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Unfunny Irish comedians <<MOD note in OP>>

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,585 ✭✭✭Jerichoholic


    Usually if someone is calling someone gay, they 'upgrade' (and no, I don't mean that in actual positive phrasing, just I usually can spot a trend) to using more offensive gay terms, aka the word that also means a bundle of sticks.

    It's what many of them folks start doing in order to try and gain laughs.

    He's far too dumb to do that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Barry Badrinath


    house45 wrote: »
    Has anyone mentioned "Brendan grace" yet ???,

    If you say that again, I'll put your head through the wall!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,585 ✭✭✭Jerichoholic


    There were three of them on the Late Late last night. Nice to see RTE supporting the younger breakout comedians. I'm sure if Maureen Potter was still around she'd have been on it too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,363 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    There were three of them on the Late Late last night. Nice to see RTE supporting the younger breakout comedians. I'm sure if Maureen Potter was still around she'd have been on it too.

    I spotted Brendan Grace (who wasn't looking well-seems like he was coming off of a bad bug, like the one that's going around. You could hear it in his voice).

    Maureen Potter was at least more entertaining than half of the people we've listed in this discussion. She was practically contemporary compared to the likes of Al Porter.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,349 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    house45 wrote: »
    Has anyone mentioned "Brendan grace" yet ???,

    Brendan Grace is from a different era of comedians. He's had lots of good moments. He is a Leonardo De Vinci of comedy when compared to the likes of Andrew Maxwell, Jason Byrne, Niel Delemere and all the rest.


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Brendan Grace is from a different era of comedians. He's had lots of good moments. He is a Leonardo De Vinci of comedy when compared to the likes of Andrew Maxwell, Jason Byrne, Niel Delemere and all the rest.

    Brendan is still doing the same set from his 1988 Irish Tour.

    He's like the Gilbert Gottfried of Irish comedy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,205 ✭✭✭Gringo180


    Dylan Moran is the best Irish comedian out there. Rest are pure ****e.


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Gringo180 wrote: »
    Dylan Moran is the best Irish comedian out there. Rest are pure ****e.

    Would agree, Moran is excellent.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 128 ✭✭JimmyTClarke


    darkdubh wrote: »
    Three words. Noel V Ginnity. Most of the people posting here are probably too young to remember him luckily. He was kidnapped and held to ransom by a Dublin criminal gang in the mid 90s. After he was freed he appeared on the Late Late with Gaybo where he subjected the nation to several of his stand up routines. If theres been an unfunnier so called "comedian" to emerge from Ireland then my names Donald Trump.

    I've never heard of Noel V Ginnity. But from your post, the story surrounding him sounds so bizarre and random that it's funny in itself.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭Johngoose


    Brendan O' Carroll is hugely over-rated and a mult-millionaire.People think it makes them seem intelligent if they say they like Darragh O' Briain. I've been to see Rosenstock and don't think he is as amazing as people make out. To watch PJ Gallagher being interviewed on a talk show is cringeworthy.Pat Shortt was good in The Unbelievables, Killinaskully was sh1t, he is hugely overrated.Shortt is well in with R.T.E., he will regularly appear on the Christmas R.T.E. guide.To watch Shortt being interviewed is painful, cue a lot of his own laughter at his own jokes.In general I'd agree with the consensus that Irish comedians are overrated, overpaid and severely lacking in talent.If you go to a gig of a well known Irish comedian the audience are pathetic,they will literally laugh their arses off at anything the comedian says/does. It's like they say to themselves I've paid €40 for this and I'm going to laugh for the next hour at the "comedian."


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    house45 wrote: »
    Has anyone mentioned "Brendan grace" yet ???,

    Brendan get a pass for his role as Father Fintan Stack.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,363 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Brendan get a pass for his role as Father Fintan Stack.

    I laugh harder every time I hear the phrase 'ya dirty fecker'.

    Every time that line gets funnier to me.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Stonedpilot


    So see Des Bishop and Blindboy on that God awful show of Des's where he tries in vain to be funny on topical issues, interestingly they both said thejournal comments section is the 'gutter'!. Me thinks their massive over inflated ego's of themselves must have been damaged by someone God forbid disagreeing with them. So the show is a topical opinionated show but when someone else has one they really don't like it!?!

