Northern Ireland humour

qwert2

Does anyone else find the Northern Ireland sense of humour unbearable? I just can't relate to it, even though I live on the same Island

ddef

qwert2 wrote: »

Does anyone else find the Northern Ireland sense of humour unbearable? I just can't relate to it, even though I live on the same Island

OMG, just build a bridge already!

Sisko

ddef wrote: »

OMG, just build a bridge already!

eh?

Agricola

qwert2 wrote: »

Does anyone else find the Northern Ireland sense of humour unbearable? I just can't relate to it, even though I live on the same Island

Yes.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

I can't relate to the humour of most people who live in the same village as me, never mind people in Belfast or Derry.

Ptard

It's more edgy from what I've seen. I was always called paddy too, so maybe I just kept going in the wrong neighbourhood.

Meh.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Examples, please?

Degag

I know a few people from the North and they're pricks. I'm sure it's just relative though.

qwert2

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Examples, please?

That Julian head on UTV. Is he supposed to be a comedian? Also do you ever see the way they do children in need related stuff? Cringe. I know this is only TV examples but if that's anything to go by....:eek:

Rodin

qwert2 wrote: »

That Julian head on UTV. Is he supposed to be a comedian? Also do you ever see the way they do children in need related stuff? Cringe. I know this is only TV examples but if that's anything to go by....:eek:

Have you EVER watched any RTE-produced stuff? Fade Bloody St?
Julian is as representative of N.Ireland as Shirley Temple Bar on that godawful telly bingo is representative of the Republic

kowloon

I'll tell you what's not funny: Sectarian violence.

battries not included

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obeyPkLa7QM

Painful to watch,

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

qwert2 wrote: »

That Julian head on UTV. Is he supposed to be a comedian? Also do you ever see the way they do children in need related stuff? Cringe. I know this is only TV examples but if that's anything to go by....:eek:

I thought that was just gay flight attendent in-humour? Can't say I've watched Chilren in Need at all recently.

qwert2

This sort of unfunny sh1te

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y79bSZWHpgk

KeithAFC

Ulster men are very funny.

Rodin

I bet you find Brendan O'Carroll funny
Or Deirdre O'kane, or that other woeful bird who pretends to be a Dublin skanger. Somebody Kavanagh.
Oh and speaking of Kavanagh's, Richie.

KeithAFC

The republic has some proper ****e comedians who represent them too.

Rodin

Who's the one that plays the piano all the time?
David ODoherty?

And as for PJ Gallagher!?!

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

qwert2 wrote: »

This sort of unfunny sh1te

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y79bSZWHpgk

As opposed to this top-notch comedy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw6vjJJeGZo

qwert2

KeithAFC wrote: »

Ulster men are very funny.

Ulster people beleive their funny. You'd have to be that self-delusional to produce an embarrassment like this......:eek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3yUTvX260I

I reckon 'that side of the community' have the worse sense of humour on the entire planet

KeithAFC

Good argument.. :rolleyes:

What do you base your argument on anyway? Iv met a lot of funny people in Northern Ireland.

smk89

Maybe I'm biased but these are pretty good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVrSgLNFToM

Or maybe you need translation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJH3_mYFPYc

Phony Scott

Certainly when I was a kid, everyone in the North listened to John McBlain and his impersonations of Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams were priceless. Word of caution, it's pretty offensive stuff.

sample

Mahatma coat

MAny of My Generation had This D!KKHead as our First introduction th Northern Irish Comedians

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvnL8bQmygE

So Ya can see why we would have a such Low opinion of Norhtern Comedy.


Altho in defence of the Province Patrick Kielty is A Funny Cnut

Bottle_of_Smoke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kN15IZGeMg

They are allegedly the GAA results but we've heard this all before so how can we be expected to believe them without any conclusive photographic evidenceeeeeee

Bottle_of_Smoke

Semtex
Murder
Being offended
Religion
Van Morrison
Harp Lager
Cross border shoppers
Soda Farls
George Best
Blaming others
Messing with how vowels are supposed tee soynd
Avoiding Yes/No answers
Pretending not to know where Derry/Londonderry is
Bitterness
Hating Free-Staters
Poppies
Flutes
Burning flags
Glasgow football
Ballymena Shopping Centre
Sectarianism
Tattoos
The Giants Causeway
The NHS
Going on about being hit with rubber bullets
Give My Head Peace
Bushmills
The Undertones
Petrol Bombs
Murals
GAA
Hating GAA
Knee Cappings
Percieved Discrimination
Translink
Crossing the border to get social welfare.

citytillidie

Bottle_of_Smoke wrote: »

The Giants Causeway
The Undertones

Being from Northern Ireland i have updated your list of what i so called love

getz

Mahatma coat wrote: »

MAny of My Generation had This D!KKHead as our First introduction th Northern Irish Comedians

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvnL8bQmygE

So Ya can see why we would have a such Low opinion of Norhtern Comedy.


Altho in defence of the Province Patrick Kielty is A Funny Cnut

how can you call frank carson ?,he is a legend,a comedians comedian,one of the most loved funny men in the UK,works a lot not very far from me in blackpool lancashire,i see him a lot and he always has time to talk to anyone who he meets, a very funny man

Bottle_of_Smoke

citytillidie wrote: »

Being from Northern Ireland i have updated your list of what i so called love

you don't like soda farls?:eek:

bonerm

Irish comedy shíte across the island purely because everyone thinks they ARE a comedian.

