London Irish (Channel 4)

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Channel 4′s newest comedy series London Irish will premiere on Tuesday September 24th at 10pm.
Created by Lisa McGee, London Irish follows this group of four friends who find it’s not easy navigating their way through London life, particularly when they’re too drunk to know where they’re going, or remember where they’ve been. If there had been a plan, it wouldn’t have been this. They have **** jobs, no money, and are surrounded by English people. In fact there’s only one thing worse than living in London with the English. And that’s living in Ireland with the Irish. That doesn’t even bear thinking about. The comedy series is being produced by Company Pictures and stars Kerr Logan, Peter Campion, Sinéad Keenan, Ardal O’Hanlon, Kat Reagan and Tracey Lynch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaeo-P0fCMQ

Basq

After seeing Jason Byrne and Brendan O Carroll's efforts.. that doesn't look too bad tbh!

Although Sinead Keenan's accent is very dodgy!

spank_inferno

So lots of drink related stereotyping then?

mike65

Bump, its on tonight at 10 pm, the guardian preview was damning.

efb

Give it a go.

Skid X

30 seconds gone, and I'm finding it hard to listed to those accents.

efb

This is awful pish

evilivor

efb wrote: »

This is awful pish

Shocking.

Skid X

It's like the rubbish BBC Northern Ireland love to show when the rest of the UK is enjoying something decent.

Merkin

Should be London Norn Irish......BIG fcuking difference. It's made my eyes and ears bleed, deliberately avoid Norn Irish people and their whining whinging at every opportunity so definitely won't be listening or watching them for leisure.

Patty O Furniture

FFS, it's like that well known show with Bronagh Whatsername
Where's yer one armed man from, i know his face from somewhere?

Skid X

Patty O Furniture wrote: »

FFS, it's like that well known show with Bronagh Whatsername
Where's yer one armed man from, i know his face from somewhere?

He did ads for UTV Broadband for years, that might be it!

Merkin

This is an absolute disgrace and I really don't like its misleading title. So one of the characters had his hand shot off with a gun during the Troubles and they use sterling in their home country? And now they're dissing someone because they happen to be Protestant?? Very Irish alright :rolleyes:

Skid X

That might be the worst programme Sinead Keenan has ever done.

And she was in The Cassidys.

Frito

That was painful.

SpaceTime

Terrible and playing up the NI stereotypes big time.

Should definitely be London Northern Irish

LowOdour

Saw last 10 minutes of that....awful...just terrible stuff. Larry David used the word C*nt, and made it funny. It was said 3 times in the 10 min of London Irish i watched...for cheap laughs i guess but didnt work. vulgar for the sake of it isnt humour

DEFTLEFTHAND

Painful.

colinod0806

I enjoyed it. Far from perfect but showed promise. I like the lads but the girls were a bit annoying.
I'll tune in again and see how it goes.

fryup

surely this is 20 yrs too late??

its no big deal being irish in the uk anymore, now that the troubles are over

Lapin

Sorry to be crude but that was fúcking dreadful shíte.

P_1

I see the title is as misleading as the rugby team of the same name so...

Karl Stein

Merkin wrote: »

deliberately avoid Norn Irish people and their whining whinging at every opportunity so definitely won't be listening or watching them for leisure.

Does your vile attitude stop exactly at the border or does your bile spill across it into Donegal, Monaghan and Cavan?

bobbygrant

I cant believe C4 commissioned this rubbish. Unfunny from start to finish, bad comedy acting and stereotypical characters, the whole thing was just dire.

MonkstownHoop

presumed this was going to be some sort of documentary, very disappointed

Merkin

Charlie Rock wrote: »

Does your vile attitude stop exactly at the border or does your bile spill across it into Donegal, Monaghan and Cavan?

When exactly did Donegal, Monaghan or Cavan become part of the six counties, have I missed something?

Happyman42

I'm praying on my knees to whoever will listen that nobody rings Joe about this and draw attention to it. Hopefully it will disappear without a trace like so many disastrous and ill concieved 'comedy' choices. The art of commissioning is in decline I fear.

Karl Stein

Merkin wrote: »

When exactly did Donegal, Monaghan or Cavan become part of the six counties, have I missed something?

So your vile attitude does stop exactly at the border then?

Merkin

Charlie Rock wrote: »

So your vile attitude does stop exactly at the border then?

Yes, and?

Karl Stein

Merkin wrote: »

Yes, and?

Oh, you're a sucker for punishment you are?

Allow me to expose how patently stupid your statement is. See this image below, yeah? Well that's Ireland. See the border there? No. Yep, that's because it's a political boundary and is thus a figment of our imaginations. It doesn't exist in the real world - it can't be seen from the air and you won't find a big line under the fields and rivers.

Now when you've digested this you might realise that the human beings who live on one side of the imaginary line, and indeed cross it routinely, are pretty much identical to the ones on the other side.



Do you understand what I'm saying here? Or would you like to keep digging?

Merkin

Lol.They're an entirely different spieces as was clearly demonstrated on tonights travesty of a show. Ouch for you, obviously hit a wee nurve there....

