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Val Falvey TD

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 771 ✭✭✭Johnny Giles


    RTÉ 1 NOW


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 55 ✭✭RABTMOUSE


    I didn't laugh out loud, but I will be tuning in again- its difficult to judge the strength of something just by the first episode- perhaps it might develop into a good show... perhaps


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 255 ✭✭Lemondrop kid


    Well it's Val time again tonight.
    A few of the clips looked like it might improve, but seriously doubt it.
    Still, will wait and see (what else my gonna do on a freezing sunday night, with no money in the phoca?)
    :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 771 ✭✭✭Johnny Giles


    Simon Delaney is in this tonight.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 255 ✭✭Lemondrop kid


    Simon Delaney is in this tonight.

    Who he?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,707 ✭✭✭MikeC101


    Who he?

    I know him as the guy from Bachelors Walk, some telephone ads (meteor?), and the posters for "Stones in His Pockets".

    He's probably featured in other stuff, at a guess some RTE drama, plays, chat shows.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 771 ✭✭✭Johnny Giles




  • Registered Users Posts: 1,707 ✭✭✭MikeC101


    Couldn't you have found a bigger photo? :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 255 ✭✭Lemondrop kid


    MikeC101 wrote: »
    I know him as the guy from Bachelors Walk, some telephone ads (meteor?), and the posters for "Stones in His Pockets".

    He's probably featured in other stuff, at a guess some RTE drama, plays, chat shows.

    A 'poster boy' for the naughties so. Hope he brings something it


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 771 ✭✭✭Johnny Giles


    Tesco phone ads


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,707 ✭✭✭MikeC101


    Tesco phone ads

    Ah yeah. Goes to show how much of an effect they had on me - I just remember him eating cake in them, and commenting that any more cream would "go through him like the Luas."


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 771 ✭✭✭Johnny Giles


    Bit better tonight.


  • Registered Users Posts: 417 ✭✭twincamman


    its very very bad,i havent even been near a laugh yet.very poor considering the good actors in it:(


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,316 ✭✭✭Reginald P. DuM


    I dunno Johnny, I didn't laugh last weerk, and I havent this week yet. Think thats it now with me and the bould Val.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 771 ✭✭✭Johnny Giles


    Phelim Drew - Son of Ronnie - in this tonight.


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Bit better, but not good enough. Done with this show.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 771 ✭✭✭Johnny Giles


    Phelim Drew - Son of Ronnie - in this tonight.


    Stick with narrating The Apprentice son :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 771 ✭✭✭Johnny Giles


    Best Quote goes to:

    Simon Delaney -

    "Give us a smile. It's the second best thing a girl can do with her lips"


  • Registered Users Posts: 26,537 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    still awful.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 266 ✭✭currythis


    Meh,slightly funny in parts but the whole storyline is just a bit sh!te really,Matthew's is no Graham Linehan obviously!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 771 ✭✭✭Johnny Giles


    Yea. Suddenly it's over. No storyline at all. If this series was an essay in the Leaving Cert I'd give it a D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 771 ✭✭✭Johnny Giles


    Auld men throwing paper balls at one another in the Dáil.

    Unfunny sh!t

    David McWilliams has his face on this sh!t too. Between the Panel and this he's really doing himself some damage.


  • Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    This got good write ups in the newspaper :confused: sorry just the Indo

    The Irish Times said
    MAYBE IT’S because our politicians have been dishing up the ingredients for comedy gold on a great big platter that my expectations for Val Falvey TD (RTÉ 1, Sunday) were so high. This year alone the comedy gift horse that is Leinster House has produced all kinds of material from the slapstick of limos shuttling between airport terminals to the real meat of satire such as Nama, ministerial expenses and state-funded bankers.
    A good satirical comedy would twist the knife and it’s safe to speculate that we’re all in the mood to witness a bit of expert filleting. Then there’s the pedigree of Val Falvey’s writer Arthur Matthews (who co-writes with Paul Woodfull) who was one of the co-creators of Father Ted . The cast, too, which includes Owen Roe, Pat O’Donnell, Enda Oates and Amelia Crowley, is top notch.

    So with all that going for it, it seems nearly wilful that they created such an unfunny, irrelevant show. The premise is that Falvey is a reluctant politician from the midlands who inherits the seat from his deceased father. Pat Daly (Roe) is his adviser and fixer. The constituency office is a manky caravan which we’re clearly supposed to find instantly hilarious (and of course the caravan episode was one of the funniest in the Father Ted series), but lightning doesn’t strike twice. Then there are the other characters – mostly slightly mad-looking people, straight out of the dog-eared directory of shouty culchie stereotypes, and without a funny line between them.

    Well put.

    Even the worst comedies have me smile a little!


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,962 ✭✭✭Greenman


    Rubbish, how did this ever get off the ground?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 255 ✭✭Lemondrop kid


    Auld men throwing paper balls at one another in the Dáil.

    Unfunny sh!t

    David McWilliams has his face on this sh!t too. Between the Panel and this he's really doing himself some damage.

    Ah well, complete nonsense. It's not only the direction, script is dreadful. Big no no.

    In a blinding flash of insight I understand why McWilliams is doing this stuff - he's hopin to host some rte chat show! Has to be it! (note: I don't regard the panel as a show)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 255 ✭✭Lemondrop kid


    Elmo wrote: »
    This got good write ups in the newspaper :confused:

    What???
    What newpapers - the Midlands Chronicle? (the one in val falvey)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 485 ✭✭blackbetty69


    this show isnt even funny like, and the writer of father ted is suposed to be over this show?! i think someone from the panel kidnapped him and took over, and is polluting our televisions with this sh*t comedy


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 255 ✭✭Lemondrop kid


    Elmo wrote: »
    This got good write ups in the newspaper :confused: sorry just the Indo
    Em do you have the INp article for pasting/ posting?
    I cannot believe any even lowly hack could give this the thumbs up


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,316 ✭✭✭Reginald P. DuM


    It's pretty evident Graham Linehan and Dermot Morgan were the creative forces behind the humour in Ted. This is lame, Mathews living off the back of Ted without producing anything remotely funny since.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,943 ✭✭✭smcgiff


    Greenman wrote: »
    Rubbish, how did this ever get off the ground?

    *pilot episode just finishes in RTE HQ*

    RTE Mandarin #1
    - 'Jaysus, that's shíte'
    RTE Mandarin #2 - 'Remember what happened when we passed on Fr Ted'
    RTE Mandarin #1 - 'Sign that shíte up!'


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