Baz the lost Muslim

hurikane · 22-12-2015 12:06AM #1

How has this fella gone from strength to strength? Can't watch him for more than 5 minutes.

I thought getting done for drink driving would spell the end for him. Didn't think I'd ever have to look at him on the box ever again.

kettlehead · 22-12-2015 12:09AM

It's actually a pretty good show and he seems a decent sort, if a bit naive. The show is a bit biased but worth a gander. Even with that bias, there is a lot of worrying stuff on it.

frag420 · 22-12-2015 12:09AM

You should use those buttons on the chsnnel changer contraption to change station to something else......

MaryAntoinette · 22-12-2015 12:11AM

He will be on the front cover of the RTE guide next.

Lights On · 22-12-2015 12:16AM

He went from strength to strength by posting threads online about TV presenters he didn't like :P

Wasn't a bad first show to be fair, more interested in part two as it deals with the fallout from Paris and the more radical sides of the religion.

Jan Laco · 22-12-2015 12:16AM

Baz the couldn't use you in any other production any more because your mom got tired and we all got to love muslim trend is in

kneemos · 22-12-2015 12:18AM

Owns the franchise for that mother son stunt scenario,pretty popular in parts apparently.
Looks a fairly inoffensive sort what I've seen of him.

Dirty Dingus McGee · 22-12-2015 12:37AM

kneemos wrote: »

Owns the franchise for that mother son stunt scenario,pretty popular in parts apparently.
Looks a fairly inoffensive sort what I've seen of him.

How the **** will that work.

I can't imagine there would be anyway of stopping someone making a similar programme or making money off a similar programme.

Ally Dick · 22-12-2015 12:40AM

He's a condescending, patronising unfunny @rsehole. Unfortunately he has an Emmy award for his patronising, condescending show with his mother. I would hope that in the not too distant future, a stunt goes horribly wrong, similar to the Late Late Breakfast show, and the show is cancelled following the funerals

batistuta9 · 22-12-2015 12:43AM

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

How the **** will that work.

I can't imagine there would be anyway of stopping someone making a similar programme or making money off a similar programme.

Copyright

kneemos · 22-12-2015 12:44AM

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

How the **** will that work.

I can't imagine there would be anyway of stopping someone making a similar programme or making money off a similar programme.

Same as Top Gear or X Factor.Similar to a patent I presume.

Dirty Dingus McGee · 22-12-2015 12:48AM

kneemos wrote: »

Same as Top Gear or X Factor.Similar to a patent I presume.

Couldn't you just change the name slightly alter the format.

If you can copyright this format could you copyright the format of Frasier Seinfeld etc even though if you did so it would impossible to 100% prove someone was copying those shows.

nokia69 · 22-12-2015 12:50AM

That travel show he did years ago was one of the worse things RTE have ever made

him and his friends were the biggest assholes on the planet :mad:

Hammer89 · 22-12-2015 12:51AM

Don't see anything wrong with the bloke myself.

Billy86 · 22-12-2015 12:54AM

Jan Laco wrote: »

we all got to love muslim trend is in

Sentence be say us the word make no.

HamsterFace · 22-12-2015 12:57AM

nokia69 wrote: »

That travel show he did years ago was one of the worse things RTE have ever made

him and his friends were the biggest assholes on the planet :mad:

Hated that, but have softened towards him. The mammy show is actually good, this doc isn't too deep but a fairly easy watch.

kneemos · 22-12-2015 01:05AM

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

Couldn't you just change the name slightly alter the format.

If you can copyright this format could you copyright the format of Frasier Seinfeld etc even though if you did so it would impossible to 100% prove someone was copying those shows.

If it was similar yeah.The BBC has a ****e load of original programmes franchised around the world.
Game shows are all copies of each,as are things like Gogglebox and QI.

Dirty Dingus McGee · 22-12-2015 01:23AM

kneemos wrote: »

If it was similar yeah.The BBC has a ****e load of original programmes franchised around the world.
Game shows are all copies of each,as are things like Gogglebox and QI.

Gameshows are quite restrictive formats though.

I'd imagine it would be very easy to do something with the same effect but not actually directly copy the show.

A travel programme would be very easy to copy without directly copying it.You could make an argument that any travel show that involves travelling around the world , going to the Himalaya's,Brazil etc is a copy of Michael Palins show but I'd imagine it wouldn't have a chance of holding up.

sligojoek · 22-12-2015 01:32AM

So when are we getting a programme to tell us how great the protestants are?

RikkFlair · 22-12-2015 01:33AM

The bit on Ballyhaunis I found interesting, had no idea there was a mosque there.

