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21-11-2020 05:44PM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Haven’t listened back yet but from the thread I do think Herr Duffy was stirring it a little, I wonder who he was having a dig-een at? The “we axed RTE for a spokesperson but day woodn’t give us one” was clearly a pop from de shmart-arse so to speak.

As many have pointed out the only reason he wasn’t there is he was on-air at the time. You can only imagine him being front and centre otherwise, whether he was invited or not. And then this story would never have been touched.

Probably with wan of his bukeens in hand held prominently for de picture.

21-11-2020 05:54PM

Clon63 wrote: »

Ah saw the clip of Eileen Dunne apoligising on the 9 o clock news Hard to watch really Felt sorry for her seems a genuine lady and doesnt feature in the superstar pay scales.

Dont thimk she helped the corporate response strategy by saying she was photographed at the "farewell to Phil" Suggests a pretty organised impromptu event to me.

It may be that it was indeed organised for there to be balloons and some people gathered to give a farewell which would have been fine as an acknowledgement to their colleague. The only trouble is that they did not have masks and were hugging. It would have been fine if they had come down with their masks standing apart and clapping as their colleague departed, with a little picture of a few of them "waving" to her or the like.

Atlantic Dawn · 21-11-2020 08:56PM

Ffs, you might still be able to get yiz are wrapping paper foive for a foiver..

This evening there were talks involving Henry St traders, the Irish Organisation, Market and Street Traders (IOMST) Lord Mayor Hazel Chu, council officials and councillors.

Afterwards Sinn Féin councillor Janice Boylan said "There is a possibility that very limited trading may be allowed take place but it will be nothing like previous years".

She said Dublin City Council will be in contact with all traders to discuss the options that have been suggested but this is all reliant on future restrictions.

It is understood the new plan could involve fewer stalls and those being spread out through surrounding streets.

https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2020/1120/1179500-street-traders/

sligojoek · 21-11-2020 09:24PM

PieOhMy wrote: »

Hahaha Joe's comment on RTE not sending on a representative. This is great.

Just listening back now

He was very easy on them. If that was any other company he'd be farting fire.

sligojoek · 21-11-2020 11:23PM

Listening to another bit since.

Joe: I'm a presenter, not a judge.

Caller: *laughs.

sligojoek · 21-11-2020 11:26PM

"Mary" was definitely an RTE plant. Waffling away about covid and Joe going, "yeah yeah yeah OK OK"

sligojoek · 21-11-2020 11:31PM

TheHomeService wrote: »

Absolutely. RTE retirement bashes are well organised in advance.

Who picked that photograph?

glenfieldman · 21-11-2020 11:39PM

sligojoek wrote: »

Who picked that photograph?

Impromptu party my arse

One More Toy · 22-11-2020 12:54AM

The flight to Malaga... Was it travellers?

Odyssey 2005 · 22-11-2020 01:03AM

glenfieldman wrote: »

Impromptu party my arse

Welcome stranger

Odyssey 2005 · 22-11-2020 01:04AM

One More Toy wrote: »

The flight to Malaga... Was it travellers?

They were travelling from DAP to Málaga...so YES

ButtersSuki · 22-11-2020 09:14AM

One More Toy wrote: »

The flight to Malaga... Was it travellers?

You are NOT allowed to insinuate that caller, despite all of the available evidence. All of the callers last week clearly had been told before going on air not to mention that it seems.....

Atlantic Dawn · 22-11-2020 06:18PM

I see a story in today's Sunday Wurdled that Funny Friday is scrapped indefinetely due to Covid 19...

RTE Liveline’s legendary Funny Friday comedy show has been scrapped indefinitely due to Covid-19.

