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is Mario Rosenstock funny ?

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  • 03-12-2017 05:59PM
    #1
    Phat Dick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 82 ✭✭


    I saw him on the late late show about a week ago and his shtick hasn't changed a bit since about 2003. Is badly mimicking Wee Daniel while dressed as Miriam meant to be funny? Fair play to him tho if he's still about to sell out gigs doing it after all this time.


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    #2
    me_irl
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    It's subjective.

    /thread.


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    barneygumble99
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    I find his Today FM short skits funny but I don't find his shows as funny for some reason. Just don't think they translate as well to a live audience.


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    Allinall
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    Yes.


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    PeterParker957
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    As funny as infected herpes.


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    Pang
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    No.


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    twignme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 359 ✭✭twignme


    No


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    backspin.
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    I'd like to see himself and callan team up for a political satire.


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    TheQuietBeatle
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    He's somebody who manages to constantly get air time despite being unfunny and predictable.


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    mickdw
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    2 minutes on radio is ok but his TV show was terrible.


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    Westernyelp
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    Can not stand listening to him


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    #12
    McMurphy
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    Funny how?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfcy15ZUE2c


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    Arghus
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    There's a bit of funniness in there, but, as usual with most Irish entertainment fixtures, he's spread thin whatever was good about his act and is badly over exposed.


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    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,418 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    To be fair to him, when Gift Grub started he was very funny. However he's become the radio equivalent of The Simpsons - should have given it up a long time before it stopped being consistently funny and turned into a dead horse being flogged with alarming regularity. I saw a bit of his first live show on TV once. I was genuinely embarrassed for the man. Being the porn video booth cleaner in a sex shop would have been a more dignified way to make a living.


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    Noveight
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    I'm sure he's a funny bloke but his knack seems a bit rinse-and-repeat.


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    Sephiroth_dude
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    One of the funnier Irish comedians, when he had his show about two years ago on RTÉ, he did fantastic impression of Christy Moore singing :D, wish I could find the clip of it.

    "The robin in the garden,

    That was me,

    I'm still here, Loving you..

    Until we meet again. "



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    The Rape of Lucretia
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    PeterParker957 wrote: »
    As funny as infected herpes.

    Hitler caught infected herpes from a prostitute. Prompting him to a 13 page rant about herpes in Mein Kampf, as a detour from outlining his political credo. Thats pretty funny.


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    Dr Crayfish
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    I'm delighted to say I don't know anything about him. I may have missed his 15 mins of fame while living abroad. If you want to save yourself from being frequently irritated, just don't turn on Irish TV channels, they are just God awful.


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    freshpopcorn
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    He's funny the odd time but I wouldn't pay to go to see him!


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    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,956 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    He can do some decent impressions but his content is poor.


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    andekwarhola
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    On the basis of what I've seen, I have to admit, he's a very good mimic. Don't really follow enough of his stuff to judge all the content.


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    PowerToWait
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    andekwarhola wrote: »
    On the basis of what I've seen, I have to admit, he's a very good mimic. Don't really follow enough of his stuff to judge all the content.

    He's fairly limited. Not in the same league as Oliver Callan, who also does satire particularly well.


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    Turtyturd
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    He was very funny initially. Think Gift Grub and it’s popularity played a big part in today fm becoming big during the 00’s. Have only seen a few minutes of his tv show but it didn’t look very good. Think as with South Park a lot of the humor might come from being able to take things off so quickly. If there was a big news story you knew there would be a sketch on it the next day. That’s lost on standard tv and with live shows.


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    #24
    Clippett
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    He was funny in about 1997 for about 10 minutes!!! Now it's just regurgitated predictable sh1t.. Don't know how he still gets air time. Ian Dempsey putting on fake laughs to his "skits" is even worse


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    chopperbyrne
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    Most of the Gift Grub radio shorts are good, but his TV work and live shows are rubbish.


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    peckerhead
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    Zaph wrote: »
    Being the porn video booth cleaner in a sex shop would have been a more dignified way to make a living.
    You could say that for many of the jobs going at RTÉ.


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    _Dara_
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    andekwarhola wrote: »
    On the basis of what I've seen, I have to admit, he's a very good mimic. Don't really follow enough of his stuff to judge all the content.

    He is. But... I just don’t really “get” impressionists. They’re so limited. Not for me.


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    Badly Drunk Boy
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    He was great in Glenroe. I mean...I never saw him in Glenroe.


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    #29
    Bob Harris
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    It was funny the first time. Fairly funny the second time. Not that funny the third time and now it's please fúck off with the same shít you've been peddling for 20 years.


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


    I used to love listening to his Gift Grub slot in the morning. Wasn't that bothered with his live show stuff.


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    Colonel_McCoy
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    yes in 2003


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