Bull Island

Mr E

Meant to post this yesterday, but didn't get time.

Does anyone watch Bull Island and find it FUNNY? I think the voices are good (for the most part), some of the likenesses aren't bad, but the material is absolutely terrible....

I watched the show on Friday, and didn't laugh once.

Opinions?

- Dave.

azezil

Its so incredibly shite, i just want to gouge out my eyes n shove them in my ears while watching it, its awful!

giftgrub

ive seen it twice, both times a sham.

i dont understand, i think as a nation were a pretty funny lot, what gets lost when people walk in the doors of RTE? their frontal lobes?

Jokah

Pure sanctimonious tripe.........

Waste of time and money....

smuckers

Painfully unfunny and I could have swore I saw the guy who presented Bosco years ago one week, ah Boso those were the days.:)

giftgrub

someone in work said that to me the other day...was it phillip the really camp guy?


bosco...what a tosser.

smuckers

LOL I think it was him, him and the girl used to have green trousers.:D

Elmo

I used to find it very enjoyable.

But after the first and second series in went down hill.

The special (which only feature two of the bull islanders) was painfully unfunny.

Great impersonations but dreadful comedy like that english guy the big impression or something

Best Satire at the moment goes to DEADRINGERS(edit and Apres Match).

love the silent witness, news at 10 and Parki on it.

Especially parki on the bus stop bench.

flogen

i hate bull island, and what annoys me the most is the patronising muppets who try and tell you that you dont find it funny because 'you dont get it'.... sorry but I follow irish politics about as much as is possible without dying of brain failure due to lack of stimulus, and i still found it total crud.

i think that irish tv (not irish writers) will always fail at making good comedy. Apres Match is usually really good, but it could never survive as a stand alone tv show, and thankfully its creators know that and havent tried. I imagine that if RTE had financed father ted before c4 did it would have been crap, they have a knack at turning a great idea into manure.

lets look at afew rte made irish sitcoms:
upwardly mobile (i dont need to comment on this pile of piss)
bacholers(or whatever) walk (seems to be popular, but i dont like it, very poorly made and a very weak script)
custars last stand (not too bad for its audience, although id say without the help of the bbc, it would have been just another vile rte show)

bull island is another bit of proof of rte's incompetence. the only decent irish made show ive seen recently has been blizzard of oz, which survives by insulting the incompetence of rte productions (quite well i must add)
podge and rodge wasnt bad, but got boring very quickly

what have i missed?

Flogen

sceptre

Originally posted by smuckers
Painfully unfunny and I could have swore I saw the guy who presented Bosco years ago one week, ah Boso those were the days.:)

Frank was on it regularly playing Mary O'Rourke. I only watched it a few times and found it painfully unfunny. The actual character representations are good to very good as a rule though - it's the material that lets it down.

Elmo

bacholers(or whatever) walk (seems to be popular, but i dont like it, very poorly made and a very weak script

Yes and has been well taken by critics, just because you don't like a programme doesn't mean it's not good. And I don't think it is poorly made.


Personally I don't like Father Ted, and I think if RTE had optioned it people would have slated it. Even if they hadn't touched it. IMO.

bacholers(or whatever) walk (seems to be popular, but i dont like it, very poorly made and a very weak script)
bacholers(or whatever) walk (seems to be popular, but i dont like it, very poorly made and a very weak script)
custars last stand (not too bad for its audience, although id say without the help of the bbc, it would have been just another vile rte show)

Custards Last Stand Up was for Children. The first series of batchelors walk was produced by rte and the bbc, also just in case you don't know Batchelors Walk is a Dublin place name (I know one person who didn't like the name of the show not realising it was a place name :rolleyes: )

bull island is another bit of proof of rte's incompetence.

I don't know about this, as I said I think it did have its time but sin e.

Coolz

someting has been bothering me about that guy in bull island that was in bosco and is now that nutjob cult member in fairly ****ty (fair city)... i have only seen bull island the odd time but i think he dresses up as a woman in it... who is it he is taking off? does anyone know off hand?

Elmo

Mary O Rourke

He does her very well, so much so that when he was on the marian Finn. show people where ring in angry at what they though she was saying.

Coolz

thank you! mary herself is doing that true love game thing with sean moncrieff is she not *L* or is it really her

flogen

just because you don't like a programme doesn't mean it's not good.

of course not, but im just giving my opinion, i think its badly made because the delivery seems poor and the script is weak... and yes i know its a place in Dublin.

Custards Last Stand Up was for Children

i know, thats why i said

custars last stand (not too bad for its audience

and i doubt father ted would have been slated had it been made by rte (even if they didnt touch it), i think that a quality show cannot be dragged down by the bad reputation of a channel. look at fox, in america it has a bad name for really poor sitcoms (remember the simpsons slagging them with the show 'ethnic mis-match comedy #435 or something) and yet you still cannot deny (or i at least cannot deny) the quality of some of their shows, namely family guy and futurama (sadly there wernt enough americans who agree with me and so they are both cancelled, at least for now....)

Flogen

giftgrub

speaking of bad comedies

anyone remember leave it to mrs obrien, the cassidy's or the sitcom about some sort of newspaper? -"extra extra" i think it was

Elmo

look at fox, in america it has a bad name for really poor sitcoms

It's doing ok at the moment 70's Show etc. (Ok cannt think of any other ones from fox)

But how long did Married with Children go on for, and god that was bad.

and i doubt father ted would have been slated had it been made by rte (even if they didnt touch it), i think that a quality show cannot be dragged down by the bad reputation of a channel.

I don't think Father Ted is one of the better comedies (I actually don't find it funny, and no offence to the late dermot morgan who can do great satire etc. however he cannot act). I remember reading some Critics here when it was first shown who slated it.

For something to be good (sorry Popular) in Ireland it has to do well in Britian or ROW.

flogen

For something to be good (sorry Popular) in Ireland it has to do well in Britian or ROW

i have to disagree, although Irish people are well known for insulting themselves I cant imagine a good show being slated just because its Irish... the fact is that RTE, imo, have constantly failed to make a truely great, or even a good show. Everything they've made has been sub-par, with perhaps 5 minutes of quality material out of 6 episodes... obviously many feel differently, as shows like Bull Island had and still have a strong fan-base, but i think that for a country with some great writers and comedians, we cannot seem to crack the sitcom genre.

and i am a big father ted fan, although i was never a dermot morgan fan. thought his stand up was boring and before Father Ted had never even heard of him (too young to remember scrap saturday). i just think he did a good job in mediating the writers jokes, and i feel his acting was good enough for the show.... look at O Hanlon, such a one-character-actor, but it worked in Father Ted.

Flogen

Elmo

Indeed Ardel has only one character and it comes across worse in My Hero.

But the difference between the two was that ardel came across more natural then Dermot.

Dermot to me seemed to just read the lines. IMO.

flogen

jesus yeah, my hero has to be one of the worst pieces of crap ever.... Im surprised RTE didnt make it... (only messing, but it is really terrible, and its gotten 5 series or something!)

i guess it is a matter of opinion, but i think he did a good job as ted, and forgetting him, all the stories and sub-characters were superb, some brilliant quotes and some of the best and most bizzare scenes of comedy in many years, even if the main characters were really weak(which i dont think they were), the rest made up for it tenfold

Flogen

Mr E

Thats a good point. Father Ted is so incredibly quotable..... And it will still be quoted 10 years from now....... The actual script was superb.

- Dave.

Coolz

I am a huge ted fan too, i think its just class and can not pick any faults in the main characters at all IMO

It is great to see so many fans of ted in here, nice to know i'm not alone