The Panel 2008

i hope he surprises me but i'd say he's too pedantic for humour imo

Whatsmore its now pre-recorded so there is no excuse for it being lame

Mike

Holy sweet fuck. This is utterly pathetic.
D'Arcy is gash
The chick hasn't said anything
Jarlath Regan is as funny as a fart at your dead mother's funeral.

Why is Myers on this again ? Racist pr!ck

Nevermind the Buzzcocks is also going down the pan. Maybe comedy panel shows are on the way out

Fail does not even cover tonight.
Colin yes, Neil yes. Everyone else.. *shakes head in pure despair*
It's never been quite the same since Dara left but I have to say I enjoyed the past few series. If they return to form and have the regulars on then it might just be okay.
Keep Arsey Darcy there and I think I might have to smash the tv with my own head just so the pain will end.
RTE congratulations on ruining one of the only decent programmes you had.

Oh and the first guest insulting the Daily Show and Colbert Report. He is a bad man. A very very bad man.

Do yis reckon if we make enough complaints to RTE about Myers being on the show then we could get D'Arcy fired ? Someone called the dirtsheets and get the story printed

Heh, if had criticised them logically it could've been true, but claiming The Panel is funny just makes him lose all credibility.

I like Darcy. I don't know where all the hate is coming from. It was a weak show but that's what I expected. Darcy wasn't trying to be a comedian he was just himself. The others on the show could have easily taken anything said in another direction. Darcy might have had the chair but he's not almighty. Conversation could easily have taken different routes if others wished.
As others have said, the show has suffered since O Brien left. He has a deft hand at handling these types of situations and I think he further proves that on Mock the Week. It's tight but effective unlike the Panel which now seems to drawl listlesly and inevitably to a crippled conclusion.
None of the regular talent on the show have much staying power when it comes to TV. Guest hosts can be great sometimes but I think that type of thing has been done into the ground lately with Have I Got News For You and the like in recent years. The hosts of these types of shows are in themselves the centre pieces.
O Brien was a very good reason for watching and I'm sure most viewers would still think of him when they think The Panel even though he's gone. Mark LeMarr and now Simon Amstell on Never Mind the Buzzcocks really hold the show together with a consistent style and sense of humour. The Panel is completely scatter shot and simply doesn't have the lode stone that was O Brien. I don't see it picking up especially and I'm already a little sick of the Offaly jokes.

tlftw16 wrote: »

I used to watch the panel all the time until rte made it so that only people in Ireland could watch it. :mad::(

I started watching sometime late in 2006 after I stumbled across this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb8wVlph7Cc
I found it hilarious.

I was going to ask if someone would post some of the funny bits on youtube or something, but it sounds like it wasn't that good

Odd first post, anyway, you can see some past episodes here :

http://www.rte.ie/tv/thepanel/video.html

alan dunne 27 wrote: »

Odd first post, anyway, you can see some past episodes here :

http://www.rte.ie/tv/thepanel/video.html

Yeah, a bit of an odd first post.
sorry.

I can't watch the videos off the rte website because I don't live in Ireland. They (rte) changed their video player thing (some time in the summer) so that it would only play for people with IP addresses from Ireland, before I could watch episodes on there, in fact that's how I managed to watch all the episodes, because I don't live in Ireland or the UK.