Hector & Tommy's Craic House

Toyota_Avensis wrote: »

RTÉ must be kicking themselves, regretting the day when they rejected the Father Ted proposal. They had first refusal.

FireballPitcher wrote: »

I never said they were useless, just that they're not good with TV shows.

An interesting distinction which was not evident from your earlier posting. I was making a different point - that comedians will fail on TV unless they are supported i.e. RTE must pay a team of writers.

Over the last year or two, people have kept saying to me that Tommy/Hector show was great live, and they had a great radio show, why can't they have a TV show.

It's a mystery to me why TT is the most popular comedian in the country but there is an immense difference between getting laughs from a crowd who are up for the craic having downed numerous pints and making a funny TV show.

I dread the thought of their national radio show but I can imagine they might be fun as DJs for a local station and it might transfer to 2FM if they stick to music/ light banter and keep TT away from anything serious.

The Red Leper wrote: »

I managed to get free audience tickets as a result of a thread in the galway city board, and the reason we were clapping so much was pretty much cos there was an "applause man" up the front cueing is when to laugh etc very staged....they edited it down from a 2 hour show to 1 hour..they cut the few funny bits that there actually was!!

I thought twas painful to watch on tv..ugh

In fairness, there's an applause man on every audience show on RTE. Late Late, Questions and Answers etc.

And all comedy shows film for hours and cut out the ****ee.

D.O Briain's show in England, Mock the week, film 2 and half hours for a half hour's material.

It's standard practice.

Just when I thought we had escaped the craic house, Martina Devlin drags us back in with a weird commentary in today's Indo.

All hail Tommy Tiernan, comedian with a philosopher's instincts.

Martina was impressed by TT's brainrot with K Myers

There is more to being Irish than money. We are trees, we are rivers, we are the breeze.

TT made a similar comment in the infamous Electric Picnic gig. His case was that Brian Cowen thinks Ireland is nothing more than an economy. TT based this claim on a comment by Cowen at that Farmleigh thingy that Ireland is a "brand" . Anyone who paid attention to Cowen's remarks would know he talking about the prospects for economic growth though marketing Ireland abroad. If that Farmleigh event proved anything, it was the importance of our cultural life.

(Of course, TT was outraged when his anti-semitic comments was "taken out of context"):cool:

Incredibly, TT's craic house nonsense is not just a quirky way for Devlin to get into a broader theme. It is the meat of her column.:eek:

How does the Indo print this stuff ? (I know, Sindo will print anything but this is Thursday). Partly, it is the classic journo dilemma in the festive season - column inches to fill v. glasses to empty.

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/martina-devlin/martina-devlin-cowen-is-not-the-maverick-we-need-for-difficult-times-1994764.html

'Wierd commentary' is just about all the Indo does these days.

They had a go at the Vincent de Paul two weeks before Christmas for bailing out 'workshy scum.' :eek:

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