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Monday, January 31, 2005 

The Panel on RTE 2

I don't tend to watch a lot of telly because I prefer to be social and spend time with my friends doing fun things, like drinking pints, drinking whiskey and eating food from the chipper before falling in the front door and getting to bed before I realise I need to vomit.

But last night, for circumstances I simply cannot reveal, I found myself at home with nothing to do but watch TV. So I saw the news and there was a bit of Spanish football on and you can't really go wrong with football. Then I turned over to RTE 2 and got caught up in a strange programme called 'The Panel'.

Basically what happens is the presenter and four others sit around and talk about the events of the week and make jokes and stuff like that. Well, I should clarify that. They sit around and try and be more zany than the last person to talk. The presenter is a big fat man, I don't know his name, who labours under the assumption that all fat people are jolly and funny. Then there were three men, one of whom looked like Liam Brady (and he was the best of them, making a number of quite good jokes), some cunt from Norn Iron who was about as funny as Frank Carson and Jimmy Cricket's offspring and another sort of tubby bald bloke wearing a zany shirt because he was so zany only a zany shirt would do just in case you didn't realise how zany this zany man was.

There was also a woman called Geri Mae who I've never heard of either. Should I have heard of her? Does anyone know who she is or what she does? If so please leave a comment and let me know.

So they brought on a couple of guests. Some girl who I've never heard of, I think she might be going out with one of the gayers from Westlife, and that curly haired gardener bloke who seemed like a nice fellow and he looked kind of sheepish at being surrounded by such eejits. Now, you can correct me if I'm wrong but I thought comedy shows were supposed to be funny. This show was about as funny as having your eyeballs punctured by hot knitting needles (those one or two gags by Liam Brady apart). Has nobody told them? Can nobody do something about this? Can't some cunt start a petition? Maybe we could use that fat presenter bloke as food for Tsunami victims. He'd keep most of Indonesia in meat chunks for the rest of the year.

Typical moment: Presenter tells a story about a man being fined for playing the Riverdance CD too loud in his car. Norn Iron cunt goes off on one about how hilarious it would be if he had four tiny children doing Riverdance on a plank of wood in the back seat. 'That'd really freak the cops out' he says before going into a spastic head moving version of Riverdance himself. Keep taking the Ritalin you witless pissbag.

Anyway, suffice to say I won't be watching TV again in a hurry. Thanks, The Panel, for confirming my long-held belief that I'm better of slowly destroying my liver than staying in of an evening.

Dear RTE,

Please let me go on The Panel. I'm funnier than any of the other eejits you get on, and for preference, I'd like to sit next to Liam Brady.

I promise not to swear or have a wank or anything.

Regards, Twenty.

Had you watched it the week previous, this may have been a glowing review, for they've just lost the hilarious Ed Byrne to some whirlwind tour of Rathmines or something.

Ed's not really funny of course, a poor mans Tommy Tiernan (who's a poor mans Billy Connolly), but his name makes you think of 'Head Burn', which could be deemed as a sexual reference and is therefore very very amusing and also pretty damn cool.

The northy fella you rightly dislike, is Cillian Murphy.
He ironically hosts another low-brow low-budget show called the Blizzard of Odd (that's a clever pun, dont you know), in which he reviews all the worst bits of Irish telly.
It has to be the easiest job in world, as the only decent show Ireland's ever produced has been.. (couldn't think of anything).. however, he never sees fit to 'wackily' lamblast his own televised muck.

Anyway, they'll all die eventually.

Ciaran..

Scary - the tub of lard from Have I got news for you would have been funnier.

Ciaran - cheers for the info. Who is the fat cunt of a presenter though? And who were the others? Are they 'celebrities'?

I don't know the name of fatboy, but I do know that he formerly presented 'don't feet the gondolas'.
As far as I know, he left as he was being out-fatted by some other enormous fucker, even more grotesque than himself.
What's the story with RTE - every time a gelatinous blob beeches itself on our shores, they sign them up as prime-time presenters.. arseholes.

As for the others, I haven't a clue who they are and I suspect that no-one else does either.

So you're saying nobody would care if we killed them.

I like the way you think.

And I'd say that cunt snacks on gondoleers between meals, the non-Milky Way eating behemoth.

For the record, the fat baldy presenter bloke is one Dara O'Briain, whose name I've never bothered learning to spell (so if I'm right it's a fluke). As far as I can tell, he seems to make a living telling crap jokes and then laughing at them louder than the audience does. He also used to host a hideous show called "Family Affair" or something like that, which was much less incestuous than the title would suggest.

As for Geri Mae, she hosts some morning TV show for insomniac drug addicts (or possibly children) with an alien sock monster. Her 'rents own a shop across the road from the train station in Limerick (it was a very, very slow stalking day - the only options were Peter Clohessy and that one off Pop Stars).

I am going to spend tomorrow calling everyone I meet a witless pissbag, because that is just sheer class.

I thought Cillian Murphy was that bloke out of 28 Days Later, wasn't he? Although I could be getting my Cillians all in a tangle...

Ah yes, Geri Maye: I'd ride her.

Not that anyone really gives a toss, but it's Colin Murphy.

isn't Geri Mae married to Ray D'arcy or some other ex-Den TV presenter. i bet she's a closet crack addict. far too fuckin smiley for my liking.
Colin Murphy isnt too bad but that Dara O'Briain is a big fat southside cuntbag.

burn them, burn them all!!

