killinaskully - funny- yes or no

philstar

Did any of you read the article in the Herald this week about killinaskully, two journalists giving opposing views on the ..is it or isn't funny debate.

Personally speaking i think its......cringeworthy, i mean in this day and age having a show that portrays irish people as bog ignorant muck savages is embarrassing, surely we're beyond that??

And no im not a D4 head or a townie, i live in the sticks.

Mossy Monk

I think it is a terrible sore on the face of Irish television.

GhostInTheRuins

It's a horrible, horrible show.

tampopo

...NO!!!!!!!

Basq

It's painful..

.. i loved D'Unbelievables but Pat Shortt is just desperate at this stage!

qwertplaywert

Ignorant, bog stanard tv.

Is it just me, but everyone who lives with me in rural Ireland seems to think it is the television Citizen Kane

MayMay

My parents love it so maybe it appeals more to their generation. Personally I think it's all a bit simple.

ixoy

Is it meant to be a comedy?!

cashback

qwertplaywert wrote:

Ignorant, bog stanard tv.

Is it just me, but everyone who lives with me in rural Ireland seems to think it is the television Citizen Kane

No, not everyone. I think it's sh*t.

eamon234

It's embarrassingly bad - it could be really funny but the writing is useless - Pat's a nice guy but he's a bit of a one trick pony when it comes to this stuff he's been milking the same joke for years now - although I hear his new film Garage is about to change all that...very dark apparently

ianrush

The thing is, I know people who are involved in commisioning this series in rte and even they admit it's absolute muck, but because it gets the ratings (and dvd sales) they can't get rid of it. So basically as long as they keep watching, RTE will keep making it. So whoever you are, STOP WATCHING IT!!

philstar

ianrush wrote:

The thing is, I know people who are involved in commisioning this series in rte and even they admit it's absolute muck, but because it gets the ratings (and dvd sales) they can't get rid of it. So basically as long as they keep watching, RTE will keep making it. So whoever you are, STOP WATCHING IT!!

but who the f&ck is watching it, everyone i ask says they'd rather stick rusty nails in their eyes, but yet it still gets huge viewing figures?????

hhmmm....maybe there's alot of closet fans out there:cool:

eirebhoy

Never watched more than 5 minutes of it.

Oman

i think it can be funny and its not an embarresment or anything but to anyone say living in america they'd thing thats ireland and its good to keep up the irish traditions and lifestyle through good old killinaskully

Ruu_Old

Saw one episode where there was an American over trying to buy land (like The Field), load of rubbish and never watched it again.

MrVostro

i think its funny but i can only take about 10 minutes of it at a time

_Kaiser_

God-awful, unfunny excuse for "comedy" - but then I can't stand Pat Shortt in most things anyway.

Though the other lads in the house love it (they tell me I don't get it cause I'm a Dub?) :rolleyes:

pd101

Thought the first series was funny enough, but since then its been terrible.

chalkitdown1

philstar wrote:

but who the f&ck is watching it

Old people mostly, I'd say. My father loves it. I, and everyone that I know in or around my age(23) hates it.

tvnutz

terrible terrible show. It is just not funny at all! Can't understand how it gets good ratings.

Ruu

Ruu wrote:

Saw one episode where there was an American over trying to buy land (like The Field), load of rubbish and never watched it again.

In fairness Ruu,that was a good episode.It was from the first series.Total satire of "The Field".
series2 to whatever were muck though.

Im_No_Superman

pd101 wrote:

Thought the first series was funny enough, but since then its been terrible.

My thoughts exactly.

philstar

i hope to god, this show isn't be shown abroad,,,,,the embarrasment of it:o

Dennis the Stone

Computer says NO

Haven't a Clue

I often wondered who the people who enjoyed this were. It's probably the worst programme on rte in my opinion.

