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Bull Island

  • 26-11-2013 9:58pm
    #1
    sparkthatbled
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 629 ✭✭✭


    Does anyone else miss Bull Island? I know it was a bit hit and miss, but we have so many modern politicians that are ripe for impersonation, as well as a few of the classics from back then...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqn2Ejtmamg


Comments

  • #2
    liam7831
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,819 ✭✭✭liam7831


    No


  • #3
    Skid X
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    It was very similar to what The Mario Rosenstock Show, The Savage Eye and Irish Pictorial Weekly are doing now.

    But one thing Bull Island had going for it was the format, sketch shows tend to work better where they are based around a group of writers and performers, rather than one principal.


  • #4
    celtic tiger 2011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 219 ✭✭celtic tiger 2011


    Like all Irish comedy it was ****e. This country has proven time and time again that it can't produce good comedy.


  • #5
    sparkthatbled
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 629 ✭✭✭sparkthatbled


    Just me then.

    Ah well.

    Say good night, Bertie!








    Eh, good night, Bertie!


  • #6
    Go Harvey Go
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,038 ✭✭✭Go Harvey Go


    celtic tiger 2011 wrote: »
    Like all Irish comedy it was ****e. This country has proven time and time again that it can't produce good comedy.

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  • #7
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,060 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Irish Pictorial weekly is one of the worst comedies Ive ever seen, how much milage have they got out of these sh1tty impersonations of the same few politicians at this stage? They've been basing the same skits on the same people for years now...


  • #8
    FouxDaFaFa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,850 ✭✭✭FouxDaFaFa


    I used to love Bull Island when I was younger, even went to one of the live shows with my Dad. I was oddly interested in politics as a child...


  • #9
    delaad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭delaad


    Trust no one on here is suggesting that Bull Island or Rosenstock are satirical. I doubt there is a politician who hates either, bar maybe Reilly, but then you couldn't be sure...

    Satire diminishes its object, indeed, with all due respects, cuts the ****e out of it and leaves nothing, unlike Bull Island and Rosenstock.

    For satire, try That Was The Week That Was, or Swift's child-eating Drapier's Letters


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