Marian Finucane

sligojoek

Pat Shortt . Hahahaha.

DickSwiveller Returns

Don't find him funny at all.

Oops69

he hasn't been funny since D'Unbelievables , even then some of the stuff was a bit forced .

Oops69

comedians talking about the psychological tribulations of their craft ... been done to death.. is there any 'Comedian' that's not certifiable according to the way they go on ?...Seems to be just more about the ego and attention - seeking than anything else .

anthonyjmaher

Painful interview. When did Brendan did get so politically correct - seemed like Pat spent most of the interview defending his profession for discriminating against women and disabled people. If I'm even allowed to use that term.

Oops69

He'll be on ' Funny Friday ' with Joe Duffy soon as he's well able to guffaw at his own 'jokes '

Callan57

DickSwiveller Returns wrote: »

Don't find him funny at all.

He's a far better actor than comedian

Beechwoodspark

Pat short has a very annoying habit of breaking his heart laughing at nothing. Then cue the presenter praising him for being “a gas man”

Oops69

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Pat short has a very annoying habit of breaking his heart laughing at nothing. Then cue the presenter praising him for being “a gas man”

A Ploy rather than a habit .... anyway i'll leave the man alone now .

Beechwoodspark

Oops69 wrote: »

A Ploy rather than a habit .... anyway i'll leave the man alone now .

Is it to fill airtime do u mean

DickSwiveller Returns

I like Brendan O'Connor but he definitely is becoming more PC which is a shame. When Pat tried to make a point about women finding it harder on television, he straight away has to interject about lots of great women on television. Is he talking about Alison Spittle?

anthonyjmaher

Callan57 wrote: »

He's a far better actor than comedian

Killanscully and that Mattie were both terrible. If they had had any sort of script he could have probably carried them both off well, as he is a very good comic and straight actor. But the "humour" was so childish, I cant imagine anybody over the age of eight found them funny.


That Garage film certainly was an eye opener though, didn't think he had that ability.

NIMAN

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Pat short has a very annoying habit of breaking his heart laughing at nothing. Then cue the presenter praising him for being “a gas man”

PJ Gallagher and Jason Byrne are another 2 culprits for this.

alaimacerc

NIMAN wrote: »

PJ Gallagher and Jason Byrne are another 2 culprits for this.

I'd say those two are far worse at it, indeed. Or maybe I'm just especially struck by the intensity of their own forced self-jollity, when no actual humour of any kind can actually be detected...

Brendan Bendar

erran_morad wrote: »

o connor had his teeth pulled several years ago , he has been extremely nervous about anything remotely controversial being uttered on both that round table panel tv show he presents or when he stands in for marian finucane

he was never that amazing but is completely forgettable these days , annoying voice doesnt help

Ballsy had his nuts crushed, that’s for sure.

Appearance doesn’t help, looks like an ice pop, big head on a stick

dieselbug

NIMAN wrote: »

PJ Gallagher and Jason Byrne are another 2 culprits for this.

You're not alone with that opinion.
There's a whole thread on the subject of unfunny Irish comedians here.


https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057674448

mattser

No doubt today's guests will enlighten us to Hockey and it's rules. A lot of wickying going on in the morning's panel overnight, to see who can look smart about something that haven't a breeze about.
Let the tossing start.

anthonyjmaher

Noel Whelan for President. The man who couldn't get elected as a TD for FF. He's pompous, arrogant, irritable, bad humoured, aggressive. If we wanted somebody with those characteristics, we would have voted for Gay Mitchell the last time.

Oops69

anthonyjmaher wrote: »

Noel Whelan for President. The man who couldn't get elected as a TD for FF. He's pompous, arrogant, irritable, bad humoured, aggressive. If we wanted somebody with those characteristics, we would have voted for Gay Mitchell the last time.

you left out the horrible accent likes he's chewing a hunk of bread .

anthonyjmaher

Leo's spin doctors now putting out the populist "I'm taking on the Church on it's gay teachings" line to win him a few more votes. About a year ago, on the national broadcaster, Ali Selim of the Islamic Cultural Centre in Clonskeagh said that being gay was "a sin" and any such man should "give up his ways". Where was Leo then? Should Leo's priority not be dropping down to the Islamic Cultural Centre to tackle them on their more hard line teachings, before meeting the Pope - or are his actions singularly driven by what will make him popular with the liberal media?

Oops69

anthonyjmaher wrote: »

Leo's spin doctors now putting out the populist "I'm taking on the Church on it's gay teachings" line to win him a few more votes. About a year ago, on the national broadcaster, Ali Selim of the Islamic Cultural Centre in Clonskeagh said that being gay was "a sin" and any such man should "give up his ways". Where was Leo then? Should Leo's priority not be dropping down to the Islamic Cultural Centre to tackle them on their more hard line teachings, before meeting the Pope - or are his actions singularly driven by what will make him popular with the liberal media?

