Meave Higgins

clutch her

can't believe this dose has got her own show on RTE :mad:. refuse to watch it but curious to know how bad it is? look at the bright side though. at last a valid excuse for not paying your tv licence!:)

amacachi

Painful stuff so far.

amacachi

She's talking about sex! AHAHAHHA!

This is like getting left talking with some boring fcuker ya don't like in a club but you're doing someone else a favour.

chuckles30

'comedians' must be cheap - first it was the rubbish from jason byrne last night and now this crap!! This is painful!!!

ziggy23

She is not funny at all:mad:

Melion

I turned it off after about 15 seconds, she is painful to listen to but even worse to watch.

amacachi

Ya naw? I dunaw.

abouttobebanned

Is she a bit special?

clutch her

they actually have the cheek to put on tv licence ad during the break:mad:

starbelgrade

She's the female equivalent of Jason Byrne. Only more painful to watch.

Melion

abouttobebanned wrote: »

Is she a bit special?

In an olympics kind of way*



*not meant to offend anyone whatsoever, except maybe Maeve Higgins

Reginald P. DuM

OK Maeve you missed the target tonight! And there's nothing to suggest you won't miss it again.

Whoever said women aren't funny has certainly got a stronger case after this rubbish. But I'm a man, this show is aimed at women right. Surely they will see it too.

salad dodger

I like it.

Lilly's kinda cute too.

starbelgrade

Reginald P. DuM wrote: »

this show is aimed at women right. Surely they will see it too.

My missus heard her a few times on Ray (I'm a mediocre tw*t pandering to idiots) D'arcy's show & she actually thought she WAS retarded.

When I explained that she was in fact a "comediene", the better half responded with something to do about her being an "embarrasment to women".

I just think she's an embarrasement to herself. I don't know any women like her.

ifconfig

I'm going out on a limb and I'll say I find it more than mildly entertaining.
Quite ironic humour and shades of (I'll get mashed for this) Woody Allen.

I'll watch the 2nd programme next week and might deliver a more rounded verdict


-Ian

Deeper Blue

She's a comedian?

Tipsy Mac

This is terrible, I thought the Byrne Ultimatum was bad but this is in another league of badness, I hope RTE have the sense to scrap both. Do RTE ever do pilot episodes of this junk before commisioning full series of it :rolleyes:

cashback

Just caught a few glimpses of this. Usually I don't mind her too much but even the bits I saw seemed familiar. Hate the bloody intro tune too.

Mr E

Stifflitlmicky - I've been deleting your offensive posts. Take a hint and stop posting them. 3 strikes and you're out (and you're 2 down already).

crustyjuggler

Not the worst thing on RTE like

jb_989

ifconfig wrote: »

I'm going out on a limb and I'll say I find it more than mildly entertaining.
Quite ironic humour and shades of (I'll get mashed for this) Woody Allen.

I'll watch the 2nd programme next week and might deliver a more rounded verdict


-Ian

I agree, it doesn't come across very well on a tv show tho but her stand up is hilarious

ingalway

I like it as well....I love her sense of humor, so different to other comedy on TV at the moment. I can see it would not appeal to everyone but maybe give it a bit more of a chance before knocking her so hard.

Reginald P. DuM

ifconfig wrote: »

I'm going out on a limb and I'll say I find it more than mildly entertaining.
Quite ironic humour and shades of (I'll get mashed for this) Woody Allen.

I'll watch the 2nd programme next week and might deliver a more rounded verdict


-Ian

Woody Allen?? Now I can't have that said. Go and wash those fingers out Ian. They have betrayed you grossly tonight........

crispsandwiches

I really liked it, nice editing. Very gentle humour thats her style nice and subtle. Her style is never gonna be about making you split your sides laughing. Did anyone record it? If so can they post on a peer2peer site.

boccy23

Thought some parts were funny. Will follow it but not make a great effort to watch.

SprostonGreen

And he's gone.

I've never found her funny but I'm not surprised that she got her own show, mediocrity gets rewarded again.

deckydunbar

wasnt' as bad as i expected. didnt' laugh but didn't switch it off. was looking at watch with 10 minutes to go thinking this has gotta be on longer than half an hour. i'd watch it again maybe. lily was alright. i've never liked maeve higgins on radio but this might be better as standup which i presume it originated. never seen her live.

Basq

Stifflitlmicky now banned..

starbelgrade

crispsandwiches wrote: »

I really liked it, nice editing. Very gentle humour thats her style nice and subtle. Her style is never gonna be about making you split your sides laughing. Did anyone record it? If so can they post on a peer2peer site.

It may not split your sides. It will most likely not even make you smile or smirk.

Even so, if you really want to watch it again, it'll be on RTE's player on their website (usually their home grown programmes are posted up the next day, apart, sadly from The Premiership, due to copyright sh*te laws).

Crotchety

Remember this is the one who was lookking for a groom week-in week-out on Naked Camera. We knew what to expect.

