From top: the Eucharist; Ryan Tubridy interviewing Stefanie Preissner, Michael Harding and Blindboy Boatclub, of The Rubberbandits, on the Late Late Show on January 6
Further to last week’s Late Late Show.
Greg Daly, in The Irish Catholic, writes:
The head of the Family and Media Association is “almost definitely” going to complain to the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland after the Eucharist was ridiculed on RTÉ’s flagship chat show.
Speaking to The Irish Catholic, Donal O’Sullivan-Latchford said that he was “very likely” to complain to the BAI after The Late Late Show broadcast on January 6, the Feast of the Epiphany, featured a discussion in which the Eucharist was referred to as “haunted bread”.
During a discussions about whether religious practice, long in decline, might be on the rise, comedian David Chambers, who performs as ‘Blindboy Boatclub’ in the comedy duo The Rubberbandits, said that young people attending midnight Mass at Christmas were “not going there for haunted bread”, but were going because it was a family event. “Everybody at midnight Mass is half-cut anyway,” he added.
Presenter Ryan Tubridy said he thought the phrase ‘haunted bread’ was “a great expression”, and Mr Chambers said “That’s what it is,” arguing that the Church “does not want us to use critical thinking” and is “asking us to eat the ghost of a 2000-year-old carpenter”.
FIGHT!
Broadcasting authority complaint likely after RTÉ Eucharist mockery (The Irish Catholic)
Heh heh. Haunted bread.
Is it just me or is the idea of eating the bread and drinking the blood of Christ rather disturbing, and, dare I say it, quite vampiric?
Nothing disturbing about drinking the blood of a man in a building shaped like a cross where the walls are adorned by pictures of said man being murdered.
More zombieish I would have thought but I get your point.
very disturbing. the cannibalistic consumption of your deity, it’s actually quite primitive.
Also, what spiderlegs said – imagine Jesus comes back for the second coming and realises there’s images of his worst moment all over the place. trauma.
It’s sacrelicous
Homer Simpson would be rolling in his grave… *Sacrilicious*
It was completely wrong to refer to the host as haunted bread. You are not eating “the ghost of a 2000-year-old carpenter”. You’re eating the actual flesh of a 2000 year old carpenter and if you don’t believe that you’re indulging in cannibalism, then you’re a Prod.
And if you can say all that with a straight face, The Irish Catholic might offer you a column…
d’ya reckon our lord would have had a bit of a mutter about the quality of the halving joint used on his cross?
Michael Che has a similar joke on his recent Netflix comedy special.
RTE wouldn’t have the balls to ridicule the beliefs in the Qu’ran or Torah for fear of offending Muslim or Jewish people.
At the same time, I’d like to congratulate Christianity for being the most tolerant of the big three sky fairy religions of the world.
The Qu’ran and the Torah aren’t intertwined with the very structure of our state like the bible and Catholicism are.
Maybe when Catholicism becomes “just another religion” instead of “the religion” of Ireland we can talk about respecting it.
Until then i don’t have any issue with giving it a kick.
Sure the Torah’s just a bit of the old testament. As makey uppy as the other sky fairy nonsense!
Also good to see your intolerance of snowflakes jumping to limit free speech applies evenly to everyone.
+1
Maybe a little one of these is needed now and again … ” s/ “
I don’t believe this is the “real” Clampers, I think ABM has hijacked the avatar.
ABM was probably a made up person they hired to stoke and provoke page clicks. Clampers is a real human being and as such he is likely on the payroll
‘Tis only a bit of sarcasm realPolithicks :)
…and in fairness, on reflection, their is most definitely some truth to it
Is there, I don’t see a lot of tolerance among the “christian evangelicals” I see here in the states.
Ah come now, realPolithicks, think of how Christian faiths are often go to sources for comedy and humour and no one dies as a result of it, no threats are made…
In terms of ideology there’s no real difference, they all want to control women and their bodies, peoples sexuality etc.
