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The Ray D'Arcy Show Thread - Mod note Post # 1 Updated

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    #122
    Gizzle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 499 ✭✭Gizzle


    deRanged wrote:
    No, no and no. It's none of those three things anymore.

    Yeah, it seems the general vibe of the thread is that I'm after coming in on the pit of the show rather than the crest. Ah well, what I don't know etc...


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    #123
    ronbyrne2005
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,494 ✭✭✭ronbyrne2005


    VonLuck wrote:
    I think you misunderstood. I said "What's more entertaining between 9 and 12?" I don't think age profile can be a time. :rolleyes:

    I listened to him this morning, and I really don't see what's the problem. The show is funny, entertaining, interesting.... what more can you ask for?

    I'm guessing you guys didn't grow up with him on the Den, did ya?


    Hi Ray or Ray's friend. He is bland and not funny.


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    #124
    Nightwish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭Nightwish


    The show is so incredibly predictable. He plays Arcade Fire within the first hour of the show, religiously. Thats usually followed by his "indie cover version" fetish, after which his fan club text army send in heaps of texts in the vein of "oh my gosh how cool is that" ..." I just have to download that from iTunes".


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    #125
    magnumlady
    Registered Users Posts: 3,657 ✭✭✭magnumlady


    You can bet your life 'Worried about Ray' will be played somewhere during the show.
    Still I think I heard him say he is away for a couple of weeks.


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    #126
    shockwave
    Registered Users Posts: 1,770 ✭✭✭shockwave


    Thats right he's goin on hoilday for 2 weeks and I think Tom Dunne is taking over. Thank God!


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    #127
    Keano
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 12,803 Mod ✭✭✭✭Keano


    Stumbling upon this post I am not at all surprised at the majority of views that the show is bland, boring, annoying etc... Having listened to his show for about 4 years now it hasnt changed a lot. I think it has if it aint broken dont fix it going on. Points have been made about the music on the show and I have to agree with them BUT people like this music and dont mind hearing the same song everyday so that cant be a bad thing. I for one dont mind hearing Arcade Fire everyday. Perhaps we have a few Arcade Fire arent cool anymore as they are mainstream people hanging around!


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    #128
    Gizzle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 499 ✭✭Gizzle


    Nightwish wrote:
    The show is so incredibly predictable. He plays Arcade Fire within the first hour of the show, religiously. Thats usually followed by his "indie cover version" fetish, after which his fan club text army send in heaps of texts in the vein of "oh my gosh how cool is that" ..." I just have to download that from iTunes".

    And it just so happens to be Intervention, with the big, f'off church organ playing through the whole song. Rofl.


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    #129
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    magnumlady wrote:
    You can bet your life 'Worried about Ray' will be played somewhere during the show.
    Still I think I heard him say he is away for a couple of weeks.

    If you hate him so much, surely you don't listen ? :eek:

    So how did you manage to hear him say that ?


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    #130
    Heln
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭Heln


    Peter Collins wrote:
    Looking forward to seeing his ratings.

    All he's had are ups since he started - wonder how he'd react to a downturn.

    Latest ratings show he's still on the up...

    While I agree with some of the points made here, especially how annoying it is when he goes on about Kate all the time, I don't think he's as bad as some previous posters made out.

    I think the show just needs to be freshended up, starting by getting rid of Maeve Higgins. The whole not taking herself too seriously was ok at the start but now it's boring and just not funny. I think the pricewatch slot and mailbag thing should go too, it's all just too 'moany'.

    This week was just torture with Ann Marie Kelly. What a bore. All she does is (badly) read out meaningless texts from listeners. Tom Dunne wasn't much better. I don't think there's anything worse than someone who's just not funny trying to be funny. Well there is something worse actually - when there's someone in the background giggling like an overexcited teenage girl at everything that he say. Rant over.


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    #131
    opa01_2000
    Registered Users Posts: 165 ✭✭opa01_2000


    Heln wrote:

    This week was just torture with Ann Marie Kelly. What a bore. All she does is (badly) read out meaningless texts from listeners. Tom Dunne wasn't much better. I don't think there's anything worse than someone who's just not funny trying to be funny. Well there is something worse actually - when there's someone in the background giggling like an overexcited teenage girl at everything that he say. Rant over.

    I agree with the point about an unfunny person trying to be funny. The worst culprit, in my opinion, is Ray Foley and in his case the worst part is he, with his sparring partner JP, actually THINKS he's funny. Reminds me of another duo, Dick and Dom, on the BBC who were so awful even the kids stopped watching.


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    #132
    Badabing
    Registered Users Posts: 1,907 ✭✭✭Badabing


    opa01_2000 wrote:
    I agree with the point about an unfunny person trying to be funny. The worst culprit, in my opinion, is Ray Foley and in his case the worst part is he, with his sparring partner JP, actually THINKS he's funny. Reminds me of another duo, Dick and Dom, on the BBC who were so awful even the kids stopped watching.

    Imo Ray Foley has improved hugely in the last few months really funny and doesn't take himself seriously.


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    #133
    Awful Scut
    Closed Accounts Posts: 72 ✭✭Awful Scut


    I think Foley can be very amusing, and I'm normally very slow to say anything positive about DJs.

    They did a pisstake of that Franke Dettori Jack n' Jill ad a few days back and it was hilarious.


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    #134
    el dude
    Registered Users Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭el dude


    Have to agree, The D'Arcy show had gotten stale. Don't listen to it now half as much as before.

    As for Foley, CAN NOT stand him. I've tried giving him a chance, but could never last more than a half an hour.