Herself and Deirdre O'Kane are comedians me hole.

krudler

Utter trash, this is the reason I refuse to pay a tv license, I cant stomach the fact I'd contribute money to this crap being put on tv, I wouldnt call Higgins a comedian as thats an insult to the profession, a frumpy best friend left sitting on a couch at a house party with nobody to talk to is her shtick and she fails miserabley at it. Maeve you are not funny, not one humorous thing has ever been expelled from those lips in that horrible Cark accent, whoever comissioned money towards this should be sacked, and made to watch that episode on endless repeat until the atrocity of what was unleashed on the tv watching people of this country is fully understood by them, to think there are dozens of decent unheard of comedians in this country and this frumpy, unfunny cretin is allowed not only on stage but given her own show is a disgrace

lostexpectation

amacachi wrote: »

She's talking about sex! AHAHAHHA!

This is like getting left talking with some boring fcuker ya don't like in a club but you're doing someone else a favour.

thats her thing, very dry very witty, not accepting soup from her prod friend lol

starbelgrade

But I'm really funny and loike natural and loike all the gir-els really get me loike coz I'oom sooo down to earth and loike funny and stuff and really loike like peelin' carrots and loike like loike.

Loike.

amacachi

lostexpectation wrote: »

thats her thing,bery dry very witty, not accepting soup from her prod friend lol

Dry =/= witty.

starbelgrade

lostexpectation wrote: »

thats her thing, very dry very witty, not accepting soup from her prod friend lol

So funny, I nearly dryed up my tears laughing.

c montgomery

I along with most people who will have heard her on Ray(the patronising little gnome) Darcey show thing she is about as funny as a crying baby.
I never liked her, think she is a gomey(Cork slang for an idiot who may be slightly slow), and im always completely stunned when i hear her on radio and tv as im left thinkin, who the hell put that tool on!!!

However despite all the above i kind of liked it last night, kind of!!!
Its was a different type of humour and i think it kinda worked. Ill wait til next week to make a final ruling on her but i will be watching which is more than i can say about Jasons Byrnes crime against television!!!!!

Morgans

I dont find her particularly funny, especially on Naked Camera.

However, I liked the form of the program last night. Didnt see it all, but it showed some imagination away from the bog standard sketch show. Quite clever and not badly crafted. Especially for the first episode. Its clear that its character based rather than gag based humour and while its unlikely that we will be looking back on this as the beginning of a classic program, its a million miles ahead of Jason Byrne's masturbation festival of the night before. Type of program should have been on after news on 2 and allow it to get a little bit of a cult following.

That said, Fran on TV3 was funnier.

collei

whos funnier her or kathrine lynch??

CATMAC

I like her ...sorta on Today FM...but last nite was awful....the remark about self harm was out of order....it was a JOKE !!!!...some might say...I dont think soooo...."Im just not cool enough"....
The show was just not cool....in my humble opinion....very poor and a little cringworthy !!

Shane10

collei wrote: »

whos funnier her or kathrine lynch??

neither both are as bad

Col200sx

I didn't think she was too bad on radio..........

But then watching her last night was cringing. It's not often I feel akward for somebody on tv, but last night I was embarrassed for her.

All she was doing was repeating anything she said on the Ray D'arcy show, and saying it now on tv. It wasn't funny the first time, certainly wasn't funny the second time.

And I only paid my TV licence last week too. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr:mad:

I don't believe that's half an hour of my life I'll never get back.

It should be cut from tv now before it does ireprable damage to her career. Or for that fact, maybe it should be left on tv:rolleyes:

johnnyrotten

Where do I apply for my TV license refund?

The biggest load of sh!te ever broadcast on TV

Jip

ingalway wrote: »

I like it as well....I love her sense of humor, so different to other comedy on TV at the moment. I can see it would not appeal to everyone but maybe give it a bit more of a chance before knocking her so hard.

Yeah, I tuned in waiting to be annoyed but stuck the whole thing with a little grin on my face for practically the whole show. She's got a nice dry wit and humour about her. People are saying it's a little cringeworthy, I think that's the whole idea, that you'd be embarrassed for this woman and how she goes about herself.

Quite enjoyable, I'll be watching it again next week.

SEPT 23 1989

switched over to watch this for two seconds a two seconds was enough,went back to watching a beautiful piece of television about the Liberties

Jip

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

switched over to watch this for two seconds a two seconds was enough,went back to watching a beautiful piece of television about the Liberties

Why bother posting about something you've only seen 2 seconds of ?

JP Liz

Is this a cooking show or what?

humanji

Jip wrote: »

Why bother posting about something you've only seen 2 seconds of ?

Maybe he was posting about the Liberties program?

fisgon

The amount of bile and hostility on this thread is surprising. I agree Maeve Higgins is an acquired taste, but it seems to me many people here had made up their minds before even watching the programme. There is also a hint of anti-Cork bias (and I'm not even from Cork, nowhere near), and a strong dose of closed-mindedness.

For what it's worth, I wasn't sure about it at first, and I agree she can be a bit hit and miss, but I really think that Maeve Higgins at her best is some kind of bizarre comic genius.

..."how can you tell which one is the bum-mug?"

dlambirl

It was car crash tv.

Jees I though RTE would know better than put that tripe on...

Aidric

I think this bird goes in for the cringe angle but routinely fails.

bigbat

I thought it was good enough. I didn't split my sides laughing or anything but i did laugh a few times which is more than i can say for a lot of rte's comedy. some of the criticism here is a bit irish. her accent is her accent. if she spoke with the neutral or mid atlantic drawl people would be complaining too. At least its not a failed rip off of something on bbc. its an original format and style and the set looked good... fair play.