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Northern Ireland humour

  • 29-11-2010 02:57AM
    #1
    qwert2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 373 ✭✭


    Does anyone else find the Northern Ireland sense of humour unbearable? I just can't relate to it, even though I live on the same Island


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  • #2
    ddef
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 426 ✭✭ddef


    qwert2 wrote: »
    Does anyone else find the Northern Ireland sense of humour unbearable? I just can't relate to it, even though I live on the same Island

    OMG, just build a bridge already!


  • #3
    Sisko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭Sisko


    ddef wrote: »
    OMG, just build a bridge already!

    eh?


  • #4
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    qwert2 wrote: »
    Does anyone else find the Northern Ireland sense of humour unbearable? I just can't relate to it, even though I live on the same Island

    Yes.


  • #5
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,385 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    I can't relate to the humour of most people who live in the same village as me, never mind people in Belfast or Derry.


  • #6
    Ptard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 ✭Ptard


    It's more edgy from what I've seen. I was always called paddy too, so maybe I just kept going in the wrong neighbourhood.

    Meh.


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  • #7
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Examples, please?

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #8
    Degag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,158 ✭✭✭✭Degag


    I know a few people from the North and they're pricks. I'm sure it's just relative though.


  • #9
    qwert2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 373 ✭✭qwert2


    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    Examples, please?

    That Julian head on UTV. Is he supposed to be a comedian? Also do you ever see the way they do children in need related stuff? Cringe. I know this is only TV examples but if that's anything to go by....:eek:


  • #10
    Rodin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭Rodin


    qwert2 wrote: »
    That Julian head on UTV. Is he supposed to be a comedian? Also do you ever see the way they do children in need related stuff? Cringe. I know this is only TV examples but if that's anything to go by....:eek:

    Have you EVER watched any RTE-produced stuff? Fade Bloody St?
    Julian is as representative of N.Ireland as Shirley Temple Bar on that godawful telly bingo is representative of the Republic


  • #11
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,187 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    I'll tell you what's not funny: Sectarian violence.


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  • #12
    battries not included
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 734 ✭✭✭battries not included


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obeyPkLa7QM



    Painful to watch, :(


  • #13
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    qwert2 wrote: »
    That Julian head on UTV. Is he supposed to be a comedian? Also do you ever see the way they do children in need related stuff? Cringe. I know this is only TV examples but if that's anything to go by....:eek:

    I thought that was just gay flight attendent in-humour? Can't say I've watched Chilren in Need at all recently.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #14
    qwert2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 373 ✭✭qwert2


    This sort of unfunny sh1te

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y79bSZWHpgk


  • #15
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    Ulster men are very funny.


  • #16
    Rodin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭Rodin


    I bet you find Brendan O'Carroll funny
    Or Deirdre O'kane, or that other woeful bird who pretends to be a Dublin skanger. Somebody Kavanagh.
    Oh and speaking of Kavanagh's, Richie.


  • #17
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    The republic has some proper ****e comedians who represent them too.


  • #18
    Rodin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭Rodin


    Who's the one that plays the piano all the time?
    David ODoherty?

    And as for PJ Gallagher!?!


  • #19
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,385 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    qwert2 wrote: »
    This sort of unfunny sh1te

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y79bSZWHpgk

    As opposed to this top-notch comedy...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw6vjJJeGZo


  • #20
    qwert2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 373 ✭✭qwert2


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Ulster men are very funny.


    Ulster people beleive their funny. You'd have to be that self-delusional to produce an embarrassment like this......:eek:


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3yUTvX260I


    I reckon 'that side of the community' have the worse sense of humour on the entire planet


  • #21
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    Good argument.. :rolleyes:

    What do you base your argument on anyway? Iv met a lot of funny people in Northern Ireland.


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  • #22
    smk89
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,163 ✭✭✭smk89


    Maybe I'm biased but these are pretty good!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVrSgLNFToM


    Or maybe you need translation.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJH3_mYFPYc


  • #23
    Phony Scott
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 682 ✭✭✭Phony Scott


    Certainly when I was a kid, everyone in the North listened to John McBlain and his impersonations of Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams were priceless. Word of caution, it's pretty offensive stuff.

    sample


  • #24
    Mahatma coat
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,869 ✭✭✭Mahatma coat


    MAny of My Generation had This D!KKHead as our First introduction th Northern Irish Comedians
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvnL8bQmygE

    So Ya can see why we would have a such Low opinion of Norhtern Comedy.


    Altho in defence of the Province Patrick Kielty is A Funny Cnut


  • #25
    Bottle_of_Smoke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,769 ✭✭✭Bottle_of_Smoke


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kN15IZGeMg


    They are allegedly the GAA results but we've heard this all before so how can we be expected to believe them without any conclusive photographic evidenceeeeeee


  • #26
    Bottle_of_Smoke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,769 ✭✭✭Bottle_of_Smoke


    Semtex
    Murder
    Being offended
    Religion
    Van Morrison
    Harp Lager
    Cross border shoppers
    Soda Farls
    George Best
    Blaming others
    Messing with how vowels are supposed tee soynd
    Avoiding Yes/No answers
    Pretending not to know where Derry/Londonderry is
    Bitterness
    Hating Free-Staters
    Poppies
    Flutes
    Burning flags
    Glasgow football
    Ballymena Shopping Centre
    Sectarianism
    Tattoos
    The Giants Causeway
    The NHS
    Going on about being hit with rubber bullets
    Give My Head Peace
    Bushmills
    The Undertones
    Petrol Bombs
    Murals
    GAA
    Hating GAA
    Knee Cappings
    Percieved Discrimination
    Translink
    Crossing the border to get social welfare.


  • #27
    citytillidie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,210 ✭✭✭✭citytillidie


    Bottle_of_Smoke wrote: »
    The Giants Causeway
    The Undertones

    Being from Northern Ireland i have updated your list of what i so called love

    ******



  • #28
    getz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,255 ✭✭✭getz


    Mahatma coat wrote: »
    MAny of My Generation had This D!KKHead as our First introduction th Northern Irish Comedians
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvnL8bQmygE

    So Ya can see why we would have a such Low opinion of Norhtern Comedy.


    Altho in defence of the Province Patrick Kielty is A Funny Cnut
    how can you call frank carson ?,he is a legend,a comedians comedian,one of the most loved funny men in the UK,works a lot not very far from me in blackpool lancashire,i see him a lot and he always has time to talk to anyone who he meets, a very funny man


  • #29
    Bottle_of_Smoke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,769 ✭✭✭Bottle_of_Smoke


    citytillidie wrote: »
    Being from Northern Ireland i have updated your list of what i so called love

    you don't like soda farls?:eek:


  • #30
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Irish comedy shíte across the island purely because everyone thinks they ARE a comedian.


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  • #31
    Donal Og O Baelach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 534 ✭✭✭Donal Og O Baelach


    Thought "Give my head peace" wasn't too bad, but in the main the typical nordy humour seems to involve a man dressed up as a woman shouting and waving at a crowd. To illustrate - compare and contrast next years BBC comic relief to the BBC NI comic relief.


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