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Callan's Kicks

  • 11-04-2015 9:17am
    #1
    First Up
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,823 ✭✭✭✭First Up


    Is it just me, or does anyone else think this is dreadful rubbish? There is a long and honorable tradition of satirical radio (and TV) but surely they could do better than this. The Enda/Ringer stuff is a straight copy of Dermot Morgan's Haughey/PJ Mara skit - with none of the subtlety. The take-off's of Michael D (now mercifully over I think/hope) were just embarrassing and many of the sketches consist of little more than people shouting over each other.

    There was a time when treasured Scrap Saturday episodes were sent around the world on cassette tapes. Callan's Kicks is an unfunny, sorry insult to its memory.


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  • #2
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,987 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    I actually think its not too bad. Not great but not bad.

    Now if you were describing that awful Gift Grub stuff, I'd totally agree with you.


  • #3
    somejoke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 131 ✭✭somejoke


    First Up wrote: »
    Is it just me, or does anyone else think this is dreadful rubbish? There is a long and honorable tradition of satirical radio (and TV) but surely they could do better than this. The Enda/Ringer stuff is a straight copy of Dermot Morgan's Haughey/PJ Mara skit - with none of the subtlety. The take-off's of Michael D (now mercifully over I think/hope) were just embarrassing and many of the sketches consist of little more than people shouting over each other.

    There was a time when treasured Scrap Saturday episodes were sent around the world on cassette tapes. Callan's Kicks is an unfunny, sorry insult to its memory.

    Have stopped listening to it, he is brilliant at taking off people, but the scrips he's getting now or soo boring and repetitive.

    For example Bod & Dobbo have been done to death. I think one of the script writers is gone or died I'm not sure.


  • #4
    thesandeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    Yeah. One of them died a couple of weeks ago.


  • #5
    soc160
    Closed Accounts Posts: 522 ✭✭✭soc160


    I have only seen the show on TV, haven't heard any of the things on radio, these shows can be funny and intriguing but every single one of them has the same characters that fail to be even slightly creative. It's Enda Kenny, then Joan Burton, then Pat Kenny... sigh... then some pointless other irish celelbrities and controversial stuff like a garda or something. I saw another one of these shows on RTE last week, cant remember the name, Irish Pictorial Weekly or something I think, was the same ****e as always with no original caharacters, few laughs in it but no creative. Shows like the Savage Eye were interesting because it was original content.

    Obviously this is a Radio thread but this is one of the reasons that I don't like Mario Rosenstocks stuff, its bland, the impressions are usually well done but it's Roy Keane or Enda Kenny every time I tune in and it's tedious. 98 and 104's breakfast shows were usually good for providing original content in Dublin, Spin in its older days with Joe and Keith would have done stuff too but now 98 and Spin dont bother, 104 can provide something good now and again.


  • #6
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,725 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    It's not bad, some characters getting a little tedious but generally ok,in my opinion.


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  • #7
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,222 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    That Cathal Mac Coille impression made me laugh :O :O


  • #8
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Darcy:)


  • #9
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,222 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    My happy sigh :D


  • #10
    mbur
    Registered Users Posts: 521 ✭✭✭mbur


    Plenty of arrogance and hypocrisy on our news this week and Ollie caught most of it. The Ray Darcy story was news to me and I particularly enjoyed the Pat Kenny 'no news this week' slot. I'm always amazed the lengths Newstalk presenters will go to avoiding anything that concerns their litigious master.
    Hook also, is a shocker.

    We may need a thread merge btw


  • #11
    First Up
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,823 ✭✭✭✭First Up


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    It's not bad, some characters getting a little tedious but generally ok,in my opinion.

    Nope, for me it is repetitive, predictable, one dimensional and about as subtle as a June Rogers. Now I just turn it off.


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  • #12
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,222 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    New series starts this Friday on Radio 1 at 6.30pm - there may be Ray D'arcy jokes :pac:


  • #13
    First Up
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,823 ✭✭✭✭First Up


    Welsh Megaman wrote: »
    New series starts this Friday on Radio 1 at 6.30pm - there may be Ray D'arcy jokes :pac:

    And if you miss them the first time, you will hear others like them next week, and the week after, and the week after that.......


  • #14
    thesandeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    First Up wrote: »
    And if you miss them the first time, you will hear others like them next week, and the week after, and the week after that.......

    And every Mon-Fri from 3pm to 4:30.


