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David Mc Savage - the savage eye very very funny

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  • #32
    Aidric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,598 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    The Savage Eye is genuinely the best comedy output from RTE in my lifetime. Biting satire has been sorely missed from the schedules so you can say he has filled a gap.

    The people dismissing it have a pre disposed hatred of McSavage so I tend to discount their opinions. Any rational analysis would conclude that this show is a cut above the rest.

    Well done McSavage and thanks for the genuine lols.


  • #33
    Dempsey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,529 ✭✭✭✭Dempsey


    Rud wrote: »
    The Barman is easily the best character in the programme QWAAAAAAARRRRREEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS

    Are ya ****en jokin' me?!


  • #34
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    teaandtoast wrote: »
    I never saw david mc savage in interviews. what way does he go on that make you think he is odd?

    The latest comes to mind - http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=1142003

    25 mins onward.


  • #35
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Funny how?

    What's funny about it?

    I mean, funny like a clown, he amuses you?


  • #36
    Aidric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,598 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    Funny how?

    What's funny about it?

    I mean, funny like a clown, he amuses you?

    'The Irish, they have the homeland'


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  • #37
    Samich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,949 ✭✭✭Samich


    That Joe Duffy thing is old, it was old on boards never mind when people started doing it on tv and radio.


  • #38
    Badhb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 82 ✭✭Badhb


    Aidric wrote: »
    The Savage Eye is genuinely the best comedy output from RTE in my lifetime. Biting satire has been sorely missed from the schedules so you can say he has filled a gap.

    The people dismissing it have a pre disposed hatred of McSavage so I tend to discount their opinions. Any rational analysis would conclude that this show is a cut above the rest.

    Well done McSavage and thanks for the genuine lols.

    I agree. Although I reckon the state of Irish satire is seriously muzzled, there are some hard hitting questions that would make most people really hate Savage Eye if they were to even to approach the outskirts of those things...nonetheless, at least Savage Eye gets the stating out of the absolute feckin obvious outta the way....


  • #39
    Aidric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,598 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    Badhb wrote: »
    I agree. Although I reckon the state of Irish satire is seriously muzzled, there are some hard hitting questions that would make most people really hate Savage Eye if they were to even to approach the outskirts of those things...nonetheless, at least Savage Eye gets the stating out of the absolute feckin obvious outta the way....

    When you think about how this country has been through the mire these last few years, there is ample opportunity for satire. What a shame it hasn't been embraced in the way it should.


  • #40
    teaandtoast
    Closed Accounts Posts: 186 ✭✭teaandtoast


    Aidric wrote: »
    The Savage Eye is genuinely the best comedy output from RTE in my lifetime. Biting satire has been sorely missed from the schedules so you can say he has filled a gap.

    The people dismissing it have a pre disposed hatred of McSavage so I tend to discount their opinions. Any rational analysis would conclude that this show is a cut above the rest.

    Well done McSavage and thanks for the genuine lols.

    Well Savage eye is very funny seems that a good lot of people arn't all that rational to see as funny which it is.


  • #41
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    Gotta love the Irish. Funniest people on earth, yet we hate most of our own comedians. Thankfully, we seem to have found one that at least 50% of the population doesn't think is a feckin' eejit.


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  • #42
    nowaydaveyK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭nowaydaveyK


    Best comedy rte have put together anyway. Its no father ted but they missed the boat on that one. Lovin the new series, let any Nae Sayers change the channel.


  • #43
    Badhb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 82 ✭✭Badhb


    Aidric wrote: »
    When you think about how this country has been through the mire these last few years, there is ample opportunity for satire. What a shame it hasn't been embraced in the way it should.

    not really. there seems to be some kind of state of shame existing. Look at the language regarding our political figures and how they represent their country abroad. There seems to be this kind of insinstence of assuming a a bold adolescent child image and fear of what the neighbours, like the germans and other eu imf characters might think of us?

    Every radio show I listen to is full of folk moaning how we are not representing ourselves abroad. It is as bad as McSavage going on about Emers.

    It seems we have to pretend to be bold,confident, full of piss, ready to conquer the world with our our newly acquired entrepeneurial skills.... ffs who on earth can do this other than a luckily born born member of the class who are comfortable enough to chose these things?

    Enough hints?? Huh. My thanks would be the ceasing of the crap Emer sterotyping ok contacts boy?


  • #44
    Randy Anders
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 219 ✭✭Randy Anders


    Hilarious show

    He was very good on the Brendan O'Connor show aswel imo


  • #45
    teaandtoast
    Closed Accounts Posts: 186 ✭✭teaandtoast


    CrazyRabbit wrote: »
    Gotta love the Irish. Funniest people on earth, yet we hate most of our own comedians. Thankfully, we seem to have found one that at least 50% of the population doesn't think is a feckin' eejit.