I mean we do live on an island famous for two sects of Christians tearing strips off each other through most of the 20th century but yeah sure they’re good for a laugh, like.
Maybe they regularly have Jewish or ex-Jewish and Muslim or ex-Muslim comedians on to crack a few jokes about their respective religions? Doesn’t seem like that big a deal.
Poor effort Nigel
Give me another chance, coach.
Or have the balls to do this live in West Belfast…
They (RTE) didn’t have the balls to run with Fr. Ted initially !
We are a strange little island. Backward isn’t descriptive enough.
…ah here…everybody knows you are not literally eating body flesh…unless you are in the Iona Institute…
That means you’re not a catholic. The bread and wine are transubstantiated into flesh and blood for you to eat and drink. It’s not a symbol, it’s the actual thing… Poof! Magic!
Mmmm 2000 year old human flesh… tastes like icecream wafer.
Zoom, and we are back in 1959, the Catholic Church never left
RTE is in a time warp, always will so long as the TV licence exists
Shur the protestants having been ridiculing the eucharist for years.
They should complain him to the Gardai. I’d say Blindboy would be up for the craic as the state tried to enforce it’s ludicrous blasphemy laws.
Now that would be a sight to see!
I hate this Blindboy numpty
He’s not even funny he’s an offensive cretin
I suspect your attitude would delight him.
It probably would. I just think he had only one joke and he told it long ago. He’s moved into politics and pontification now which is very Oirish, next he’ll be offering up a mass for a few travellers dead ponies.
I used to think Terry Wogan, Jimmy Carr and the road to Dublin were the only good things that came from Limerick.
Welcome Blindboy.
Stay focused and fupp the beblinkered.
True story…
I went to see Rubberbandits one night in Waterford. Ended up getting there so late that I only saw Willie O’DJ playing a effing blinder of a set, so I’m not complainin’…but still…
Guess why we got there late?
– That’s right… waiting for someone with dyed-blonde hair to turn up…
And guess where she was from?
– That’s right… Limerick.
Anne you’ll never guess who it was…
That’s right.
Never forget.
Stool.
Pigeon.
– ha-cha-cha-chaaa….
♪,…There’s a gentleman that’s going ’round
Turning your world upside-down…♫)
Sleep well.
I know they stopped touring a long time ago but when Kid Creole played live you could go up near the stage and have a good view of the coconuts…
…just sayin’….
Interesting
You better believe it…
…different times…
Show business was SHOW business, if you knowarramean…
Yer not Annie’s Daddy then? She must be relieved
Sure if he was her dad then she wouldn’t be so ugly!
Eh, “Holy Ghost”?
‘Holy Toast.’
Trolly post
Not haunted! Well risen!
pain
eating the body and drinking the blood is quite transgressive, which makes it cool.
“haunted bread” is a philosophically ignorant phrase, but nothing to complain about. these Family And Media people oughtn’t embarass themselves.
If these catholic organisations had any media-savviness or sense of humour they’d go much further.
Instead of complaining to the BAI why not bake some gluten-free hosts with the image of Ryan Tubridy and some lady garden from Limerick with a plastic bag on his head, distribute them in Grafton Street, and then take a massive p1ss on a pile of them in front of RTE in Montrose.
Shur doesn’t it get ya out of the house on a Sunday mornin and programs in the Invisible Mans morals into you :
Sick Children dying of cancer or starvation – Do Nothing
Same Sex Couple – SMITE!!!!
Never listen to a man who wears a plastic spar bag on his head for attention. If he cant get your attention with just his words then he isnt worth listen too.
Michael Harding = Fr. Stone………anyone?
the days of the catholic church controlling ireland should be done. marriage ref was prizing a finger off their grip, if we repeal the 8th thats a big step. its so ignorant to think because you believe in fairies, the whole fuppin country should, and should go by ur rules. like we still have laws of the land, that we all have to abide by, that are based purely on catholic beliefs. if there was a god, i dont imagine he’d agree with the catholic churches behaviour.