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    #152
    Rookster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 331 ✭✭Rookster


    What I don't understand is why RTE (aka the taxpayer) is responsible for the welfare of all these alleged comedians. Why does the taxpayer have to support them.If they are good we will go and see them and pay for the privilege. If they are no good we will not. But since RTE receives a licence fee we have no choice but to pay these guys whether they are funny or not. (mostly not)


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    #153
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    Rookster wrote: »
    What I don't understand is why RTE (aka the taxpayer) is responsible for the welfare of all these alleged comedians. Why does the taxpayer have to support them.If they are good we will go and see them and pay for the privilege. If they are no good we will not. But since RTE receives a licence fee we have no choice but to pay these guys whether they are funny or not. (mostly not)

    They do well on the stand up scene TBH and both Barry and Mario are highly successful. But you are right RTÉ are not their for the welfare of any comedian. But then neither is the BBC or any public service broadcaster.

    Educate, Entertain and Inform.


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    #154
    Rookster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 331 ✭✭Rookster


    Elmo wrote: »
    They do well on the stand up scene TBH and both Barry and Mario are highly successful. But you are right RTÉ are not their for the welfare of any comedian. But then neither is the BBC or any public service broadcaster.
    Educate, Entertain and Inform
    .

    Maybe RTE should just stick to Educate and Inform.


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    #155
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    Rookster wrote: »
    Maybe RTE should just stick to Educate and Inform.

    Possibly but then we would be complaining that they never even try.


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    #156
    Lemondrop kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 255 ✭✭Lemondrop kid


    Kevin Myers.
    Manages to encapsulate everything I could possible hate in a human being.

    The only time I want to see him on TV is in an episode of Futurama, as a long dead head in a jar.


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    #157
    sesna
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭sesna


    Lemondrop kid wrote: »
    Kevin Myers.
    Manages to encapsulate everything I could possible hate in a human being.

    The only time I want to see him on TV is in an episode of Futurama, as a long dead head in a jar.

    Completely disagree, I think he raises some very valid points in his articles, particularly in relation to unchecked immigration and the effect of Islam on our culture. He's also a very talented writer. His articles are about one of the only selling points of the Irish Independent for me.


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    #158
    Reginald P. DuM
    Registered Users Posts: 1,316 ✭✭✭Reginald P. DuM


    sesna wrote: »
    Completely disagree, I think he raises some very valid points in his articles, particularly in relation to unchecked immigration and the effect of Islam on our culture. He's also a very talented writer. His articles are about one of the only selling points of the Irish Independent for me.

    + 1. Immigration, trade unions, pay rates, social inclusion, the list in endless. Myers continually hits the nail on the head.

    As for his TV performance in this show he should be in the hotseat and not a team capt. As had been rightly mentioned earlier.


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    #159
    Lemondrop kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 255 ✭✭Lemondrop kid


    Yes, he does hit an endless amount of subjects squarely on the head.
    So does my toddler nephew when playing with his new blocks and hammer pressie.
    There is a difference though.
    My nephew uses judgment, balance and intelligence when he takes aim.

    ;)


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    #160
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    sesna wrote: »
    Completely disagree, I think he raises some very valid points in his articles, particularly in relation to unchecked immigration and the effect of Islam on our culture. He's also a very talented writer. His articles are about one of the only selling points of the Irish Independent for me.

    I completely disagree. He is an angry old man, hell bent on spreading hate. His articles are schizophrenic at the best of times jumping from one point to the next and often can go off topic. He hunts controversy.

    However I always thought he suited challenging times.


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    #161
    el diablo
    Registered Users Posts: 5,750 ✭✭✭el diablo


    On again now. I'll give it another go... ;)

    We're all in this psy-op together.🤨



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    #162
    thetonynator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭thetonynator


    looks even worse tonight . . .its like a bad version of the bad version ( mcwilliams) of the panel, crossed with the byrne ultamatium, which wasn't funny either . . .


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    #163
    WolfForager
    Registered Users Posts: 4,532 ✭✭✭WolfForager


    Tries too much to be 'Have we got news for you' and fails.


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    #164
    SprostonGreen
    Registered Users Posts: 2,286 ✭✭✭SprostonGreen


    sesna wrote: »
    Completely disagree, I think he raises some very valid points in his articles, particularly in relation to unchecked immigration and the effect of Islam on our culture. He's also a very talented writer. His articles are about one of the only selling points of the Irish Independent for me.

    Spot on, he goes against the grain of the typical left thinking Irish person therefore he must be a troll. The man is fantastic.


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    #165
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Cheap, slow, crippled, quiet. Everyone knows its dying on its arse but won't admit it.