    This nonsense of these two clowns trying in vain to be intellectual and funny is awful. Neither are funny or intelligent, just non stop grandstanding of their own self indulgent opinions. Really insane how people WILLINGLY pay TV licenses for such muck.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭ligerdub


    Agreed completely, it's so rampant on RTE now too.

    A post I made on another thread:

    I see that Blindboy Boatface was on TV again tonight. He was giving a spiel on "post-truth" being the word of the year and what it means. To me it is the absolute peak of how low rent the sorts that were on the wrong side of the major votes this year are. It's described as a sense of "the facts don't matter", what a load of bollox! The extremely thinly veiled story here is that "we know the reality, the idiots voted on lies, we're better than you". It just couldn't be any other reason could it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Stonedpilot


    ligerdub wrote: »
    Agreed completely, it's so rampant on RTE now too.

    A post I made on another thread:

    I see that Blindboy Boatface was on TV again tonight. He was giving a spiel on "post-truth" being the word of the year and what it means. To me it is the absolute peak of how low rent the sorts that were on the wrong side of the major votes this year are. It's described as a sense of "the facts don't matter", what a load of bollox! The extremely thinly veiled story here is that "we know the reality, the idiots voted on lies, we're better than you". It just couldn't be any other reason could it.

    Whatever happened to people simply being funny, good point. American comedian Greg Morton, very funny guy makes the mundane hilarious. Now in Ireland we have these self indulgent ignoramuses like Bishop trying to push his own opinions (and those of RTE, he is on RTE remember) as gospel. The sad thing is I see audiences whooping for this crap on these shows, have to remind myself they must(have!) be drunk as no way could a sober person find such meaningless rhetoric funny.
    Blindboy pushing the 'Aren't I a profound witty academic sthick hard'
    Sorry pal you ain't. Least you aren't as bad as Bishop but hey, cancerous tumours are funnier than that lad.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,363 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Don't get me wrong-I like funny people, I do-but when they start making themselves the 'height' of intelligence, you're in trouble. George Carlin could do that, but even he got it very wrong on occassion.
    Too many comedians do that-far too many. The insult thrown at the 'comments' section of the Journal-really? Really Des and BBBC? The commenters on that site (I know, I've left a few of my own) are often the one's who can see clearly through the total BS him and his ilk put out in the media(I speak of others, mind-I'm not as intelligent as some on there-seriously, no sarcasm intended). If someone has an opinion, that is well informed, then challenge that, look it up-if it's complete BS, grand, call em out-if it isn't, then let it stand. Debate is a good thing, too many soft skinned people can't even answer a question without being offended.
    As the great Steve Hughes would say (criminally underrated comedian-absolutely great) 'if you're offended-then fine, be offended'. But Des can't be offended-or he'll cry. He needs to be called out on his unfunny histrionics.

    Tommy Tiernan even took a swing at him-saying that watcing Des on Dancing with the Stars will be like watching 'a friend going through a nervous breakdown' and that it was 'an awful day for IRish comedy'. I can't really disagree, but I think sometime long ago it was an awful day for Des-he stopped being funny.

    Blindboy-oh dear. Like, he's the guy saying that in order to cure depression, 'men need to embrace feminism' with such delightful idiocy as the whole thing of 'if you have a problem with a woman paying for food, you've a problem-you need to let a woman take care of you'. Ummm, no, because that's what our mom's did. So trying to push an outdated ideology, which is what feminism has come to be, is not going to help mental health issues.
    Mental illness is a complex, and challenging, condition. Both for the sufferer and those treating the illness. You cannot just claim it can be cured or treated by a change of mindset. That's precisely the heart of the condition, as well as brain and chemical disorders. IT requires a whole host of treatments.
    Just stick to making jokes, and being comedic-don't try and push potentially dangerous opinions. And when discussing mental illness, that's what too many opinions are.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,203 ✭✭✭Parchment


    Skommando wrote: »
    Might be a much shorter thread if we listed the funny ones, are there any ?

    Dylan Moran - he is excellent.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Jason Byrne: 20 odd years of talking about his childhood and all the crazy shenanigans his Da, Ma, and bro and sis got up to. You're heading for 50 ffs. Get some new material, and try make it borderline funny too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,363 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Agricola wrote: »
    Jason Byrne: 20 odd years of talking about his childhood and all the crazy shenanigans his Da, Ma, and bro and sis got up to. You're heading for 50 ffs. Get some new material, and try make it borderline funny too.

