Damo and Ivor

Missyelliot2

is anyone watching this??:eek:

Seriously, what is it supposed to be????

DUBACC

Missyelliot2 wrote: »

is anyone watching this??:eek:

Seriously, what is it supposed to be????

Ross o'carroll Kelly and the anti-Ross by the look of it.

fryup

mrs brown's boys on crystal meth

Dr. Bre

cmon goys!

duridian

Missyelliot2 wrote: »

is anyone watching this??:eek:

Seriously, what is it supposed to be????

A social commentary contrasting Northside Dublin and Southside Dublin.

redzerredzer

RTE have done it again.
I'm not surprised at all.

irishgeo

utter ****e , turned off after 15mins.

sonic85

and rte are looking for more money from the license to make more sh!te like this. fcukin hell

grey_so_what

I'm laughing.....:)

Not Now John

What a shameless rip-off of Ross O'Carroll Kelly, even down to the way he speaks to his folks and the ladies. Shouldn't be allowed.

DUBACC

I'd say Paul Howard is onto his solicitor right now. Blatant ripoff of Ross.

tommyboy2222

Rik Mayall must be a bit hard up.

grey_so_what

The dog cost four times more than him............LOL!

RobertKK

This is a real insight to how people live in Dublin.

DUBACC

Skanger burds are fit!

Dingatron

Lasted 60 seconds.

Missyelliot2

irishgeo wrote: »

utter ****e , turned off after 15mins.

I admire your stoicism irishgeo!

TheBody

Very bad. Really is a piss poor attempt to rip off Ross O Carroll Kelly.

redzerredzer

grey_so_what wrote: »

The dog cost four times more than him............LOL!

How can you find this funny?
I was sure you worked for rte and was sent to give positive feedback until I saw your post about their last show.

redzerredzer

tommyboy2222 wrote: »

Rik Mayall must be a bit hard up.

Thought he looked like him so checked the credits.
It's quite sad. What happened Rik?

grey_so_what

redzerredzer wrote: »

How can you find this funny?
I was sure you worked for rte and was sent to give positive feedback until I saw your post about their last show.

I actually do find it occasionally funny. Once they get over the puking - they overdid that in the ROT slots.

I'd love a job in RTE, it'd be great. Job for life for me and my offspring........

There were some funny quips there that made me laugh. More than I can say for Jason earlier.

I'm going to brush up my CV. I fancy Lottie's job now...........:D:D:D:p

Queen-Mise

grey_so_what wrote: »

I'm laughing.....:)

I was laughing also - not sure for the same reason though.

I kinda liked it, maybe trying too hard though, although the start with the fella on the toilet was funny.

Heraldoffreeent

Of the three new Irish comedy programmes on RTE 2 tonight it was the least worst of the lot, by a large margin.

JONJO THE MISER

I thought it was quiet good, who were those sexy birds doing the carwash:eek:

efb

dreadful

Galwayguy35

I wonder what the southsiders made of it all?

earlytobed

Although not entirely original, I thought it was funny. The Jason Byrne effort earlier was gash though

PinkFly

The shít has hit the van...

Thought it was ok .. Laughed at a few bits.

TommiesTank

RobertKK wrote: »

This is a real insight to how people live in Dublin.

Indeed.

greenpilot

TommiesTank wrote: »

Indeed.

The rest of the county don't give a fcuk how people live in Dublin.

nicedryturf

If you're going to do a show full of over-familiar caricatures, the material better be pretty good. Not much in the way of any actual material last night, if you leave out all of the gurning.

bobbysands81

greenpilot wrote: »

The rest of the county don't give a fcuk how people live in Dublin.

They should, Dublin subsidises them.

dubsontour

RobertKK wrote: »

This is a real insight to how people live in Dublin.

Really.. So the Southside is full of obnoxious spoiled idiots who swill champers and get botox.
Northside full of car thieves and prostitute Mothers.. And that was just the 15 minutes that I could endure it.
Great insight indeed:mad:.
And never mind Mayell, what on earth was Ruth Mc Cabe thinking?
Utter rubbish from RTE yet again.

ZeroThreat

dubsontour wrote: »

Really.. So the Southside is full of obnoxious spoiled idiots who swill champers and get botox.
Northside full of car thieves and prostitute Mothers.. And that was just the 15 minutes that I could endure it.
Great insight indeed:mad:.
And never mind Mayell, what on earth was Ruth Mc Cabe thinking?
Utter rubbish from RTE yet again.

Obviously the show's creators never had to drive through the crumlin/walkinstown area. Like a little enclave of northrside scangeragua relocated to the south. Full of Damos and prostitute mothers

Best keep the car window up and drive as fast as possible if you ever had to pass through these ghettos on you travels.

tipptom

This was absolutely rubbish on ROT and should have been strangled right there.
I would love to be sitting in on a meeting with these RTE heads and just listen to the justification they give to give something as bad as this the go ahead.
They should be made tape these meetings like the White house and made play it back where everybody gets to see what they approved,now that would be comedy alongside the resultant sacking of course and boot out their sons and daughters as well.

redzerredzer

tipptom wrote: »

This was absolutely rubbish on ROT and should have been strangled right there.
I would love to be sitting in on a meeting with these RTE heads and just listen to the justification they give to give something as bad as this the go ahead.
They should be made tape these meetings like the White house and made play it back where everybody gets to see what they approved,now that would be comedy alongside the resultant sacking of course and boot out their sons and daughters as well.

