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The Panel returns!

  • 15-10-2006 05:49PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 388 ✭✭


    Yup! The Panel's back - Season 5 starts on RTÉ Two on Monday night (October 16th)!

    So long as they stop deliberately trying to find a gender balance it should be good. Equality's grand, but nobody should have to put up with Geri Maye or Fiona Looney trying to be funny.

    Still looking forward to the new series though. Any thoughts?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,801 ✭✭✭✭Kojak


    I'm also looking forward to the new series.

    As long as they don't have that Fiona Looney on it - she'd be more suited to Questions and Answers than a comedic show as, IMO, she's about as funny as Pat Kenny. :mad: :mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    Agreed. There's no funny women around so stop trying to force the issue. They should just get Aoife Ni Thuairsig back again to sit there smiling, looking pretty and displaying her ample baps.

    Women should be seen and not heard and nowhere is that more true than in comedy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,254 ✭✭✭wba88


    Cant wait. I agree with milktrolley aswell. Still a great show though the only dissapointing thing is the season goes so quickly!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭The Bollox


    Kojak wrote:
    I'm also looking forward to the new series.

    As long as they don't have that Fiona Looney on it - she'd be more suited to Questions and Answers than a comedic show as, IMO, she's about as funny as Pat Kenny. :mad: :mad:
    ah now come on, Pat's not that bad!

    I loved it when the show was live, it doesn't seem as good when it's recorded, still am looking forward to it tho, Andrew Maxwell is a legend!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,769 ✭✭✭sudzs


    Kojak wrote:
    I'm also looking forward to the new series.

    As long as they don't have that Fiona Looney on it - she'd be more suited to Questions and Answers than a comedic show as, IMO, she's about as funny as Pat Kenny. :mad: :mad:

    Dunno about that..??

    Have to say she made me laff the time Ulick O'Conor was on and she said to him "..bet you're glad your surname isn't McGee!"

    ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,854 ✭✭✭zuutroy


    Can't see how anyone likes it. The wit is about as sharp as a blunt thing. Beats me how Ed Byrne, Neil Delamere or Colin Murphy have comedy careers....A poor man's have I got news for you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,801 ✭✭✭✭Kojak


    sudzs wrote:
    Dunno about that..??

    Have to say she made me laff the time Ulick O'Conor was on and she said to him "..bet you're glad your surname isn't McGee!"

    ;)

    Right, but that was once and how many times was she on. If its a political show (like Q&A) then fine, but she seems to think that what she's saying is funny when it quite evidently isn't.

    It a comedic show, not serious debate. The show is, in my mind, there to pull the p1ss out of whatever it can.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,585 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    Marts wrote:
    ah now come on, Pat's not that bad!
    No, he's worse.

    But it's touching to see that at least one person on the island think that he deserves half-a-mil a year and that big pad out in Killiney.

    He wouldn't even have made it as a regional newsreader in the UK.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,488 ✭✭✭Goodshape


    Pigman II wrote:
    Agreed. There's no funny women around so stop trying to force the issue.
    Yer' one who played Miss. Doyle (the name escapes me) is quite good as I remember.

    Good to see it coming back anyway. I thought they cancelled it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    Great to see it back and fully agree with the above posters re: they should stop attempting to find a gender balance for the sake of it and ditch the unfunny rags they've had on it in the past.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 388 ✭✭Milktrolley


    Usually they have a good enough bunch but Andrew Maxwell is a bit too full of himself for my liking.

    It was definitely better when it was live, less PC I think as well. Was it the drunk guy roaring his head off at Joe Duffy that put an end to that?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,399 ✭✭✭OFDM


    PLEASE GOD - NO FIONA LOONEY

    Aoife Ni Thuairsig or Grainne Seoige for scenery, or else Pauline McLynn, who is remotely funny and has good baps to boot!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 150 ✭✭ScruffySlayer


    not a fan of this myself but my friend/flatmate is. Is there a repeat at some other time so i can still get her to go out monday nights?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 388 ✭✭Milktrolley


    not a fan of this myself but my friend/flatmate is. Is there a repeat at some other time so i can still get her to go out monday nights?

    Friday night at 12:45. That time will vary each week, and there's no guarantee that it'll be repeated every week either.

    Gráinne wasn't too bad I thought. At least she didn't overly try to be funny, sometimes she just naturally was. Plus, when she tried to be intelligent she actually was. Same can't be said for some of the other contributors like Fiona Looney et al.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,399 ✭✭✭OFDM


    Sadly there were no repeates last year when Aoife Ni Thuairsig was a guest (as opposed to a panelist) and her breasts almost fell out of her blouse when she leaned over.