    Tommy Tiernan too-the same stuff about school and other crud. We have far too many 'man baby' so-called comedians.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭MadDog76


    So see Des Bishop and Blindboy on that God awful show of Des's where he tries in vain to be funny on topical issues, interestingly they both said thejournal comments section is the 'gutter'!. Me thinks their massive over inflated ego's of themselves must have been damaged by someone God forbid disagreeing with them. So the show is a topical opinionated show but when someone else has one they really don't like it!?!

    This nonsense of these two clowns trying in vain to be intellectual and funny is awful. Neither are funny or intelligent, just non stop grandstanding of their own self indulgent opinions. Really insane how people WILLINGLY pay TV licenses for such muck.

    How long did you watch it before you realised you didn't want to watch it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Tommy Tiernan


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭Dannyriver


    Don't get me wrong-I like funny people, I do-but when they start making themselves the 'height' of intelligence, you're in trouble. George Carlin could do that, but even he got it very wrong on occassion.
    Too many comedians do that-far too many. The insult thrown at the 'comments' section of the Journal-really? Really Des and BBBC? The commenters on that site (I know, I've left a few of my own) are often the one's who can see clearly through the total BS him and his ilk put out in the media(I speak of others, mind-I'm not as intelligent as some on there-seriously, no sarcasm intended). If someone has an opinion, that is well informed, then challenge that, look it up-if it's complete BS, grand, call em out-if it isn't, then let it stand. Debate is a good thing, too many soft skinned people can't even answer a question without being offended.
    As the great Steve Hughes would say (criminally underrated comedian-absolutely great) 'if you're offended-then fine, be offended'. But Des can't be offended-or he'll cry. He needs to be called out on his unfunny histrionics.

    Tommy Tiernan even took a swing at him-saying that watcing Des on Dancing with the Stars will be like watching 'a friend going through a nervous breakdown' and that it was 'an awful day for IRish comedy'. I can't really disagree, but I think sometime long ago it was an awful day for Des-he stopped being funny.

    Blindboy-oh dear. Like, he's the guy saying that in order to cure depression, 'men need to embrace feminism' with such delightful idiocy as the whole thing of 'if you have a problem with a woman paying for food, you've a problem-you need to let a woman take care of you'. Ummm, no, because that's what our mom's did. So trying to push an outdated ideology, which is what feminism has come to be, is not going to help mental health issues.
    Mental illness is a complex, and challenging, condition. Both for the sufferer and those treating the illness. You cannot just claim it can be cured or treated by a change of mindset. That's precisely the heart of the condition, as well as brain and chemical disorders. IT requires a whole host of treatments.
    Just stick to making jokes, and being comedic-don't try and push potentially dangerous opinions. And when discussing mental illness, that's what too many opinions are.

    Blindboy didn t say that feminism was going to cure mental illness did he? Link please


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭ligerdub


    Not far off.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭Dannyriver


    ligerdub wrote: »
    Not far off.

    Did he or didn t he?


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭ligerdub


    I'm not going to be trapped by semantics over the word "cure".


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭Dannyriver


    ligerdub wrote: »
    I'm not going to be trapped by semantics over the word "cure".

    Like, he's the guy saying that in order to cure depression, 'men need to embrace feminism' with such delightful idiocy

    You wrote it not me besides nobody s trying to trap you at all. I'm interested to know how you interpreted what he said about feminism and how you can stand over the above statement, That s all.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭ligerdub


    Wasn't me chief!

    I suggest you watch the clip though.


  • Registered Users Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Joe prim


    That lad Dobson, on the topical comedy show at 6 on RTE, as funny as diverticulitis, and as for his "straight woman", Sherrrawwwwnn Knee Byollllawwwwnn, absolutely rancid, if this is RTE's notion of comedy, I want my licence money back, if I've paid it, I'm not sure. Though, in fairness, the little sequences of "sport" with "Martee Morrrisssseee" can be hilarious.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭Dannyriver


    ligerdub wrote: »
    Wasn't me chief!

    I suggest you watch the clip though.

    Apologies for attributing that to you. I ve watched the clip that s why I m waiting for a response from the original poster of that remark.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,363 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWUDQdiFB7A

    I'm none too happy with any comment being referred to with 'such delightful idiocy'. I did my research, I watched the clip, I took notes.

