The Panel on RTE 2 (again)
Posted in Blog by Twenty Major on December 31st, 2007
It’s that time of year again. No, not that time of year, but the time of year when sometimes when I come in from Ron’s I put on the old TV box thing and watch some crap.
I can enjoy festive television as much as the next man. No, that’s a lie. TV is mostly crap but as I began to flick around last night I caught the very beginning of The Panel Christmas special edition. Having written some time ago about this show I thought it would be good to watch it again to see if it was as bad as I remembered. And I have to say it wasn’t.
It was worse. There was a silly man in the middle who was the presenter/host. Sort of like a lobotomised Angus Deayton. Then there was that Northern Irish cunt who laughs at everything, some girl whose name I do not know, some other bloke who looked about 17 and Ed Byrne.
They sat around and talked about all the events of the year like cocaine and some other stuff and made some ‘jokes’ about it. Except the whole point of jokes is to make people laugh and I did not laugh. I did not. Then they brought out some big fat celebrity chef whose name I can’t remember and he seemed to have a cold or a dose of the sniffles, poor chap. They could have just let him be to recover at home with a bottle of Night Nurse but they made him go on TV. Booo, I say, that poor old chef.
Then they had another guest and he was some weird looking doctor or something with strange hair and even stranger teeth but he was not funny either. You would think that when the entire panel is incapable of being funny they might get a funny guest to try and make things better but it seems not.
To be fair to Ed Byrne he looked a bit ashamed to be there. I know, it’s a long way down from voicing Carphone Warehouse ads and I appreciate a man has to make a living but I think even he knew the disgusting life of a freegan, foraging through bins for scraps of food, would be a better choice than appearing on The Panel. I expect to see Ed Byrne gathering pizza crusts and potato skins in the months ahead. I might even leave out a bowl of milk for him to lap from on the coldest of nights. I’m not a total cunt.
Eventually I feel asleep and woke up on the couch some time later with a tremendous pain in my neck but that pain was better than The Panel.
It was funnier too.
It’s about as funny as Curb your Enthusiasm, in other words not at all. I’m so fucking sick of people going on about that show too, ‘oh it’s HIGH-LRIOUS’ they squeak, ‘I can’t believe you don’t like it.’ they quack, ‘You must not ‘get it’” they parp. As Elaine said in Seinfeld, ‘that’s because it SUCKS’.
And yeah fucking yeah, same writer, so what. Balls I say. Balls.
December 31st, 2007 at 11:55 am
Ed Byrne’s voice make me want to hammer rusty nails into my mickey….
December 31st, 2007 at 11:56 am
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Ed Byrne is a talantless fucking wanker with an annoying speech impediment and shite, greasy hair.
He’s also the ugliest cunt I’ve ever seen on telly, and that includes Marty Morrissey.
Happy new year Ed you fucking geebag.
December 31st, 2007 at 12:10 pm
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you funny fucker…
i hate ed byrne…no really HATE ed byrne
that cheered me up…fair fucks
December 31st, 2007 at 12:56 pm
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As someone once asked Dara O’Brian about The Panel before he moved to Britain for tons more money than RTE have after paying off Beverly Cooper-Flynn, “What’s it like, working with three other comedians and Ed Byrne?”
December 31st, 2007 at 1:23 pm
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“Ed Byrne is a talantless fucking wanker with an annoying speech impediment…”
I think they call it the D4 accent!
December 31st, 2007 at 2:26 pm
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They’re probably all on Coke anyway, that’s why they are so fuckin dead ended
perverts the lot of them.
December 31st, 2007 at 2:55 pm
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Let there be no doubt about this show, Ed Byrne is the talented one, the one that actually has a career outside this fucking mess of lights and make-up.
That Murphy guy that fills in for Dara O’Brian is an annoying & talentless cunt, compounded by the fact that he is unaware of his own limitations as a human being i.e he actually thinks he is amusing “CUNT”, the other little skinny cunt / Knacker from Kilbarrick or some other Northside Shithole is also an annoying talentless cunt.
More cheap and nasty television from RTE, really worth the Licence fee I’m sure you’d agree.
December 31st, 2007 at 3:01 pm
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All these comments are hilarious!
December 31st, 2007 at 3:26 pm
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I watched The Panel once off the RTE site on somebody’s recommendation and I thought that Andrew Maxwell fellow was funnier than shit. Funny shit even. I kind of fell a wee bit in love with him, truth be told.
But anyways, Happy New Year to you Twenty, you grumpy bastard. Good fortune, liver pills and the very best kind of etcs. be upon your house. And Ron’s. Although I still think I could take him. The pansy.
December 31st, 2007 at 3:37 pm
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Which one is Andrew Maxwell? Was he on it last night?
Anyway, have a good one yourself, Sam, but don’t underestimate Ron. He’s a biter.
December 31st, 2007 at 4:05 pm
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Keep it up Twenty and next time I’ll leave that wine glass up your ass!