RTE Executive 1 - '' We need something for the young people Monday night slot. Your man from the republic of telly slot seems to be popular and he wont cost us much''

RTE Executive 2 - '' Yes, people will laugh at any crass **** we throw at them these days and your man is deperate to get on tv so wont cost much ''

Ash.J.Williams

I enjoyed it and think it could work out better than most of the new irish comedy. Rik Mayall is an absolute hero of mine so that was another bonus. Looking forward to next weeks.
(I really thought he should have been busted by the cops with his granny)

Mickiemcfist

Not Now John wrote: »

What a shameless rip-off of Ross O'Carroll Kelly, even down to the way he speaks to his folks and the ladies. Shouldn't be allowed.

DUBACC wrote: »

I'd say Paul Howard is onto his solicitor right now. Blatant ripoff of Ross.

For the love of god, so once one person presents a stereotype to the masses, it is his own copyright is it?

Hmm, so then I'm guessing if anyone ever replicates a Northside accent on tv that has any faint resemblance to Damo then "Damo & Ivor ltd" can sue them?

Go to Krystle in town, you will see plenty of Ivors, go to O'Connell St & you'll see plenty of Damo's. Nobody owns the rights to the reproduction of these fairly accurate stereotypes.

For what its worth, I thought it was funny, I knew I wasn't going to be getting a high-brow lecture on socio-economic issues so just take it at face value for god's sake.

Ash.J.Williams

redzerredzer wrote: »

RTE Executive 1 - '' We need something for the young people Monday night slot. Your man from the republic of telly slot seems to be popular and he wont cost us much''

RTE Executive 2 - '' Yes, people will laugh at any crass **** we throw at them these days and your man is deperate to get on tv so wont cost much ''

To be fair it looks like young quirke put the effort in and got the reward.

Robert2012

This was so awful it could well become unmissable TV...Up there with "Leave it to Mrs O'Brien" and "Upwardly Mobile" in the pantheon of atrocious Irish comedy.


*pops over to the Jason Byrne thread to copy and paste this

Algeria

Good luck to him, he seems like a nice guy.

A least he doesn't steal a living like his brother 'Wes'

JM Skipton

Òf the three comedies put forward by RTE last night the only time I laughed out loud was during Damo and Ivor. He has the Ivor character to a tee, hard to believe there are idiots like this floating around our fair city but they do exist. Rik Mayall is a legend and I crack up just looking at his facial expressions. I wouldn't try to analyse it too deeply if it makes you laugh brilliant and if not I wouldn't let it ruin your week. But for light entertainment that doesn't tax the brain too much on a Monday night its perfect.

Birneybau

ZeroThreat wrote: »

Obviously the show's creators never had to drive through the crumlin/walkinstown area. Like a little enclave of northrside scangeragua relocated to the south. Full of Damos and prostitute mothers

Best keep the car window up and drive as fast as possible if you ever had to pass through these ghettos on you travels.

Crumlin and Walkinstown? There are a lot worse places on the Southside...

Algeria

Birneybau wrote: »

Crumlin and Walkinstown? There are a lot worse places on the Southside...

Equally the northside has Clontarf, Sutton, Portmarnock, Malahide and Howth

peteeeed

'paths to freedom' done it first and a hell of a lot better

Ash.J.Williams

peteeeed wrote: »

'paths to freedom' done it first and a hell of a lot better

i think paths to freedom is a different beast altogether.

peteeeed

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

i think paths to freedom is a different beast altogether.

well it was a northside , southside comedy

ZeroThreat

Algeria wrote: »

Equally the northside has Clontarf, Sutton, Portmarnock, Malahide and Howth

A general rule of thumb on the geography of both the North & Southside : The further you go inland from the coast, the scangier it gradually gets..

Algeria

ZeroThreat wrote: »

A general rule of thumb on the geography of both the North & Southside : The further you go inland from the coast, the scangier it gradually gets..

Fairview East Wall, then cross the water, still faced with Ringsend, go a bit further and Dun Laoghaire's rep is at an all time low! etc

Coast is a bit dodgey too ya know!

Ash.J.Williams

peteeeed wrote: »

well it was a northside , southside comedy

it was a bit more than that i thought...comedy tragedy drama perhaps

RobertKK

dubsontour wrote: »

Really.. So the Southside is full of obnoxious spoiled idiots who swill champers and get botox.
Northside full of car thieves and prostitute Mothers.. And that was just the 15 minutes that I could endure it.
Great insight indeed:mad:.
And never mind Mayell, what on earth was Ruth Mc Cabe thinking?
Utter rubbish from RTE yet again.

Yes I thought it was terrible.

Just couldn't resist adding that comment.