Donal Og O Baelach

Thought "Give my head peace" wasn't too bad, but in the main the typical nordy humour seems to involve a man dressed up as a woman shouting and waving at a crowd. To illustrate - compare and contrast next years BBC comic relief to the BBC NI comic relief.

Gunsfortoys

I find it hilarious that some people from various skanger, junkie filled cesspits can make fun of people in the North.

Anyway, generalising is wrong people.

Bottle_of_Smoke

Donal Og O Baelach wrote: »

Thought "Give my head peace" wasn't too bad, but in the main the typical nordy humour seems to involve a man dressed up as a woman shouting and waving at a crowd. To illustrate - compare and contrast next years BBC comic relief to the BBC NI comic relief.

Brendan O Carroll's from Finglas.

Bottle_of_Smoke

Rodin wrote: »

I bet you find Brendan O'Carroll funny
Or Deirdre O'kane, or that other woeful bird who pretends to be a Dublin skanger. Somebody Kavanagh.
Oh and speaking of Kavanagh's, Richie.

KeithAFC wrote: »

The republic has some proper ****e comedians who represent them too.

Keith I don't think that was a reply to you, all those mentioned by Rodin are republic embarrassments

RDM_83 again

Have lived without a tv for two long, I'd forgotten the hideousness of UTV until this thread reminded me of the great Julian.

On thread though, the Queens comedy soc had Colin Murray as their compere, what did TCD have, our AH friend the minster for childrens bro doing the same gig 3 times.

Murray (from Belfast) was key in two of the only decent irish produced comedy shows Blizzard of odd and the Panel

stovelid

Repetitively defensive black humour deployed to forget about living in a sectarian kip surrounded by serial killers is always welcome. And middle-class TV producers and editors like it - albeit not enough to actually live there.

Kasabian

My Norn Iron mates all have a wicked sense of humour. They don't do PC bull and everything is fair game.

WindSock

Yeah I agree, I have always found NI humour to be fairly lame, going by what I see on TV. Same can be said for ours too though. All we have is Father Ted to save us.

stovelid

Kasabian wrote: »

My Norn Iron mates all have a wicked sense of humour. They don't do PC bull and everything is fair game.

That's also known as working class humour which is global.

Kasabian

stovelid wrote: »

That's also known as working class humour which is global.

They are not Global they are from Northern Ireland.

stovelid

Kasabian wrote: »

They are not Global they are from Northern Ireland.

Eureka.

Kasabian

stovelid wrote: »

Eureka.

:P:pac:

problemchimp

stovelid wrote: »

That's also known as working class humour which is global.

Do they work for global windows?

Joeyjoejoe83

You dont get the NI humour bacause you dont live there, you havent experienced life or stuff that happens there( dont worry, am not gonna go on a tangent about the "struggle" or "political divide").
I'll give you an example, no one knows anything about the whole north/south dublin humour jokes(/not a joke to some people) in the north. I moved to Dublin 6 years ago and hadnt a clue what people were talking about, it just doesnt exist so why would i understand it. Now that I am living here and experienced living in both sides of dublin, the jokes make more sense.
Also, the language is different, I worked in my university shop, and someone asked me for a "foolscap"......hadnt a clue what that was, not a notion. "rashers"....again, i got it, but never used that word in my life. I also believed all dublin women were easy cos all the guys "scored" last night, some "scored" 3 or 4 girls....again, score means sex up homenot kissing.
Nobody heard of potato bread, soda bread, soda farls, wheaten bread when i moved to dublin, and they absolutely had no idea what i was talking about when i said i loved gravy chips from the chinese(NOT NOT NOT superchips, completely different!!!!!!)
ANyway, you may get some sense of why jokes are funny to us nordies if you experienced life up home.

P.S Frank Carson is a comedian from a different era, you cant say he is crap cos he doesnt have the modern stand ups jokes which nearly always lead to sex, drugs or taking the piss outta celebrities. I dont get him either, but i ma not old enough to get him, I still respect him though, he was huge in the UK, bigger than paddy kielty ever made it over there.

sensibleken

kowloon wrote: »

I'll tell you what's not funny: Sectarian violence. Patrick Kielty

FYP

Jagera

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Examples, please?

Ian Paisley.

AckwelFoley

im sure there is a thread on a Norn Iron forum saying how unfunny and poor us irish down the south are..

Im tellin you, they're getting all the old 1980 ethopia jokes and just replacing "ethopian" with "Irish"

Meah..

smk89

Captain Planet visited Belfast once and stoped a nuclear bomb going off.

Shows great intelligence especially when the difference between a catholic and protestant area is a garden fence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQJrovKgrTw

Yo Buddy. You still alive?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ7QVCVshlw

dxhound2005

Colin Murray is funny. He makes Fighting Talk on 5 Live.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0070hvs

Dionysus

Kevin McAleer is brilliant! So dead pan.

Back in the early 1990s there was this great skit from a few northern comedians where one of them was Ian Paisley, another was Charlie Haughey, another was Gerry Adams and so on and they were all around the same table having a discussion. I'd love to know who they were. It was brilliant. Anybody have any idea what it was called?

Loved so much of McAleer's stuff, from Nighthawks to his 'Turn it On' (we were all sitting around the TV; half of us watching the back of it..." - not forgetting "semtex" the dog) to his 'Chalk and Cheese' show where he talks about going out late one night for a walk at home in Tyrone to discover the meaning of life "Where am I going?" "What am I doing" "What do I want" - "And all of a sudden this van pulls up in front of me and ten armed men in balaclavas get out and ask me the very same questions: "Where are you going?" "What are you doing"?

Brilliant, funny guy.