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RTE Refuses to broadcast comedy sketch

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  • #32
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 40,107 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Just because he can do an impression of Mary Robinson doesn't mean he should. Totally unfunny and 20 years too late (as is the nun sketch - pre-Fr Ted it might have been seen as a bit daring to anyone who didn't get to see Dave Allen on BBC in the 70s.)

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



  • #33
    geeky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,380 ✭✭✭geeky


    Cabaal wrote: »
    McSavage says they banned it, so until we have other information to say what the situation thats the best available info for why rte won't air it.

    If it just didn't make the editing cut due to time reasons or it was "unfunny" then fair enough, however given the other "comedy" McSavage churns out I don't see how this clip is "unfunny" :)

    It's always easier to cry censorship than do a bit of self-examination ;)
    Eeden wrote: »
    Having seen what RTE heads have "allowed" to be broadcast as comedy down the years, I doubt if the reason they won't show this is because they don't think it's funny...!

    A fair point! But we can't rule out an attack of decent taste.

    Honestly, this smacks of McSavage looking to drum up a bit of controversy and attention by playing the censorship card.


  • #34
    Birroc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,070 ✭✭✭Birroc


    Just to lighten the mood...

    http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/media/david-mcsavage-accuses-rt%C3%A9-of-dictatorial-censorship-1.1826056


  • #35
    Elektronske
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭Elektronske


    Birroc wrote: »
    Just to lighten the mood...

    Ireland has a very weird sense of humour to say the least.
    I don't find this funny in this thread, there is already a thread on it.


  • #36
    Birroc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,070 ✭✭✭Birroc


    Elektronske wrote: »
    Ireland has a very weird sense of humour to say the least.
    I don't find this funny in this thread, there is already a thread on it.

    I found the comment from RTE interesting: "the sketch might suggest the broadcaster had no respect for the sacredness that Christian viewers attribute to this iconography"

    They must have missed this sketch



    Now do you get it?


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  • #37
    Birroc
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  • #38
    Cabaal
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    http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/media/david-mcsavage-accuses-rt%C3%A9-of-dictatorial-censorship-1.1826056
    Comedian David McSavage has accused RTÉ of engaging in “dictatorial” censorship by refusing to broadcast a sketch entitled Wild Nuns.
    This evening the comedian released an email which he said came from RTÉ where he was warned the sketch might suggest the broadcaster had “no respect for the sacredness that Christian viewers attribute to this iconography”.

    The email went on to warn that broadcasting the sketch could “very quickly generate the potential for justifiable offence from viewers of the Christian faith”.
    “RTÉ, having considered its own guidelines, and mindful of broadcasting legislation and codes, judged that this sketch as presented could cause undue offence.”

    Sounds like they are worried about the blasphemy law?

    So, hang on, they won't show the ****ty sketch with the nuns, but they'll show this sketch which is very offensive to Muslims

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj-Xm1j6Xcw


    double standards much?


  • #39
    Mint Sauce
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    Probably for the same reasons why they turned down Fr Ted before the makers took it to Channel 4.


  • #40
    SebBerkovich
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    I think it's a bigger scandal that RTE "dictatorially" refuses to broadcast any comedy that might be considered funny to viewers*.


    *Catholic or otherwise.


  • #41
    Mint Sauce
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    Cabaal wrote: »
    http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/media/david-mcsavage-accuses-rt%C3%A9-of-dictatorial-censorship-1.1826056







    Sounds like they are worried about the blasphemy law?

    So, hang on, they won't show the ****ty sketch with the nuns, but they'll show this sketch which is very offensive to Muslims

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj-Xm1j6Xcw


    double standards much?

    Like a lot of his stuff, I just find that unfunny. But can see were the offence to Muslims could be caused.


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  • #42
    Hesh's Umpire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 732 ✭✭✭Hesh's Umpire


    Cabaal wrote: »
    they'll show this sketch which is very offensive to Muslims

    Very offensive to comedy anyway


  • #43
    JohnFalstaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 899 ✭✭✭JohnFalstaff


    Mint Sauce wrote: »
    Probably for the same reasons why they turned down Fr Ted before the makers took it to Channel 4.

    That's a bit of an urban myth. RTE were never offered Father Ted.


  • #44
    Cabaal
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    JohnFalstaff wrote: »
    That's a bit of an urban myth. RTE were never offered Father Ted.

    http://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/may/27/graham-linehan-twitter-has-made-me
    And there's another one, about him and Mathews having originally offering Father Ted to RTE, the Irish station. "We'd as soon have offered it to Waterford Crystal," he jokes. "They'd have had as much idea what to do with it." But still the rumours go on. Damn you, internet.

    seems you are correct good sir,

    Still, when RTE did eventually air Fr Ted there were alot of complaints and I remember a debate on the Late Late about it


  • #45
    JohnFalstaff
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    Cabaal wrote: »

    Still, when RTE did eventually air Fr Ted there were alot of complaints and I remember a debate on the Late Late about it

    RTE had no problem airing Dermot Morgan's earlier priestly incarnation - Father Trendy!

    And that was back in the early 80's if memory serves, although twas fairly harmless stuff...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FHr7btvbuQ


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR2WgD_Ignk


  • #46
    Elektronske
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭Elektronske


    Birroc wrote: »

    Now do you get it?

    No, I find savage eye 'comedy', dull, strange and warped, and especially irrelevant in a serious thread.


  • #47
    Birroc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,070 ✭✭✭Birroc


    Elektronske wrote: »
    No, I find savage eye 'comedy', dull, strange and warped, and especially irrelevant in a serious thread.

    Fail. You completely missed the question. On purpose I believe. The question was about double standards. You sense of humour is irrelevant.


  • #48
    Elektronske
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭Elektronske


    Birroc wrote: »
    Fail. You completely missed the question. On purpose I believe. The question was about double standards. You sense of humour is irrelevant.

    What question ? And my opinion about what is comedy is as relevant as yours.


  • #49
    Birroc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,070 ✭✭✭Birroc


    Elektronske wrote: »
    What question ? And my opinion about what is comedy is as relevant as yours.

    Post #36, you already replied to it so you know the question.


  • #50
    Elektronske
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭Elektronske


    Birroc wrote: »
    Post #36, you already replied to it so you know the question.

    And yet in your last post you claimed I missed the question

    Your question was, after posting a 'comedy' video (which the moderator had to move) on a thread about the Tuam babies was :

    "Now, do you get it"

    I answered :

    "No, I find savage eye 'comedy', dull, strange and warped, and especially irrelevant in a serious thread."

    So please explain what question did I miss ?


  • #51
    Birroc
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    Elektronske wrote: »
    And yet in your last post you claimed I missed the question

    Your question was, after posting a 'comedy' video (which the moderator had to move) on a thread about the Tuam babies was :

    "Now, do you get it"

    I answered :

    "No, I find savage eye 'comedy', dull, strange and warped, and especially irrelevant in a serious thread."

    So please explain what question did I miss ?

    The double standards from rte?


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  • #52
    freyners
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    I wonder where that nutter with the RTE is anti catholic sign is now


  • #53
    Cabaal
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    JohnFalstaff wrote: »
    RTE had no problem airing Dermot Morgan's earlier priestly incarnation - Father Trendy!

    And that was back in the early 80's if memory serves, although twas fairly harmless stuff...

    People saw no problem with "Father Trendy",

    Why? Because it was only making light of the singing priest. Tony Walsh....a sick and twisted bastard who was in the eye of the media for years as the singing priest....oh it was all fun and laughs back then.

    The sick f*ck has since been sentenced to 123 years,


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