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Golden age for Irish comedy - Whose next?

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  • #62
    kikilarue2
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    If you mean "unintentionally" hilarious, her acting chops are laughable.

    Do you ever say anything positive about anyone or anything? You must be some grump IRL.


  • #63
    Woke Hogan
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    kikilarue2 wrote: »
    Do you ever say anything positive about anyone or anything? You must be some grump IRL.
    Virtually every Irish person thinks they can "do better" than any comedian they encounter on the stage but they don't have the balls to give it a go themselves.

    You'll see this from a lot of jealous posters in this forum, desperately trying to make some too-vicious-to-be-funny quip about their nemeses' appearance or accent. It's pathetic, really.


  • #64
    [Deleted User]
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    kikilarue2 wrote: »
    Do you ever say anything positive about anyone or anything? You must be some grump IRL.

    Veering towards the dramatic, again. In the past few hours, I've praised Martin McDonagh's talent & been an advocate for vinyl.


  • #65
    gmisk
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    foil arms and hog are excellent live IMO and seem to have become pretty huge (they sell out venues in other countries as well)


  • #66
    kikilarue2
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    gmisk wrote: »
    I am not sure if they have been mentioned before but foil arms and hog are brilliant and seem to have become pretty huge (they sell out venues in other countries)

    I like their videos, but when I saw them live I was disappointed that they were doing sketches of videos they put out two years ago!


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  • #67
    gmisk
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    kikilarue2 wrote: »
    I like their videos, but when I saw them live I was disappointed that they were doing sketches of videos they put out two years ago!
    I saw them a few times at inn jokes years ago and I thought they were genuinely brilliant - maybe there material is fairly limited though.


    I remember seeing deirdre o kane a long time ago and she was brilliant....2 years later...exactly the same show...disappointing.


  • #68
    Autecher
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    gmisk wrote: »
    I remember seeing deirdre o kane a long time ago and she was brilliant....2 years later...exactly the same show...disappointing.
    He's not Irish obviously but Jerry Seinfeld has famously toured the same material for decades, he is very open about it too. As long as people in the same towns keep paying to see him do the same jokes and keep laughing at them then he won't change. Understandable but I'd be annoyed to see him twice and get the same show.


  • #69
    Squall Leonhart
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    Must be very difficult in that sense for a comedian.

    A band can release albums and tour on the back of that for years without ever releasing anything further.

    Billy Joel hasn't had a new album out since 1993 and has a monthly residency at Madison Square Gardens for over 5 years now. People would he aghast if he played new stuff!


  • #70
    conorhal
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    Squall Leonhart wrote: »
    Must be very difficult in that sense for a comedian.

    A band can release albums and tour on the back of that for years without ever releasing anything further.

    Billy Joel hasn't had a new album out since 1993 and has a monthly residency at Madison Square Gardens for over 5 years now. People would he aghast if he played new stuff!


    Remember back in the 90's when all the entertainment media was referring to comedy as the 'new rock and roll'?
    They weren't wrong.
    Just like the rock scene, comedy is still dependent on the same 'ol acts from 20 years ago to fill venues, while new entrants into the scene are pretty anaemic and forgettable .


  • #71
    Autecher
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    Squall Leonhart wrote: »
    Must be very difficult in that sense for a comedian.

    A band can release albums and tour on the back of that for years without ever releasing anything further.

    Billy Joel hasn't had a new album out since 1993 and has a monthly residency at Madison Square Gardens for over 5 years now. People would he aghast if he played new stuff!
    I have often heard comedians bemoan this very thing in interviews. I get it to an extent but you can sing and dance along to music whereas comedy obviously is different, the audience aren't allowed to speak at comedy shows. A joke can still be funny hearing it for the tenth time but that doesn't mean I want to pay money to hear it 10 times.


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  • #72
    eisenberg1
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    fatknacker wrote: »
    Aisling Bea not get a mention? Seems she's more known in the U.K. than here.

    And let’s hope it stays that way.

    Deirdre O’Kane as a stand up act, I never found funny. But I think she is a good comedy actor. Very good in “Paths to Freedom”


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