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David McSavage

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,572 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Oh and the late late toy show
    https://youtu.be/dU0OGyPUoQQ


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,144 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    What do people think of him? I don't really find him that funny, I think he's very crude and goes way over the top. He seems quite egotistical and bitter aswell. I think a comedian can be funny without having to push things as far as he does.

    i like that...

    i hate Mcentire and russell and that ****e.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,144 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Why did they end the savage eye?
    Ratings dropped or it ran its course?

    he had 2 strong series and because it did well RTE forced a 3rd and they fell out apparently


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,738 ✭✭✭Treppen


    I thought he is good.

    He's probably liable to go Michael Richards/Kramer , so too risky for many to take on.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,144 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Hulk Hands wrote: »
    There's an army of his friends or family, or maybe himself on multiple accounts, going through this thread thanking all positive posts

    that's silly talk

    many people like mcsavage.

    in fact some of the complaints i've read seem to be people taking his "character" at face value


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,779 ✭✭✭1o059k7ewrqj3n


    The Savage Eye had some very good bits, probably one of the best shows by an Irish comedian produced in Ireland. Can completely understand why people don’t take to him though, he’s hit and miss at times.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,839 ✭✭✭worded


    McSavage’s investigation on Instagram into trying to find the Butter Nutter who is terrorising the canal benches (smearing butter and bananas on them) near Portabello is funny.

    It is actually a true story.



    Found a you tube link to the butter nutter
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zEvQERS5_M


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,024 ✭✭✭✭Snake Plisken


    His Dublin City Centre Junkie is spot on :D



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    Even the dog on the street knows who the Butter Nutter is at this stage.

    He is just barking up the wrong tree.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 169 ✭✭Grey Fox


    He's done well for himself with the Scientology and everything, but I wouldn't find him particularly funny.


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    dd973 wrote: »
    Tub's cousin and Barry Andrews brother I think, wonder where he'd be if he wasn't born with the silver tea set up his arse / well connected

    I wonder the same about Tubs.

    McSavage seems to have tons more talent but with some demons as well. Maybe what makes him so funny.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,079 ✭✭✭Ashbourne hoop


    Got free tickets to a Vicar St gig a few years ago. Wasn't funny at all. I have quite a dark sense of humour, love Jim Jeffries and Frankie Boyle, but McSavage went way beyond them, and the "jokes" weren't funny either.

    Couldn't bring myself to watch the Savage Eye because he was in it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,140 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Im guessing his comedy wouldnt fit with their woke narrative
    Grey Fox wrote: »
    Didnt stop them giving Ricky Gervais a show

    Or the Dave Chappelle "Sticks & Stones" special, which many here lauded as a blistering attack on the "woke left":

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=111105516


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,024 ✭✭✭✭Snake Plisken


    Netflix could just buy the Savage Eye off RTE like they did with The Hardy. Bucks and see if it gets any interest with foreign markets, I could see it doing well in the UK and Australia not so sure about North America


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,363 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Netflix could just buy the Savage Eye off RTE like they did with The Hardy. Bucks and see if it gets any interest with foreign markets, I could see it doing well in the UK and Australia not so sure about North America

    Nah, it's too Irish. No-one who isn't from here would get the characters. Try explaining the Joe Duffy skit to a Yank with no context.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,363 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Steyr 556 wrote: »
    The Savage Eye had some very good bits, probably one of the best shows by an Irish comedian produced in Ireland. Can completely understand why people don’t take to him though, he’s hit and miss at times.

    It's not that, he can be absolute ****e when he doesn't have a team around him telling him what works and doesn't. The Savage Eye was brilliant because there was a director and a team of editors to knock off the edges of his jokes and ideas.

    That's why his stand-up is so hit and miss.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 461 ✭✭jface187


    It's not that, he can be absolute ****e when he doesn't have a team around him telling him what works and doesn't. The Savage Eye was brilliant because there was a director and a team of editors to knock off the edges of his jokes and ideas.

    That's why his stand-up is so hit and miss.

    Spot on. John Colleary did a lot of writing on the show. Why McSavage stand up is hit and miss and the show was much more even and better.


  • Posts: 24,286 [Deleted User]


    Or the Dave Chappelle "Sticks & Stones" special, which many here lauded as a blistering attack on the "woke left":

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=111105516



    Wouldnt be familiar with Dave Chapelle. Havent seen his stuff yet. Gervais is an interesting one. There is stuff in the Office or Extras that is far worse than some of the stuff that Netflix, Apple, etc pulled (and its not even that bad in my view) but i reckon the reason he surived the cull is because they dont want to upset him while After Life is doing well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,144 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Wouldnt be familiar with Dave Chapelle. Havent seen his stuff yet. Gervais is an interesting one. There is stuff in the Office or Extras that is far worse than some of the stuff that Netflix, Apple, etc pulled (and its not even that bad in my view) but i reckon the reason he surived the cull is because they dont want to upset him while After Life is doing well.