“Seriously though, I think it’s a shame that there now isn’t going to be a bit of fun and laughter on the radio at a time when the country never needed it more due to Covid.”

https://www.sundayworld.com/showbiz/irish-showbiz/rte-have-cancelled-livelines-funny-friday-says-comic-sil-fox-39773872.html

ButtersSuki · 22-11-2020 07:35PM

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

I see a story in today's Sunday Wurdled that Funny Friday is scrapped indefinetely due to Covid 19...

https://www.sundayworld.com/showbiz/irish-showbiz/rte-have-cancelled-livelines-funny-friday-says-comic-sil-fox-39773872.html

I didn't know dat rag was online so to speak............

ButtersSuki · 22-11-2020 07:37PM

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

I see a story in today's Sunday Wurdled that Funny Friday is scrapped indefinetely due to Covid 19...

RTE Liveline’s legendary Funny Friday comedy show has been scrapped indefinitely due to Covid-19.

“Seriously though, I think it’s a shame that there now isn’t going to be a bit of fun and laughter on the radio at a time when the country never needed it more due to Covid.”

Which translates as:

I'm seriously annoyed my exorbitant fees, expenses, mileage and free hotel stays have been taken away from me so to speak.....

ButtersSuki · 22-11-2020 07:39PM

Worth reading the whole piece for the auld guff:

LAUGHS OVER RTE have cancelled Liveline's 'Funny Friday, says comic Sil Fox

Eddie Rowley

November 21 2020 06:53 PM

RTE Liveline’s legendary Funny Friday comedy show has been scrapped indefinitely due to Covid-19.

Top comic Sil Fox yesterday revealed that he received the news this week in a letter from the national broadcaster.

“It’s no laughing matter, I’ll have to talk to Joe maybe he’ll get it back,” Fox told the Sunday World with his trademark sense of humour.

“Seriously though, I think it’s a shame that there now isn’t going to be a bit of fun and laughter on the radio at a time when the country never needed it more due to Covid.”

RTE had billed Funny Friday, which was broadcast on the last Friday of the month, as “a welcome antidote to the trials of modern living.”

Sil said: “I did it for 15 years and it always got a great reaction from the public. The numbers tuning in were massive, and it gave me a new lease of life.

“In the letter RTE said that after a lot of discussion they made a very difficult decision that they’re suspending Funny Friday indefinitely.

“They said that the way the country is at the moment they can’t hold Funny Friday ‘in a way that properly serves you the performers, and the listeners.’

“They added that ‘it was the mainstay of Irish radio for a very long time, and it’s deeply saddening to have to bring it to a close.’ Reading between the lines, I don’t think it will ever be back.”

Sil, who is a sprightly 87-year-old entertainer, had been the mainstay of Funny Friday with Brendan ‘Doc’ Savage. The show also had numerous guest comics and impersonators, including June Rodgers, Brush Shields, Frank Forde and Clint Velour (Paddy Cullivan).

Much-loved showbiz star Fox had to step down from his role on Funny Friday in May 2019 after being accused of a sexual assault while having a photo taken with a woman in a public venue the previous December.

He was finally cleared of the assault in May of this year.

Funny Friday had been suspended earlier this year due to the pandemic.

Sil says: “It broke my heart to have to step back from the show when I had that allegation made against me and I was looking forward to getting back on air again. But then Covid came along and everything changed.

“I do hope to get back on the comedy circuit when the world of entertainment opens up again. I live for comedy.

“When I go for a walk nowadays around my neighbourhood I’m telling people jokes all the time. I don’t know why I wear a mask because everyone knows it’s me behind it.”

And the funnyman added: “It’s only me and the wife at home now. We were having a glass of wine the other night and she said, ‘I love you.’ I said, ‘Is that you or the wine talking?’ She said, ‘I was talking to the wine!’”

glenfieldman · 22-11-2020 07:48PM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Worth reading the whole piece for the auld guff:

LAUGHS OVER RTE have cancelled Liveline's 'Funny Friday, says comic Sil Fox

Eddie Rowley

November 21 2020 06:53 PM

RTE Liveline’s legendary Funny Friday comedy show has been scrapped indefinitely due to Covid-19.

