Neil Delamere - The Only Viking in the Village (RTÉ 1)

SuperInfinity · 29-11-2011 1:29am #1

....but not really.

When is RTE going to stop giving benefits to special people like Neil Delamere out of the public pocket and allowing them to prance around on the screen and shove it in our faces every time we want to watch RTE channels???

If they really want to do it, by whatever logic they have, at least put it in some slot on tv and leave it there. Just keep it away from me, like in Father Ted you want to keep that stuff as far away from you as possible. Keep it away. It's so stupid. Even outside of television, the publicity they are giving this talentless, unfunny clown is worth tens of thousands. Then he'll come on the Late Late or something as a paid guest some other time for more publicity.

Neil Delamere being a comedian is nothing but a fabrication in the minds of himself, RTE and possibly a few nitwits around the country.

You know how to be on tv or to be a professional at something, you should really be in the top 10% or 5% or 1% at what you do? I think somehow RTE get this mixed up sometimes, and they are actually picking the WORST 10% of the population. Almost anyone that you know of could do better and be more funny than Neil Delamere.

I honestly don't want to even switch on RTE anymore when flicking stations because of that ad.

Mr.Nice Guy · 29-11-2011 1:43am

By the looks of the ad it seems someone at RTE liked BBC's Horrible Histories so much that they thought they'd try and replicate it involving Vikings and Neil Delamare (sigh). That's the RTE way you see. Find something on British TV that is doing well and mimic it involving less talented people.

I can only think that the likes of Craig Doyle and Grainne Seoige and so on are on such obscenely high wages that RTE feel compelled to thrust them into as many different shows and formats as possible in the vain hope one of them will be remotely successful. Personally the only RTE-made comedy show I've enjoyed of recent times was the Savage Eye. It's astonishing to me how poor most of RTE's 'entertainment' output is.

JonathanAnon · 29-11-2011 1:51am

Well that joke in particular was VERY bad... and I would be worried that that is one of the jokes they choose to show on the promo... But Delamere is usually funny enough...

But it is certainly about cost cutting measures.. Lot of RTE shows this year are simply a presenter, a camera, and an agenda... low low cost productions.. Any money they wanted to invest in proper productions is winging it's way to Father Reynolds..

Lapin · 29-11-2011 10:24pm

I'm not Neil's biggest fan but this is excellent. So far.

The Viking entering the room bit was priceless.

A Disgrace · 29-11-2011 10:34pm

Have to agree, find his comedy very forced, usually, but this is very enjoyable.

JP Liz V1 · 30-11-2011 2:55pm

I dont find Neil Delamere funny

sensibleken · 30-11-2011 3:21pm

I actually thought the program was quite good. It was good as a history program and threw in a few laughs too. Its the first RTE show Ive managed to watch all the way through in quite a long while

SuperInfinity · 30-11-2011 6:27pm

Actually I agree it was okay in parts for the historical content. I somehow started watching part of it and while it wasn't funny at all, it was better than expected and very different to the ad. It seems some genuine historians were involved in its content and points. The costumes and settings were good. That ad seems to have taken the worst possible part of it. It's still not something I would watch for very long though, I don't want whimsical images or views to be a part of my concept of what happened in history as a personal preference.

Bannasidhe · 30-11-2011 6:33pm

The producers really did their research on this and deserve credit for it. A few of the people doing the sword training at the end are mates of mine and while not being poofaced about historical accuracy are quietly fanatical about it.

Maybe after this they could do one on the Gaelic Irish - mind, that would have to have a lot of sex, drinking and cattle rustling in it to be accurate.:D

Lapin · 06-12-2011 10:55pm

Those Danes seem a civilised bunch !

Havermeyer · 06-12-2011 10:59pm

Balls. He missed.

Lapin · 06-12-2011 11:01pm

Jesus Christ - Was that William Tell enactment real. :eek::eek::eek:

Not for all the cash in the IMF would I have stood there.

Havermeyer · 06-12-2011 11:02pm

Lapin wrote: »

Jesus Christ - Was that William Tell enactment real. :eek::eek::eek:

Not for all the cash in the IMF would I have stood there.

Probably shot him from about two feet away.

Notice there was no wide angle shot.

Lapin · 06-12-2011 11:05pm

nummnutts wrote: »

Probably shot him from about two feet away.

Notice there was no wide angle shot.

True.

But even at a distance of one foot, you wouldn't get me posing there with a cider berry resting on my crown.

anonymous_joe · 06-12-2011 11:47pm

I thought it was decent enough.

A Disgrace · 06-12-2011 11:56pm

There's potential here for a comic-history series. Anything from the Vikings and Normans to 1916 and the signing of the treay etc... I don't think Neil Delamare is a cutting edge comedian for one second, but he's a likeable enough guy. What if they did 2-part episodes, based on our history, with different hosts each time?