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Callan Kicks The Year

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 853 ✭✭✭Pappa Charlie


    I'd say if Mario walked of a cliff Callen would run after him, Utter tripe!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭Howard Juneau


    Caught the last few minutes of it, all I saw was 3 tits, Georgia Salpa's & Dobbo


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,740 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    It wasn't great but it passed an hour, the blonde one did a good impression of S Ni B


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


    Hes very good at Dobson to be fair to him. Easy see why he was the main character that held the show together.

    Think Callan's problem is that he hasnt really a satirical bone in his body. Rosenstock is miles ahead of him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,792 ✭✭✭SureYWouldntYa


    Never mind kicking the year i wish he'd kick the bucket


  • Registered Users Posts: 444 ✭✭Ernest


    Actually I disagree with most responses here. I thought this show was rather good. I found myself laughing several times despite having braced myself for another RTE comedy disaster like Mario Rosenstock's show and Irish Pictorial Weekly.

    Here there were really excellent, skillful and amusing impressions of Brian Dobson, David Davin Power, Sharon Nee Beolan, Marian Finucane, Miriam O'Callaghan, Pascal Sheehy, Des Cahill, James Reilly, Mee-Haul Martin, Lucinda Crawthump, etc with well-observed funny lines. The Dundalk Abbey sketch was amusing when I got the hang of what they were driving at. The Gerry Adams cleaning-up sketch was clever though not all that funny. The Ryan Tubridy and Tom Cruise impressions were good and even funny. The Fiann Fail pack in disarray was good too, I thought.

    Not everything on the show worked, though. The Enda Kenny impression was not good enough and the Troika sketch fairly weak, I thought. The George Hook family(?) scene was poor with everybody in the room except George having balded heads stuck on, for some reason I couldn't fathom and stuffing their mouths in a disgusting manner. The President Higgins sketch might have been funny if they had left out that annoying little shrieking whinny they have the President doing which is neither accurate nor amusing. The John Kelly item (The Works) did not work well either despite its clever atmospheric introduction. The Daithi O Shea impersonation was off the mark too. The long Derek Mooney sketch was not very funny and seemed to go on interminably (a common fault with RTE comedy).

    This was a one-hour long programme and, to be fair, it was clever and funny and perhaps the best comedy sketch show RTE have produced so far.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,657 ✭✭✭CountyHurler


    I think it should be noted that it is extremely hard to write, produce and act out all of the sketches AND be funny doing it... I would be the first to criticise Callan if it was bad, but it was more than passable... A few hits and a few misses, but it was a good effort.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭Shout Dust


    I think it should be noted that it is extremely hard to write, produce and act out all of the sketches AND be funny doing it... I would be the first to criticise Callan if it was bad, but it was more than passable... A few hits and a few misses, but it was a good effort.

    That shouldn't be noted at all. The funny should come first, and the rest follow.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 853 ✭✭✭Pappa Charlie


    Twas ****e!


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    As funny as the forum is relentlessly negative.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,884 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Ernest wrote: »
    Actually I disagree with most responses here. I thought this show was rather good. I found myself laughing several times despite having braced myself for another RTE comedy disaster like Mario Rosenstock's show and Irish Pictorial Weekly.

    Here there were really excellent, skillful and amusing impressions of Brian Dobson, David Davin Power, Sharon Nee Beolan, Marian Finucane, Miriam O'Callaghan, Pascal Sheehy, Des Cahill, James Reilly, Mee-Haul Martin, Lucinda Crawthump, etc with well-observed funny lines. The Dundalk Abbey sketch was amusing when I got the hang of what they were driving at. The Gerry Adams cleaning-up sketch was clever though not all that funny. The Ryan Tubridy and Tom Cruise impressions were good and even funny. The Fiann Fail pack in disarray was good too, I thought.

    Not everything on the show worked, though. The Enda Kenny impression was not good enough and the Troika sketch fairly weak, I thought. The George Hook family(?) scene was poor with everybody in the room except George having balded heads stuck on, for some reason I couldn't fathom and stuffing their mouths in a disgusting manner. The President Higgins sketch might have been funny if they had left out that annoying little shrieking whinny they have the President doing which is neither accurate nor amusing. The John Kelly item (The Works) did not work well either despite its clever atmospheric introduction. The Daithi O Shea impersonation was off the mark too. The long Derek Mooney sketch was not very funny and seemed to go on interminably (a common fault with RTE comedy).

    This was a one-hour long programme and, to be fair, it was clever and funny and perhaps the best comedy sketch show RTE have produced so far.

    Sorry Ernest but Barry Murphy is miles ahead of anyone in this country at political satire.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,943 ✭✭✭smcgiff


    Pretty much what Ernest said.

    Although I thought the Daithi sketch worked very well.

