What happened to Podge and Rodge ?

Cork_chick_94

A couple of years ago Podge and Rodge were everywhere and they were getting something like 500k viewers a week on RTE 2.

rabwaygal

Cork_chick_94 wrote: »

A couple of years ago Podge and Rodge were everywhere and they were getting something like 500k viewers a week on RTE 2.

One went on to be a GAA commentator. The other became our minister for Finance

Tzardine

They stopped being funny.

Sometime around 2004 IIRC

Timberrrrrrrr

Give it a year or two and they'll be representing Ireland in the Eurovision.

endacl

Their audience copped on.

robman60

They both came together and formed Michael D. Higgins.

Macavity.

People realised they weren't actually funny?

Birneybau

They died...

josip

Zig and Zag took them out

Long Gone

Tzardine wrote: »

They stopped being funny.

Sometime around 2004 IIRC

They were funny for a bit longer than that, but in the end they did stop being funny.

They were brilliant in their prime.

Lapin

Rumour has it they are reforming as poster boys for the vote yes to gay marriage campaign.

secman

Playing for united

wobbles

A scare at bedtime was a great show, used to enjoy it every week. Once they got their own chat show it went downhill after that. Season 1 was ok but after that they it died a death.

Fester and Aillen though are still a class act

Lapin

josip wrote: »

Zig and Zag took them out

Which leads us nicely to the inevitable question - What ever happened to Zig and Zag ?

ToddyDoody

Didn't the church have them taken off air or something?

Rothko

Lapin wrote: »

Which leads us nicely to the inevitable question - What ever happened to Zig and Zag ?

They went back to the planet Zog.

4zn76tysfajdxp

wobbles wrote: »

A scare at bedtime was a great show, used to enjoy it every week. Once they got their own chat show it went downhill after that. Season 1 was ok but after that they it died a death.

Fester and Aillen though are still a class act

I used to cringe watching it at how bad it got so quickly. Miserable.

Joe prim

Didn't they get a makeover from Louis Walsh and become Jedward.........which leads inevitably to the question, whatever became of Jedward?

Ted_YNWA

Shoved in a box somewhere.

septictank

Lapin wrote: »

Which leads us nicely to the inevitable question - What ever happened to Zig and Zag ?

Same guys went on to be Podge and Rodge.

Skullface McGubbin

wobbles wrote: »

A scare at bedtime was a great show, used to enjoy it every week. Once they got their own chat show it went downhill after that. Season 1 was ok but after that they it died a death.

Fester and Aillen though are still a class act

Took the words right out of my mouth there. My opinion is the exact same.

DEFTLEFTHAND

You don't see many of that puppet crowd around anymore, for instance is the turkey still on television?

Snotser was always my favourite, being country folk we used to think the inner city Dub accent was hilarious as kids, we didn't realise at the time that people actually spoke like that.

josip

Lapin wrote: »

Which leads us nicely to the inevitable question - What ever happened to Zig and Zag ?

Like Guinness, didn't travel well across water, I think.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

They were vile crude and completely cringe. Didn't find them entertaining at all. Just really crass.

DEFTLEFTHAND

josip wrote: »

Like Guinness, didn't travel well across water, I think.

They weren't too badly received, They spent a good chunk of the 90s appearing on C4s Big Breakfast.

lufties

Joe prim wrote: »

Didn't they get a makeover from Louis Walsh and become Jedward.........which leads inevitably to the question, whatever became of Jedward?

Hopefully they realised that they milked it as much as they could before being forced into hiding.

Schwiiing

'Tis an awful pity that Lucy Kennedy bint wouldn't **** off with them.

dr strangelove

Emigrated to America

Aidric

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Snotser was always my favourite, being country folk we used to think the inner city Dub accent was hilarious as kids, we didn't realise at the time that people actually spoke like that.

Snotser was a helium fiend. Heard he had artistic differences with Ray D'Arcy over the direction The Den was heading in.

lufties

Schwiiing wrote: »

'Tis an awful pity that Lucy Kennedy bint wouldn't **** off with them.

Pain in the hole that wan

porsche959

Operation Yewtree has them under investigation.

kneemos

Like everything vaguely entertaining on RTE it gets screwed up and binned.

Joe prim

lufties wrote: »

Pain in the hole that wan

She was extremely lifelike , in fairness.

Remmy

They went on a mad coke and hooker binge with rosy and jim and crashed the canal boat

thelad95

Whatever happened the ''socky'' chap that used to be on the Den?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-V9Z_XZB-Pcg/ThyrSMeX5ZI/AAAAAAAAAKM/C_kfK77r5zI/s200/socky.GIF

DEFTLEFTHAND

Remmy wrote: »

They went on a mad coke and hooker binge with rosy and jim and crashed the canal boat

The cocaine was supplied by Molly and Rossa Morbeg, biggest dealers in western Europe.

Believe me you don't want to owe money to that pair, two of the most depraved and twisted muthafcukers ever to walk this planet.

Me?

They had species changes and moved to US. One is a rabbit and the other became an alcoholic drug addicted bear.

caustic 1

Hopefully there was a fire in the puppetry department of RTE and they, Zig and Zag and Dustin are now little bundles of ash on the department floor.

TGJD

wobbles wrote: »

A scare at bedtime was a great show, used to enjoy it every week. Once they got their own chat show it went downhill after that. Season 1 was ok but after that they it died a death.

Fester and Aillen though are still a class act

The people of ireland stuck up their free hand, we don't want our porno shop banned.

pow wow

Podge was sinister as f.ck when he was on the Den.

Long Gone

Joe prim wrote: »

She was extremely lifelike , in fairness.

She was extremely lowlife, more like.

NightOfTheHunt

They were certainly a lot funnier than some of the replies here

Molester Stallone II

Me? wrote: »

They had species changes and moved to US. One is a rabbit and the other became an alcoholic drug addicted bear.

Yeah, the Bronx Bunny show was a bit of a laugh alright

AndonHandon

They became the Rubberbandits. RTE just reassigns its people, most young people who get on a tv programme there are friends or family of someone connected to a hirer in RTE.

c_man

I'd totally forgotten about A scare at bedtime. I used to really like that, *off to youtube*

razorblunt

The calibre of guests went downhill big time, but they had some brilliantly random guests on from time to time, the big guy from The Sopranos and bearded guy from The West Wing. Cutting off the McCauls is still,one of the most unexpected, funniest things I've seen on RTE.

Bipolar Joe

Bigger, more important question is, what happened to Sinéad Ni Churnain from DDN? I used to text in every day asking her to marry me.

The Purveyor of Truth

Hopefully they'll do another series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbPPWc-pvs4