    Irish people are funny? I know a good few people from northern Ireland who are very funny and witty and the odd one down here. I find northern Irish people very witty from my experience.


  • #46
    John Doe1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭John Doe1


    I saw him do his stand up-thing on grafton street way back, was atrocious

    Savage eye-Surprisingly good


  • #47
    teaandtoast
    Closed Accounts Posts: 186 ✭✭teaandtoast


    Agricola wrote: »
    The latest comes to mind - http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=1142003

    25 mins onward.

    That is how he is, he is eccentric. It maybe an act for tv so people will watch him because they cannot predict what he is going to be talking about.


  • #48
    gammygils
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,703 ✭✭✭✭gammygils


    Mick ''The Bull'' Daly is an absolute legend


  • #49
    kryogen
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    Has the mac come full circle? surely not?

    people find him funny again.........hmmmmm........

    tell you what, he is still one of the most unpleasant people I have ever had to endure on a personal level! some parts of that show are alright I guess


  • #50
    Aidric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,598 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    kryogen wrote: »
    tell you what, he is still one of the most unpleasant people I have ever had to endure on a personal level!

    How?


  • #51
    gammygils
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,703 ✭✭✭✭gammygils


    superstoner90 wrote: »
    Whats the story with the buck in the bird cage?
    He's Nick Robinson husband of President For Life Mary Robinson. Dave's view of Nick who's always in the background and never says anything hence the cage


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  • #52
    Aidric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,598 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    gammygils wrote: »
    He's Nick Robinson husband of President For Life Mary Robinson. Dave's view of Nick who's always in the background and never says anything hence the cage

    It's pretty tragic when you have to explain the jokes to people.


  • #53
    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    Aidric wrote: »
    How?

    There used to be a voicemail message floating around allegedly of him bitching and moaning because this club-owner wouldn't book him for any more gigs. Fairly vicious stuff.


  • #54
    alphabeat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 514 ✭✭✭alphabeat


    hes fcuking fantastic.
    first time ive laughed at anything on RTE in years, apart from RTE itself .


  • #55
    Badhb
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    Marleigh Noisy Significant wrote: »
    There used to be a voicemail message floating around allegedly of him bitching and moaning because this club-owner wouldn't book him for any more gigs. Fairly vicious stuff.


    That is really pathetic Marleigh Noisy Significant, as much I am up for an auld exposé of a mean celeb who hides behind big toothy hollywood smiles that is just deliberately unsubstantiated rubbish, vicious stuf indeed, in your own words, knowing damn well that you need some proof of the actuality behind it.


  • #56
    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    Badhb wrote: »
    That is really pathetic Frada, as much I am up for an auld exposé of a mean celeb who hides behind big toothy hollywood smiles that is just deliberately unsubstantstiatecd rubbish, vicious stuf indeed, in your own words, knowing damn well that you need some proof of the actuality behind it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVvg_Wfha8U


    Allegedly.


  • #57
    Aidric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,598 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    Quite frankly I couldn't give two fúcks about what he did before this. I am just going to judge this show on its merits and it stacks up quite well.


  • #58
    teaandtoast
    Closed Accounts Posts: 186 ✭✭teaandtoast


    Marleigh Noisy Significant wrote: »
    There used to be a voicemail message floating around allegedly of him bitching and moaning because this club-owner wouldn't book him for any more gigs. Fairly vicious stuff.

    Well... are comedians suppose to a moral pillar of humanity? Alot of club owners would sell their own granny for money.


  • #59
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Marleigh Noisy Significant wrote: »

    I don't see too much wrong with that tbh.


  • #60
    Badhb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 82 ✭✭Badhb


    Frada, from my observances of mcsavage on the street- they will always stay with me. He would be someobody I would be very reluctant to include into my circle of friends.

    Nonetheless, whatever of a misogynist, príck he is or has been, the man has talent. And his television shows are a damn sight better than some kind of jokey isnt it grate to be oirish shyte than is the usual fare.

    I suspect he is only developing. I hope he gets bolder.


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  • #61
    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    teaandtoast wrote: »
    Well... are comedians suppose to a moral pillar of humanity? Alot of club owners would sell their own granny for money.

    No, not at all. I was just answering a question as to how he could be considered an (allegedly) unpleasant person personally and substantiating my earlier "unsubstantiated" claims. I couldn't give a bollocks what he's like, though.


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