    I'd pay money for screen caps of that...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,587 ✭✭✭optiplexgx270


    Was at it there tonight:

    Neil Delamere - funny fecker
    Colin Murphy - meh apart from being slagged about his youtube video (can be good but i dono i dont like him for some reason defo wasnt at his best this evening)
    Anna Nolan - jeasus christ speak for god sakes then again you aint funny so keep it shut.
    Ed Byrne - again funny guy was trying too hard at points though but on a whole a really funny guy

    Topics:
    Bertie getting abuse
    2 fellas who stole the boat in hollyhead were getting slagged breifly (not there)
    Rakie begin taken the piss out of
    Poor chris deburge

    Talked about this (youtube seems to be down):
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=De5z4yBzqBc&search=cillin

    Played a sesame st. video off youtube (goodfellas funny)

    Jack L was on and sang - twice (something about forgetting to press record on the cameras)

    and some lenster rugby fella young like 22-27 im guessing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,082 ✭✭✭lostexpectation


    Was at it there tonight:

    Neil Delamere - funny fecker
    Colin Murphy - meh apart from being slagged about his youtube video (can be good but i dono i dont like him for some reason defo wasnt at his best this evening)
    Anna Nolan - jeasus christ speak for god sakes then again you aint funny so keep it shut.
    Ed Byrne - again funny guy was trying too hard at points though but on a whole a really funny guy

    ohmygod the unfunny woman syndrome is back!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,257 ✭✭✭SoupyNorman


    God awful show, although its good an effort is made in promoting our Irish comediens apart from Ed Byrne. I would like to run him over with me car.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,469 ✭✭✭Morgans


    sudzs wrote:
    Dunno about that..??

    Have to say she made me laff the time Ulick O'Conor was on and she said to him "..bet you're glad your surname isn't McGee!"

    ;)

    Possibly the greatest evidence for the prosecution. She was being taken to school by the ascerb Ulick, and that was the best response she could come up with. I also liked the way Hook took Kathryn Thomas apart "that's the best rugby question I've ever been asked by a travel presenter". Think that might have been on the first season.

    They really should hone the searches for funny women. Affable does not equal funny. If you are not funny, dont take the 200quid or whatever they offer you to be on, if you are intellegent enough, dont try to be funny when you are not. If you are not intellegent, you should be ripped to shreds by those who are....for taking the money.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,662 Mod ✭✭✭✭Faith


    I wish I was watching it right now. Damn UK tv!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    Thought tonights episode was great, very funny.

    Didn't catch the name of the female panelist, brutal as always though but thankfully she sat back and let the real comedians do their thing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,613 ✭✭✭Big Nelly


    She was woeful, isnt that the muppet from BB or something. The lesbian?

    Did they edit out what Darcy said about women rugby players because I couldnt hear it? must be gone hard of hearing or something!! :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,587 ✭✭✭optiplexgx270


    Left out a good bit as usuall :( including ed's bit about how hard it must be for "recovering pedos" at halloween) friends mentioned it before we went in that he said it last year and he was giving out about editing and started that speil. Quite funny.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭Baby4


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 114 ✭✭the_batman


    Big Nelly wrote:
    Did they edit out what Darcy said about women rugby players because I couldnt hear it? must be gone hard of hearing or something!! :p

    He said it alright!

    Colin Murphy said, "theres loads of women who play rugby now" and Gordon D'Arcys response was "Have you seen the women who play rugby?"

    Dara O'Brian offered him a shovel to dig his way out of it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,613 ✭✭✭Big Nelly


    the_batman wrote:
    He said it alright!

    Colin Murphy said, "theres loads of women who play rugby now" and Gordon D'Arcys response was "Have you seen the women who play rugby?"

    Dara O'Brian offered him a shovel to dig his way out of it.

    Oh yeah heard that bit, thought after he said Have you seen the women who play rugby? he said something like "fat pigs" but maybe was just me


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    rb_ie wrote:
    Thought tonights episode was great, very funny.

    Didn't catch the name of the female panelist, brutal as always though but thankfully she sat back and let the real comedians do their thing.
    Anna somethingorother. I didn't think she was that bad.

    I thought it funny though that on a couple of occasions she made a joke about something and got no laughs but then one of the lads took what she said, changed it a bit and had the audience roaring with laughter. I suppose it's just a case of - Women Know Your Limits!!!

    I thought last nights episode was extremely funny. I loved the bits about Bertie.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,613 ✭✭✭Big Nelly


    BaZmO* wrote:
    Anna somethingorother.

    Anna Lesbian


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    Big Nelly wrote:
    Anna Lesbian
    Haha that's the one!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,641 ✭✭✭daymobrew


    Dara said that someone added loads of stuff to his IMDB.com bio, but it seems to have disappeared. He was really appreciative of the additional, outlandish material.


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