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    #166
    giftgrub
    Registered Users Posts: 1,309 ✭✭✭giftgrub


    Whats with the make up on rosenstock and myers? It looks like they took off the drag costumes to do the gig tonight but left the slap on.

    gave it a second chance as well...i'm sorry i did now. off to watch the thick of it


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    #167
    Reginald P. DuM
    Registered Users Posts: 1,316 ✭✭✭Reginald P. DuM


    The show just doesn't know what to do with itself. Badly directed, thrown together and hope for the best... Audience are annoying too laughing at the slightest thing.. No effort RTE, must try harder.


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    #168
    Yillan
    Registered Users Posts: 932 ✭✭✭Yillan


    :(

    It's so so bad. Embarrassing. The Irish are funny, but we're not ready for a spontaneous funny show like mock the week or the like. We don't have the confidence. I wish we'd stop trying. It's making me angry


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    #169
    Bishop_Donal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 615 ✭✭✭Bishop_Donal


    It's Pathetic.

    It would give 'Ireland's Got Talent' a run for its money in terms of worst ever home produced time filler.

    The whole 5 of them are pains in the backside.


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    #170
    themont85
    Registered Users Posts: 2,608 ✭✭✭themont85


    So cringy, explaining their jokes to each other.


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    #171
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    For a journalist the Tribune guy is doing well.

    The show is very slow, and too quiet as was said earlier. If Dara O'Briain was presenting this it would be lot move lively and eeeeehhhhhhhh... it would be better.. The jokes are quite good, but need to be delivered better.

    Barry Murphy should be on one of the teams.... NOT PRESENTING, waaaay too deadpan, kills the show before it's begun.


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    #172
    themont85
    Registered Users Posts: 2,608 ✭✭✭themont85


    I suggest this show gets cancelled.


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    #173
    SprostonGreen
    Registered Users Posts: 2,286 ✭✭✭SprostonGreen


    I think its ok.


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    #174
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    can RTE not come up with one original idea of its own

    questions & answers is a rip off of bbc's question time
    republic of telly is a rip off of ITV's TV burp
    and now this sh*te is a rip off of Have i got news for you


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    #175
    cliokat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭cliokat


    Improvement on last weeks attempt but still cringing at a lot of the jokes


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    #176
    Reginald P. DuM
    Registered Users Posts: 1,316 ✭✭✭Reginald P. DuM


    fryup wrote: »
    can RTE not come up with one original idea of its own

    questions & answers is a rip off of bbc's question time
    republic of telly is a rip off of ITV's TV burp
    and now this sh*te is a rip off of Have i got news for you

    Fair enough, they could do with a little originality, but if the talent isn't out there what do ya do...

    Plus there's nothing wrong with copying foreign shows if they are a success.. We just tend to mess it up somewhere along the line. Questions n Answers was a good show, RTE do serious well. It's comedy is the Achilles Heel, in the main.


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    #177
    Utopia Parkway
    Registered Users Posts: 17,335 ✭✭✭✭Utopia Parkway


    The entire show seems like it was put together on the back of a fag packet down the pub. Just thrown together and the results filmed. The whole set looks cheap as chips as well adding to the low rent vibe.

    Have I Got News For You is funny but then again they actually spend time and money on things like format, writers, editing, presentation, etc. This is more like a media project in college that has got onto the national airwaves.


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    #178
    Happy Monday
    Registered Users Posts: 1,211 ✭✭✭Happy Monday


    Oops, you've done it again RTE!!


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    #179
    Nate--IRL--
    Registered Users Posts: 2,221 ✭✭✭Nate--IRL--


    Utopia Parkway wrote: »
    This is more like a media project in college that has got onto the national airwaves.

    I think that perfectly encapsulates this show RTE "Comedy".

    Nate


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    #180
    Lemondrop kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 255 ✭✭Lemondrop kid


    Utopia Parkway wrote: »
    The entire show seems like it was put together on the back of a fag packet down the pub. Just thrown together and the results filmed. The whole set looks cheap as chips as well adding to the low rent vibe.

    Have I Got News For You is funny but then again they actually spend time and money on things like format, writers, editing, presentation, etc. This is more like a media project in college that has got onto the national airwaves.

    I wonder will RTE get sued for ripping off other shows?
    After all, a show is copywrited/patented
    They'd get done for so many - this muck and Republic of Telly come to mind


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    #181
    Nate--IRL--
    Registered Users Posts: 2,221 ✭✭✭Nate--IRL--


    Lemondrop kid wrote: »
    I wonder will RTE get sued for ripping off other shows?
    After all, a show is copywrited/patented
    They'd get done for so many - this muck and Republic of Telly come to mind

    Look up Copyright and Parody. RTE could claim with a very straight face that their efforts are purely Parody. No court would believe that these shows are anything other than a clever exercise in cynical black humour, on the state of British TV.

    Nate


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