Derek Mooney Show *MOD WARNING IN 1st POST*

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Jaysus ,I think so, once one doesn't identify anyone in particular.

Like ...make a statement like... like calling out some geezer 'coming the auld soldier'

:eek: Surely you know what that means:cool:

Indeed an' I do, though I know none personally. And for the 'geezer' I recall Spike Milligan's Wormwood Scrubs Tango.


Hugo Brady Brown

HugoBradyBrown wrote: »

Indeed an' I do, though I know none personally. And for the 'geezer' I recall Spike Milligan's Wormwood Scrubs Tango.


Hugo Brady Brown

'Coming the old soldier' 'Ugo is what I was referring to.

I'll save you the trouble.


'trying to come across as somebody who tries to appear dimmer than they actually are'


good man, you don't fool the lads in here.;)

HugoBradyBrown wrote: »

Why would Derek have to attend so many Civil Partnership ceremonies? Surely they could be scheduled for the mornings, in order not to clash with TX time? Why would he be required to go? Does he have some civil function to perform? Is he a part-time Registrar?

Yes, I know Myles is away; we can all feel it. But I know he will return, replenished and rejuvenated intellectually; we have endured something similar in the past, when Andy O'Mahoney decamped to Harvard for a few years.

It will, perhaps, lighten the atmosphere here when readers tumble to the conclusion that it's all but certain that Derek, too, will, when he's older, also pursue a doctoral course in Yale or somewhere like that.

The idea of provoking an innocent broadcaster under the stress of live radio conditions seems somewhat juvenile, I think we will all agree. I don't understand, though, why Derek would get hot under the collar. It occurs to me that since I have never heard him in such a state, it may be simply a matter of perception on the part of a few listeners.

And what, by the way, means the reference to Phillip?

Hugo Brady Brown

Paddy Gallagher!!!

The geezer with the bottle-end glasses?

WTF

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

Hugo, I take it you listened to The Pat Kenny Show when Myles Dungan was filling in for him during the summer? In my opinion, the man is an insufferable bore and full of his own self-importance. I tolerated him on Rattlebag but I far preferred the musings of Mike Murphy on its previous incarnation as The Arts Show. Mike Murphy was an avuncular figure who made the arts more accessible to a wider appreciative audience, and someone who didn't talk down to people. I always felt that Dungan's presentation style on Rattlebag was somewhat akin to being sat in a lecture theatre - and not in a good way.

What Harry says interests me, and I cannot and would not try to dissuade a person from holding an opinion based their own inwardly arising feelings about a broadcaster. We cannot expect to like everyone, and so, in the rather intense experience of listening to a broadcaster, if someone is not to our taste, we may find them hard to bear. Objectively there may be nothing wrong with the broadcaster; there may be simply a mismatch with our own taste or temperament.

I agree about Mike Murphy on the Arts programme. It was a considerable surprise to me that he was such a good arts journalist and presenter; I had, as had everyone else in the land, thought that his morning show in the 1980's was really first-class use of the medium, incorporating music, running gags, news and his own brand of both absurdist and commonsensical humour. (In this he was like a forerunner of the succès d'estime that is Marty Whelan's show Marty in the Morning on RTE Lyric FM.) On his arts show he showed an unexpected side, and that most particularly, in my view, in his ability to deal in an audio medium with visual art. His unwillingness to be taken in by arrant nonsense from artists was one of the most refreshing aspects of that programme. That and, as Harry says, his ability to connect with the audience. Who would have expected 45 minutes of afternoon arts programming to be such a success, in the day when time-shifting of radio listening was not a practical proposition for listeners.

We must agree to disagree in relation to Myles; I will continue to see him as that rare beast, the intellectual radio presenter who can bring any subject down to earth. (I didn't listen to the Pat Kenny Show in the summer, so I can't comment on that; at the best of times, even when Pat himself is presenting, I find it one of the least alluring programmes on RTE 1. I accept that the fault is probably mine.)




Hugo Brady Brown

Wertz wrote: »

A degree in modern history of the Eurovision song contest perhaps or a masters in the works of Rodgers and Hammerstein?

And what, as all reasonable people will agree, could be wrong with that? Doctoral theses have been written about Coronation Street, The Riordans, the music of John Barry, the work of Bobby Darin, the list goes ever on - all very fine, and contributing in their small way to the joy & gaiety of the world.


Hugo Brady Brown

Wertz wrote: »

Fair point on campness != less intellectual ability... I can think of numerous examples myself.
However my opinion of Mooney is of a lightweight in the grey matter department... and that's fine; you don't need a big brain or an academic qualification to be a radio host or to be some sort of more worthy citizen.
You were the one that raised the possibility of Derek attending an Ivy league school and that it would somehow feed back into hhis hosting abilities in the future... hardly likely and I can only think you were being slightly facetious in your suggestion.

I don't see much of that latent professorial talent emergent in the general pizazz of the show.... if it's a dead time then filling it with the mundane stuff that populates prime time telly or the showbiz gossip columns is a lazy way to try and enliven it...
But hey, outside my demographic and I hastily switch over when he springs toward the mic, so whatever floats your boat...

I agree, Wertz, about much of what you say, but, as to cerebral matters, we may be forgetting Derek's background as a scientist, perhaps the highest pinnacle of intellectual achievement available to man. He toiled in the galleys of nature programmes for donkeys' years, being frequently out of his bed in the small hours (when a man with a normal life would have been birdwatching in Leeson Street) to rejoice (or pretend to rejoice, which is the same thing in radio) in the glory of the so-called 'Dawn Chorus' (a most overrated phenomenon, in my own view, and one invented by 'townies'). But, in the spirit of scientific enquiry, he pursued this, and rubbed shoulders with some of the most colorful eccentrics, obsessives and cranks the length and breadth of the land. He also engaged with children, always more easily impressed by creepy-crawlies than the rest of us. But in doing this, in working his shift at night or in the early hours of the morning, he demonstrated his keen scientific acumen, while also honing his presentational skills, skills that are transferrable into all other parts of the schedule here.

When the time comes, he may take on a real programme, and he is as likely to do well with it as the next man. And if he chooses to cross the pond, to add to his diplomas and paper qualifications (for what that's worth at the best of times), so much the better for him, as well as for us. We should wish a young and vigorous man the very best, and hope he continues to smile at us out of the Bush or the Roberts or whatever.


Baaaaaiiiiiyyyyeeeeeeeeee!


Hugo Brady Brown

BTW, is there any online video of Daniel trouncing that Miss Greer?


Hugo Brady Brown