Funny Friday ??

Hank Schrader

Is there or has there ever been a more cringeworthy piece of radio ??

Can take liveline no bother but this is just beyond words


Sorry if done before(cant believe it hasn't)

radioman 1

Why do you listen to it if you don't like it turn it off that's what the ON/OFF button is for

DEFTLEFTHAND

The last few have been poor indeed. Sometimes they hit it right though.

furiousox

"Funny" Friday?
It's $hit.
Even OAPs hate it.

LowOdour

Is that what I heard today...was going through the stations and someone was telling jokes. Heard one about the new Ikea store in Dublin, that there would be a North Ikea and a South Ikea. Total bantz!!!

Deedsie

I'd love to know RTÉ's budget for funny Friday. It's absolutely shocking.

PaulieBoy

radioman 1 wrote: »

Why do you listen to it if you don't like it turn it off that's what the ON/OFF button is for

It's a democracy, people who pay for this rubbish are entitled to complain about it. Simples!!

P. Breathnach

It seems obvious that Joe really likes the kind of material used. It comes from the same mould as many of Joe's own attempts at humour.

I don't like the stuff, and I suspect that I am with the majority in my opinion. I suspect that the "listenership" comprises a smallish number who like that sort of material, and a larger group who just leave the radio on without listening to it.

DEFTLEFTHAND

The last few have been very safe, nothing edgy or imaginative, Mom and Dad kind of humour. Maybe Joe puts the kibosh on the good stuff.

Technocentral

Hank Schrader wrote: »

Is there or has there ever been a more cringeworthy piece of radio ??

Can take liveline no bother but this is just beyond words


Sorry if done before(cant believe it hasn't)

No one under 70 listens to that ball sauce.

Hank Schrader

radioman 1 wrote: »

Why do you listen to it if you don't like it turn it off that's what the ON/OFF button is for

No choice mate,work :mad:

PaulieBoy wrote: »

It's a democracy, people who pay for this rubbish are entitled to complain about it. Simples!!

Correctamundo !

Technocentral wrote: »

No one under 70 listens to that ball sauce.

Ah, but if this were true

Xavi6

It's absolute rubbish, Joe and his cronies sitting around laughing at their own jokes while a bunch of oul wans cackle in the background.

Disgraceful stuff to be having in a prime radio slot when there's important issues to be discussed on a current affairs show.

JonathanAnon

Xavi6 wrote: »

Disgraceful stuff to be having in a prime radio slot when there's important issues to be discussed on a current affairs show.

What's most contemptible about the show is the fact that they populate the studio with the same faces and the same jokes... Somebody on the thread said the jokes were like Hal Roach's jokes... but they're wrong.. Hal Roach was actually funny!! The mother in law jokes from Syl Fox, and Clint VelWhore singing some Abba song with altered lyrics, Mary O'Rourke impressions that are so offensive (even though I hate the woman) that they could be material for Liveline for the other four days of the week... Simply just not funny.

I do love the Padraig Flynn bit, and Doc Savage's poetry is well .. savage.. but the rest of it is absolutely awful..

michael999999

Deedsie wrote: »

I'd love to know RTÉ's budget for funny Friday. It's absolutely shocking.

RTE and budget.

Ha ha very funny, why don't you ring in with that joke for the next funny Friday!

constitutionus

JonathanAnon wrote: »

What's most contemptible about the show is the fact that they populate the studio with the same faces and the same jokes... Somebody on the thread said the jokes were like Hal Roach's jokes... but they're wrong.. Hal Roach was actually funny!! The mother in law jokes from Syl Fox, and Clint VelWhore singing some Abba song with altered lyrics, Mary O'Rourke impressions that are so offensive (even though I hate the woman) that they could be material for Liveline for the other four days of the week... Simply just not funny.

I do love the Padraig Flynn bit, and Doc Savage's poetry is well .. savage.. but the rest of it is absolutely awful..

do RTE keep Mary o rourke on radio solely to keep using her in comedy routines ?

It's the only thing that makes sense now

heybaby

Funny Friday is about as funny as Mrs Browns Boys...:mad:

MJ23

That auld lad with the wheezey voice who laughs at his own stupid jokes is absolutely terrible. Mammy o Rourke is the only funny bit on it.

furiousox

MJ23 wrote: »

That auld lad with the wheezey voice who laughs at his own stupid jokes is absolutely terrible. ..

Joe Duffy?

Welsh Megaman

MJ23 wrote: »

That auld lad with the wheezey voice who laughs at his own stupid jokes is absolutely terrible. Mammy o Rourke is the only funny bit on it.

That'll be Doc Savage...nobody seems to have told him the first rule of stand-up is 'DO NOT LAUGH AT YOUR OWN JOKES'.

Swiper the fox

The only saving grace to funny Friday is that it's led to my discovery of the program on 4fm which is like Liveline where anything goes, Gerald Keane:eek: was discussing hookers last Friday with some tough lad from Limerick giving some poor Legion of Mary woman dogs abuse, perfect afternoon radio

Desperately unfunny Friday.

While I'm here I might as well get it out, 3 things that send me running for the off button, Ray Foleys voice, funny Friday and the sunday miscellany.