Karl Stein

Merkin wrote: »

They're an entirely different spieces

I'm sure you're aware that we're all the same species. Granted, some of us have very poor reasoning skills and nasty attitudes and thus appear a little 'different'.

Cool_CM

Skid X wrote: »

It's like the rubbish BBC Northern Ireland love to show when the rest of the UK is enjoying something decent.

I thought that Give My Head Peace was a good laugh. Have never met anybody else besides my brother who thought the same though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqrLd5PNC5M

Happyman42

Merkin wrote: »

Lol.They're an entirely different spieces as was clearly demonstrated on tonights travesty of a show. Ouch for you, obviously hit a wee nurve there....

Channel 4 and the BBC are hiring new commissioning editors; 'must be able to generalise and stereotype for the delectation of the similarly afflicted. The intelligent need not apply'.

Knock yourself out!

Pepe LeFrits

Charlie Rock wrote: »

Oh, you're a sucker for punishment you are?

Allow me to expose how patently stupid your statement is. See this image below, yeah? Well that's Ireland. See the border there?

No. Yep, that's because it's a political boundary and is thus a figment of our imaginations. It doesn't exist in the real world - it can't be seen from the air and you won't find a big line under the fields and rivers.

It can be seen in the photo you posted though :pac:

evilivor

Charlie Rock wrote: »

Oh, you're a sucker for punishment you are?

Allow me to expose how patently stupid your statement is. See this image below, yeah? Well that's Ireland. See the border there? No. Yep, that's because it's a political boundary and is thus a figment of our imaginations. It doesn't exist in the real world - it can't be seen from the air and you won't find a big line under the fields and rivers.

Now when you've digested this you might realise that the human beings who live on one side of the imaginary line, and indeed cross it routinely, are pretty much identical to the ones on the other side.

The border is quite clearly illustrated in that photo.

AnonoBoy

evilivor wrote: »

The border is quite clearly illustrated in that photo.

That is hilarious.

Of all the pictures to select to illustrate your point! :pac:

irritablebaz

confusing and disappointing, i watched it for the first time last night hoping to see some subtle witty humour based on the difference in ireland and england.

instead we got a confusing group from norn iron who seemed over reliant on the c word for any humour. also the stereotype english fella named tyson had me cringing ta fck.

dd972

Absolute pish, there aren't even any English people in London anyway so not realistic from that angle.

chucksandstorm

Brendan O'Carroll has a lot to answer for.

SpaceTime

Looking at it right now here in north Leitrim. Big black line painted across the fields

briany

AnonoBoy wrote: »

That is hilarious.

Of all the pictures to select to illustrate your point! :pac:

That awkward moment when you post a picture that completely refutes the point you were trying to make.....

Karl Stein

evilivor wrote: »

The border is quite clearly illustrated in that photo.

Fair catch. I pulled the wrong image from a search. Sorted now.

Crooked Jack

I thought this showed promise.
The writing was quite good but it was badly let down by some awful acting. I really dont get what the deal with the accents is. Why cant they just let them talk the way they talk?
Apart from that though I thought it definitely had potential.

Although nothing they did on the show was as funny as Merkin is being in this thread.
It's like watching a big, dumb dinosaur from a bygone age stomping around all angry and confused because it doesn't understand the new world

jcsoulinger

this is starting to grow on me, once ya get past the accents its not that bad, its allot better than most TV comedy's at the moment.

Crooked Jack

jcsoulinger wrote: »

this is starting to grow on me, once ya get past the accents its not that bad, its allot better than most TV comedy's at the moment.

Definitely. the weird one is the only one who i find hard to watch, he's very awkward. i really like this show, dont get the flak its gettin

jcsoulinger

Crooked Jack wrote: »

Definitely. the weird one is the only one who i find hard to watch, he's very awkward. i really like this show, dont get the flak its gettin

I suppose its easier to criticize.
The first episode was only OK but I tought tonights was very fcukin funny.

Crooked Jack

jcsoulinger wrote: »

I suppose its easier to criticize.
The first episode was only OK but I tought tonights was very fcukin funny.

I thought last night's episode also really showed up the media response to the show. Last week they were getting their panties in a twist because apparently this week's episode contained "references to paedophilia and necrophilia." Sure you can make any comedy sound awful if you begin dissecting it with a big serious head on ya. Really looking forward to next week's show.
It actually kind of reminds me of The IT Crowd, not in terms of content, but when it came out first the initial reaction wasn't favourable and now it's considered a classic.

Basq

First episode was horrific, but second episode had it's moments.

Very crude but there's definitely something there!

paulbok

Patty O Furniture wrote: »

FFS, it's like that well known show with Bronagh Whatsername
Where's yer one armed man from, i know his face from somewhere?

He was in Man About Dog and Custers last stand up years ago.

Awful, awful program, makes threesome look like award winning comedy.

markomuscle

Merkin wrote: »

Should be London Norn Irish......BIG fcuking difference. It's made my eyes and ears bleed, deliberately avoid Norn Irish people and their whining whinging at every opportunity so definitely won't be listening or watching them for leisure.

so if they were from Donegal you would think the same? maybe you should stay away from UK television in the future since you seem to have a problem with northerners