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The Modest Adventures of David O' Doherty...

  • 06-05-2011 11:38pm
    #1
    skelloggs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18 ✭


    It has been the only decent RTÉ produced comedy in recent memory. RTÉ really fails at any comedy it funds and to think of all the successful Irish comedians that came out of Ireland.


    List your RTÉ fails below


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  • #2
    Brian CivilEng
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,041 ✭✭✭Brian CivilEng


    What a great show, it deserves a re-run, maybe even a series 2. Like an Irish version of Flight of the Conchords, with a bit of imagination this could have been sold overseas.

    I still have it on tape, give it a watch now and then.


  • #3
    skelloggs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18 ✭skelloggs


    RTÉ never makes use of its assets, to think that they refused to produce Fr Ted still depresses me to this day. But who knows there might have loads of restrictions.


    But yeah, series 2 of modest adventures would be great.
    for anyone who has never seen it....
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-o5gDIErvY


  • #4
    skelloggs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18 ✭skelloggs


    sorry , bit of a nood when it comes to to embedding on forums.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-o5gDIErvY


  • #5
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    skelloggs wrote: »
    RTÉ never makes use of its assets, to think that they refused to produce Fr Ted still depresses me to this day.

    argh.gif


  • #6
    Basq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,200 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    skellogss wrote:
    RTÉ never makes use of its assets, to think that they refused to produce Fr Ted still depresses me to this day.
    Linehan has said numerous times that himself and Arthur Matthews NEVER went to RTÉ with 'Father Ted'.. they went straight to Channel 4.


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  • #7
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    Basq wrote: »
    Linehan has said numerous times that himself and Arthur Matthews NEVER went to RTÉ with 'Father Ted'.. they went straight to Channel 4.
    I still maintain that that deserves an insta-ban. :pac:


  • #8
    stimpson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,828 ✭✭✭stimpson


    skelloggs wrote: »
    It has been the only decent RTÉ produced comedy ever.

    FYP

    I was amazed it got produced at all. I mean he is original and talented and isn't related to a TD. He is the very anthesis of an RTE celeb. I can only assume the commissioning editor was in holidays that day.

    I saw the DOD in the comedy cellar many years ago and he had the same act on a smaller scale. Sitting on a tiny stool with a tiny keyboard and he had the place in stitches. I saw him again just after TMAODOD and he was just as sharp. Not to big for his boots for a chat after the gig either. Nice guy.


  • #9
    Conor108
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Conor108


    skelloggs wrote: »
    List your RTÉ fails below

    Spending loads on good US tv and sticking it on at 3am because sure all people want to watch is the Angelus and Maeve Higgins' fancy vittles


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