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Inside the Crystal Ball with Pat Shortt

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,438 ✭✭✭Morgans


    I'm afraid I saw twenty minutes of this last night. Im sorry but have to disagree with the OP, twas simply an attempt to translate Alan partridge into Ireland and hope no none noticed. Of course, in this one-off it lacked any of the depth of Alan. It was better than Killinascully as I didnt feel many suicidal thought, but I would have hoped a comedy would attempt to induce laughter.

    "Im a thinker, my father was a thinker, his father was a great thinker"
    Thinker/tinker being the joke I think. Not good Im afraid.

    I get the feeling that Pat Shortt would prefer if RTE would just leave him alone and stop offering him wheelbarrows of cash to make these programs.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 592 ✭✭✭Black Magic


    Morgans wrote: »

    "Im a thinker, my father was a thinker, his father was a great thinker"
    Thinker/tinker being the joke I think. Not good Im afraid.

    That was not funny. It was on Val Falvey an hour earlier!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Pile of daggins.
    Meanwhile Partridge was over on BBC.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,567 ✭✭✭delta_bravo


    I was dumbfounded at how bad it was.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 592 ✭✭✭Black Magic


    I like the mockumentary style. Kind of new for RTÉ instead of the usual sitcom kind of carry on.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    I like the mockumentary style. Kind of new for RTÉ instead of the usual sitcom kind of carry on.

    Yes, they truly are ground breakers........


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,988 ✭✭✭Bondvillain


    I like the mockumentary style. Kind of new for RTÉ instead of the usual sitcom kind of carry on.

    Paths to freedom, Rté, November 2000.



    Anyway, this show was poor, and looked rushed.

    There may have been some hope for it if it had maintained the "Marion & Geoff" type confessional tone exploring the dreams of the pitifully deluded, but Shortt turned it into broad farce in an attempt to get laughs. (Ha ha - the woman in the background takin' in the washing fell over! ha ha ! fell over! sure isn't falling over fierce funny?)

    Old jokes, poor characterisation and a fundamental lack of plot let the whole thing down.

    The only remotely amusing running gag in the show (inept dj playing inappropriate songs for requests, i.e. : "I useta love her" for a woman from her husband on their anniversary) was actually previously used in Shortt's own Killinaskully season 3 episode about ...a rural community radio station run by the pitifully deluded.

    So Rte are now funding people to plagiarise themselves. Very poor.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,905 ✭✭✭grimm2005


    Can't stand pat shortt. He's the most unfunny man i think i've ever seen on tv. Killinaskully is indescribably awful. It's for this reason i havn't even bothered giving this a go.

    And yes, i realise he played a relatively funny bit part in father ted (which he didn't write) but that's not nearly enough to forgive him for the sh!te he's come out with since


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,132 ✭✭✭andrew1977


    My own personal opinion of it was that it was pure rubbish, stuck it out until the end, didnt find it remotely funny


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 175 ✭✭amovingstatue


    Jon kenny was the man with the writing talent and shortt was good with him

    Since on his own everything he's touched has turned to ****e

    They really should try something again together but it may be that too much time has passed

    I note there wasn't one mention of jon on the interview with tubby but then again a searching interview is beyond tubs

    So more medioc-rte ?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭laugh



    I note there wasn't one mention of jon on the interview with tubby but then again a searching interview is beyond tubs

    So more medioc-rte ?

    Kenny walked off stage and offered everybody their money back at a gig recently.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 175 ✭✭amovingstatue


    laugh wrote: »
    Kenny walked off stage and offered everybody their money back at a gig recently.


    Really? Christ that doesn't sound good. Any idea what happened/why?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 592 ✭✭✭Black Magic


    Really? Christ that doesn't sound good. Any idea what happened/why?




    http://www.sligotoday.ie/details.php?id=6680


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,438 ✭✭✭Morgans


    Always thought Shortt was the funnier of the pair and some of the stuff they did as d'unbelievables was seriously funny. The Crimebusters spoof is one of the funniest things Ive seen any Irish comic do.

    Since then its clear that Kenny was simply the man of the funny faces. Ive seen interviews where Shortt has hinted that the stuff he does isnt what he wants to do but if RTE keep throwing money at him recycling the same characters (and it seems to have an audience) it puts bread on the table.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,494 ✭✭✭Columbia


    laugh wrote: »
    Kenny walked off stage and offered everybody their money back at a gig recently.

    Article says he didn't give any refunds at all, but offered everybody "a drink at the bar".

    People are losing jobs all over the country, he's getting paid for doing an hour on a ****ing stage, and he's whinging about it. Hope he never gets this line of work again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭laugh


    Columbia wrote: »
    Article says he didn't give any refunds at all, but offered everybody "a drink at the bar".

    People are losing jobs all over the country, he's getting paid for doing an hour on a ****ing stage, and he's whinging about it. Hope he never gets this line of work again.

    Well I was at the Gig and it wasn't in Sligo it was in Wicklow, so he has done it twice recently then, I think he is on the wagon or something.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 592 ✭✭✭Black Magic


    It was all part of the performance.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭laugh


    It was all part of the performance.

    me hole.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 592 ✭✭✭Black Magic


    He's on RTÉ One now. Winning Streak. Hope he rots.


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