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What would Dermot Morgan have made of Ireland in 2018?

  • 15-07-2018 10:14PM
    #1
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,227 ✭✭✭✭


    Mahon Tribunal, Irish Water, Tuam Babies, Banking Crisis, Housing Boom and Bust, Ray D’Arcy...

    Sounds like the Irish version of ‘We Didn’t Start The Fire’ :D

    But what would Dermot have made of Ireland today?




    Careful now.


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  • #2
    Mutant z
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Mutant z


    The lack of decent comedy on RTE would be right up there.


  • #3
    gandalf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,457 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    A good living from satirical comedy given the abundance of material...


  • #4
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Wouldn’t have given DOB the easy ride he’s enjoyed


  • #5
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,736 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    gandalf wrote: »
    A good living from satirical comedy given the abundance of material...

    I've just noticed, he was (just about) still alive when you first joined Boards.


  • #6
    Hector Bellend
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    who gives a hairy rats ass?


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  • #7
    umop episdn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 603 ✭✭✭umop episdn


    Mutant z wrote: »
    The lack of decent comedy on RTE would be right up there.

    There wasn't any either while he was still alive


  • #8
    LeinsterDub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,229 ✭✭✭LeinsterDub


    A great bunch of lads


  • #9
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    I have no idea what his reaction to events that were happening while he was alive were. It's not like Father Ted is full of social commentary about the mid to late nineties aside from making fun of priests and the odd joke about Blur and Oasis or Radiohead.


  • #10
    dudara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    His stuff on Scrap Saturday was pretty good. Don’t think there’s anyone of similar calibre out there right now


  • #11
    Jennehy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 155 ✭✭Jennehy


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Wouldn’t have given DOB the easy ride he’s enjoyed

    Rather sad impersonating someone is it not?


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  • #12
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,736 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    Hector Bellend wrote: »
    who gives a hairy rats ass?

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


  • #13
    Jennehy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 155 ✭✭Jennehy


    Hapax Legomenon wrote: »
    If you ever say that again, I'll put your head through the wall.

    You couldn’t open a window never mind anything else.


  • #14
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Cowboys, Ted! They're a bunch of cowboys!


  • #15
    Sal Butamol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 523 ✭✭✭Sal Butamol


    He'd have another massive heart attack


  • #16
    _Dara_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    I dunno. IMO, people do lose their edge as they get into middle age. I think his material would have become less potent as time went on.


  • #17
    jaxxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,225 ✭✭✭jaxxx


    This:

    carefulnow.jpg


  • #18
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Watch his standup.

    He was brutal. Unfunny and cringeworthy at times.


    He was a good comedic actor, when reading another person's lines.


  • #19
    Uncharted
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭Uncharted


    ^^^^ this x 100.

    Fantastic script actor.
    Below average comedian.
    Woeful at ad lib.

    I think people thought he was funnier than he was, because of the small talent pool at the time. Big fish,small pond.


  • #20
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    dudara wrote: »
    His stuff on Scrap Saturday was pretty good. Don’t think there’s anyone of similar calibre out there right now

    Some of the writing was patchy enough and the impressions often dipped to pub lounge level.

    It hasn't dated well.


  • #21
    Ri_Nollaig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,297 ✭✭✭Ri_Nollaig


    Uncharted wrote: »

    I think people thought he was funnier than he was, because of the small talent pool at the time. Big fish,small pond.

    I think there is also some who give him more credit than deserved and assume he created and wrote Father Ted.


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  • #22
    Jack Moore
    Closed Accounts Posts: 775 ✭✭✭Jack Moore


    Ri_Nollaig wrote: »
    I think there is also some who give him more credit than deserved and assume he created and wrote Father Ted.

    He created father trendy


  • #23
    Steve F
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Steve F


    This!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEvUt2kUg0c


  • #24
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Steve F wrote: »
    This!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEvUt2kUg0c

    oh, f****** h***!


  • #25
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,266 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Says a lot about the dearth of recent good comedy when lines are still quoted from a show that's 20 years old.


  • #26
    Steve F
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Steve F


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Says a lot about the dearth of recent good comedy when lines are still quoted from a show that's 20 years old.

    ...and are still as funny as f+++! :D


  • #27
    Sal Butamol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 523 ✭✭✭Sal Butamol


    Its amazing Graham Linehan was involved given that he is an angry, petulant, whinging crybaby. And a hypocrite bullyboy. Can't be said enough.


  • #28
    professore
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,849 ✭✭✭professore


    You mean like Amy Schumer?

    IMG_5483.jpg


  • #29
    umop episdn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 603 ✭✭✭umop episdn


    Sal Butamol wrote: »
    Its amazing Graham Linehan was involved given that he is an angry, petulant, whinging crybaby. And a hypocrite bullyboy. Can't be said enough.

    Only if one is a twitter snowflake


  • #30
    Ri_Nollaig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,297 ✭✭✭Ri_Nollaig


    Sal Butamol wrote: »
    Its amazing Graham Linehan was involved given that he is an angry, petulant, whinging crybaby. And a hypocrite bullyboy. Can't be said enough.
    He is still one of the creators of the show and made it what it was.
    The hilarious thing about Father Ted, is it could be made today and half the jokes would still be relevant.

    It's true what they say isn't it, you should never meet your heroes, you'll only be disappointed!


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  • #31
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,736 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    Uncharted wrote: »
    Woeful at ad lib.

    Apparently, during breaks in filming Father Ted, he used to get bored on set and would randomly wrestle Ardal O'Hanlon to the ground and pretend to molest him, in-character as Ted. And when Ardal would fight back, he'd say "You won't get anywhere in the church with that attitude, Dougal."


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