Junkyard Tom · 22-12-2015 01:39AM

Ally Dick wrote: »

I would hope that in the not too distant future, a stunt goes horribly wrong, similar to the Late Late Breakfast show, and the show is cancelled following the funerals

That's a most irrational level of hate you've got going on there.

Billy86 · 22-12-2015 02:49AM

kneemos wrote: »

If it was similar yeah.The BBC has a ****e load of original programmes franchised around the world.
Game shows are all copies of each,as are things like Gogglebox and QI.

RTE's most successful ever show? Apparently, The f'king Lyrics Board - adapted by no less than 14 other countries! Though it looks like Lebanon cancelled theirs this year, which was the only one still running.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lyrics_Board

Ally Dick · 22-12-2015 02:54AM

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

That's a most irrational level of hate you've got going on there.

Nah. I'm sick of him and his "mammy". Time for them both to go

Herb Powell · 22-12-2015 03:01AM

Ally Dick wrote: »

He's a condescending, patronising unfunny @rsehole. Unfortunately he has an Emmy award for his patronising, condescending show with his mother. I would hope that in the not too distant future, a stunt goes horribly wrong, similar to the Late Late Breakfast show, and the show is cancelled following the funerals

Ally Dick wrote: »

Nah. I'm sick of him and his "mammy". Time for them both to go

Ally-hu Akbar ??

Paramite Pie · 22-12-2015 03:04AM

sligojoek wrote: »

So when are we getting a programme to tell us how great the protestants are?

A lot of people know very little about Muslims in this country and their daily lives - hence the show. What harm is it?

Most of us are well versed on Catholics & Protestants. Even then, I'm sure there has been shows about them over the years.

KungPao · 22-12-2015 03:51AM

I have only seen the first part so far. Not bad, but it felt like those second-rate reality docs you'd see with Reggie Yates on BBC 3. Easy to watch and doesn't really challenge the viewer.

I also don't buy his ignorance of all things Islam...defo hamming it up for the cameras.

topmanamillion · 22-12-2015 04:04AM

KungPao wrote: »

I have only seen the first part so far. Not bad, but it felt like those second-rate reality docs you'd see with Reggie Yates on BBC 3. Easy to watch and doesn't really challenge the viewer.

I also don't buy his ignorance of all things Islam...defo hamming it up for the cameras.

Ya definitely. His father was a Muslim after all and Baz spent his younger years as a Muslim until his mother converted him to catholicism. I heard him saying his half sister is a Muslim and I can only assume he has a lot more relatives who are Muslims too. Very unbelievable that he would be as clueless as he's letting on.

nokia69 · 22-12-2015 05:01AM

KungPao wrote: »

I have only seen the first part so far. Not bad, but it felt like those second-rate reality docs you'd see with Reggie Yates on BBC 3. Easy to watch and doesn't really challenge the viewer.

I also don't buy his ignorance of all things Islam...defo hamming it up for the cameras.

yeah its just propaganda to soften people up for the thousands of Syrians and other muslims that will be arriving in the years ahead

I see the same thing on the BBC all the time, and I bet its the same all over western Europe

its very easy to brain wash people

Subcomandante Marcos · 22-12-2015 05:16AM

topmanamillion wrote: »

Ya definitely. His father was a Muslim after all and Baz spent his younger years as a Muslim until his mother converted him to catholicism. I heard him saying his half sister is a Muslim and I can only assume he has a lot more relatives who are Muslims too. Very unbelievable that he would be as clueless as he's letting on.

He moved to Ireland when he was 8 after his parents got divorced, he didn't even meet his sister until he was 17 or 18, she's his fathers daughter from his second marriage.
He lived in Egypt for something like 2 years after finishing his leaving cert but Cairo in the mid 90's wasn't exactly like living in Riyadh, he could have been living there and not practising like millions of other Muslims in the city.

So his experience of "practising" Islam came from being a toddler until he was 8, and then a handful of years in his early adulthood. I'd be stunned if he was aware of the ins and outs of it all.

aphex™ · 22-12-2015 10:45AM

nokia69 wrote: »

yeah its just propaganda to soften people up for the thousands of Syrians and other muslims that will be arriving in the years ahead

I see the same thing on the BBC all the time, and I bet its the same all over western Europe

its very easy to brain wash people

Then if you look at BBC topical and local discussion shows it's all local issues about how they go about integrating muslim/sharia law fanatics into society.

Sick of hearing about it.

granturismo · 22-12-2015 11:24AM

KungPao wrote: »

I also don't buy his ignorance of all things Islam...defo hamming it up for the cameras.

And his 'tears' after muslim prayers with the american in Ballyhaunis in episode 1. If they were genuine they were probably due to memories of praying with his father as a child, he gave the impression that he was emotional after having some sort of religious experience.

Baz the lost Muslim

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