    He states-a lot of the mental health issues that are happening to young men are down to them not embracing feminism, and the notion of 'oh, I have to provide and protect her' and 'let her pay for a meal' and that will sort it out.

    This is his full quote.

    'I personally think that what these young men need is feminism – because when I’m down in Limerick speaking to lads that I know who are suffering from mental health issues, when I actually speak to them and get to the core of ‘what’s bothering you man?’ what they always say to me is ‘I have nothing to offer a woman’.
    The fact of the matter is that is a patriarchal attitude that is no longer relevant to us in the 21st Century.'

    Well, that is just is a really misguided view of mental illness. Especially from someone highly educated like BBBC is. He's got a MAsters in Social Practice and the Creative Environment.
    If someone, male or female, has mental health problems-see a GP, see a counsellor, contact anyone you trust be it a parent or whoever. Just someone, anyone, to help. But Feminism is not gonna help you out with your mental health.

    His 'embracing' of feminism is, in my opinion, the equivalent of 'thinking yourself no longer depressed'...well, no, that's like thinking yourself no longer diabetic, no longer alcoholic, no longer with a broken arm.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Stonedpilot


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWUDQdiFB7A

    I'm none too happy with any comment being referred to with 'such delightful idiocy'. I did my research, I watched the clip, I took notes.

    He states-a lot of the mental health issues that are happening to young men are down to them not embracing feminism, and the notion of 'oh, I have to provide and protect her' and 'let her pay for a meal' and that will sort it out.

    This is his full quote.

    'I personally think that what these young men need is feminism – because when I’m down in Limerick speaking to lads that I know who are suffering from mental health issues, when I actually speak to them and get to the core of ‘what’s bothering you man?’ what they always say to me is ‘I have nothing to offer a woman’.
    The fact of the matter is that is a patriarchal attitude that is no longer relevant to us in the 21st Century.'

    Well, that is just is a really misguided view of mental illness. Especially from someone highly educated like BBBC is. He's got a MAsters in Social Practice and the Creative Environment.
    If someone, male or female, has mental health problems-see a GP, see a counsellor, contact anyone you trust be it a parent or whoever. Just someone, anyone, to help. But Feminism is not gonna help you out with your mental health.

    His 'embracing' of feminism is, in my opinion, the equivalent of 'thinking yourself no longer depressed'...well, no, that's like thinking yourself no longer diabetic, no longer alcoholic, no longer with a broken arm.


    Good post stupid point by a guy trying to be profound but was foolish and shallow showing tunnel vision.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭Dannyriver


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWUDQdiFB7A

    I'm none too happy with any comment being referred to with 'such delightful idiocy'. I did my research, I watched the clip, I took notes.

    He states-a lot of the mental health issues that are happening to young men are down to them not embracing feminism, and the notion of 'oh, I have to provide and protect her' and 'let her pay for a meal' and that will sort it out.

    This is his full quote.

    'I personally think that what these young men need is feminism – because when I’m down in Limerick speaking to lads that I know who are suffering from mental health issues, when I actually speak to them and get to the core of ‘what’s bothering you man?’ what they always say to me is ‘I have nothing to offer a woman’.
    The fact of the matter is that is a patriarchal attitude that is no longer relevant to us in the 21st Century.'

    Well, that is just is a really misguided view of mental illness. Especially from someone highly educated like BBBC is. He's got a MAsters in Social Practice and the Creative Environment.
    If someone, male or female, has mental health problems-see a GP, see a counsellor, contact anyone you trust be it a parent or whoever. Just someone, anyone, to help. But Feminism is not gonna help you out with your mental health.

    His 'embracing' of feminism is, in my opinion, the equivalent of 'thinking yourself no longer depressed'...well, no, that's like thinking yourself no longer diabetic, no longer alcoholic, no longer with a broken arm.

    Do you really think that BBBC believes that to embrace feminism is the answer to mental health problems. Seriously? The message he was giving re feminism was to men who still have patriarchal view whereby they must be the sole provider or bread winner and that this belief is no longer relevant and they should embrace the equality which feminism in its truest form stands for. In my opinion thats a Simple sensible point.... don't live your life by societa/gender rules and expectations.