December 31st, 2007 at 5:24 pm
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Fatmammycat. About CYE. I think it’s one of the funniest shows on TV and has been for 6 ? years.
Have you cosidered that it may not be everybody else in the world that is wrong and that maybe your sense of humour is fucked up ? Just a thought.
December 31st, 2007 at 5:53 pm
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I have considered that, then immediately rejected it.
December 31st, 2007 at 6:25 pm
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do all you cunts live in the sticks and are stuck with RT bleedin’E?
December 31st, 2007 at 7:07 pm
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No. They’re just too fucking fat and lazy to grab the remote and move on from Channel 1 on the telly.
And the Panel has been shite for a long time.
December 31st, 2007 at 7:50 pm
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Normally I don’t like that Ed Byrne fella, but he excelled last night when he called Bertie a prick.
It wasn’t just the fact that he said it, but the way he said it.
-Worth the license fee that the rest of you probably pay.
December 31st, 2007 at 7:56 pm
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Oddly enough Ed Byrne was the only (mildly) funny one on the Christmas edition.
The others need to be shot out of a cannon into a wall that is too close to the cannon. And the wall should be covered in spikes and copies of the Sunday World.
The blonde woman isn’t even a comedian, nor is she attractive. They should just leave her chair empty each week, and if anyone asks where she’s got to they can say she’s in the kitchen MINDING HER FUCKINH BABY.
And I don’t know why they didn’t bring Andrew Maxwell in for the Christmas special - he’s the only one who’s genuinely funny.
December 31st, 2007 at 8:07 pm
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Why is this such a surprise to people,its R.T.E. who are synonymous with complete and utter wank.
Happy New Year fucker’s :)
January 1st, 2008 at 6:03 am
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Ed Byrne’s voice makes me want to hammer rusty nails into his Mickey.
That show is the greatest load of complete bollocks ever made for TV. They have a week to write those ‘gags’ that are supposedly off the cuff, THAT’S HOW SHIT THEY ARE.
I’m off to hammer rusty nails into Ed Byrne’s mickey. I bet it’s fucking tiny.
January 1st, 2008 at 7:35 pm
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–the disgusting life of a freegan–
Any chance of you withdrawing that, Major?
January 1st, 2008 at 7:55 pm
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Sorry Fred, you know I think Freeganism is disgusting but at least you’re not on The Panel, I’ll give you that.
January 1st, 2008 at 7:59 pm
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-Sorry Fred-
Apology accepted!
January 1st, 2008 at 8:14 pm
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We have the same shit happening on this side of the pond. The no talent dickheads only get laughs because of the applause signs that light up in the studios enabling the sheepel in the audience to know that something funny is supposed to have been said. Or, in the absence of an audience, the pricks use canned laughter. What the fuck is wrong with these audiences, are they afraid to boo the cunts or throw shit at them? What a collection of shitheads.
January 1st, 2008 at 8:17 pm
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Apparently - its not ok to boo!!! Racist!!
January 2nd, 2008 at 11:37 am
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I haven’t seen the Christmas edition, but I can laugh about the jokes. I wouldn’t say it’s the best show in the world, but it isn’t so crappy as mentioned here. Then again, who gives a …
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:53 am
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The Panel is an Australian Show. It’s brilliant down under and we looooove Ed Byrne. Ye just can’t transfer this type of thing to Ireland as you bollixes can’t do it as well as we Aussies.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:09 pm
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I’m told the Aussie one is just as unfunny.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:22 pm
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Some Irish git probably said that. It’s hilarious, especially when Glen Robbins aka Kel from Kath & Kim, is on the panel
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:47 pm
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We gave you The Panel. I wish we could have an Aussie version of Rodge & Podge
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:49 pm
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I came across this page from a google link but now I’ve forgotten what I was looking for. Anyway, the Panel is fairly shite, but Andrew Maxwell went on a rant about SUVs that was the funniest thing I’ve seen on RTE in ages. I’ve just moved back to Ireland after spending 5 years in England.
Which reminds me, Jimmy Carr. Unfunny smug cunt with a face you just couldn’t stop hitting with a hammer.
January 4th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
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“I’m told the Aussie one is just as unfunny.”
Aussie comedy must be rubbish anyway. They think Jimeoin is funny.
January 4th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
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Fucking hell I hate The Panel With a passion.. Andrew Maxwell must be one of the most unfunny people in the universe.
I love the way they always try to cut across each other because each one feels they have something funny or worthwhile to say, when in fact they’re boring, uninteresting, unfunny and overpaid. Shout louder Andrew, so that you drown out Ed with something even less funny.
They should watch Have I Got News For You to see how a show with the same basic premise can be successful and funny. Though that may have something to do with their panel not being a bunch of drooling ‘tards.
January 7th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
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U are all a gang of Wankers! The panel is CLASS! and andrew maxwell is the funniest man EVER! Ye all need 2 fuck up and get a sense of humour pricks!
February 22nd, 2008 at 11:21 pm
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