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Callan's Kicks

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  • #92
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users Posts: 71,528 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    New series starts tonight on Radio 1, 6.30pm.


  • #93
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users Posts: 71,528 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    ‘’You’re an embarrassment, Marty...and that was before you started dancing.’’

    :D


  • #94
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,037 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Thought it was poor.

    He should forget Mary Lou not even close.

    Damian o Reilly ditto.


  • #95
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Apart from Leo and Murphs, I thought it was poor. :(


  • #96
    zell12
    Registered Users Posts: 23,296 ✭✭✭✭zell12




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  • #97
    telekon
    Registered Users Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭telekon


    Just catching up with Callan’s Kicks after giving it a wide berth for several years. It has improved massively. The Leo and Murphs double act is an absolute riot.


  • #98
    boombang
    Registered Users Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭boombang


    I'm really surprised that so many people don't like this show. I think the gags are funny, the impressions often credible, but more importantly I think there's an important commentary on some important political issues in there too. Everybody else seems to have forgotten about the the Garda corruption. Nobody else will dare mention Denis O'Brien. I think there's a useful truth in a lot of it.


  • #99
    neris
    Registered Users Posts: 20,031 ✭✭✭✭neris


    the ifta skit and the gabriel byrne rant werent far off the mark on last fridays show. I like the des cahill skits he does to. its much better then gift grub which has really gone past its sell by date


  • #100
    TheHomeService
    Registered Users Posts: 5,730 ✭✭✭TheHomeService


    boombang wrote: »
    Nobody else will dare mention Denis O'Brien. I think there's a useful truth in a lot of it.

    I would have a lot more respect for Callan's focus on Denis O'Brien if he, Callan, wasn't working for Rupert Murdoch's Sun. To much hypocrisy there for my liking.


  • #101
    boombang
    Registered Users Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭boombang


    TheHomeService wrote: »
    I would have a lot more respect for Callan's focus on Denis O'Brien if he, Callan, wasn't working for Rupert Murdoch's Sun. To much hypocrisy there for my liking.

    Useful to know. Interesting.


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  • #102
    First Up
    Registered Users Posts: 14,822 ✭✭✭✭First Up


    He doesn't seem to be able to decide if he is a mimic or a political commentator so he has decided to be bad at both.


  • #103
    serfboard
    Registered Users Posts: 4,668 ✭✭✭serfboard


    TheHomeService wrote: »
    I would have a lot more respect for Callan's focus on Denis O'Brien if he, Callan, wasn't working for Rupert Murdoch's Sun. To much hypocrisy there for my liking.
    Yes indeed. Oliver Callan Vs Gabriel Rosenstock in the my billionaire (Murdoch) is better than your billionaire (O'Brien) competition.


  • #104
    boombang
    Registered Users Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭boombang


    First Up wrote: »
    He doesn't seem to be able to decide if he is a mimic or a political commentator so he has decided to be bad at both.

    I honestly think he's good at both. He's a recognisable mimic, which is better than many impressionists. His political insight is better than anything else I hear on Radio one too. Though that says more about the standard of political analysis on RTE than him.


  • #105
    First Up
    Registered Users Posts: 14,822 ✭✭✭✭First Up


    boombang wrote: »
    First Up wrote: »
    He doesn't seem to be able to decide if he is a mimic or a political commentator so he has decided to be bad at both.

    I honestly think he's good at both. He's a recognisable mimic, which is better than many impressionists. His political insight is better than anything else I hear on Radio one too. Though that says more about the standard of political analysis on RTE than him.
    Some of the mimicry is good, some not. The political commentary is little more than cheap shots (most of which miss) but each to his own.


  • #106
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users Posts: 71,528 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Tonight’s episode should be interesting, given what has happened in Washington :D


  • #107
    anthonyjmaher
    Registered Users Posts: 2,022 ✭✭✭anthonyjmaher


    Michael D - "And why was Luke Skywalker sitting beside me. Social media went wild with the 'Yoda' jokes".

    :D:D


  • #108
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users Posts: 71,528 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    The Marty Morrissey sketch was good too.


  • #109
    honeybear
    Registered Users Posts: 5,648 ✭✭✭honeybear


    I enjoyed tonight’s show but thought the Rory Best sketch was a bit inappropriate


  • #110
    purple_432
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 35 ✭purple_432


    He's a very good mimic but an average comedian IMO.


  • #111
    mattser
    Registered Users Posts: 2,203 ✭✭✭mattser


    Typical pathetic Irish attempt at comedy.


