Forgotten Irish sitcoms.

El Tarangu wrote: »

This is a UK one, so doesn't count, strictly speaking but has an Irish main character: Tommy Tiernan, years ago, had his own sitcom called 'Small Potatoes'. It featured him and the British-Indian comic (who was 'Goodness Gracious Me' and lots of other stuff) as two lads working in a video shop. In the first episode he goes back to his hometown to visit his school or something - strange show. On late at night on BBC 2. I think that they produced one season and that was it. I'm not sure Tiernan did many other acting gigs between this show and Derry Girls.

The Mulk wrote: »

I enjoyed that, the pub where the quiz was held was the Celbridge Manor bar(while it was closed for renovations).There were a few scenes filmed around the Main St. too. It was light enough, and the characters were good

I Am The Law wrote: »

What a totally depressing list of horsesh1t, for a country with a great sense of humor, you would have to wonder how this crap gets commissioned?

George White wrote: »

Wrote notes in a daze of shock and surprise.
It begins with Ruth McCabe singing, " you ate all pies, you ate all the pies, you fat bastard, you ate all the pies."

They live in a freezing cold house with no electricity.
There is a mix of Northern and South accents.
Begins with mother's sixtieth birthday
"hailstones - french bastards - testing stuff in the sea, burning sheep"
Broangh Gallagher - too good for this. She was in Pulp fiction, you know.
winter fuel is actually burning wooden furniture,
A poor painting of the queen, "no happy queen but a glum virgin""the crying virgin"
clash of acting styles - d'unbelievables don't do well in the background
"Van morrison" is "grumpy bitch"
The exteriors look older than 2000 - father ted-style cuts to burning sheep
mother falling through the roof - Ruth McCabe proves herself extremely capable, despite given Mrs. Doyle schtick

Mother practices being dead, McCabe relishing her material too far, oversexed, too much gravitas, buried in chelsea home kit, away strip, keep the blue flag flying.
Characters singing Ken Dodd's Tears- while virgin cries
"in the end, i typed up on the screen - sent it electronically"
warwick davis as undertaker, Basil Hodge
Damien Kearney as postman
deirdre o'kane
alistair mcgowan as john motson
Set in Tully McFadden.
rita haill
"asta sighvats"
Bobby a schoolteacher - Deirdre o'Kane his mad ex

Illiterate Jon Kenny- "I never see the word bargain in the oxfam shop".
pick up rocks, sulk the milk out
"thousands starving in kilburn"

st. mungo's school for derelicts - "dear rita, been in love with the back of you head"
Kennedy the gay son cries, "my vocal cords were black" - Billy Carter proves he is better - Jeffrey Holland quality
"young man who grinds the poridge", "hair reminds of hairy boiling water, suffering from alopecia "

Deirdre O'Kane as a random assasin/spurned lover.
"what's the use in being queer if nobody knows about it"
Lost son, Nevan Finnegan as ludovic Kennedy- ludovic - mick hucknall's frigigng love bastard ("I thought he looked like Charlie Drake")
hamish Mccoll and Sean Foley as the soldiers.

Damien Fitzgerald - the unseen 7th member, a footballer for Chelsea - "Damien's chelsea custards"
"Oliver Mannion as mick maccattackney"
"john brobbey as tennessee" - the black soldier.
Jon Kenny's character John F started work wiping sweat off a blacksmith age six - they took the Janet and John books off the curriculm- there were no lesbians in them so they became outdated, so they have to go to Dublin to find a book in the series to educate John F.
a dealer in dublin to get the book
Eddie Nestor from the Real McCoy as an African, Naquila Mambembo
Cast include Max Clifford-groomed Anglo-Irish pop teenybopper Declan Galbraith, Billy mulligan. Martin mulligan, Ciaran Owen, Liam Donaghy, Anthony O'Reilley
leaving the sois cake -"can't bear putting on weight after i die"
Shipping news is seen as a load of craic
Fair City's Vivienne, Helen Norton as lollipop lady