Inside the Crystal Ball with Pat Shortt

Black Magic · 28-12-2009 05:58PM #1

This was a brilliant show...fantastic as usual from Pat Shortt. Anyone else see it?

http://www.rte.ie/player/#v=1063274

Morgans · 28-12-2009 06:30PM

I'm afraid I saw twenty minutes of this last night. Im sorry but have to disagree with the OP, twas simply an attempt to translate Alan partridge into Ireland and hope no none noticed. Of course, in this one-off it lacked any of the depth of Alan. It was better than Killinascully as I didnt feel many suicidal thought, but I would have hoped a comedy would attempt to induce laughter.

"Im a thinker, my father was a thinker, his father was a great thinker"
Thinker/tinker being the joke I think. Not good Im afraid.

I get the feeling that Pat Shortt would prefer if RTE would just leave him alone and stop offering him wheelbarrows of cash to make these programs.

Black Magic · 28-12-2009 06:41PM

Morgans wrote: »

"Im a thinker, my father was a thinker, his father was a great thinker"
Thinker/tinker being the joke I think. Not good Im afraid.

That was not funny. It was on Val Falvey an hour earlier!

mikom · 28-12-2009 06:50PM

Pile of daggins.
Meanwhile Partridge was over on BBC.

delta_bravo · 28-12-2009 07:38PM

I was dumbfounded at how bad it was.

Black Magic · 28-12-2009 07:46PM

I like the mockumentary style. Kind of new for RTÉ instead of the usual sitcom kind of carry on.

mikom · 28-12-2009 08:01PM

Black Magic wrote: »

I like the mockumentary style. Kind of new for RTÉ instead of the usual sitcom kind of carry on.

Yes, they truly are ground breakers........

Bondvillain · 28-12-2009 08:29PM

Black Magic wrote: »

I like the mockumentary style. Kind of new for RTÉ instead of the usual sitcom kind of carry on.

Paths to freedom, Rté, November 2000.

Anyway, this show was poor, and looked rushed.

There may have been some hope for it if it had maintained the "Marion & Geoff" type confessional tone exploring the dreams of the pitifully deluded, but Shortt turned it into broad farce in an attempt to get laughs. (Ha ha - the woman in the background takin' in the washing fell over! ha ha ! fell over! sure isn't falling over fierce funny?)

Old jokes, poor characterisation and a fundamental lack of plot let the whole thing down.

The only remotely amusing running gag in the show (inept dj playing inappropriate songs for requests, i.e. : "I useta love her" for a woman from her husband on their anniversary) was actually previously used in Shortt's own Killinaskully season 3 episode about ...a rural community radio station run by the pitifully deluded.

So Rte are now funding people to plagiarise themselves. Very poor.

grimm2005 · 28-12-2009 09:36PM

Can't stand pat shortt. He's the most unfunny man i think i've ever seen on tv. Killinaskully is indescribably awful. It's for this reason i havn't even bothered giving this a go.

And yes, i realise he played a relatively funny bit part in father ted (which he didn't write) but that's not nearly enough to forgive him for the sh!te he's come out with since

andrew1977 · 28-12-2009 09:39PM

My own personal opinion of it was that it was pure rubbish, stuck it out until the end, didnt find it remotely funny

amovingstatue · 28-12-2009 11:16PM

Jon kenny was the man with the writing talent and shortt was good with him

Since on his own everything he's touched has turned to ****e

They really should try something again together but it may be that too much time has passed

I note there wasn't one mention of jon on the interview with tubby but then again a searching interview is beyond tubs

So more medioc-rte ?

laugh · 29-12-2009 12:51AM

amovingstatue wrote: »

I note there wasn't one mention of jon on the interview with tubby but then again a searching interview is beyond tubs

So more medioc-rte ?

Kenny walked off stage and offered everybody their money back at a gig recently.

amovingstatue · 29-12-2009 01:05AM

laugh wrote: »

Kenny walked off stage and offered everybody their money back at a gig recently.

Really? Christ that doesn't sound good. Any idea what happened/why?

Black Magic · 29-12-2009 01:24AM

amovingstatue wrote: »

Really? Christ that doesn't sound good. Any idea what happened/why?

http://www.sligotoday.ie/details.php?id=6680

Morgans · 29-12-2009 08:17AM

Always thought Shortt was the funnier of the pair and some of the stuff they did as d'unbelievables was seriously funny. The Crimebusters spoof is one of the funniest things Ive seen any Irish comic do.

Since then its clear that Kenny was simply the man of the funny faces. Ive seen interviews where Shortt has hinted that the stuff he does isnt what he wants to do but if RTE keep throwing money at him recycling the same characters (and it seems to have an audience) it puts bread on the table.

Columbia · 29-12-2009 12:23PM

laugh wrote: »

Kenny walked off stage and offered everybody their money back at a gig recently.

Black Magic wrote: »

http://www.sligotoday.ie/details.php?id=6680

Article says he didn't give any refunds at all, but offered everybody "a drink at the bar".

People are losing jobs all over the country, he's getting paid for doing an hour on a ****ing stage, and he's whinging about it. Hope he never gets this line of work again.

laugh · 30-12-2009 01:22AM

Columbia wrote: »

Article says he didn't give any refunds at all, but offered everybody "a drink at the bar".

People are losing jobs all over the country, he's getting paid for doing an hour on a ****ing stage, and he's whinging about it. Hope he never gets this line of work again.

Well I was at the Gig and it wasn't in Sligo it was in Wicklow, so he has done it twice recently then, I think he is on the wagon or something.

Black Magic · 30-12-2009 03:51AM

It was all part of the performance.

laugh · 30-12-2009 09:59PM

Black Magic wrote: »

It was all part of the performance.

me hole.

Black Magic · 31-12-2009 09:37PM

He's on RTÉ One now. Winning Streak. Hope he rots.

Inside the Crystal Ball with Pat Shortt

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