The Panel

alleepally

Anyone been watching the latest series? It's been excellent. Colin Murphy in particular is hilarious. Well done to Happy Endings productions for a great show and for giving Kathryn Thomas more air time... Always good in my opinion.

snappieT

The story Colin told about the plane being a different colour: that was on an Aer Lingus flight to Copenhagen that I was on - pity I didn'e see him though. He rules

RobertFoster

great programme - used to be live, but doesn't seem to be anymore after the drunk heckler a few weeks ago

steveland?

Yeh i didnt realise it wasnt live anymore till daragh obrian was doin a show in DCU on a monday night WHILE the panel was on...


Anyway its a deadly show... not too fond of ed byrne though

RobertFoster

ed's a bit of a nancy with that hair do...

steveland?

Yeh plus the fact that he's just not funny doesnt help

OFDM

SteveD wrote:

Yeh plus the fact that he's just not funny doesnt help

At least he's not the wasteland devoid of humour that is Fiona Looney.

gogo

The panel does indeed have its moments, But the whole ed byrne thing just ruins it for me, he has the biggest ego for a small time comedy act who's following is getting smaller and smaller as the years go on.

aidan_walsh

OFDM wrote:

At least he's not the wasteland devoid of humour that is Fiona Looney.

Ah well, I have a theory that she just came with the building. The first series of the Panel was shot in The Helix, featuring Fiona Looney in every episode. You're a Star was also, for a time, shot in The Helix. Ray D'Arcy's "hilarious" quips scripted by none other than Fiona Looney.

Concidence? I think the likelyhood is pretty small...

scargill

Programme is great except for Dara O'Brian. Does my head in with 'eh......eh......eh......' between every sentence.

now that i've mentioned it you will never be able to watch again without noticing it !!!!

scargill

I saw both Colin Murphy and Ed Byrne live at Cat Laughs

Colin Murphy = hilarious
Ed Byrne = sh1t - no original ideas

imho

Raoul Duke

RobertFoster wrote:

great programme - used to be live, but doesn't seem to be anymore after the drunk heckler a few weeks ago

They changed being live because of that?! You think they would have done that with The Late Late Show? :rolleyes:

smoke.me.a.kipper

RobertFoster wrote:

great programme - used to be live, but doesn't seem to be anymore after the drunk heckler a few weeks ago

what exactly did the heckler do/say??

Bard

I'd imagine they recorded the show and didn't do it live just to accommodate Dara O'Brian having a live show on the same night. Why they didn't think of just getting a guest presenter in instead, I don't know...

RobertFoster

smak: He was just cursing etc. "a load of ****ing shoite" - slagging off one of the guests...Joe Duffy I think it was - they had to cut his interview in half and eject the heckler from the audience during the ad break.

Bard: I think it was since that episode that they've been recording it, not just the once to accomodate O'Brian, as I've noticed things, such as them sitting/facing different ways when the camera cuts back and forth...

begbie

It seems alright. I don't really pay much attention to it. It's more background noise for me.

Robbo

OFDM wrote:

At least he's not the wasteland devoid of humour that is Fiona Looney.

You didn't see the one with Roisin Ingle subbing for someone? She's like a poor copy of Fiona Looney (terrible newspaper column, weight issues etc), if such a thing is imaginable.

segadreamcast

Nah, it's pre-recorded every week now on the Sunday night.*

Anyway, Colin Murphy has definitely come into his own this season without Ed Byrne constantly on screen trying to scream his 'quips' at people.

However, compared to Fiona Looney even he has his moments.

She is actually the unfunniest person to appear on our screens EVER! And she keeps laughing at her own jokes - that's the first thing you're NOT meant to do as a, and I use the term very very loosely, comedian.

* The reasons for it are two-fold, the production team told me: The heckler played a large part in it (from that week onwards, it was pre-recorded). Additionally, they simply weren't getting credit for it being live - after the first few weeks in Season 1, the fact that it was live was hardly ever mentioned, thus the switch just made sense.

It's now recorded every Sunday night beforehand - I'm going to it this week with a bunch of friends looking forward to it!

magpie

It's a sad indictment of Irish 'talent' if this lot is the best selection of comedians we can dredge up. Colin Murphy excepted, as I do enjoy the Blizzard of Odd.

As for Roisin Ingle, her Irish Times Magazine articles are painful, and not assisted by the site of her glacier-like bulk adorned with girlie pigtails at the top of the page. *shudder*

As with music, all the real talent from Ireland buggers of to the UK / US as soon as possible leaving the dregs to fight it out for big fish/small pond supremacy.

Elmo

As with music, all the real talent from Ireland buggers of to the UK / US as soon as possible leaving the dregs to fight it out for big fish/small pond supremacy.

Possible because both Irish TV and Radio ignor you until you've made it in other countries.

I like Dara O'Brien, His Buried Alive show was very good. And he allowed his guests talk.

cajun_tiger

i can get tickets for it just pm me

steveland?

OFDM wrote:

At least he's not the wasteland devoid of humour that is Fiona Looney.

Agreed

roar_ie

ok, the old man works on the show and they say one of the reason's it isn't live anymore is because of long silences. Didn't hear of the heckler though. Also they cut some of the funnier stuff from the show for some strange reason

Bard

roar_ie wrote:

Also they cut some of the funnier stuff from the show for some strange reason

Plenty of possibilities ... libel... over-rudeness... over-use of the 'F' word...

chump

Oh that was a classic tonight...

Ed Byrne got two put downs... delightful

"That's very pass-remarkable considering the shirt you're wearing"

radiospan

roar_ie wrote:

ok, the old man works on the show and they say one of the reason's it isn't live anymore is because of long silences.

What does "long silences" mean? I didn't notice any silences when it was live.
Pity the cuts aren't a bit smoother now though, it was much better live, IMO.

George Hook was surprisingly good when he was on it a few weeks ago (he was on for the whole show, not just as a guest), but Colin Murphy is by far and away the best on it this season. Looking forward to seeing him next week in college.

Good show again tonight, although I can't stand Ryan Tubridy. Podge and Rodge started right after The Panel with no ads or anything. RTE should fix this for next week, especially for Sky+ users so people don't miss half of it if they have it set to record. It ended at 11:03, but was only due to start at 11. :eek:

Mr E

I enjoyed tonights show too. Juliet Turner rambled a bit, Ryan Tubridy got a bit defensive when Daragh invaded his personal space (fun to watch), and I think Caroline Morahan should have been on for the whole show.

TwoShedsJackson

Well that singer they had on was hopeless, I did enjoy after her tale of the one-night stand and how it could be deciphered from her song lyrics, the host picks up her CD and says 'yeah it's on track 4 'I Rode a Dancer'

Fysh

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I know I might be inviting abuse here, but how come people don't like Ed Byrne? I think he's a funny fecker, and last night in particular the stuff he and Colin Murphy were coming out with was brilliant (loved the thing about teachers being sexually harrassed by schoolkids and the kids drinking/smoking/having sex at early ages).

chump

but that was Colin Murphy's gag...

anyhoo each to their own... i just cant stand him

Fysh

chump wrote:

but that was Colin Murphy's gag...

In fairness, Colin murphy's one was the one about drinking/smoking/sex, the two of them were both contributing on the sexual harrasment one - Byrne coming out with the crack about "having something fat for teacher".

I don't mean to start a row or anything, I'm just curious as to what people dislike about him given that I think he's pretty funny. Tubridy, on the other hand...*urgh*.