    Chapelle is the guvnor


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 754 ✭✭✭badboyblast


    worded wrote: »


    The vacant stare and the Yop, ahh excellent, :):):)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭CrankyHaus


    Wouldnt be familiar with Dave Chapelle. Havent seen his stuff yet. Gervais is an interesting one. There is stuff in the Office or Extras that is far worse than some of the stuff that Netflix, Apple, etc pulled (and its not even that bad in my view) but i reckon the reason he surived the cull is because they dont want to upset him while After Life is doing well.


    He's given a show because they know it will make money. He has a track record of big hits.
    The same goes for Chappelle.


    Cancel culture won't affect them because they have already made it.



    It's the comedians starting off that are vulnerable to cancel culture, because nobody will take a punt on an unknown who has Twitter piling on them because of a joke they made that offended someone somewhere.


    The chilling effect this will have on comedy is obvious. In fact it's already here for years.


    Anyone pointing to the likes of Gervais or Chappelle getting greenlit as evidence that cancel culture doesn't exist is talking out their hoop.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 169 ✭✭Grey Fox


    CrankyHaus wrote: »
    He's given a show because they know it will make money. He has a track record of big hits.
    The same goes for Chappelle.


    Cancel culture won't affect them because they have already made it.



    It's the comedians starting off that are vulnerable to cancel culture, because nobody will take a punt on an unknown who has Twitter piling on them because of a joke they made that offended someone somewhere.


    The chilling effect this will have on comedy is obvious. In fact it's already here for years.


    Anyone pointing to the likes of Gervais or Chappelle getting greenlit as evidence that cancel culture doesn't exist is talking out their hoop.
    I think you're talking out your own hoop. Of course cancel culture can affect established comedians, do you think it hasnt affected Kevin Hart or wont affect Ellen?

    No one is saying cancel culture doesnt exist.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,144 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Grey Fox wrote: »
    I think you're talking out your own hoop. Of course cancel culture can affect established comedians, do you think it hasnt affected Kevin Hart or wont affect Ellen?

    No one is saying cancel culture doesnt exist.
    That reminds me chapelle mentions hart a few times, like talking about one of your mates when they’re in trouble


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭CrankyHaus


    Grey Fox wrote: »

    No one is saying cancel culture doesnt exist.


    There was a thread on here in the last week where people were saying it doesn't exist.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 461 ✭✭jface187


    Kevin Hart was canceled (By the way, I hate that term) for a homophobic tweet. Which he later admitted was wrong.

    Ellen is in trouble for backstage bullying.

    Louie CK for being a sex pest.

    None of this has anything to do with comedy. No one is being canceled due to jokes.

    If you want to talk cancel culture, there is a comedian in Ireland who called out Racist and sexist behavior by a person in power in the Irish comedy and guess who got in trouble?

    That's right the person who called him out, even do there was video evidence to back out what he was saying.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 475 ✭✭AdrianBalboa


    jface187 wrote: »
    Kevin Hart was canceled (By the way, I hate that term) for a homophobic tweet. Which he later admitted was wrong.

    Ellen is in trouble for backstage bullying.

    Louie CK for being a sex pest.

    None of this has anything to do with comedy. No one is being canceled due to jokes.

    If you want to talk cancel culture, there is a comedian in Ireland who called out Racist and sexist behavior by a person in power in the Irish comedy and guess who got in trouble?

    That's right the person who called him out, even do there was video evidence to back out what he was saying.
    There's nothing wrong with cancelling a public figure for problematic tweets and views.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    Looking forward to the first comedian who massively rips the piss out of cancel culture. It needs to be done. For everyones' sake, jokes get lonely without a brunt.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 461 ✭✭jface187


    The point I was trying to make, is people keep saying comedy is being canceled.
    When it's not, it's people's actions that are the issue.

    Were creating this narrative "Can't say anything anymore" when people are being canceled for their behavior and not their content. No one can point to people's jokes being the problem.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    jface187 wrote: »
    The point I was trying to make, is people keep saying comedy is being canceled.
    When it's not, it's people's actions that are the issue.

    Were creating this narrative "Can't say anything anymore" when people are being canceled for their behavior and not their content. No one can point to people's jokes being the problem.

    I blame BLM on Bob Marley. Had he got the finger out and toured America he would have solved the whole issue years ago. We would be done with it now.


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