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RTE Refuses to broadcast comedy sketch

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  • #2
    MaxWig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭MaxWig


    Cabaal wrote: »

    I'm guessing their excuse will be its a sensitive time, but I'd say this would have been banned 6 weeks ago as well.

    In fairness, we have no idea why it wasn't aired.

    May have been any number of other reasons rather than 'nun-related' concern.


  • #3
    bluefinger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭bluefinger


    I like McSavage's stuff normally, but that sketch has very little comedic merit and is actually gratuitously offensive.


  • #4
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    bluefinger wrote: »
    I like McSavage's stuff normally, but that sketch has very little comedic merit and is actually gratuitously offensive.


    I was just about to post the exact opposite tbh. I find McSavage to be the most unfunny fcuker in Montrose, akin to Tommy Tiernan in terms of comedic value, or indeed lack thereof.

    But that video was quality, not quite the Father Ted shtick, which was hilarious in it's simplicity, but I can see no reason why RTE would ban that video unless they wanted to generate publicity for McSavage's new series because the rest of it is utter shìte.

    That'd be me being cynical though.


  • #5
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,473 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    bluefinger wrote: »
    [...] gratuitously offensive.
    I don't think it's one of his better thigh-slappers, but it's a good riff on the Diet Coke ad all the same.


  • #6
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,716 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    bluefinger wrote: »
    I like McSavage's stuff normally, but that sketch has very little comedic merit and is actually gratuitously offensive.

    I think it's pretty funny :)

    It's making fun of two concepts, the first, is that nuns are 'married to god' and the second is that nuns are non sexual. Nuns are women too and have a sexuality just like any other woman, but their sexuality is supposed to be utterly repressed

    It's certainly no more offensive than the Nun sketch in Monty Python and the Holy Grail where Sir Galahad meets a convent at 'Castle Anthrax' full of randy nuns

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  • #7
    mike65
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    So it'll be a while before RTE screens The Devils then?


  • #8
    Cabaal
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    I gota say I don't watch RTE stuff, only time I see it is when I visit my parents house as they usually have it on so i can't comment on the shows overall comedy value,

    As for the sketch, its no more offensive the Monty Python stuff,

    Lets not forget the outrage over this...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUspLVStPbk


  • #9
    foggy_lad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    I can only imagine that particular sketch wasn't aired because it is shlte. Nothing to laugh at here folks its not even controversial even with recent media attention on mother and baby homes.

    I hope the production company don't get paid for shlte like that or the real question would be why are RTE throwing away taxpayers money.


  • #10
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    Don't find it funny but don't find it offensive either, I reckon its more the portrayal of Jesus that's the issue rather than the nuns themselves.


  • #11
    bluefinger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭bluefinger


    i get what the ad was trying to do, all i'm saying is there was no need for some of it.
    i think most would have gathered that the gardener was jesus without the cross strapped to his back for instance.


    maybe i'm (overly) sensitive to the views of Catholics


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  • #12
    bluefinger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭bluefinger


    On the Monty Python stuff, I think that's comedy gold, proper satire, especially given the period.


  • #13
    geeky
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    Maybe the RTE heads just didn't find it funny.

    I know I didn't, and it's nothing to do with the dancing nuns or Jesus. Really, it's just the comedic equivalent of what McSavage used to do on the street - shouting random nonsense in the hope of offending people. Thanks to RTE, I can at least avoid this muppet by just not watching the show.


  • #14
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,255 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Thought it was fairly weak myself, but banning it is ridiculous.

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  • #15
    Cabaal
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    bluefinger wrote: »
    On the Monty Python stuff, I think that's comedy gold, proper satire, especially given the period.

    It still pissed off people no end years ago,
    You have to remember the Life Of Brian was banned in Ireland until 1987, The Meaning Of Life was also banned.

    Funny that both had religious tones in them and both banned in Ireland eh? ;)

    Holy Grail wasn't banned in Ireland at all....so it wasn't like they were just banning Monty Python movies :pac:

    Btw I'm not by any stretch claiming that this comedy sketch is anything like the quality of monty python...its not in a million years. Does it deserve to be banned though, nope.


  • #16
    bluefinger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭bluefinger


    Cabaal wrote: »
    It still pissed off people no end years ago,
    You have to remember the Life Of Brian was banned in Ireland until 1987, The Meaning Of Life was also banned.

    Funny that both had religious tones in them and both banned in Ireland eh? ;)

    Holy Grail wasn't banned in Ireland at all....so it wasn't like they were just banning Monty Python movies :pac:

    Btw I'm not by any stretch claiming that this comedy sketch is anything like the quality of monty python...its not in a million years. Does it deserve to be banned though, nope.