Top comic Sil Fox yesterday revealed that he received the news this week in a letter from the national broadcaster.

“It’s no laughing matter, I’ll have to talk to Joe maybe he’ll get it back,” Fox told the Sunday World with his trademark sense of humour.

“Seriously though, I think it’s a shame that there now isn’t going to be a bit of fun and laughter on the radio at a time when the country never needed it more due to Covid.”

RTE had billed Funny Friday, which was broadcast on the last Friday of the month, as “a welcome antidote to the trials of modern living.”

Sil said: “I did it for 15 years and it always got a great reaction from the public. The numbers tuning in were massive, and it gave me a new lease of life.

“In the letter RTE said that after a lot of discussion they made a very difficult decision that they’re suspending Funny Friday indefinitely.

“They said that the way the country is at the moment they can’t hold Funny Friday ‘in a way that properly serves you the performers, and the listeners.’

“They added that ‘it was the mainstay of Irish radio for a very long time, and it’s deeply saddening to have to bring it to a close.’ Reading between the lines, I don’t think it will ever be back.”

Sil, who is a sprightly 87-year-old entertainer, had been the mainstay of Funny Friday with Brendan ‘Doc’ Savage. The show also had numerous guest comics and impersonators, including June Rodgers, Brush Shields, Frank Forde and Clint Velour (Paddy Cullivan).

Much-loved showbiz star Fox had to step down from his role on Funny Friday in May 2019 after being accused of a sexual assault while having a photo taken with a woman in a public venue the previous December.

He was finally cleared of the assault in May of this year.

Funny Friday had been suspended earlier this year due to the pandemic.

Sil says: “It broke my heart to have to step back from the show when I had that allegation made against me and I was looking forward to getting back on air again. But then Covid came along and everything changed.

“I do hope to get back on the comedy circuit when the world of entertainment opens up again. I live for comedy.

“When I go for a walk nowadays around my neighbourhood I’m telling people jokes all the time. I don’t know why I wear a mask because everyone knows it’s me behind it.”

And the funnyman added: “It’s only me and the wife at home now. We were having a glass of wine the other night and she said, ‘I love you.’ I said, ‘Is that you or the wine talking?’ She said, ‘I was talking to the wine!’”

Fu*k off, thats the funniest thing ever said about Mr Sly Fox

Roger_007 · 22-11-2020 07:49PM

How will we know that ‘Funny Friday’ has ended?
It reminds me of the story about Dorothy Parker when she was told that President Calvin Coolidge had died. She is reputed to have said “How can they tell?”.
(I assume they will be holding an ‘impromptu gathering’ to mark the end of Funny Friday).

PieOhMy · 22-11-2020 08:26PM

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

I see a story in today's Sunday Wurdled that Funny Friday is scrapped indefinetely due to Covid 19...

https://www.sundayworld.com/showbiz/irish-showbiz/rte-have-cancelled-livelines-funny-friday-says-comic-sil-fox-39773872.html

Great to hear. The craven racism broadcast at the last one in galway was a liability and clearly horrific taste.

ButtersSuki · 22-11-2020 08:28PM

PieOhMy wrote: »

Great to hear. The craven racism broadcast at the last one in galway was a liability and clearly horrific taste.

How dare you!

It was brilliant brilliant brilliant brilliant and wunderful fantastic. If you don’t like it yer just a snob.

:rolleyes:

zell12 · 22-11-2020 08:44PM

PieOhMy wrote: »

Great to hear. The craven racism broadcast at the last one in galway was a liability and clearly horrific taste.

And d'ye remember all the people coughing in the background and some people were brought in from a nursing home as an outing.
We joked and highlighted it at the time, but there'd be criminal sanctions if it happened now.

ButtersSuki · 22-11-2020 09:42PM

zell12 wrote: »

And d'ye remember all the people coughing in the background and some people were brought in from a nursing home as an outing.
We joked and highlighted it at the time, but there'd be criminal sanctions if it happened now.

