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The Panel returns!

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 388 ✭✭Milktrolley


    The edits do stick out like a sort thumb alright. I can't see why they can't make them a little smoother. As for Maxwell, I've said this before but he really is too full of himself for my liking. He seemed less arrogant last night though.

    However, one of my favourite Panel moments of recent times came from Dara last night.
    "Firstly, they don't bring fresh bodies in! They don't go to medical students 'oh, here's a ripe one right here!' In this town, someone of your age, died last night, in this town, let's take a look at him! And he died without any form, of formal identification, no indication of where he lived! And she was actually in the next day, despite the boyfriend having died! It's a Swiss cheese! And people going, 'Oh, isn't it terrible', it doesn't exist! It's b*****ks for God's sake!!"

    And quick on the heels of that one:

    "Noooo! Noooooo! No! No! No! No! No! I'm not even having a discussion on this! The crocodile is not immortal, right! Just because a crocodile has lived for 200 years-"
    Andrew butts in: "Let him answer it!"
    "Nooooo! Crocodiles die! There are many things I haven't seen. I don't have to be shown every dead animal to presume they're not immortal!"


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


    The edits do stick out like a sort thumb alright. I can't see why they can't make them a little smoother. As for Maxwell, I've said this before but he really is too full of himself for my liking. He seemed less arrogant last night though.
    And quick on the heels of that one:

    "Noooo! Noooooo! No! No! No! No! No! I'm not even having a discussion on this! The crocodile is not immortal, right! Just because a crocodile has lived for 200 years-"
    Andrew butts in: "Let him answer it!"
    "Nooooo! Crocodiles die! There are many things I haven't seen. I don't have to be shown every dead animal to presume they're not immortal!"


    The main problem is that crocodilians live long lives, often outliving their caretakers and those scientists who study them! Marked individuals in the wild can be studied by different generations, but no studies have been ongoing for enough time to provide any conclusive answers.

    it appears that smaller species live around 30 to 50 years, and larger species live at least 50 to 70 years. There is enough reliable information from long-term captive saltwater crocodiles to conclude that some individuals can reach at least 70 years of age. One zoo in Russia claims to have held a crocodile (species unknown) that was 115 years old when it died they obtained the animal as a young adult in the 1890s. This would have made it at least 100 years old when it died. The claim has never been properly verified however, and would seem to be highly unusual.

    American Alligators is about 50 years, at which time they often begin losing teeth and showing signs of senility. The longest-lived captive alligator on record died at 66 years at the Adelaide Zoo (Australia) in September, 1978. Henry, an African Dwarf Crocodile brought to the Lincoln Park Zoo (Chicago, Illinois) in 1940, is, at last report, still alive. It is assumed most other crocodilians have similar lifespans, however some large Nile Crocodiles (18+ feet) are reputed to be 100 years old or older.


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


    The edits do stick out like a sort thumb alright. I can't see why they can't make them a little smoother. As for Maxwell, I've said this before but he really is too full of himself for my liking. He seemed less arrogant last night though.
    And quick on the heels of that one:

    "Noooo! Noooooo! No! No! No! No! No! I'm not even having a discussion on this! The crocodile is not immortal, right! Just because a crocodile has lived for 200 years-"
    Andrew butts in: "Let him answer it!"
    "Nooooo! Crocodiles die! There are many things I haven't seen. I don't have to be shown every dead animal to presume they're not immortal!"


    The main problem is that crocodilians live long lives, often outliving their caretakers and those scientists who study them! Marked individuals in the wild can be studied by different generations, but no studies have been ongoing for enough time to provide any conclusive answers.

    it appears that smaller species live around 30 to 50 years, and larger species live at least 50 to 70 years. There is enough reliable information from long-term captive saltwater crocodiles to conclude that some individuals can reach at least 70 years of age. One zoo in Russia claims to have held a crocodile (species unknown) that was 115 years old when it died they obtained the animal as a young adult in the 1890s. This would have made it at least 100 years old when it died. The claim has never been properly verified however, and would seem to be highly unusual.

