Show me the petition and I’ll sign it.Telethons are usually a mixed bag, and this was no exception. When RTE decided to do Comic Relief, I’m not sure they intended the nine o'clock news to be a welcome relief from the comedy ... Twitter; Email "RTE can’t do comedy" is an old refrain. It's time to call a halt to 'copoganda' shows that present the cops as an incorruptible force for good I can live without Bridget and Eamon and Katherine Lynch – the 21st-century Twink – any night.Overall, though, the good stuff outweighed the dud stuff.

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The spark was The Den reunion with Ray D’Arcy, Zig and Zag, Dustin and a remote Bob Geldof, looking fuzzy at the other end of an old Nokia.For 15 riotous minutes of glorious silliness, parents (including this one) and their grown-up kids were magically transported back to those joyous afternoons in the 90s.
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Actually, RTE can do comedy and has done some very fine comedy over the years: Paths to Freedom, Hardy Bucks, the unjustly overlooked – and even more unjustly cancelled – Trivia, Aprés Match and, even though it’s technically a comedy-drama, Bachelor’s Walk.But triumphs such as these are pitifully few and separated by long stretches of mediocrity during which you rather wished RTE wouldn’t try comedy at all.By the time the nine o’clock news interrupted RTE Does Comic Relief on Friday, it looked ominously like the Twitter naysayers forecasting a disaster might be right.You can’t fault the show’s good intentions – by the end of the broadcast more than €5m had been raised for various charities and the figure is still rising – or the huge effort it took everyone involved to pull such an ambitious production together in the most difficult circumstances imaginable.Yet, there’s no denying the first hour was a terrible drag. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us.

The spoof investigative documentary on defunct RTE show The Panel, which roped in big British names like Romesh Ranganathan and David Mitchell, was funnier than it had any right to be and even included a jibe about how you have to get away from RTE to make it in comedy.For me, though, the highlight was Waterford Whispers News. RTÉ does Comic Relief resumes after news on @RTEOne and @RTEplayer #RTEComicRelief To donate to #RTEComicRelief go to @Prunchees ( ) Seems like the moaners are missing the #LateLate and taking their frustrations out on #RTEComicRelief If you can look beyond a couple of the presenters, it a super show and most importantly for super causes. When RTE decided to do Comic Relief, I’m not sure they intended the news to be a welcome relief from the comedy, but that’s what it felt like at that early point.Mercifully, the evening caught fire after the break. "RTE can’t do comedy" is an old refrain. The Normal Older People sketch was funnier – although having a third Normal People-related sketch from trio Foil Arms and Hog, good as they are, was overkill.The Derry Girls Zoom chat with Saoirse Ronan was amusing. 'It just goes to show how racism is ingrained in our society' - Normal People actress Aoife Hinds racially abused on street during Dublin shoot No show featuring white comedians donning blackface deserves the benefit of the doubt Inside the Bruderhof preview: This frustrating look at a radical religious group lacks real bite Louise Bruton's week in TV: Kathyrn Thomas's home comforts offer a break from American follies This is why the RTE Does Comic Relief funding is particularly important.” No sex please, we're Irish: The racy scenes that left us reeling
RTÉ Comic Relief Fund Opens for Applications Posted on 4 Aug 2020 In response to the significant need of community and voluntary groups across Ireland, many of whom are working to support people affected by COVID-19, RTÉ and Kite Entertainment came together to host RTÉ does Comic Relief. I’d never heard of The 2 Johnnies (my YouTube comedy education is lacking) and could have lived without their musical spoofs on the night.

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“RTÉ Does Comic Relief was not only a unique night on Irish broadcasting, it also brought us together as a country as one to support people hardest hit by the impact of the pandemic,” said Community Foundation Ireland CEO Denise Charlton. What on earth have they done to Perry Mason? Having five presenters – Deirdre O’Kane (the prime mover behind the evening), Nicky Byrne, Baz Ashmawy, Jennifer Zamparelli and Eoghan McDermott – felt unnecessary.A couple were stiff and looked unsure of themselves, although the absence of a studio audience to bounce off certainly didn’t make things any easier.The only discernible comedy in this first segment was a painfully unfunny sketch featuring Pat Shortt doing his familiar demented culchie thing (a rural GP this time). How beautiful is this? The truly horrible murder of a baby boy, made even more horrible by the decision to show viewers the face of the dead infant, whose eyelids have been stitched open. Full-frontal nudity. The Normal People-Fleabag mash-up was charming and self-aware, rather than outright hilarious. The process of converting that generosity into support and actions on the ground in communities in Waterford and across the country is now underway. D’Arcy was transported, too, back in his element and enjoying every second of it. Graphic violence. Explicit sex.

Because my skin is white.My mother, were she still with us, would probably be shocked. I’ll never know what it feels like to be verbally abused or physically assaulted because of the colour of my skin. Because I’m white.