve Higgins made it by having a Cork accent and that's about it..

BTW I grew up and still live in Tipp and don't know anyone with their accent ..

supereurope · 19-10-2023 11:34pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121261201#Comment_121261201

It was great in its first few series, then they changed the format and Sean Moncrieff left, and it just wasn't the same.

I still refer to an en suite as an "en sweetie" after one of Monica Looley's calls.

squonk · 19-10-2023 11:58pm

Pat Shortt was funny though and did good own productions. I really wouldn’t lump him in with dross like the 2 johnnies. I get he want everyone’s cup of tea and I like him but do find some of the stuff cringe at times. Hardy Bucks set a massively high bar for west of Ireland comedy that won’t be beaten for a very long time.

HarryMolloy · 20-10-2023 8:30am

RTE dont get credit for Hardy Bucks. They sanitised it down. And one of the good things that made HB was the poor production quality. It was like real life, a lad recording on a camera phone. Doesnt work as well when you get a professional setup in.

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