    At no stage did he say this was the only cause of mental health issues but that having patriarchal beliefs contributed to the problems the lads he spoke with had. He also didn t say that people with mental health issues shouldn't talk to their GP etc but I ve heard him numerous times speaking of his own issues with anxiety and how CBT and counselling were what helped him and encoraged others to do the same. I think if he d used the word equality or gender expectations rather than feminism it wouldn t have triggered so many people, the point is sound, and Id add parental expectations or peer expectations and any other expectation that pressurizes anyone into 'having' to become someone or something before they re entitled to feel worthy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,363 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    That's what's been ascribed to the quote, and yes, I believe that he does. He has a limited amount of screen time on RTE, he knows how to do soundbites and how to get a message across in 10 minutes or an hour, as he has with other shows and songs.
    I understand the idea of societal strucutures, but that is equally affecting both men and women-for different reasons. I sincerely believe there is an equal amount of mental health problems amongst both men and women. In my lifetime, I have seen an equal amount of suicides amongst both men and women, both successful suicides, and attempted suicides. (I hate using the term successful, I sincerely do).

    His language, 'get to the core' can be interpreted as 'the main problem'. So yes, I believe he does ascribe it to one reason. As do quite many, as the dislike to like ratio on that video is quite a bit higher in the 'dislike' ratio.

    (Forgive me here, I'm going on a tangent, but it's something I see happening with RTE too often, and I am growing tired of it)

    And RTE publicising it in such a manner, is another issue I have-there have been repeated 'band aid's' by RTE when it comes to this sort of thing. First, Donal Walsh-the tragic teen diagnosed with terminal cancer aged just 16. RTE promoted him as this 'saviour' to kids with depression, urging them to seek help. He died, they kept pushing this message, and then a Galway hurler named Niall Donohue, aged just 22, took his own life. And the media barely covered it-the reason, I feel, is because they wanted to keep pushing the message of Walsh. And it was a nice message, it really was-but it was the message of a 16 year old boy, not a clinical trained psychologist or psychiatrist.
    Instead of saying 'depression is different for everybody' we instead get the 'blanket statement/ blanket cure'.
    And folks didn't want to look into the reasons why a young, physically healthy young man would take his own life-instead, we get the band aid.

    Ray D'Arcy has been admonished three times for comments on the abortion/ termination debate-yet when it comes to mental illness, RTE have been significantly worse in terms of their distribution of this idea.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭Dannyriver


    That's what's been ascribed to the quote, and yes, I believe that he does. He has a limited amount of screen time on RTE, he knows how to do soundbites and how to get a message across in 10 minutes or an hour, as he has with other shows and songs.
    I understand the idea of societal strucutures, but that is equally affecting both men and women-for different reasons. I sincerely believe there is an equal amount of mental health problems amongst both men and women. In my lifetime, I have seen an equal amount of suicides amongst both men and women, both successful suicides, and attempted suicides. (I hate using the term successful, I sincerely do).

    His language, 'get to the core' can be interpreted as 'the main problem'. So yes, I believe he does ascribe it to one reason. As do quite many, as the dislike to like ratio on that video is quite a bit higher in the 'dislike' ratio.

    (Forgive me here, I'm going on a tangent, but it's something I see happening with RTE too often, and I am growing tired of it)

    And RTE publicising it in such a manner, is another issue I have-there have been repeated 'band aid's' by RTE when it comes to this sort of thing. First, Donal Walsh-the tragic teen diagnosed with terminal cancer aged just 16. RTE promoted him as this 'saviour' to kids with depression, urging them to seek help. He died, they kept pushing this message, and then a Galway hurler named Niall Donohue, aged just 22, took his own life. And the media barely covered it-the reason, I feel, is because they wanted to keep pushing the message of Walsh. And it was a nice message, it really was-but it was the message of a 16 year old boy, not a clinical trained psychologist or psychiatrist.
    Instead of saying 'depression is different for everybody' we instead get the 'blanket statement/ blanket cure'.
    And folks didn't want to look into the reasons why a young, physically healthy young man would take his own life-instead, we get the band aid.

    Ray D'Arcy has been admonished three times for comments on the abortion/ termination debate-yet when it comes to mental illness, RTE have been significantly worse in terms of their distribution of this idea.