Varadkar's not a principled politician , he is simply a politican , he'll follow his nose for the votes and it will eventually backfire on him and he'll be exposed for the vacuousness of his intellect .

quintana76

anthonyjmaher wrote: »

Leo's spin doctors now putting out the populist "I'm taking on the Church on it's gay teachings" line to win him a few more votes. About a year ago, on the national broadcaster, Ali Selim of the Islamic Cultural Centre in Clonskeagh said that being gay was "a sin" and any such man should "give up his ways". Where was Leo then? Should Leo's priority not be dropping down to the Islamic Cultural Centre to tackle them on their more hard line teachings, before meeting the Pope - or are his actions singularly driven by what will make him popular with the liberal media?

Guess what Leo did two years ago. He visited Ali Selim's Muslim Brotherhood Clonskeagh mosque just after attending the Gay Pride parade. He sucked up to the bigots to please his media buddies. Shocking acquiescence for a gay man. Just proves in case there was any doubt that he is a media whore.

Callan57

anthonyjmaher wrote: »

Noel Whelan for President. The man who couldn't get elected as a TD for FF. He's pompous, arrogant, irritable, bad humoured, aggressive. If we wanted somebody with those characteristics, we would have voted for Gay Mitchell the last time.

The reality is that in the past the Post Office was one of the local services in the gift of political parties & consequently they were in many instances located in places that realistically never had the customer base to support them but had a local party hack behind the counter.

anthonyjmaher

The weekly Trump hit piece, with the Democrat in residence (well, when Turbidy is away on his twelve weeks holiday) to give us an objective analysis of Trump's affairs.

anthonyjmaher

Bit rude of Noel Whelan to start contradicting the guy about the influence of the media. But I guess it's better that he is contradicting a reporter than the French President. :P

Brendan Bendar

mattser wrote: »

No doubt today's guests will enlighten us to Hockey and it's rules. A lot of wickying going on in the morning's panel overnight, to see who can look smart about something that haven't a breeze about.
Let the tossing start.

Bullying....I think starts it off.

anthonyjmaher

quintana76 wrote: »

Guess what Leo did two years ago. He visited Ali Selim's Muslim Brotherhood Clonskeagh mosque just after attending the Gay Pride parade.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/taoiseach-s-sexual-orientation-not-an-issue-at-clonskeagh-mosque-1.3133212

While homosexuality was “not blessed by Islam, people here are not ruled by Islam. They are ruled by the law of Ireland.” He agreed Muslims in Ireland opposed same-sex marriage because “our interpretation of the family is made of a male and a female”, he said.

Amazing the blind spots that exist to the beliefs of particular groups. Did I miss the twitter campaign and media witch-hunt that followed this??? It seems that if you are part of a minority group, this works as a shield from the scrutiny/criticism that other groups (like the catholic church) would get.

Ahwell

anthonyjmaher wrote: »

About a year ago, on the national broadcaster, Ali Selim of the Islamic Cultural Centre in Clonskeagh said that being gay was "a sin" and any such man should "give up his ways".

The Catholic Church's views on the matter seems to have completely escaped your notice. If has been coming out with stuff like that for centuries in this country. Why? because it pretty much mirrors the Catholic Church's official teachings on the matter. From The Catechism of the Catholic Church - "Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity,141 tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered."142 They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved." & "Homosexual persons are called to chastity." Not a whole lot different to what Ali Selim came out with.

podmu80

Ahwell wrote: »

anthonyjmaher wrote: »

About a year ago, on the national broadcaster, Ali Selim of the Islamic Cultural Centre in Clonskeagh said that being gay was "a sin" and any such man should "give up his ways".

The Catholic Church's views on the matter seems to have completely escaped your notice. If has been coming out with stuff like that for centuries in this country. Why? because it pretty much mirrors the Catholic Church's official teachings on the matter. From The Catechism of the Catholic Church - "Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity,141 tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered."142 They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved." & "Homosexual persons are called to chastity." Not a whole lot different to what Ali Selim came out with.

Think the point is that Ali Selim won't be challenged or criticised with the same level of vigour that the church is. For to do so would be deemed "islamophobic"

Dan Jaman

podmu80 wrote: »

Think the point is that Ali Selim won't be challenged or criticised with the same level of vigour that the church is. For to do so would be deemed "islamophobic"

Yeah, the trick's working well, isn't it?