Amy Huberman. Finding Joy.

IAMAMORON wrote: »

Women who make a living out of being attractive and sexy should not be bothering to complicate things.

Attractive women are never funny, it goes against the grain.

Two words

Aisling f*cking Bea

IAMAMORON wrote: »

You sound gorgeous to be honest.

Your lack of a sense of humour is a big giveaway.

I'm male.

But thanks.

Muahahaha wrote: »

That article in the Indo is by their TV critic Pat Stacey and Im not surprised that he slated Finding Joy as Stacey is about the only honest journalist when it comes to all things RTE. He also wrote a stinging article slating Striking Out as well. Meanwhile over on the Fashion & Celebrity desk in the Indo they'll still continue on blowing smoke up Hubermans hole.

100% agree...

Pat Stacey deserves a huge amount of respect...

I value his opinion on TV and movies

StevenToast wrote: »

100% agree...

Pat Stacey deserves a huge amount of respect...

I value his opinion on TV and movies

Ditto Liam Fay.

I was looking forward to the new series I thought first episode was only ok.

fran38 wrote: »

Can someone cut and paste the article please. It's behind a paywall and i don't want to subscribe to the Indo.

"But still, it’s one more joke than I could find in the entirety of the latest episode of Amy Huberman’s self-penned sitcom, on which she’s also an associate producer. Actually, I’m not even sure if “sitcom” is the right word for Finding Joy. There was no “com” and very little “sit”, either.

Joy is a vlogger. Beyond that, what’s it actually about? Nothing, apparently. It’s a series predicated on the assumption viewers will find Huberman as adorably and kooky as RTÉ seems to find her.

Joy takes part in a daft, overpriced cod-rebirthing ceremony. Joy has some flashbacks about being bullied at school. Joy goes back to said school to give a talk (she thinks she’s been invited, not realising one of her staff has organised it) and encounters her old bully. Or maybe she doesn’t. I don’t know. It’s hard to tell whether she’s imagining it. Whatever.

Joy, trying to get down with the kids, accidentally smokes some dope, so she gets giggly, sees a nun and runs away, screaming “Sketch!”

She’s still stoned when she gets some drive-thru fast food. Who should stick his head through the hatch but Neil Morrissey, her co-star in the dire Striking Out.

Seemingly, other star faces, including Pat Shortt, will be popping up in cameos in future episodes. It’s a testament to Huberman’s contacts book, if not to anything else.

It just rambles on and on like this, pointlessly, from one shapeless, random scene to the next, for 25 minutes that feel like a lifetime. Huberman can act, we know that; we’ve seen her do it elsewhere. But nobody acts here. They just gurn and mug and shout and shriek.

Finding Joy is a self-indulgent vanity project, a one-woman-band performance by someone who can’t play all the instruments properly."

pat short's not a major score - he appears at the opening of a crisp packet ffs

Muahahaha wrote: »

203,000 views seems very poor for a prime time Saturday night slot right after the news, a lot of people must have lurched for the remote control once the news was finished. Even D'arcy was doing bigger numbers than 203k in the same slot

That wont stop them commissioning a third series.

seligehgit wrote: »

Ditto Liam Fay.

Liam Fay wrote a fantastic piece annihilating Tubridy in the Sunday Times a few years ago. It was hilarious yet laser point accurate, expressing exactly what I felt about him but could never articulate as well as he did.

Elmo wrote: »

I don't follow her but I have heard similar from others. Comedy and humour is subjective.

Her posts on Twitter and on Instagram got her noticed as being amusing and lead to the development of Finding Joy.

She had starred in some other comedies also by this point.

I know she wrote Finding Joy but I don't think she should be totally blamed. Either for the decision by TV executives to insist on the show and their view of her as Ireland's sweetheart, both of these things are much worst than the show itself.

The show is there to be picked up by other providers, its a co-pro with Acorn and ZDF. This is RTÉ's new way of doing drama/comedy.... get someone else to pick up the bill and we will happily show it.

The first episode tanked 203,000 adult viewers, and it went out before The Snapper which always gets a good audience, they have it schedule next to MI: Fallout next week, if it losses viewers it will have epically failed, even more so than the previous season.

I dont get the "Irelands" sweetheart, national treasure" thing . I mean shes not a household name..

mr_edge_to_you wrote: »

So my wife decided she wanted to form her "own opinion" on this so I was able to watch it last night. My God, it was awful.

In the year 2020, RTE still can't do comedy.

I think Hardy Bucks is pretty funny, every season if it.

I'd love to know how much Republic of Telly cost per episode relative to stuff like this. RoT could be hit and miss for sure, but it was such a great platform and incubator for a lot of comedy creatives who wouldn't get a look in otherwise, and I'd bet a lot it brought more young viewers and social media buzz than anything they've made since.

I'd love a go off her though!

hamburgham wrote: »

Liam Fay wrote a fantastic piece annihilating Tubridy in the Sunday Times a few years ago. It was hilarious yet laser point accurate, expressing exactly what I felt about him but could never articulate as well as he did.

Link?