    American Alligators is about 50 years, at which time they often begin losing teeth and showing signs of senility. The longest-lived captive alligator on record died at 66 years at the Adelaide Zoo (Australia) in September, 1978. Henry, an African Dwarf Crocodile brought to the Lincoln Park Zoo (Chicago, Illinois) in 1940, is, at last report, still alive. It is assumed most other crocodilians have similar lifespans, however some large Nile Crocodiles (18+ feet) are reputed to be 100 years old or older.
    http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/cnhc/cbd-faq-q3.htm


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 107 ✭✭AngryLoner


    great to see I'm not alone in my hatred of Fiona Looney. She's like a composite of every annoying Irishwoman I've ever had to suppress myself from spitting on.


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


    AngryLoner wrote:
    great to see I'm not alone in my hatred of Fiona Looney. She's like a composite of every annoying Irishwoman I've ever had to suppress myself from spitting on.
    Wow.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 388 ✭✭Milktrolley


    Thank Christ they got Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin (I'm bound to have spelt that wrong) in. She wasn't overly funny, but she did come in with a quip about Andrew's sound effects - more than Anna Nolan did over the past couple of weeks.

    Neil Delamere on the BBC's Guide to English:
    "We say everything the same - except the first six letters of Derry are silent."
    Classic!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 602 ✭✭✭mickd


    Its not that funny. have to say the show should be renamed The Dara O'Brian show because for the first few shows he has been carrying it. Those Panelists are hopeless. Murphy with stupid nordy/fenian jokes, Delamare who looks like he needs more fibre in his diet. Maxwell the typical big fish in a small pond, so up himself and finally carphone warehouse Byrne, not an inspiring line up


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


    Thank Christ they got Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin (I'm bound to have spelt that wrong) in. She wasn't overly funny, but she did come in with a quip about Andrew's sound effects - more than Anna Nolan did over the past couple of weeks.

    Neil Delamere on the BBC's Guide to English:
    "We say everything the same - except the first six letters of Derry are silent."
    Classic!


    I believe aiobhne spoke twice was it?? what a waste http://www.bebo.com/WhiteBoardThread.jsp?WhiteBoardTopicId=2415527824

    last weeks was bit wierd cos they were a couple of topical things then loads of john simpson repeating ancedotes we've all heard before many times.

    dara did most of the talking, they've extended the show, but there less time talking about topical irish things???

    and now we have the blame game coming on again up north with delamere

    still one of the better things on tv, along with the hit and miss podge an rodge


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


    mickd wrote:
    Maxwell the typical big fish in a small pond, so up himself and finally carphone warehouse Byrne, not an inspiring line up
    I dunno, he seemed to hold his own at The Secret Policeman's Ball at the Royal Albert Show in front of a ridiculously large crowd.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,286 ✭✭✭SprostonGreen


    Ed Byrne was funny on it last night, esp. the Tom and Jerry stuff, also the fish cumming on the mussel. He gets a bit of stick here on boards, but it has to be said last night he was good.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,192 ✭✭✭TarfHead


    I thought Derval O'Rourke came across very well last night. Much more of a personality than Anna Nolan or Karl Spain.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,286 ✭✭✭SprostonGreen


    TarfHead wrote:
    I thought Derval O'Rourke came across very well last night. Much more of a personality than Anna Nolan or Karl Spain.

    True, she was a good laugh. Karl Spain is normally funny, but not so much last night, maybe he needs his own stand up routine to perform well.

    Anna Nolan, I think is ok, again she gets a bit of stick here, but doesnt deserve it. She's not a comedian, she doesnt try to be.


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


    TarfHead wrote:
    I thought Derval O'Rourke came across very well last night. Much more of a personality than Anna Nolan or Karl Spain.


    who was the token women last night?


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


    who was the token women last night?


    You mean on the panelists??? - then that was Anna Nolan, again. :rolleyes:


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


    Karl Spain is normally funny, but not so much last night, maybe he needs his own stand up routine to perform well.
    I actually don't think he's that good at stand up. I was at the show in the International that was recorded for his TV Show, "Karl Spain wants a....... lesson in moderate eating" (or something like that) and he was brutal. Kept reading his (not so grreat) jokes from a piece of paper.

    Anna Nolan, I think is ok, again she gets a bit of stick here, but doesnt deserve it. She's not a comedian, she doesnt try to be.
    Yeah, I agree totally. What do people expect? She is not a comedian. She's there a straight person and I think that when she's let she actually asks decent enough questions.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,178 ✭✭✭kevmy


    I thought Karl Spain had a couple of good oneliners last night thta was about it. He doesn't have the surrealness of Colin Murphy or Delamere and not quite as good of the cuff. The thing with the Panel is that it will always be hit and miss depending on the guests (who were good last night), on the panelists and on what happenend in the news the preceeding week


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


    Kojak wrote:
    You mean on the panelists??? - then that was Anna Nolan, again. :rolleyes:




    arghhhh why why why?


