Tag Archives: satire
Today’s Waterford Whispers.
Fluffybiscuits writes:
Lots of commentary saying this has crossed the line. I don’t know, I thought it was pretty sharp..what say the BS commentariat?
Dead Refugees Criticised For Appalling D-Day Landing Reenactments (Waterford Whispers)
Of this ‘satirical’ election handout from FG GE16 candidate Kate O’Connell, Midge Fox writes:
I received this paper on Portobello bridge this morning. According to the conspicuously named “Election Times” aka campaignforkate.ie, Sinn Fein, “the party of peace and harmony” according to an unknown “Sinn Fein councillor” intend bringing us into some kind of communist utopia. Yippee!!!
‘Fair Game’
atLast night’s RTÉ Radio One’s The Media Show host Conor Brophy discussed political satire with England-born Kilkenny-based Sean Hardie – one of the brains behind Spitting Image, Bremner, Bird and Fortune and Not the Nine O’Clock News.
Mr Hardie said the Barry Murphy-led series Irish Pictorial Weekly was the best satire “I’ve seen in any country for a long while.”
He also discussed the ‘controversial’ depiction of Squee above (but not the possibly more ‘controversial’ depiction of presidential assistant Kevin McCarthy).
Conor Brophy: “Did you bat those things around though in terms of whether you would actually go down that direction or not, because I’m thinking one of the things you don’t want to do is get into belittling people because of the way they appear.”
Sean Hardie: “It’s a very difficult one that, because sometimes what you want to try to do is get the essence of what a persons like. So, if someone is like a bear or someone is like a cow or someone is like a monkey, it’s a very useful image to have in your mind and their physical body language is bound up with it. There’s a very interesting case in point with Oliver Callan and our president as to whether you reference the fact of what our president looks like.
I mean Oliver is a terrific impressionist. It’s an awkward kind of an area as to whether…I mean the fact about Michael D is – he’s a great man, he’s done wonderful things and his heart is exactly in the right place but he’s a terrible old gasbag and when you see him walking out and representing the nation, there is something which says our dignity is not quite where it ought to be at the moment, which doesn’t belittle his achievements as a president but the physical thing is – do you do it, don’t you do it?
It’s a fine line. If all you’re doing is saying so and so has got a stutter, you’re not really achieving anything. But if it’s part of who they are, then yeah, it’s kind of fair game….”
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Thanks Liam Geraghty
Love Ulster.
Hate sunny south east satire.
Protestant Coalition (Facebook)
Fuck Ulster Parade Gets Go Ahead In Waterford (Waterford Whispers)
[irish satirical website ThePotato.ie]
Custo writes:
Looking at the comments, it seems that satire is lost on some people…
Oh.
Pro-Lol
atClí Odhna writes:
“Not only are Youth Defence deeply unpleasant individuals, they also don’t get satire!”
Cartoon by Eoin Kelleher/Phoenix
We have two tickets (worth 18 big ones) for the Leviathan Satire debate in The Chapel at Borris House (above, the chapel’s around the back) on Saturday night. It’s part of the Borris Hay Festival.
Just finish this sentence:
My life is currently beyond satire because…
Lines close at midnight.
From Leviathan:
Hosted by Gerry Stembridge; this fascinating public conversation will also feature Spitting Image producer, John Lloyd; political satirist and comedian, Abie Philbin-Bowman; broadcaster Margaret E Ward and TV writer, Langerland co-creator and member of Twitter royalty, Colm Tobin (not Colm Toibín!). The talk will be complemented by some fine examples of polticial satire on screen.
No cash, favours, tickets, etc. were given for this post
Boom Boom
atThat’s not a punchline.
This, etc.
Irish comedy works exactly like Fianna Fáil. It just hasn’t been chased, hung up and gutted. Yet. So why aren’t our top Irish comedians more satirical, edgy about Ireland, the Celtic Tiger and all that? For starters they were the fat comedy kittens suckling noisily on the Celtic Tiger’s withered old teats. Still suckling on the fetid corpse.
All unregulated and unchallenged by De Meejia, State or We The People.
Sound familiar? Nothing to say about day-to-day Ireland, because they are not of it.
Surfing the greedy wave, they are well in with the bankers, the advertisers, the sponsors and the media whores, when they should be lining up those very turkeys in their gun sights.
Spotlight the money trail and you find that many of our public, pouting, posturing comedians did fantastically well out of boom-crazed Ireland, but they get moany and sob in green rooms on free booze, that they are true artists, with de integrity, like.
Knights in shiny Armani more like.
Blimey.
And he’s naming names.
Death Of Satire Just When We Needed It? Now That’s Funny (Alex Lyons, Irish Times)