  • #15
    Canadel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,586 ✭✭✭Canadel


    soc160 wrote: »

    Obviously this is a Radio thread but this is one of the reasons that I don't like Mario Rosenstocks stuff, its bland, the impressions are usually well done but it's Roy Keane or Enda Kenny every time I tune in and it's tedious. 98 and 104's breakfast shows were usually good for providing original content in Dublin, Spin in its older days with Joe and Keith would have done stuff too but now 98 and Spin dont bother, 104 can provide something good now and again.
    The phone in show is the best comedy show on radio tbh.


  • #16
    healthy_cynic
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 19 ✭healthy_cynic


    i think callan is an excellent mimic ( much better than rosenstock ) but his material is average a lot of the time , needs a good writer or a better one


  • #17
    constitutionus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭constitutionus


    i think he's kinda stymied by events.

    if bugger all's happening the show tends to be dull as he's nothing to play with , but if theres something kicking off he can produces some brilliant stuff.

    the water protests for instance and how theyre reported was good for a laugh. the one with enda in dail eireann all alone on a cold night narrating with "only the sound of 80k, uh, one or two water protesters in the backround" and the shows length makes it ideal streaming fodder to waste time till something good comes on other stations/ tv.

    was streaming the last show he did to get to vincent browns "peoples debates" last night (twas in tallaght. complete lolfest, absolute nightmare for the blueshirts and the lab guys didnt even turn up). anyway back to the point it was the one with "talk to joan" and it just had me creased up. particularly the bit where he did her singning joes theme tune with some handler in the backround going "dont sing it for gods sake"

    usually im not one for RTEs attempts at comedy, but i have to say the last two series or so ive been tuning in. makes me wonder if there was a change in editorial as IMO its definetly better now than it was.


  • #18
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    The material is diabolical obviously, but the impressions themselves are often quite accurate.


  • #19
    First Up
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,823 ✭✭✭✭First Up


    constitutionus wrote: »
    i think he's kinda stymied by events.

    if bugger all's happening the show tends to be dull as he's nothing to play with , but if theres something kicking off he can produces some brilliant stuff.

    the water protests for instance and how theyre reported was good for a laugh. the one with enda in dail eireann all alone on a cold night narrating with "only the sound of 80k, uh, one or two water protesters in the backround" and the shows length makes it ideal streaming fodder to waste time till something good comes on other stations/ tv.

    was streaming the last show he did to get to vincent browns "peoples debates" last night (twas in tallaght. complete lolfest, absolute nightmare for the blueshirts and the lab guys didnt even turn up). anyway back to the point it was the one with "talk to joan" and it just had me creased up. particularly the bit where he did her singning joes theme tune with some handler in the backround going "dont sing it for gods sake"

    usually im not one for RTEs attempts at comedy, but i have to say the last two series or so ive been tuning in. makes me wonder if there was a change in editorial as IMO its definetly better now than it was.

    Sounds like you see it more as political commentary than comedy or satire. I'd go elsewhere for all of them myself but each to his own.


  • #20
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,222 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    HIYO! :D


  • #21
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,222 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    That sketch about the budget phone-in was pretty good :O


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  • #22
    First Up
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    Welsh Megaman wrote: »
    That sketch about the budget phone-in was pretty good :O

    Yes, that was very good. Some improvements the last few episodes. Hope it continues.


  • #23
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,222 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Tonight's episode should be interesting.

    Will Alan Hughes be listening? :pac:


  • #24
    thesandeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    I woke up during the show this morning. Forgot it had moved to Saturdays. Hadn't a clue wtf was going on for ages lol.


  • #25
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,222 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Marian: Lucinda, you have exactly one second to speak.

    Lucinda: Well...

    Marian: *cough* That's all we have time for, it has to be said.

    :D


  • #26
    XtraStrong
    Registered Users Posts: 10 ✭XtraStrong


    Welsh Megaman wrote: »
    Marian: Lucinda, you have exactly one second to speak.

    Lucinda: Well...

    Marian: *cough* That's all we have time for, it has to be said.

    :D

    Very funny sketch.

    You have 26 seconds. I can smoke 6 fags in that time.


  • #27
    thesandeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    There really is something to be said about listening to this at Stupid 0' Clock. I've just caught up with Fridays show now and I seem to pick up on stuff I wouldn't notice in its real timeslot.
    I'm also convinced that Oliver is a regular in the radio forum.


  • #28
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    thesandeman wrote: »
    There really is something to be said about listening to this at Stupid 0' Clock. I've just caught up with Fridays show now and I seem to pick up on stuff I wouldn't notice in its real timeslot.
    I'm also convinced that Oliver is a regular in the radio forum.