    Maybe it's because I've seen more of Mario, I've found far more in Callan's sketch's than Mario's, which more often than not leave me cold.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,992 ✭✭✭Radio5


    Some of it was really good. Des Cahill, the 6 One crowd and the Fianna Failers were good. The Derek Mooney one wasn't bad but as Earnest says it needed to be shorter.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,657 ✭✭✭CountyHurler


    mfceiling wrote: »
    Sorry Ernest but Barry Murphy is miles ahead of anyone in this country at political satire.

    The problem with every comedy show they try to do is that they give ONE a shot to do the whole thing himself... either Barry Murphy, Risteard Cooper, Rosenstock or Callan.. who then try to do ALL the impressions themselves..

    I think The State Of Us was a good example..

    It apparently was co-written by the insufferable Gerry Stembrige, but Risteard Cooper acts ALL of the roles, which meant that some of the impressions were excellent (like Pat Kenny) and some were very poor.

    The only way that they could make a top comedy/parody show is to have a few of the guys join forces.. This would be difficult, especially given the history between Rosenstock and Callan, but no one man can do ALL the impressions and carry a whole comedy series on his own.


  • Registered Users Posts: 206 ✭✭tommytee


    The show was (surprisingly) terrible, expected better :-(


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,507 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    LOSTfan57 wrote: »
    At least the blonde woman is kinda decent looking.....i guess thats a highlight I guess

    Brid O'Connor. She made a very good stab at Sharon Linolium and Miriam, just a pity the running gag was awful. She is a bit of a curvy fox though in fairness, looked great filling Miriams gúna! Georgia Salpa looks like an alien/fish.

    A few bits of the show were funny and he takes off some people much better than others, but overall he works better on the radio. Why RTE thought there was a niche for ANOTHER satire show after Mario, Pictorial Weekly and Savage Eye is beyond me, Id just rather they did one decent one rather than 4 average tending to sh1te offerings.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,582 ✭✭✭dublinman1990


    I looked at the whole hour of this show and didn't find one bit of it funny at all.

    Callan should stick to the radio more often than on TV because I found it brutal to watch and no feelings to naturally laugh at this whatsoever.

    Truly awful stuff from RTE; especially on New Year's Eve.


  • Registered Users Posts: 404 ✭✭dukedalton


    I think it should be noted that it is extremely hard to write, produce and act out all of the sketches AND be funny doing it... I would be the first to criticise Callan if it was bad, but it was more than passable... A few hits and a few misses, but it was a good effort.

    It being difficult is no excuse. Comedy is his profession, for which he's paid well with our license fee. If it was easy we'd all be doing it. I could have performed better sketches than some of the rubbish he served up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88,244 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Looks like he is getting a series on RTE starting soon


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,732 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Bump that thread!

    Next Tuesday (30th.) at 9.30pm

    http://www.rte.ie/tv/programmes/callankickstheyear.html

    Hopefully, less 'Wreck-It Reilly' - a bit overdone at this point.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭MJ23


    Awful. He's not a bit funny. The same stupid gags over and over.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,239 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatFromHue


    I can't say I've ever watched his shows, mainly as there's so many impersonators out there already and they all do alot of the same people.


  • Registered Users Posts: 444 ✭✭Ernest


    Bump that thread!

    Next Tuesday (30th.) at 9.30pm

    http://www.rte.ie/tv/programmes/callankickstheyear.html

    Hopefully, less 'Wreck-It Reilly' - a bit overdone at this point.



    Hopefully, Callan's Tuesday next programme mentioned above won't be as bad as Mario Rosenstock's truly awful effort the other night.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,816 ✭✭✭Baggy Trousers


    I like this Callan show. The man is gifted even if some of the sketches are a bit lame.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,345 ✭✭✭Gits_bone


    These two ************ should stick to the radio. Thing is they can't make enough money off radio impersonations so they try and do live shows which are ****e.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,808 ✭✭✭take everything


    Given the scarcity of Irish satire around (apart from the Dail I suppose) it might be worth a watch.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,636 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    No.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,732 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Eh...nice cheerleaders :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    Threads merged.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    I enjoyed that.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,732 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    That bit about the IFTA'S was quite funny, but the Imelda May was a bit cringeworthy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    I enjoyed that.
    'That's nice' :p



    I really need to stop watching Mrs. Brown's Boys :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,557 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    Good fun for the most part. Marty, Imelda and BOD/Amy were awful though.

    Loved Daithi getting more drunk as the show went on. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,794 ✭✭✭✭Charlie19


    I never heard of him before tonight but I actually enjoyed that, I'd say it's the first rte show to last more than five minutes on my tv, since love hate.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 789 ✭✭✭Triboro


    Gerry and Mary Lou bits were good... Load a crap other than that!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,816 ✭✭✭Baggy Trousers


    Well scripted and funny.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    It beat the socks off Mario Rosenstock's crap. Oliver Callan is hugely under-rated, in my opinion.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84,052 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    Was terrible Joe.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,657 ✭✭✭CountyHurler


    It beat the socks off Mario Rosenstock's crap. Oliver Callan is hugely under-rated, in my opinion.....

    What about the material Harry, I need to know about the material....


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    What about the material Harry, I need to know about the material....