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  • #112
    neris
    Registered Users Posts: 20,031 ✭✭✭✭neris


    That was a good skit on the ad for northern Ireland on last night's show. Wonder does paddys lawyer think it was defamatory


  • #113
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Some nice little digs at Leo The Disappointment on Friday's show. Almost too easy at this stage, but well executed.


  • #114
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,037 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    ButtersSuki wrote: »
    Some nice little digs at Leo The Disappointment on Friday's show. Almost too easy at this stage, but well executed.

    Nothing new there,Butters


  • #115
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    Nothing new there,Butters

    I KNOW DAT! I KNOW DAT! I KNOW DAT! :pac:

    I'm a regular listener so to speak; just think he's upped his game on Leo in recent weeks/months. Mind you Leo does give plenty of material to work with.....


  • #116
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,037 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    ButtersSuki wrote: »

    I KNOW DAT! I KNOW DAT! I KNOW DAT! :pac:

    I'm a regular listener so to speak; just think he's upped his game on Leo in recent weeks/months. Mind you Leo does give plenty of material to work with.....

    Upped his game......:D

    He’s been targeting the lad for yonks with everything he’s got....

    As you say gets plenty to work on.

    Trying to big himself up as a columnist, in my opinion.


  • #117
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    Upped his game......:D

    He’s been targeting the lad for yonks with everything he’s got....

    As you say gets plenty to work on.

    Trying to big himself up as a columnist, in my opinion.


    It's nice to see a dissenting voice on Leo though. I think the mainstream media are almost afraid to pull him (;)) up on any of the nonsense that he comes out with, his bolloxology, his overwhelming need to be liked, his U turns etc. I often wondered was that because he was gay and he'd play that card if criticised. Obviously he can't do that in this case.


  • #118
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,037 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    ButtersSuki wrote: »
    It's nice to see a dissenting voice on Leo though. I think the mainstream media are almost afraid to pull him (;)) up on any of the nonsense that he comes out with, his bolloxology, his overwhelming need to be liked, his U turns etc. I often wondered was that because he was gay and he'd play that card if criticised. Obviously he can't do that in this case.

    Plenty of dissenting voices,Butters, plenty of cardboard cowboys like Callan and Co. who haven’t a brain between them.

    You see Butters, it’s like the pundits on tv, they know everything after the fact.

    All they have to do is ,with the benefit of hindsight is to horse out this and that and so forth and the weak-chinned wannabe beards and virtual revolutionaries will lap it up and deify them when in reality they are just hollowed out logs.

    Know you aren’t in that category Butters, criticizing Fateen as you do, pretty damn certain you would wipe the floor with him, just given the chance, pretty damn sure lad.


  • #119
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    Plenty of dissenting voices,Butters, plenty of cardboard cowboys like Callan and Co. who haven’t a brain between them.

    You see Butters, it’s like the pundits on tv, they know everything after the fact.

    All they have to do is ,with the benefit of hindsight is to horse out this and that and so forth and the weak-chinned wannabe beards and virtual revolutionaries will lap it up and deify them when in reality they are just hollowed out logs.

    Know you aren’t in that category Butters, criticizing Fateen as you do, pretty damn certain you would wipe the floor with him, just given the chance, pretty damn sure lad.

    I'm just waiting for the day and the right opportunity Brendan.....

    On Leo though, I don't really see much by way of criticism in the mainstream; I really don't. Perhaps you can point me in the way of some - genuinely interested in this.


  • #120
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,037 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    ButtersSuki wrote: »
    I'm just waiting for the day and the right opportunity Brendan.....

    On Leo though, I don't really see much by way of criticism in the mainstream; I really don't. Perhaps you can point me in the way of some - genuinely interested in this.

    A lot of it is subliminal, Butters, the dig here ,the dunt there, the leather elbowed socialists like Callan an say Gene Kerrigan ..your man Fateen.. Mary Wilson ..all seem to ‘string up’ when shunting the boot in.

    Don’t take my word for it, and make no mistake Leo puts them up to to allow the swings, you put em up, I’ll knock em down stuff, but it’s there Butters, it’s definitely there.......look closely my friend.


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  • #121
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    A lot of it is subliminal, Butters, the dig here ,the dunt there, the leather elbowed socialists like Callan an say Gene Kerrigan ..your man Fateen.. Mary Wilson ..all seem to ‘string up’ when shunting the boot in.

    Don’t take my word for it, and make no mistake Leo puts them up to to allow the swings, you put em up, I’ll knock em down stuff, but it’s there Butters, it’s definitely there.......look closely my friend.

    Tanks caller. Mind yerself now, dja hear me? Keep de faith.


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