    Oh? Who is he? What's his username? Answers by PM please!


    I've only started listening to Callan's Kicks since Christmas and I have to say it's a lot better than I expected it to be. Really enjoying it tbh. The impressions are very good, the material can be a bit hit and miss but when it hits the target it can be very amusing.


  • #29
    mrsdewinter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,162 ✭✭✭mrsdewinter


    ButtersSuki wrote: »
    Oh? Who is he? What's his username? Answers by PM please!


    I've only started listening to Callan's Kicks since Christmas and I have to say it's a lot better than I expected it to be. Really enjoying it tbh. The impressions are very good, the material can be a bit hit and miss but when it hits the target it can be very amusing.

    I hardly ever catch it live and tuned into the podcast yesterday. Really good show, I thought, especially Marian interviewing Leo. It may be that if I listened every week, I'd tire of it but it always sounds fresh to me.


  • #30
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    I listen to in on Saturday mornings on podcast. TBH, I have no idea when it even goes out!

    I find the Matt Cooper impression particularly funny - it's not accurate per se from a voice perspective, but the way he captures Copper's little ticks and idiosyncrasies is good.

    Marian interviewing the Healy Rae's a few weeks back was also top notch.



    I never watched the TV show - does it translate as poorly to TV as The Mario Rosenstock/Gift Grub Show does?


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  • #31
    constitutionus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭constitutionus


    i dont think he can do matt, or sharon for that matter, they come off as just a tad "wrong"

    but matts one is so hysterically funny i can forgive it. it like he said "fuk it ill just go full on helium instead"


    "heellooo imm mattt coooooopaaah"

    :D:D:D

    best item in this weeks was dobbo/sharon reading out the "top ten earners in RTE" and dobboa reaction at being named.


  • #32
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    constitutionus wrote: »
    i dont think he can do matt, or sharon for that matter, they come off as just a tad "wrong"

    but matts one is so hysterically funny i can forgive it. it like he said "fuk it ill just go full on helium instead"


    "heellooo imm mattt coooooopaaah"

    :D:D:D

    best item in this weeks was dobbo/sharon reading out the "top ten earners in RTE" and dobboa reaction at being named.

    I was reading Steve Coogan talking about this recently here's basically two types of impressions that work in a comedic sense:
    1. The kind that has the voice, accent etc. down to a tee where you'd almost think it's the person themselves
    2. Take some characteristic of that person and exaggerate it to some degree, anywhere from a little to enormously - regardless of the accent

    Both work to varying degrees. Callan's Cooper to me is the latter....more about the person and his traits than the accent. I like Callan's Cooper for what it is - it's not a voice impression.


    Coogan however is a master of the voice:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB3eSud1_Cs


  • #33
    thesandeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    Lol @ Des interviewing Joe.


  • #34
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    thesandeman wrote: »
    Lol @ Des interviewing Joe.

    Good example of where the voice isn't accurate, but he nails the rest of it is spot on! ;);)

    Between this and D'Arcy saying joe wasn't working class last week Duffy will either submit a bullying claim against RTÉ or take even more time off than usual.....please be the latter! ;)


  • #35
    honeybear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,648 ✭✭✭honeybear


    Did they do a similar Judas sketch last year?


  • #36
    Field east
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭Field east


    Heard Callan Kicks today . Have not heard it for a few months. It continues to be a load of rubbish IMO. He just takes any subject/, event, Presents it with a few dull/ wired comments with a sexist twist if he can somehow fit it in and we are all supposed to laugh. We were spoiled with Dermot Morgan. Any chance RTE will give Salvage another chance.

    Another point . What on earth did The Claire Byrne show have him on for. Her prog is supposed to be dealing with serious matters and here he was sitting opposite Mattie McGrath andShane Ross. OC let his mask slip a month or two ago by writing an article in an English tabloid and arguing that SF did not get as much airtime as it was entitled to and that the media was more harsh on its questioning to SF than it was to other parties.
    Very bad judgement by RTE if only on the balance issue apart from the appropriateness of having a comic on a panel discussing the current political situation - . He may have some journalistic exp but come on now.


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  • #37
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,996 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Hey there..
    There are a lot of threads about getting in to the Civil Service on here.

    Callan's kicks latest revelation Kitty Corridor is a must listen to for those thinking about a CS career.

    Hilarious but Oh so so true. I know. LOL.

    Just listen and enjoy.