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


    BaZmO* wrote:
    I actually don't think he's that good at stand up. I was at the show in the International that was recorded for his TV Show, "Karl Spain wants a....... lesson in moderate eating" (or something like that) and he was brutal. Kept reading his (not so grreat) jokes from a piece of paper.



    Yeah, I agree totally. What do people expect? She is not a comedian. She's there a straight person and I think that when she's let she actually asks decent enough questions.


    ok I'll except it if they say them wanta straight person, but why her?


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


    ok I'll except it if they say them wanta straight person, but why her?
    It's because of the distinct lack of celebrities that we have at our disposal over here compared to our cousins across the pond.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,286 ✭✭✭SprostonGreen


    BaZmO* wrote:
    It's because of the distinct lack of celebrities that we have at our disposal over here compared to our cousins across the pond.

    But isnt that a good thing for The Panel?

    It would be hard to launch a sideswipe at a politician or something current by someone who doesnt know the price of a pint of milk.


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


    But isnt that a good thing for The Panel?
    I just meant indigenous celebrities.

    ok I'll except it if they say them wanta straight person, but why her?
    Haha. Just got that!! :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,856 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    grrg, why do they always have to put a non-funny woman on the panel? :mad: Everyone's havin a laugh and a giggle and then Anna whatshername, or Gráinne Seoige come in and ask serious questions! Stop it!


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


    DaveMcG wrote:
    grrg, why do they always have to put a non-funny woman on the panel? :mad: Everyone's havin a laugh and a giggle and then Anna whatshername, or Gráinne Seoige come in and ask serious questions! Stop it!

    Could it be just that they are going to have a woman on the Panel and there are no really funny women comedians??? :confused:

    Gráinne Seoige is great to look at but whenever she's on you'd swear its a political show (like Q&A), not a p1ss take.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,192 ✭✭✭TarfHead


    Kojak wrote:
    Could it be just .. there are no really funny women comedians???

    Maeve Higgins made me smile when she used be on Ray D'Arcy.
    Deirdre O'Kane is generally referred to as Ireland's leading female comedian, but she does nothing for me.

    And that's it .. ?


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


    TarfHead wrote:
    Maeve Higgins made me smile when she used be on Ray D'Arcy.
    Deirdre O'Kane is generally referred to as Ireland's leading female comedian, but she does nothing for me.

    And that's it .. ?

    Oh I forgot about Deidre O'Kane - but has she ever been on the programme???

    Maeve Higgins just annoys me. :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,286 ✭✭✭SprostonGreen


    Kojak wrote:
    Could it be just that they are going to have a woman on the Panel and there are no really funny women comedians??? :confused:

    Gráinne Seoige is great to look at but whenever she's on you'd swear its a political show (like Q&A), not a p1ss take.

    The subject of women not being funny has been rinsed out again and again The Panel threads.

    I believe that if you were to have five male comedians trying to out do each other, it would just end up a big pis'sing contest. You need straight people for perspective and for bouncing jokes off.

    That said, Nolan and Sieoge yes, Looney no.


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


    Kojak wrote:
    Could it be just that they are going to have a woman on the Panel and there are no really funny women comedians??? :confused:
    Correction - no funny Irish women comedians.

    Deirdre O'Kane is about as funny as a baby with cancer.
    Kojak wrote:
    Gráinne Seoige is great to look at but whenever she's on you'd swear its a political show (like Q&A), not a p1ss take.
    Funnily enough, give it 20 years and she'll realise that batting your eye-lids doesn't actually get you through the serious end of political journalism anymore. She should try to be more like Oliva O'Leary and less like a wannabe Andrea Corr.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 355 ✭✭SCULLY


    TarfHead wrote:
    I thought Derval O'Rourke came across very well last night. Much more of a personality than Anna Nolan or Karl Spain.

    Yep - she was very good and seemd quite quick witted - would be interesting to see here as a panelist...


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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 388 ✭✭Milktrolley


    SCULLY wrote:
    Yep - she was very good and seemd quite quick witted - would be interesting to see here as a panelist...

    My sentiments exactly...


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