    Mental health has never been dealt with well by society or its institutions governments traditionally prefer to keep it in the family and or community rather than being proactive on a national level due to the resources that would entail.Even though research suggests a population with superior mental health would save the state in the long run.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 566 ✭✭✭Rainman16


    Brendan Grace is awful. He's been doing the same lame, unfunny act since the 90's.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,363 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Rainman16 wrote: »
    Brendan Grace is awful. He's been doing the same lame, unfunny act since the 90's.

    And he steals jokes too-which always ticks me off-the 'famous' Rodney Dangerfield joke about 'I'm afraid to go to the toilet' I once heard him steal.

    It's just lame.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    Rainman16 wrote: »
    Brendan Grace is awful. He's been doing the same lame, unfunny act since the 90's.

    He's from that generation of comedians where it was considered normal to recycle the same material for years. Niall Toibin is the same. A great comic actor and racontour mind you but I remember RTE showed a standup show by him circa 1986/87 and again in mid 00's and the material was a good 80% the same despite the two shows being filmed twenty years apart.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Stonedpilot


    darkdubh wrote: »
    He's from that generation of comedians where it was considered normal to recycle the same material for years. Niall Toibin is the same. A great comic actor and racontour mind you but I remember RTE showed a standup show by him circa 1986/87 and again in mid 00's and the material was a good 80% the same despite the two shows being filmed twenty years apart.

    Niall funnier than 90% of the hacks on rte. At least he had talent and wit.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Stonedpilot


    Like Tiernan been recyling the same ould garbage since year dot , Tobin had wit and subtley. Tiernan too busy laughing at his own jokes to ever understand that nuance and subtlety helps make comedy. The office proved this well.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,593 ✭✭✭Wheeliebin30


    Like Tiernan been recyling the same ould garbage since year dot , Tobin had wit and subtley. Tiernan too busy laughing at his own jokes to ever understand that nuance and subtlety helps make comedy. The office proved this well.

    Amazing he has sold out 20 shows this Xmas in vicar Street alone if he's so bad.

    Either love him or hate him, personally I think he is a genius comedian.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    Niall funnier than 90% of the hacks on rte. At least he had talent and wit.

    Tobin is a cabaret journeyman, its just his condescending persona convinced the peasants in the 80s that he was some sort of society wit who was just slumming it


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Stonedpilot


    Amazing he has sold out 20 shows this Xmas in vicar Street alone if he's so bad.

    Either love him or hate him, personally I think he is a genius comedian.

    No accouting for bad taste in people. McDonalds and Subway two biggest franchises in the the World. Utter mass produced chemical riddled gunk the food.Tiernan Mcdonalds of comedy in a Way.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,593 ✭✭✭Wheeliebin30


    No accouting for bad taste in people. McDonalds and Subway two biggest franchises in the the World. Utter mass produced chemical riddled gunk the food.Tiernan Mcdonalds of comedy in a Way.

    In your opinion.

    You think you have the only valid opinion in your small head.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Stonedpilot


    In your opinion.

    You think you have the only valid opinion in your small head.

    Ah come on now Tommy dont take it personally.
    The small head is a very rare medical condition you wouldnt joke about that would you?Use someones misfortune and illness against them?
    Oh on second thoughts erm.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,475 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    No accouting for bad taste in people. McDonalds and Subway two biggest franchises in the the World. Utter mass produced chemical riddled gunk the food.Tiernan Mcdonalds of comedy in a Way.

    Exactly and misses Browns boys is very popular for some unknown reason.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,363 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    pgj2015 wrote: »
    Exactly and misses Browns boys is very popular for some unknown reason.

    And when the movie was such a success-I could not believe it. That was crazy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    pgj2015 wrote: »
    Exactly and misses Browns boys is very popular for some unknown reason.

    Do you miss them a lot :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,585 ✭✭✭Jerichoholic


    The Commitments was a comedy right? Saw it earlier and it was the most embarrassing thing I've seen years.

    Horrendous.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,758 ✭✭✭el diablo


    The Commitments was a comedy right? Saw it earlier and it was the most embarrassing thing I've seen years.

    Horrendous.

    The Commitments is a classic. One of the best Irish movies ever. ;)

    We're all in this psy-op together.🤨



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,585 ✭✭✭Jerichoholic


    el diablo wrote: »
    The Commitments is a classic. One of the best Irish movies ever. ;)

    It's as good as this?



    My God it's bad.


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