Damo and Ivor

AnonoBoy

Frank Lee Midere wrote: »

Wouldn't you ^want^ to satirise people like this if you could.

It was funny. Hard to believe that damo and Ivor are the same guy. A good comedy by RTE standards. In any case any Irish comedy gets bad reviews on the Internet. If Fr. Ted were Irish only it would be despised.

Irish stuff does get love sometimes. The threads on Savage Eye and Irish Pictorial are mostly positive.

I don't think Damo and Ivor is 'satire' really. It's far too broad to have any teeth.

Dempsey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZJwC_vp-_Q

This music video was the best thing Quirke did. I dunno how he'll pad out this show though. He'll be struggling for material by the end.

duridian

Was that in Dr. Quirkey's they filmed the robbery scene from tonight's episode?

I_smell_fear

Watched the first episode and 10 minutes into tonights I give up. It's an absolute clueless mess in so many ways.

RobertKK

It was better this week.

noodler

The sunburn/embarrassment reveal in the scene when Ivor was on stage having his card declined had me in stictches.

His Ivor facial expressions are priceless tbh.

Owen_S

Just watched the first episode, and it was surprisingly good considering what people were saying about it in this thread. I would rather watch this than RTE interviewing themselves on the Late Late Show

Dee5

duridian wrote: »

Was that in Dr. Quirkey's they filmed the robbery scene from tonight's episode?

No think it was the LeisurePlex in Coolock. Well the part of Damo on the gun game thing was, not too sure about the back piece, could have been down the snooker hall end

Femme_Fatale

A comedy about a "skanger" and a "D4 head" - that horse has been flogged to death surely.

celtic tiger 2011 wrote: »

If you want talk about a quality comedy that rte did,then you need look no further than the savage eye. It highlighted Irish begrudgery, the shame of not owning your own house, the oppression of the catholic church etc, and tackled all these topics in a very clever and funny way.

Wow, such daring material! :pac:

Another I thing will never understand where the Irish got the notion they were funny or witty . Witt and humour died in this country with Oscar Wilde. Its actually a form of self delusion that we suffer from as a race, just like the English delude themselves in to thinking that they are the best at football.

The penny has finally dropped with the English that they cant play football .When is the penny going to drop with paddy that he isn't funny . The foreigners don't understand our humour and quite frankly neither do I. Our humour is not very subtle, very dark and nearly always at somebody else's expense. Its what other nations call bullying, but in paddyland its called havin the laugh with ya. Is it any wonder that David Mcsavage said that being Irish isn't a nationality , its a mental illness.

Haha, the man who accosts people in Dublin city centre. It's always amusing when Irish people go on about how dreadful and inferior Irish people are... excluding themselves of course.
The English obviously can play football and plenty of Irish people are absolutely hilarious.

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

Self hating gets trotted out a bit too much when home truths are pointed out.

The above is total self-hating though, and a bit too sweeping to be entirely true.

Ash.J.Williams

Enjoyed last weeks switched off this weeks, the gags are lame.

Radio5

Not a lot to get excited about here.

The D4 types and their world have been done much better for years by Paul Howard.

Damo is funny for a short sketch but thats about it.

Like Mario's show, this feels like its struggling to fill in the time.

Frank Lee Midere

Oscar Wilde was a bore. We are fairly funny. The English are funny. Americans not so much in general life.

Frank Lee Midere

I still think its good. Not sure what is needed to make people here like it, probably be produced by Channel 4. It's more or less taken its position on who are the real villain and its not Damo selling his kidney.

Seems like an interesting series arch too.

AnonoBoy

Frank Lee Midere wrote: »

I still think its good. Not sure what is needed to make people here like it

Good gags would work for me.

Naked Lepper

i cant believe i managed to sit through the whole thing
was horrendous
car crash TV, was hard to look away.

Supercon85

Frank Lee Midere wrote: »

Wouldn't you ^want^ to satirise people like this if you could.

It was funny. Hard to believe that damo and Ivor are the same guy. A good comedy by RTE standards. In any case any Irish comedy gets bad reviews on the Internet. If Fr. Ted were Irish only it would be despised.

Utter trash in my opinion.

Ash.J.Williams

I just watched the second half there and thought it was fine. Too wrecked to see it through last night.

Billy86

I haven't seen this, but Boards has always been funny for opinions on Irish TV programmes. I remember I said the first few episodes of Love/Hate were far from brilliant, but a big step up on anything RTE had previously done (or at least in a long while) and showed potential for growth into an actual successful production.

I got turned on by a good few, accusing me of being an 'RTE plant' to promote the "horrendous" show. I sh*t you not! :pac:

Femme_Fatale

Frank Lee Midere wrote: »

I still think its good. Not sure what is needed to make people here like it

So you're saying people should have the same opinion as you?

probably be produced by Channel 4.

That new Channel 4 show The London Irish looks woeful.

Frank Funk

Any idea how many viewers they lost by episode two?

RTE Press office were gloating about the numbers last week but only mentioned Mario's show for comedy Monday this week.

I know ratings are no indication of quality (and RTE blew a lot of public money on advertising this ****) but it would be nice to if there's any hope for Irish taste.

celtic tiger 2011

Frank Funk wrote: »

Any idea how many viewers they lost by episode two?

RTE Press office were gloating about the numbers last week but only mentioned Mario's show for comedy Monday this week.

I know ratings are no indication of quality (and RTE blew a lot of public money on advertising this ****) but it would be nice to if there's any hope for Irish taste.