Every FunnyFryday is a crime (against comedy).

KevRossi · 22-11-2020 10:56PM

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

I see a story in today's Sunday Wurdled that Funny Friday is scrapped indefinetely due to Covid 19...

Well if RTE are serious about saving money, they can do no better than cancel that shyte. I don't for one minute believe that the listening figures were the same as for a normal show. I know it's anecdotal, but a few elderly people I know would turn it off when it was on; not all, but a fair few. They are effectively the bread and butter of LL listeners.

The cost is ridiculous for what it returns. Between fees for the 'comedians', travel, accommodation, moving an outside broadcast unit with all the personnel around the country and the usual 'sundries/expenses', it easily hit well over 6 figures a year on what was effectively a vanity project for Joe Duffy and a handy earner for some of his mates.

I got the impression it was done on a relative budget at the beginning, but the past couple of years they have let it slip that there was a mini gravy train on the move once a month. If Dee Forbes doesn't do the right thing while the time is ripe, then she really should pack her bags, as it's decisions like this that make managers.

Atlantic Dawn · 22-11-2020 11:41PM

Grafton Street will be that bit easier to navigate Christmas Eve with that show ditched too.

23-11-2020 12:03AM

KevRossi wrote: »

Well if RTE are serious about saving money, they can do no better than cancel that shyte. I don't for one minute believe that the listening figures were the same as for a normal show. I know it's anecdotal, but a few elderly people I know would turn it off when it was on; not all, but a fair few. They are effectively the bread and butter of LL listeners.

The cost is ridiculous for what it returns. Between fees for the 'comedians', travel, accommodation, moving an outside broadcast unit with all the personnel around the country and the usual 'sundries/expenses', it easily hit well over 6 figures a year on what was effectively a vanity project for Joe Duffy and a handy earner for some of his mates.

I got the impression it was done on a relative budget at the beginning, but the past couple of years they have let it slip that there was a mini gravy train on the move once a month. If Dee Forbes doesn't do the right thing while the time is ripe, then she really should pack her bags, as it's decisions like this that make managers.

Actually a fair few years ago it was more professional, even at times funny, when it featured Paddy Cullivan, also Oliver Callan. Paddy is genuinely creative and can write ditties in response to current affairs. With those folk there was an element of novelty, not the same 100 year old "jokes" carried around in a dusty briefcase.

Dan Jaman · 23-11-2020 02:01AM

Syl will be fuming with teh covid taking his gig away just when he was all set to make up for the year out he had because of GropeGate.

ButtersSuki · 23-11-2020 02:09AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Actually a fair few years ago it was more professional, even at times funny, when it featured Paddy Cullivan, also Oliver Callan. Paddy is genuinely creative and can write ditties in response to current affairs. With those folk there was an element of novelty, not the same 100 year old "jokes" carried around in a dusty briefcase.

Callan only did one show from memory. I’d say he’s persona non grate-ah with Herr Duffy since he started imitating him on Callan’s Kicks too, we all know Herr Duffy isn’t a fan of being parodied so to speak.

ButtersSuki · 23-11-2020 02:12AM

Dan Jaman wrote: »

Syl will be fuming with teh covid taking his gig away just when he was all set to make up for the year out he had because of GropeGate.

Syl’s been very unlucky to be fair - he lost a full year’s wurk with the famine in 1847, and then anudder wit the Spanish Flu too in 1918. And that’s before you bring in the Civil and Wurldid Wars.

Atlantic Dawn · 23-11-2020 02:53AM

Perhaps Ben Dunne will call Joe, showers are dangerous in gyms so to speak...
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/news/ive-lost-millions-this-year-it-frightens-me-ben-dunne-reveals-he-is-planning-to-open-his-gyms-in-december-39775063.html

withless · 23-11-2020 11:17AM

A Funny Froidah at De AZoom Joe.

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