Pat Shortt Megathread

enniscorthy

what do you all think of him and his brand of telly should he just give up altogether and enjoy the millions he's made

Neeson

This bastard doesn't deserve a megathread.

AnonoBoy

Had a dream last night that I was making a film and Pat was in it. I deliberately wrote a scene in which all the characters were slagging Mattie off for being sh*te.

Pat took it well in fairness to him.

JonathanAnon

He needs to keep at the acting and give up the writing..

Mr E

Megathread??

seachto7

Dunno, but lost his way after d'unbelievables I think. Now maybe a certain part of the country can only identify with the humour in d'unbelievables, but I thought it was gold. I recognised local people in pretty much every sketch they did. It was so on the ball I thought at the time, but very witty as well.
TV stuff is atrocious.....

Often wonder if they had done a tv sketch show of d'unbelievables stuff, it could have been good, but again, may only have appealed to acertain part of Ireland..... I can't imagine a Dub thinking d'unbelievables stuff was much good.

Badgermonkey

seachto7 wrote: »

Often wonder if they had done a tv sketch show of d'unbelievables stuff, it could have been good, but again, may only have appealed to acertain part of Ireland..... I can't imagine a Dub thinking d'unbelievables stuff was much good.

I'd be pretty sure many Dubs liked it. I'd also be sure a decent proportion of rural folk thought it was kinda mediocre.

Can you really call it a megathread from the beginning?

seachto7

I dunno, I always thought how would someone from Dublin find some of d'unbeleivables stuff funny? I mean, the slang, the accents, anyone in the mid west region of Ireland will know someone like that, especially anyone who lives in the country. I think they were spot on. Saying that I worked in a pub outside LImerick city, and saw those sketches for real day in day out....

Zaph

I'm from Dublin and I thought d'Unbelievables were the most p*ss poor attempt at humour I've ever had the misfortune to endure (although Brendan O'Carroll gives them a good run for their money). I have friends from various parts of the country who thought they were comedy gold, and I can't think of any Dublin friends who liked them. I do think it was a brand of humour that didn't necessarily translate well from rural to urban audiences, or maybe even just Dublin. How Pat Shortt keeps appearing on our screens year after year to keep perpetrating similar sh*te on us will always be one of life's great enduring mysteries imo.

enniscorthy

JonathanAnon wrote: »

He needs to keep at the acting and give up the writing..

never a truer word said mate

Technocentral

seachto7 wrote: »

Dunno, but lost his way after d'unbelievables I think. Now maybe a certain part of the country can only identify with the humour in d'unbelievables, but I thought it was gold. I recognised local people in pretty much every sketch they did. It was so on the ball I thought at the time, but very witty as well.
TV stuff is atrocious.....

Often wonder if they had done a tv sketch show of d'unbelievables stuff, it could have been good, but again, may only have appealed to acertain part of Ireland..... I can't imagine a Dub thinking d'unbelievables stuff was much good.

I'm a total Dublin urbanite and I thought that D'unbelievable's had some hilarious stuff, of course you don't have to be from a certain part of the country (or the same country) to get it you just have to have a passing familiarity with the archetypes that are been parodied, I used to love Frank Kelly and Kevin McAleer's stuff which was totally based on small town, rural types in the same way as I love Woody Allen and I'm not a Jewish New Yorker, but his TV stuff is awful ****e with no effort put into it, he should stick to acting.