Northern Ireland humour

Gunsfortoys · 29-11-2010 10:47am

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 · 29-11-2010 10:58am

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 · 29-11-2010 10:59am

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 · 29-11-2010 11:09am

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 · 29-11-2010 11:52am

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 · 29-11-2010 11:57am

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

WindSock · 29-11-2010 11:58am

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 · 29-11-2010 11:58am

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 · 29-11-2010 12:00pm

stovelid wrote: »

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

They are not Global they are from Northern Ireland.

stovelid · 29-11-2010 12:04pm

Kasabian wrote: »

They are not Global they are from Northern Ireland.

Eureka.

Kasabian · 29-11-2010 12:05pm

stovelid wrote: »

Eureka.

:P:pac:

problemchimp · 29-11-2010 12:16pm

stovelid wrote: »

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

Do they work for global windows?

Joeyjoejoe83 · 29-11-2010 12:50pm

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 · 29-11-2010 1:06pm

kowloon wrote: »

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

FYP

Jagera · 29-11-2010 2:11pm

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Examples, please?

Ian Paisley.

AckwelFoley · 29-11-2010 2:21pm

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 · 29-11-2010 9:53pm

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? · 29-11-2010 10:15pm

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

dxhound2005 · 30-11-2010 12:54am

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

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

Dionysus · 30-11-2010 1:26am

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.

Dionysus · 30-11-2010 1:36am

Marie Jones's 'A Night in November' has to be one of the funniest plays written in Ireland in the past 30 years. It's just a pity they advertised it as a soccer play rather than as a political play - it was set around the Republic -Northern soccer match in 1993 and the lifechanging experience of a Northern Ireland unionist support as a result of it.

It's much funnier, in my view, than her better known 'Stones in his Pockets'.

biko · 30-11-2010 10:17am

Wee Sammy comes running into the kitchen.
'Mammy, Mammy, he says, 'I want to get married to Jimmy next door.'
'Don't be silly,' says his mother. 'It's impossible.'
'But why. Mammy? I love him.'
'Yer daddy will tell you when he gets home.'
So Sammy's daddy arrives home, and wee Sammy runs up to him.
'Daddy, Daddy, I want to marry wee Jimmy next door.'
'I know,' says his daddy. 'Your mother told me.'
'Well, can I?' asks wee Sammy.
'Certainly not, says his daddy. 'It would never work.'
'Why not. Daddy?'
'Because he's a Catholic.'

WindSock · 02-12-2010 12:05am

There's a show on now on BBC Norn Irn, it's so so bad.
Yeah, their humour, at least on telly is fairly pathetic.

Bodhisopha · 02-12-2010 12:26am

WindSock wrote: »

There's a show on now on BBC Norn Irn, it's so so bad.
Yeah, their humour, at least on telly is fairly pathetic.

I missed that, i was busy watching the Republic Of Telly.

WindSock · 02-12-2010 12:28am

Bodhisopha wrote: »

I missed that, i was busy watching the Republic Of Telly.

It makes that look good, that's how bad it is.

Gunsfortoys · 02-12-2010 12:30am

Watching the idiots on "the oirish apprentice" makes me cry out for N.I humour.

flanum · 02-12-2010 3:24am

that "hearts and minds" programme or whatever its called with the computer animated paisley/adams/robinson guff!! totally not funny! and im an ulsterman (albeit republic of ireland)!

Son Of A Vidic · 02-12-2010 10:28am

Dionysus wrote: »

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.

Kevin was class alright, I have a lot of friends up North and I see no discernible difference in mine and their sense of humour. Some comedy shows on BBC NI are rubbish, but no than that Killnash1tbag is also rubbish.

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