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Callan's Kicks

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    #272
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 32,976 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Listening to a bit of the show tonight, he hit the nail on the head about RTe and all the cronyism in it, with Jennifer Maguire getting her own radio show, funnily enough just after she was DWTS presenter.

    Thats her for life now, on the gravy train.


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    #273
    neris
    Registered Users Posts: 20,036 ✭✭✭✭neris


    Liked the mairead comment about happiness and working with buzzkill for 10 years


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    #274
    two wheels good
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    "Maybot" is now being re-cast as LINO (Leader in Name only)
    Hard to nail down, easy to walk on.
    I always think Callan's use of Maybot is a hat-tip to John Crace who created the term.


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    #275
    neris
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    The Marty morrisey sketch was good last night. Liked marian taking the piss out of the happy pear guys


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    #276
    Beechwoodspark
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    Story in Irish Times today saying varadkar gave a bad tempered ill considered and bitchy speech attacking Callan a few days ago.

    It went down badly among the audience.

    Varadkar knew Callan wasn’t present and he left before Callan was due to appear.

    Seems very smarmy and cowardly carry on.


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    #277
    riemann
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    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    Seems very smarmy and cowardly carry on.

    So entirety as expected then.


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    #278
    Welsh Megaman
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    The Marty Morrissey sketch about wild roses was good.


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    #279
    Welsh Megaman
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    That Game Of Thrones/Brexit mash-up was predictable.

    C-

    Must try harder :D


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    #280
    Welsh Megaman
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    That ‘Liberal Ladies’ sketch has never been funny.


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    #281
    [Deleted User]
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    Welsh Megaman wrote: »
    That ‘Liberal Ladies’ sketch has never been funny.
    Banned

    :pac:

    Next you'll be telling us John Creedon isn't sound. Just listening back to the most recent show now. Have to admit it hasn't been Callan's best season.


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    #282
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users Posts: 71,618 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Quite brave to make a sketch from Lyra McKee’s funeral.


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    #283
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,051 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    Banned

    :pac:

    Next you'll be telling us John Creedon isn't sound. Just listening back to the most recent show now. Have to admit it hasn't been Callan's best season.

    Correct Ty... his so called ‘political’ stance on twitter and in the papers has soured people off him.

    He hasn’t realised that the true impact of a so called ‘satarist’ is that the audience can’t determine what his/her real feelings are.

    Callan tries too hard to pillory people ‘doing things ‘ and ignores those ‘ not doing things’

    I think his race is run to be honest, credibility shot to pieces.


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    #284
    Dan Jaman
    Registered Users Posts: 38,754 ✭✭✭✭Dan Jaman


    Nothing more than, "be back in the autumn" from RTE. I wish they'd give a date for the start of the next series. 
    Вашему собственному бычьему дерьму нельзя верить - V Putin




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    #285
    bobbyss
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    Welsh Megaman wrote:
    Quite brave to make a sketch from Lyra McKee’s funeral.


    I thought it was 'off". It wasn't funny. Why look for mirth there ? It just wasn't right.


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    #286
    two wheels good
    Registered Users Posts: 1,996 ✭✭✭two wheels good


    End of the series! I'm distraught!
    I thought the squabbling politicians was spot on. Whose sensistivities might have been disturbed? Only theirs I think.
    The Des Cahill sketch was very good too. I was hoping for some Dobbo.

    Roll on next season. A hightlight of the radio week; creative, inventive, well written details, very entertaining. And well done to RTE for not sparing their "big beasts".


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    #287
    [Deleted User]
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    two wheels good wrote: »
    End of the series! I'm distraught!
    I thought the squabbling politicians was spot on. Whose sensistivities might have been disturbed? Only theirs I think.
    The Des Cahill sketch was very good too. I was hoping for some Dobbo.

    Roll on next season. A hightlight of the radio week; creative, inventive, well written details, very entertaining. And well done to RTE for not sparing their "big beasts".
    I would probably have agreed with you at the beginning of the season. but I haven't enjoyed a single episode from the present season of Callan's Kicks.

    The Liberal Ladies was one exception where Callan made wonderful use of irony, insight and wit. I tend to agree with Brendan Bendar's point of view, a few posts back, that this show is not really satirical at all. It's more a send-up of one's superiors, much as might occur in a workplace cafeteria, but the real joke is of course on us.


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    #288
    Dan Jaman
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    I rather enjoyed the musical numbers. 
    Вашему собственному бычьему дерьму нельзя верить - V Putin




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    #289
    two wheels good
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    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    I would probably have agreed with you at the beginning of the season. but I haven't enjoyed a single episode from the present season of Callan's Kicks.

    The Liberal Ladies was one exception where Callan made wonderful use of irony, insight and wit. I tend to agree with Brendan Bendar's point of view, a few posts back, that this show is not really satirical at all. It's more a send-up of one's superiors, much as might occur in a workplace cafeteria, but the real joke is of course on us.

    His "superiors"? Would that be Enda/Leo or Marian/SOR? If he's harnessed some inferiority complex then more credit to him. But I doubt that.
    Humour vs satire? I'm not bovvered ... enough of each to keep me entertained.

    In RTE-land, practically a desert for any newly commissioned humour, satire or radio drama, Callan Kicks is a welcome oasis - and it's put together with great attention to detail.


    While I'm here..
    - Reminding us of Enda's lavish pension payments was a bit didactic but worth repeating all the same.
    Did Callan ever do a number on Enda's extraction of a grant from a Health Care budget (intended for ill people) for his cycling club?
    Could have had potential. Enda and his mates doing a charity cycle on expensive carbon fibre for sick people on trolleys.