Gran Hermano

Bad bog-TV tbh.

philstar

Haven't a Clue wrote:

I often wondered who the people who enjoyed this were.

the mentally ill maybe

Jesus Wept

Green Giant

The-Rigger wrote:

a good point emphatically made

There are some very funny bits in it but it's frightfully inconsistent - one episode is hilarious and the next is just strange

prospect

First series was good, but it is getting worse.

It has some funny bits, but they are getting more and more sparse.

But I voted yes, just to help take the bad look off the poll...

hiscan

prospect wrote:

First series was good, but it is getting worse.

It has some funny bits, but they are getting more and more sparse.

But I voted yes, just to help take the bad look off the poll...

i agree with you prospect , i think pat shortt is not as good on his own he was better with jon kenny in d'unbelievables

dulpit

4 words to describe killinaskully:

Pure and utter shìte.

tampopo

I voteed no. But after reading last Sunday's Sunday Times profile, I have a new admiration of him. He can certainly work. Writing, singing, acting, performing. Hell yeah, he's doing a good job. Fair play to him.

I had something to say about him dressing up in the four different characters but can't remember.

Zaph

Never seen it but I voted no because anything with Pat Shortt in it by definition cannot be funny. D'Unbelievables was the most pathetic attempt at humour I have ever endured, so how in God's name was he let back on our screens?

Múinteoir

basquille wrote:

It's painful..

.. i loved D'Unbelievables but Pat Shortt is just desperate at this stage!

Agreed. D'unbelievables were class. Killinaskully is televisual Abu Ghraib style torture.

hot fuss

It wouldn't really be my cup of tea but I saw the Halloween episode last year and it was hilarious. It's usually not my type if humour, but a lot of people seem to love it - over 600,000 of them nearly every Sunday!!

Humour is very subjective, so I suppose it suits some people and doesn't suit others.

Pat Shortt is very talented though. I don't think anyone can argue with that. He's also a very astute businessman. If anyone says he isn't talented, you should go and see him in Garage - absolutely brilliant performance.

Elmo

I understand why people think it is funny, I don't think it is that funny at all.

It's pretty much an Irish Version of Last of the Summer Wine (Ok alot better then LOTFSW).

It's Sunday night family viewing, no more no less. For what it is it works.

I think the FG and FF politicians are very well characterised.

I would guess that most Dublin people find it too Irish.

tbh

Elmo wrote: »

It's pretty much an Irish Version of Last of the Summer Wine (Ok alot better then LOTFSW).

It's Sunday night family viewing, no more no less. For what it is it works.
.

that's very true. It's not aimed at us.

moe_sizlak

the most sympathetic review ive ever read of the awfull kilinaskully was by the very humorous declan lynch in the sindo
he said of the show , a funny man with a bad script is still better than an unfunny man with a good script , pat short is a funny man

so went the article

the trouble is , pat short writes the script for this garbage , i have all 3 d,unbeleviable videos and i think there classics , they are about rural bufoons but there very astute in there observations , any person who is from the country will be familiar with the kind of chat that used to go on between old men who stand at the back of the chapel at mass , the d, unbeleviables captured simple things like this brilliantly and hilariously

killinaskully however has absolutly no depth to it whatsoever , there is no intelligence or deeper meaning to the show
its infanitle in the extreme, it makes benny hill seem deep

dRNk SAnTA

They played an episode on an Aer Lingus flight that I was on back from the states. Judging by the rubbish production values I'm guessing it was the pilot episode, it was about a german tourist I think. I felt so ridiculously shocked that this was what we were giving our tourists as a first impression.

What a crock of absolute ****. To be honest (/controversial), the type of person who would find killinaskully funny probably doesnt know how to turn on a computer so unfortunately they won't be represented in the poll.