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    #135
    Vegeta
    Registered Users Posts: 11,393 ✭✭✭✭Vegeta


    liked ray but now its just lost its appeal.

    have a soft spot for Ray Foley though


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    #136
    el diablo
    Registered Users Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭el diablo


    Vegeta wrote:
    liked ray but now its just lost its appeal.

    have a soft spot for Ray Foley though
    both of them are sh1te. I'd even prefer Ann Marie Kelly over D'arcy...:p

    We're all in this psy-op together.🤨



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    #137
    windowcleaner
    Registered Users Posts: 126 ✭✭windowcleaner


    Heln wrote:
    Latest ratings show he's still on the up...

    While I agree with some of the points made here, especially how annoying it is when he goes on about Kate all the time, I don't think he's as bad as some previous posters made out.

    I think the show just needs to be freshended up, starting by getting rid of Maeve Higgins. The whole not taking herself too seriously was ok at the start but now it's boring and just not funny. I think the pricewatch slot and mailbag thing should go too, it's all just too 'moany'.

    This week was just torture with Ann Marie Kelly. What a bore. All she does is (badly) read out meaningless texts from listeners. Tom Dunne wasn't much better. I don't think there's anything worse than someone who's just not funny trying to be funny. Well there is something worse actually - when there's someone in the background giggling like an overexcited teenage girl at everything that he say. Rant over.
    Er, "on the up"??

    Lastest JNLR figures show Ray D'Arcy has lost 11,000 listeners while nearly everyone else at the station (Ian Dempsey, Matt Cooper, Ray Foley, even Tony Fenton) are going up

    http://www.ireland.com/blogs/ontherecord/2007/08/23/jnlr-today-fms-figures-are-in/


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    #138
    Nightwish
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    I feel compelled to post today, as I need to moan. Why the f*ck does Ray feel the need to play an "indie" cover version of an 80's pop song, on a daily basis. Its on the same level as chipmunks on speed 80's covers that are beloved by our joyriding citizens.
    Now that Jenny's back, it should be a criminal offence for her to open her mouth on air.


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    #139
    mickd
    Registered Users Posts: 602 ✭✭✭mickd


    Just like big brother by osmosis people are finding out that Mr D'Arcy isn't that good and never really was


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    #140
    Firetrap
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    Or that everyone's getting sick of the formula. There isn't much choice at that hour of the day...You've got Ryan Tubridy and whoever's standing in for Pat Kenny on Radio 1, Gerry Ryan talking about snot on 2FM, the poor man's Liveline (e.g. Brenda Power) on Newstalk and whatever's going on local radio. The worst thing D'Arcy ever did was to spawn that kid of his. I've nuthin' against babies but everything against parents who do nothing but talk about their offspring.


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    #141
    deshocks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭deshocks


    I used to be such an avid fan I have a Bobblehead Ray and a 'Fixed' book, but in the last year or so the show has seriously declined.

    Darcy has become smug and middle-aged. He keeps trying to 'educate his listeners' by introducing political topics, which he himself knows nothing about. His political comments are glib and uninformed, simplistic at best, and yet he often talks down to his listeners despite the fact that they are the ones keeping him in a job. People might expect a certain amount of that from Radio One, but even the likes of Joe Duffy (a former student politician and, I believe, a barrister) has a better man-of-the-people attitude than Darcy.

    Will is the best thing about the Darcy show but everything he says is dismissed by the prima donna for whom the show is named.


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    #142
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    Will? He claimed this morning that making an omelette was difficult....I mean WTF? Any c*nt can make a damn omelette!
    If you're going to pad out a show with an intellectual straight-man then at least get one with...well, intellect...


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    #143
    lbourkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭lbourkey


    I agree - Ray has always been fairly bland but for some reason this used to be acceptable - now it's quite painful to listen to him and doing the Rose of Tralee is a bad bad move


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    #144
    Peyton Manning
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,658 ✭✭✭✭Peyton Manning


    Have to admit, today's show was pretty damn good. The bra-opening contest made me laugh out loud. But that was probably down to Ray Foley, who is brilliant.


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    #145
    Badabing
    Registered Users Posts: 1,907 ✭✭✭Badabing


    Great show today very funny! He got PJ. Gallagher totally.:D


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    #146
    BaZmO*
    Registered Users Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    Can someone please explain what happened today with the PJ wind up. I was listening but not really paying attention. I started to pay attention when Jenny seem to get upset over something but I knew straight away that it was a wind up but didn't know what about.

    The bra thing was funny though.


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    #147
    Peyton Manning
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    The bra contest was hilarious, especially when Foley tried it and Will started shouting 'He's hurting me, he's hurting me!"


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    #148
    quickstitch.ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 110 ✭✭quickstitch.ie


    It was a set up alright, explained before ad break then brought in pj, think the "row" went off a bit quick, thought it was going to be a stormer, but it was over in a 3 or 4 seconds... pj's reaction was funny tho... recorded it, will post later, or in the mornin..


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    #149
    Tropheus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,937 ✭✭✭Tropheus


    Have to say that I've gone off his show over the last year and I'm not sure why. I thought it was me, but now that I read these opinions, I'm not too sure.

    I guess I'm tired of the boy/girl arguements where Ray puts forward the cliched boy side and Jenny/Mairead make him look stupid as is the want of the noughties girlie.


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    #150
    lbourkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭lbourkey


    speak for yourself or the women you know - not all women are man bashing idiots intent on behaving like men at their worst.

    Ray's show however has started to pander to this way of thinking - bad for both men and women in my opinion.


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    #151
    Tropheus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,937 ✭✭✭Tropheus


    lbourkey wrote:
    speak for yourself or the women you know - not all women are man bashing idiots intent on behaving like men at their worst.

    Ray's show however has started to pander to this way of thinking - bad for both men and women in my opinion.

    Have to agree. I was being facetious BTW;)


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