Going some way to alieviate your annoyance and frustration at the monolithic quantity of fucking shit they transmit over the airwaves and, have the nerve to call entertainment, do as I have done for the past ten years: DON'T BUY A TV LICENCE. They can shove that up thier fucking mast.
God bless.

Colin Murphy hosts "the Blizzard of Odd" - which, older readers might remember, is a rip off of Channel 4's "Vidz". Only Colin Murphy isn't allowed say "cunt"

Difference being, Vidz was original and very funny.

The fat blokes name is Dara O'Briain who will soon be plying his trade on "celebrity Stars in your eyes" and I love 2006. Basically he's an unfunny cunt, that is just slightly funnier than the rest of the unfunny nobodies on that show.

Da panel rocks..what is life without dara and colin& all of dem...best programme ever!

Ok back off! The panel is funnier than any of you guys. I bet you think the whole using "cunt" word is what? Cool? PAck of nobodies who have noting better to do. did your mummies not give ye enough hugs!!

Man you stupid piss bags, you say you have a social life you twat? what fucking eejit would think anyone one would give a shit about your opinion? your a fucking twat who probably has no social life but likes to pretend he does. Oh and i bet your a fucking D4 tosser aswell!

I'm sorry ye all sound like misinformed uneducated gobshites who will dedicate a whole rant about a quality show and waffle on about people who's names you can't prononounce or even bother to get right, eg Cillian Murphy ye gobshites, its Colin, which thankfully somebody has pointed out already. I cannot help but sense jealousy as ye attempt to shame and mock these comedians, who i believe as do the thousands who tune in to watch their show every week that this is quite possibly the funniest show on television!!! Now i know your just going to reply with many "cunt" words and "fucks" and "shits" but at least i have the peace of mind that nobody is going to read your blog anyway.. You also have the peace of mind that no waster is going to write about how unfunny you are.. because who the fuck cares about you!!!

heh, I see the cast of the Panel has been dropping by.

The panel is one of theses shows that I knew has been on for a while but never watch because I thought it would be a bit shit, be a few people gold me it was very and one even said it was the best thing on all week. Well I watched it last night and I have to change my view from a bit shit to completely sit, what a waste of time another disaster from rte trying to rip off from another program. The show is basically a presenter and four comedians(not very good ones) trying to oust each other with witty one-liners and shit jokes that go completely off whatever topic was been raised, what is comes down to is these blokes just love hearing their own voice and use any opportunity they can. Not funny

Maybe if they put your comment on the screen, people might laugh... you cant spell you dumbass.. think before you type then someone might take your ridiculous view seriously..

Maybe if they put your comment on the screen, people might laugh... you cant spell you dumbass.. think before you type then someone might take your ridiculous view seriously..

Dumbass? Surely you can do better than that, The Panel panelist. I mean 'panel lover'.

Bullshit. Its the best show on irish television. Just caus some of ye enjoy watchn the feckn late late show

The cast of the panal definately seem to have found their way in here...who else would be arsed to defend them so passionately??

Twenty I really like idea of you going on the show to wipe the floor with the unfunny bunch of witless pissbags..

Anonymous seems to use the phrase 'ye' quite a bit. This fact together with his questionable desire to defend this mediocre show, suggests that he is a person who resides outside the Dublin area. This certainly is a show pointed at an unsophisticated audience or those whose sense of humour is a little less sharpened. Maybe its the country air??

I do find it amusing that someone as unfunny as yourself would suggest the country folk are unsophisticated and whose sense of humour is a little less sharpened.This coming form a group of people who beleive that Dara O'Briain is a big fat southside cuntbag.
Maybe its the city air??

By the way, you all come across as pretty pathetic.

god fuck you and your 'norn iron' jibes. its people like you that make it so hard to get equality and peace in this country, twat.

hello i just had to write in afer i read those horrible comments about the panel. the panel is great dara o' brian is great too and i think it's quit mean that you bring his weight into the disscussion because it really does not matter, i saw him live and he was great. that's all i have to say except that andrew maxwell is the greatest of them all and why has nobody mentioned him??

i'm sensing a little bit of jealousy here. just because you idiots can only get your views heard through a rubbish review that rely's on a ridiculous amount of curse words to get laughs and even attention, it doesnt mean that you have to take it out on the panel, a freakin brilliant show with some of the best comedians ireland has to offer. and so what if the guests arent brilliant? so what if its not parky? you'll answer more obscure pub quiz questions on these people than you would on someone shallow and useless like billy connelly (thats right i DONT like billy connelly). and NO i am not from he cast of the panel, i'm just one person from the majority who loves the freakin show ye's arseholes!
ps leave dara o'brien alone, you must think you are so funny and original to make fun of his weight, cos that's not a really pathetic and childish thing to do. how old are you, 12?

Lumphead wrasse, you're an idiot. Implying that everyone living outside the Dublin area has a less sophisticated sense of humor than you demonstrates exactly the closed-mindedness that keeps you from enjoying The Panel. Maybe it's that the jokes go completely over your head, or perhaps you feel offended at certain comments from the panelists that insult you D4 twats. To be fair, you are pretty funny though. I mean, only a complete moron would actually consider everywhere outside the Dublin area to be the 'country'.

Jaysus lads, ever hear of sticking those fags up ur ass. Or is it the other typs of fags you like up your ass.

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