We know the Irish have no taste, they watch the Republic of Telly and Katherine Lynch for ****s sake . Anything else is just too intellectually challenging for their tiny brains . Its all the fluoridated water they drink, and the fact that most of the poor sods weren't breastfed.

Jumboman

The idea for Damo was ripped off from this character.

Thepones

Watched 10 mins of this and had to turn it off. It was utter crap. I didnt think RTE could surprise me with how bad something they made would be, but they have outdone themselves. Some really annoying things about it for me;

The "posh one" Ivor is a blatant rip off of Ross O Carroll Kelly. Copy and paste. Father has trouble for money laundering of some sort. He lives off his families means. Has little regard for his parents except for money. No regard for authority. Gets drunk a lot etc etc etc etc Even some of his mates have the exact same character names as Ross' mates. The problem here is that it is such a poor imitation of solid comedy character by Paul Howard. Everyone of his characters are unique to each other. Hence you can get involved. The character is terrible, and the acting is even worse.

The "skanger" Damo - is again close to many characters from Paul Howard's books (Ronan - Ross' kid, and his mates). He as well is not a good imitation. He jumps around the screen, says the lines, pulls a face. We have no idea what he cares about. Has a sidekick you dont give two S**TS about....... The only thing i can say for certain is that he wears a tracksuit.

Everything is so thrown-together and half-arsed in the show its just embarrassing. They take one stereotype, smash it against its opposite and hope they find a catchphrase somewhere. There is no reason to laugh. They have no lines, just clichés in really bad accents. They don't really do anything, except say the lines they hope will be a catch phrase. Most of these phrases 80% of the country know by now, so its not groundbreaking or cutting-edge. If you asked a transition year class to give the idea of the show a week, they would get close to this if not surpass it.

Take it off the air, burn all remnants.

skimpydoo

Dempsey wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZJwC_vp-_Q

This music video was the best thing Quirke did. I dunno how he'll pad out this show though. He'll be struggling for material by the end.

The music video above is like the show utter F U C K I N G S H I T E, The amount of money wasted on the show is woeful and I saw in this months Phoenix magazine that Denis Desmond co owns the production company that made the show.

Femme_Fatale

celtic tiger 2011 wrote: »

We know the Irish have no taste, they watch the Republic of Telly and Katherine Lynch for ****s sake . Anything else is just too intellectually challenging for their tiny brains.

Don't be so hard on yourself.

Thepones wrote: »

The "posh one" Ivor is a blatant rip off of Ross O Carroll Kelly. Copy and paste. Father has trouble for money laundering of some sort. He lives off his families means. Has little regard for his parents except for money. No regard for authority. Gets drunk a lot etc etc etc etc Even some of his mates have the exact same character names as Ross' mates. The problem here is that it is such a poor imitation of solid comedy character by Paul Howard. Everyone of his characters are unique to each other. Hence you can get involved. The character is terrible, and the acting is even worse.

The "skanger" Damo - is again close to many characters from Paul Howard's books (Ronan - Ross' kid, and his mates). He as well is not a good imitation. He jumps around the screen, says the lines, pulls a face. We have no idea what he cares about. Has a sidekick you dont give two S**TS about....... The only thing i can say for certain is that he wears a tracksuit.

Everything is so thrown-together and half-arsed in the show its just embarrassing. They take one stereotype, smash it against its opposite and hope they find a catchphrase somewhere. There is no reason to laugh. They have no lines, just clichés in really bad accents. They don't really do anything, except say the lines they hope will be a catch phrase. Most of these phrases 80% of the country know by now, so its not groundbreaking or cutting-edge. If you asked a transition year class to give the idea of the show a week, they would get close to this if not surpass it.

Yep. It's just lazy.

Frank Lee Midere

The show is supposed to be high caraciture. Whining about stereotyping is nonsensical.

I find myself defending a perfectly average show against typical Irish begrudgery. It's not fantastic but its alright. Comedy ffs.

And nobody has copyright on satire. Or caricatures.

Ash.J.Williams

glued to bbc4 last night....they really are leagues ahead of us, maybe rte should focus on science a bit more

AnonoBoy

celtic tiger 2011 wrote: »

It's not fantastic but its alright. Comedy ffs.

It's neither of the first two highlighted things. It is the last highlighted thing but only with the word bad placed in front of it.

To be honest the mocking skangers thing is boring boring boring at this stage. Every two bit sh*tty middle-class stand up in Dublin does it. Why the need to make a f*cking TV show out of it?

*Yawn*

Femme_Fatale

Frank Lee Midere wrote: »

The show is supposed to be high caraciture. Whining about stereotyping is nonsensical.

I don't think people are whining about stereotyping - just that stereotyping "skangers" and "D4 heads" is seriously seriously lacking in originality. Anyone could do it at this stage.

typical Irish begrudgery.

Oh Christ, now there's a phrase deserving of caricature. Why do you think it's "typical Irish begrudgery"? Maybe people just think it's tired and unfunny (as do I) and it's nothing to do with "begrudgery"?

It's not fantastic but its alright.

What a compliment! :pac:
It appears you're expecting people to share your opinion, but lots of people genuinely don't.

chopper6

For some reason i wtched the credits after this show(probably stunned into stupefaction).

It was fundedby a grant from the Irish Cinema Board or something paid for "by the government of ireland".

THIS is what the Govt is wasting the money we're borrowing on....everybody,and i mean everybody connected with the show should be shot.