    - A better line would have been..
    "Oh You're Michael and he's Danny. You must have swopped caps"

    Au-revoir and thanks Callan. Keep on kicking against the pricks. (That's a biblical reference. I'm not insulting any revered national figures.)
    Back to yet more sports reporting now, isn't it. Oh whoopie.


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    #290
    two wheels good
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    Dan Jaman wrote: »
    I rather enjoyed the musical numbers.
    Yes, a new departure, and a good voice too.


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    #291
    [Deleted User]
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    two wheels good wrote: »
    His "superiors"? Would that be Enda/Leo or Marian/SOR?
    I'm just being slightly derisive by referring to some government figures and senior broadcasters as our 'superiors', although I am pretty confident that that is how some of them see themselves.


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    #292
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,051 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    two wheels good wrote: »
    His "superiors"? Would that be Enda/Leo or Marian/SOR? If he's harnessed some inferiority complex then more credit to him. But I doubt that.
    Humour vs satire? I'm not bovvered ... enough of each to keep me entertained.

    In RTE-land, practically a desert for any newly commissioned humour, satire or radio drama, Callan Kicks is a welcome oasis - and it's put together with great attention to detail.


    While I'm here..
    - Reminding us of Enda's lavish pension payments was a bit didactic but worth repeating all the same.
    Did Callan ever do a number on Enda's extraction of a grant from a Health Care budget (intended for ill people) for his cycling club?
    Could have had potential. Enda and his mates doing a charity cycle on expensive carbon fibre for sick people on trolleys.

    - A better line would have been..
    "Oh You're Michael and he's Danny. You must have swopped caps"

    Au-revoir and thanks Callan. Keep on kicking against the pricks. (That's a biblical reference. I'm not insulting any revered national figures.)
    Back to yet more sports reporting now, isn't it. Oh whoopie.

    Kind of exposing yourself here Wheels, another ‘agin anyone in charge’ brigade.
    Callan would have a lot more credibility if he ‘exposed’ the cretins who rode on the backs of those who did nothing,other than criticize those who have to implement policy.

    Callan writes for a so-called ‘newspaper’ and his views are well known.

    Hammer the the person trying to implement sensible policy..... support the tool who games the system 24/12/365 as a way of getting at the establishment.


    Populist rhetoric, Mom and Apple Pie politics, hurler on the ditch...

    This tool has no influence in any sensible debate on any subject.

    Just a self promoting idiot who anybody with any sense should ignore.


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    #293
    serfboard
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    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    Hammer the the person trying to implement sensible policy..... support the tool who games the system 24/12/365 as a way of getting at the establishment.
    Yes indeed - a satirist should attack the poor and support the rich. Have I got that right? :rolleyes:
    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    Just a self promoting idiot who anybody with any sense should ignore.
    By your own logic, you don't have any sense - because you don't ignore him.


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    #294
    two wheels good
    Registered Users Posts: 1,996 ✭✭✭two wheels good


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    Kind of exposing yourself here Wheels, another ‘agin anyone in charge’ brigade.
    ....

    Did I expose a political view on boards? How careless of me.

    TDs' and ministers' pension provisions are lavish. Hardly controversial.
    Enda's wangling a grant for his cycle club from a health budget intended for other purposes was a particularly petty piece of cronyism. Deserved the Callan treatment and I'd have liked to hear the result.

    Bit ironic that here in Radio everyone in charge at RTE is a target for relentless criticism.

    Now that's enough off-topic me-thinks. See you next series hopefully. Could Maybot still be in No10 come the Autumn? Could 10k people still be homeless? (Damn! did it again. So careless.)


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    #295
    serfboard
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    two wheels good wrote: »
    Could 10k people still be homeless?
    I loved that sketch with Murphs and Theesh celebrating the number of homeless crossing the 10K mark, like it was an achievement to be proud of ...


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    #296
    AndrewJRenko
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    two wheels good wrote: »
    Did I expose a political view on boards? How careless of me.

    TDs' and ministers' pension provisions are lavish. Hardly controversial.
    They certainly were lavish, though the change in rules in the 2000s means that newer, younger TDs and Ministers get the same pension as any public servant on equivalent grades - no more pensions for 40 year olds stepping down.


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    #297
    zell12
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    AndrewJRenko wrote: »
    They certainly were lavish, though the change in rules in the 2000s means that newer, younger TDs and Ministers get the same pension as any public servant on equivalent grades - no more pensions for 40 year olds stepping down.
    Unless you are Brian Walsh


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    #298
    AndrewJRenko
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    two wheels good wrote: »
    Did I expose a political view on boards? How careless of me.

    TDs' and ministers' pension provisions are lavish. Hardly controversial.
    They certainly were lavish, though the change in rules in the 2000s means that newer, younger TDs and Ministers get the same pension as any public servant on equivalent grades - no more pensions for 40 year olds stepping down.


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    #299
    Brendan Bendar
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    serfboard wrote: »
    Yes indeed - a satirist should attack the poor and support the rich. Have I got that right? :rolleyes:

    By your own logic, you don't have any sense - because you don't ignore him.

    I do, but I still want to expose the utter crap he comes up with.


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    Welsh Megaman
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    New series begins tomorrow night at 6.30pm.


    Pretty poor timing, considering there is nothing happening politics-wise at the moment :pac:


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    #301
    sligojoek
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    Welsh Megaman wrote: »
    New series begins tomorrow night at 6.30pm.


    Pretty poor timing, considering there is nothing happening politics-wise at the moment :pac:

    There's always "The Pest from the West". Not Enda Kenny, I mean Damp Squib Lorenzo.


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