    Material is much improved ;)

    It's as good as the mimicry these days.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭TrustedApple


    Ended up watching the 1st 1/2 of this last night as i was sitting in front of the fire and didn't know where the remote for the sky box was.

    This has to be the worst show i have ever seen on RTE that is post to be funny i was just shaking my head at all of it as i didnt find any of it funny i found it stupid and none of the people he was playing was he like who there post to be another poor poor show made by RTE that gets countless screen time and seasons.

    Your man was Gerry adams sitting with your one ?. Most have been bad if i was unable to work out who some of them where trying to be LoL.

    Also i had no idea who was doing the intro to the things of the year the posh guy who was he ?. Like he was stupid and not funny anyway but couldn't work out who he was as well.

    Daithi isn't even hard to make fun of just sound like your from the west of ireland and your good to go :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,105 ✭✭✭drugstore cowboy


    Your man was Gerry adams sitting with your one ?. Most have been bad if i was unable to work out who some of them where trying to be LoL.

    Also i had no idea who was doing the intro to the things of the year the posh guy who was he ?. Like he was stupid and not funny anyway but couldn't work out who he was as well.

    :
    I thought the whole country knows who Dobbo is?!??! he's on telly 5 nights a week!!!

    I thought it was funnier and edgier than anything Mario Rosenstock can produce along with the dire Pictorial weekly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,074 ✭✭✭pmasterson95


    Its nice to know that the TV license is well spent on idiots like this. Nice job if ya can get it. No talent required. Just show up, get a slot on RTE


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,752 ✭✭✭johnpatrick81


    I thought it was great! Sooooo much better than Rosenstock's drivel.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,345 ✭✭✭Gits_bone


    I thought it was great! Sooooo much better than Rosenstock's drivel.

    If you're comparing it to rosenstocks offering then a funeral would be funnier.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,702 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    It beat the socks off Mario Rosenstock's crap. Oliver Callan is hugely under-rated, in my opinion.....

    I feel the same, Rosenstock feels dated now. Also I think Callan is much better at not just impersonations but also at putting the famous person in unlikely scenarios, key example would be his portrayal of Marty Morrissey as a ladies man playboy who invites all the girls along to the 'Marty Party'. Callan plays him with this huge orange face to reference Marty's fake tan too which just tops it off. When compared to Rosenstocks portrayal of Marty Morrissey there really is no comparison, Callan's version has far more humour to it.

    I reckon since Callan has been on our screens he's getting stronger and stronger, Rosenstock seems to have stood still to me in comparison.

    I thought it was funnier and edgier than anything Mario Rosenstock can produce along with the dire Pictorial weekly.

    He's defintely edgier - in the episode he had Joan Burton mention Denis O'Brien and I can recall a few weeks back where he did a sketch on Rachel and Darina Allen and their perfect, perfect life in Ballymaloe. The sketch satirised 'that thing we never talk about and that our friends in the Irish media never talk about' which was as close to the bone as you're going to get without RTE finding themselves on the end of a court action.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    Ended up watching the 1st 1/2 of this last night as i was sitting in front of the fire and didn't know where the remote for the sky box was.

    This has to be the worst show i have ever seen on RTE that is post to be funny i was just shaking my head at all of it as i didnt find any of it funny i found it stupid and none of the people he was playing was he like who there post to be another poor poor show made by RTE that gets countless screen time and seasons.

    Your man was Gerry adams sitting with your one ?. Most have been bad if i was unable to work out who some of them where trying to be LoL.

    Also i had no idea who was doing the intro to the things of the year the posh guy who was he ?. Like he was stupid and not funny anyway but couldn't work out who he was as well.

    Daithi isn't even hard to make fun of just sound like your from the west of ireland and your good to go :rolleyes:

    If you've never heard of Bryan Dobson or Mary Lou McDonald, then there really isn't much point in watching.

    It would be a bit like myself watching a topical Lithuanian current affairs spoof show, and then complaining that it was rubbish because I didn't know who anybody was :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,657 ✭✭✭CountyHurler


    Just watching again now... anybody else... Love the way that he has serious swipes at his old colleague Tubridy... :pac:


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,309 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    I enjoy Callan a lot, and just watched it now on RTE player. Much better than the Mario Rosenstock christmas special, while it had its moments (Christy Moore etc), it did not have enough material to fill an hour. If they had cut Rosenstock down to the half hour Callan got he would have had more killer than filler.

    Kicks the year was genuinely funny for the most part. The Marty Morrissey sketches are priceless :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,702 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    mzungu wrote: »

    Kicks the year was genuinely funny for the most part. The Marty Morrissey sketches are priceless :D

    Anytime I see Marty Morrissey on RTE now I just can't stopping giggling inside at 'Martys Party' and the group of girls admiring his permatanned forehead.

    Callan had another pisstake earlier last year where he called RTE News reporter Paschal Sheehy 'Plastic Sheeting'. Since then anytime he's on the box me and a mate refer to him as Plastic Sheeting :pac:


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