On the other hand, 20% have voted yes to the poll, but none of the replies really have anyone standing up for the programme. Too ashamed perhaps?

il gatto

The cast is terrible. Pat Short is the only one in it that can act and the script is muck so he's not funny either.
I think it is mostly a rural audience (I'm from the sticks before anyone has a go), and it's not that they find it particularly funny, but tbh, try finding any representation of rural Ireland on T.V. People watch it for the same reasons they watched Glenroe. Not because it was very good, but people like seeing some sort of depiction of rural life on screen. That's why Ballykissangel, All Creatures Great and Small and in years gone by Emerdale Farm were all popular with Irish viewers. Coronation Street, Eastenders, Fair City etc. are still watched, but doesn't resonate in the same way as green fields and the whiff of cowsh1te. It's only natural that you have some affection for something you can connect with.
Personally, I find it painful to watch. Cringeworthy, tedious and potentially xenophobic b@ll@cks.

Dudess

Oh god I hate that show with every scrap of my being. I also can't abide Pat Shortt - anyone who laughs at their own jokes (especially a professional comedian) is one of the most irritating people there are. A one-trick pony if ever there was one.
But to be fair: people being embarrassed by these muck-savage TV characters - thought that was the point of show? To take the piss out of muck-savages, no?
The majority of people who like it appear to be in the latter stages of middle-age (as in, 55+).

deisemum

I think it's the older generation and children that watch it. Pat Shortt once said in an interview that a lot of children watch it.

I thought the first series was a laugh especially as I can think of people who are just like the characters. Last Sunday's episode was dreadful.

Dudess

Yeah, the humour is extremely infantile all right, so I can understand how it would appeal to kids.

Driver 8

Muck savage? Is that still part of the common lexicon? Good to know :rolleyes:

Dudess

Well if you're from the country, it's not applicable to all people from the country - just a certain type.

Green Giant

dRNk SAnTA wrote: »

What a crock of absolute ****. To be honest (/controversial), the type of person who would find killinaskully funny probably doesnt know how to turn on a computer so unfortunately they won't be represented in the poll.

On the other hand, 20% have voted yes to the poll, but none of the replies really have anyone standing up for the programme. Too ashamed perhaps?

If I didn't know how to turn on a computer, would I be a member of the forum?

And no, somebody else did NOT turn it on for me

Rosita

Killinaskully is poor and that's a pity as it could be reasonably good as it has a good number of stock characters at this stage who should be capable of being developed somewhat by now. Stupidity like giving the priest a name 'Philip Eno' for the sake of one gag in one episode about a philipino priest sums it up though and suggests to me that they were not exactly expecting a long-term run on this one.

Likewise the guard being 'dick o'toole' (har har) and the B/B being 'Mount Bernadette' implies that the writer thinks that he is dealing with serious cretins for viewers. This is a society where the the Sunday Independent has a banner about Katy French's vibrator on the front page - the days when a public utterance of the word 'dick' raised a laugh are long gone. I'd have thought that something now has to be genuinely and intrinsically funny rather than raising a laugh because you're not expected to say it. But it seems not.

People ask why does it get ratings? Well as the last years of Glenroe proved if you have the 8.30 slot on a Sunday night during the winter on RTE you have a serious chance of getting big ratings as people will generally be at home and TV generally is just 'you're a star' type muck on Sunday evening anyway.

Shortt has one joke - 'look at me I can talk like this' and it is astonishing that it has carried him so far. In fairness the exact same thing can be said of Paul Howard (who must privately wonder at it all) with the Ross O'Carroll Kelly character. I'd expect people would have had a brief laugh at both characters and then moved on but the longevity of both is scarey. Then again in a society where 'drink feck girls' is still side-splitting for some people maybe I over-estimate the general population.

Dudess

Rosita wrote: »

Shortt has one joke - 'look at me I can talk like this'

Absolutely spot-on.

Brian Capture

Killinascully is one of the most ignorant and unsophisticated shows I have ever seen.

Even the theme tune reeks of gauche backwardness and unhipness.

Driver 8

Gauce backwardness and unhipness?

There's a career as an indie music journalist going if you want it.