    We had a vinyl copy of the life of Brian in the house that i listened to religiously :pac: . I could probably recite it word for word including the voice-overs.

    I don't think this clip qualifies as being banned though as it is readily available. Rte in their wisdom have decided not to air it. I'm sure there's plenty of stuff they decide not to air that has no religious connotations.

    this could be for many of the reasons above, such as, it's crap, bad timing, or as I suggested it has nothing funny about it allied to the fact that it appears to be going out of its way to offend the religious.


  • #17
    geeky
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    Cabaal wrote: »
    Btw I'm not by any stretch claiming that this comedy sketch is anything like the quality of monty python...its not in a million years. Does it deserve to be banned though, nope.

    Who says it was banned, though, other than McSavage himself? Honestly, I think RTE just didn't show it because it's unfunny tosh.


  • #18
    Cabaal
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    geeky wrote: »
    Who says it was banned, though, other than McSavage himself? Honestly, I think RTE just didn't show it because it's unfunny tosh.

    McSavage says they banned it, so until we have other information to say what the situation thats the best available info for why rte won't air it.

    If it just didn't make the editing cut due to time reasons or it was "unfunny" then fair enough, however given the other "comedy" McSavage churns out I don't see how this clip is "unfunny" :)


  • #19
    Pherekydes
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    Fairly lame, and old. It's been done before, probably many times. Dave Allen used to run similar sketches in the 70s.

    Bannable though? Not unless you're RTE and worried about blasphemy and iOnanists.

    I think a craven streak runs through that organisation at the top.


  • #20
    Nodin
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    Pherekydes wrote: »
    Fairly lame, and old. It's been done before, probably many times. Dave Allen used to run similar sketches in the 70s.

    Bannable though? Not unless you're RTE and worried about blasphemy and iOnanists.

    I think a craven streak runs through that organisation at the top.


    The one time RTE stood up for itself, the whole lot got sacked. Since then its been a cap doffing, forelock tugging extravaganza. Remember the abysmal apology over them pictures of cowan?


  • #21
    Eeden
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    geeky wrote: »
    Maybe the RTE heads just didn't find it funny.

    I know I didn't, and it's nothing to do with the dancing nuns or Jesus. Really, it's just the comedic equivalent of what McSavage used to do on the street - shouting random nonsense in the hope of offending people. Thanks to RTE, I can at least avoid this muppet by just not watching the show.

    Having seen what RTE heads have "allowed" to be broadcast as comedy down the years, I doubt if the reason they won't show this is because they don't think it's funny...!


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  • #22
    SebBerkovich
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,624 ✭✭✭SebBerkovich


    I've not often found McSavage's stuff funny - this sketch to me is fairly bland. But comedic taste often differs, each to their own.

    One thing that we can agree for sure is that by the evidence of Iona's bank statement alone, RTE are very determined to keep any Religious loons out there as happy as possible. I'd tend to believe McSavage, considering RTE's record.


  • #23
    Gordon
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    Wouldn't put it past this guy saying that it's banned when really rte just think it's sh*te. Won't be surprised if he's trying to latch on to a bit of easy publicity due to the content. This is the guy that used to harangue passers by and insult them when busking in Dublin right?


  • #24
    [Deleted User]
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    Really conflicted between apparent censorship being bad and anything that reduces the amount of time that anything McSavage is in any way involved with being on TV being good.


  • #25
    Obliq
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    Cabaal wrote: »
    I'm guessing their excuse will be its a sensitive time, but I'd say this would have been banned 6 weeks ago as well.

    When is it not a sensitive time?

    The sketch is pretty poor, but that's beside the point.


  • #26
    ted1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,773 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    I didn't find it funny? rather than banned, i would say it didn't make the cut.

    Or the cynic in me says its just a cheap publicity stunt.

    Who own the rights to the clip?


  • #27
    Bridget Icy Forklift
    Posts: 81,309 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Bridget Icy Forklift


    Would have been funnier without the cross bit :confused:
    Bit silly


  • #28
    Standman
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    It's no more shite than most of his other sketches, which RTE seem to love since he keeps getting to air new series of the show.


  • #29
    ted1
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    Standman wrote: »
    It's no more shite than most of his other sketches, which RTE seem to love since he keeps getting to air new series of the show.

    It helps to have family in politics and working for RTE


  • #30
    Nodin
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    Obliq wrote: »
    When is it not a sensitive time?

    The sketch is pretty poor, but that's beside the point.


    "poor" is one thing, but its certainly very tame.


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  • #31
    Elektronske
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭Elektronske


    irish humour very strange


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