    I like Micheal Martin, and laugh out loud LOL at his interpretation of him, along with Mahhie Mc Grath.

    Sure it's only a laugh, and no need to get annoyed.


  • #38
    Field east
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭Field east


    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    Hey there..
    There are a lot of threads about getting in to the Civil Service on here.

    Callan's kicks latest revelation Kitty Corridor is a must listen to for those thinking about a CS career.

    Hilarious but Oh so so true. I know. LOL.

    Just listen and enjoy.

    I like Micheal Martin, and laugh out loud LOL at his interpretation of him, along with Mahhie Mc Grath.

    Sure it's only a laugh, and no need to get annoyed.

    Am very happy for you. But I find it very trashy and very low grade. I wonder what kind of a listener ship would it have if it was not stuck into a prime time slot on the RTE schedule. I find a lot of his stuff really cringing. What I do find is listening to Lav Kahn and then reading 'da buke'. Ie the comments from the Boardies posters on the show. It is pure comedy


  • #39
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Field east wrote: »
    Am very happy for you. But I find it very trashy and very low grade. I wonder what kind of a listener ship would it have if it was not stuck into a prime time slot on the RTE schedule. I find a lot of his stuff really cringing. What I do find is listening to Lav Kahn and then reading 'da buke'. Ie the comments from the Boardies posters on the show. It is pure comedy

    I was a late comer to Callan's Kicks. I find the standard deviates from week to week, but when he gets it right, it can be very good. It needs more Lahv Lahn though - last Friday's Lahv Lahn sketch nailed Joe's penchant for exaggeration and attempts to create outrage where there is none.

    The combination of a Lahv Lahn + boards.ie thread comments is hard to beat alright. The two normally work in parallel - the more bonbkers Lahv Lahn is, the better and funnier the thread is; when Joe goes full on misery, the thread dries up.


  • #40
    Brian Scan
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    ButtersSuki wrote: »
    I was a late comer to Callan's Kicks. I find the standard deviates from week to week, but when he gets it right, it can be very good. It needs more Lahv Lahn though - last Friday's Lahv Lahn sketch nailed Joe's penchant for exaggeration and attempts to create outrage where there is none.

    The combination of a Lahv Lahn + boards.ie thread comments is hard to beat alright. The two normally work in parallel - the more bonbkers Lahv Lahn is, the better and funnier the thread is; when Joe goes full on misery, the thread dries up.

    90% of the thread is about as funny as a Funny Friday, the other 10% is what makes it worth dipping into.


  • #41
    doc11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 532 ✭✭✭doc11


    Callans kicks is great. Really hits the nail on the head on most matters.


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  • #42
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,222 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    'Callan's Kicks' back tonight on RT Radio 1, 6.30pm.


  • #43
    [Deleted User]
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    Welsh Megaman wrote: »
    'Callan's Kicks' back tonight on RT Radio 1, 6.30pm.

    Thanks for the heads up........................................I will watch the Waltons so..Their fuzzy auld wireless sounds better


  • #44
    [Deleted User]
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    He nails Pat Kenny, ipso facto!

    Good line on Waterford accents too, "sounds like they're doing the haka whilst eating a chicken tikka sandwich"

    Like others have said though, the impresions are usually funnier than the writing. Might be something to do with the fact that Fiona Looney is one of the writers.


  • #45
    Brussels Sprout
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    I loved this last season but this episode was simply not funny.


  • #46
    First Up
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,823 ✭✭✭✭First Up


    Brussels Sprout wrote:
    I loved this last season but this episode was simply not funny.


    It was quite dreadful.


  • #47
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,222 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    The Marian Finucane/Hilary Clinton sketch was quite good :blush:


  • #48
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,725 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Welsh Megaman wrote: »
    The Marian Finucane/Hilary Clinton sketch was quite good :blush:

    Stop blushing, it was good.

    The rest wasn't great though.


  • #49
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,222 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    New series, different timeslot.

    This Saturday afternoon at 2pm.


  • #50
    xl500
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 882 ✭✭✭xl500


    Is there anything worse that the drivel that is Callans Kicks its so simplistic Dermot Morgan must be turning in his Grave

    This Guy must have some in in RTE considering the amount of exposure he gets


  • #51
    _Whimsical_
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    I think it's been quite good this season!

    What's the deal with him playing Marian Finucane as an alcoholic every week though? She appears to be anything but, I've never heard so much as fluff a line. Is there a grain of truth in it or is it just so not the case that it's funny? I can't tell.


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