Smoke and mirrors.

darkdubh

Caught this last night.He s trying very hard to be hip ,with the black dancers and all.

ScumLord

I thought it was pretty good.

crustyjuggler

Worst show ever . What a cringe . I felt sorry for Maxwell . I actually thought he was funny in ' the best of The Panel ' but after this muck all respect is gone . He should never work on television or as stand up again . Career is definitely over . While watching this show last night a friend in my living room said that he should be hanged in public imo this would be too light a sentence . Pathetic poor attempt . Maxwell what a schmuck . you are so '' cool '' and funny .

BFassassin

I was in the audience for the recording of two of the shows and it was quite good but really weird at the same time. It didnt come ascross very good on tv though when I watched it.

lostexpectation

it was pretty weak, what was with the studio jokes while the dancers were on, some producer obviously thought that people wouldn't be interested in watching them , so they cut to him making poor jokes with canned laughter...

CyberWaste

Wasnt mad about it myself, they tried to make the show "modern" and it just didnt work, he isnt that good of a comedian, IMO, to have his own show, and the dancers and magic seemed a bit of like filler and unfunny. Ill watch it again next week and see if its better.

ANd the strangest thing is that "howling", he does it a bit too much.

crustyjuggler

BFassassin wrote: »

I was in the audience for the recording of two of the shows and it was quite good but really weird at the same time. It didnt come ascross very good on tv though when I watched it.

Did you get free booze beforehand ?

darkdubh

Rather ironic how he was going on about how he hates country music then yer wan at the end sings a Johnny Cash song.

Animo

Overall it wasn't great but there was some funny bits alright. The video of the jeep overturning was gas!

elshambo

Not a fan but his "howl at the moon" show on which this is based was a big hit in London and is supposed to be a good night out

This looks like a watered down for telly version,

Watered down for telly anything rarely works imo!:eek:

TO those who were in the audience
Did the drummer do a comedy set live?
Pretty sure it was Steve Hughes, he is of the funniest men on the planet!

Passenger

Where was it, the Helix?

Why can't they just have a decent comedy show. Even just comedians being introduced by other comedians a la Dara O'Breens one on comedy central. It's not like Ireland doesn't have any. Really, I'll even let them away with the cheap youtube laugh(that wasn't funny), but as soon as the breakdancers came out it was time to switch.

They do know we have about a billion other channels to watch don't they?

xOxSinéadxOx

it sucked

BaZmO*

elshambo wrote: »

TO those who were in the audience
Did the drummer do a comedy set live?
Pretty sure it was Steve Hughes, he is of the funniest men on the planet!

Yeah I thought it was Steve Hughes too and was hoping he'd do some stand up. Didn't know he was a drummer so wasn't a 100% sure.

As for the show, it was nothing special but not cráp either, instantly forgettable. Although I thought his bit about Bush & Obama was funny.

darkdubh

lostexpectation wrote: »

it was pretty weak, what was with the studio jokes while the dancers were on, some producer obviously thought that people wouldn't be interested in watching them , so they cut to him making poor jokes with canned laughter...

Well they were right,i wasent interested.

ScumLord

elshambo wrote: »

Not a fan but his "howl at the moon" show on which this is based was a big hit in London and is supposed to be a good night out

It wouldn't surprise me that it was a success in London. They don't automatically assume everything Ireland produces is crap.

I missed the beginning of the first show but what I saw wasn't to bad. Pilots are always shaky so I'm going to give this one time to settle in.

xOxSinéadxOx

the candian guy talking about bears wasn't funny in the slightest!

lostexpectation

darkdubh wrote: »

Well they were right,i wasent interested.

its like most entertainers they do stuff their into ie hip hop etc and if other enjoy so much the better.

he also slags off america yet really likes parts of their culture, shock!

i think you need to be drunk like the audience. why not call it howl at the moon and put it on later.

the beers/bears thing sorta flopped.

cabrwab

they did a howl at the moon show in vicar st last year it was brillent. Steve hughes was the drummer. They cant do it over here because it starts too late!!

doomedtofail

Cringe. Who on earth gave this twat a show??? There's a common line of thought running through RTE staff themselves that it's far too easy for Irish "comedians" to acquire their own show straight off the back of a 2 week stint at the International comedy club etc. Look at the long list of comedy gold coming out of Britain that has graduated via the BBC Radio -> BBC 3 -> BBC2 route.

Then take a long look at this arse banjo.

Oh and by the way this took an embarrassing 6% of the audience for that timeslot despite the massive marketing. Reruns of Nationwide in the middle of the night have a higher percentage of audience figures.

Seriously.

BFassassin

crustyjuggler wrote: »

Did you get free booze beforehand ?

No free booze

elshambo wrote: »

Not a fan but his "howl at the moon" show on which this is based was a big hit in London and is supposed to be a good night out

This looks like a watered down for telly version,

Watered down for telly anything rarely works imo!:eek:

TO those who were in the audience
Did the drummer do a comedy set live?
Pretty sure it was Steve Hughes, he is of the funniest men on the planet!

Yes the drummer did a set for one of the shows. On the night they said that it was going to be the last in the series but that may have changed since.

Passenger wrote: »

Where was it, the Helix?

It was in Dundalk in the tain centre I think its called.