Sunday Times and RTE – Savage cunts
Posted on | November 16, 2009 | 93 Comments
Some time ago I was walking through town and I neared the top of Grafton Street. ‘Comedian’ David McSavage was there with his guitar and his amp spewing his ‘unique brand’ of aural pollution. A man and his daughter passed by the circle of cretins who were standing around listening to McSavage.
Ever the wit he said something to the man about the girl being a bit young for him. Classy. The man ignored it, the girl asked her Dad something, I decided it would be perfectly acceptable for me to go and hit McSavage in the face. I was persuaded by my companion on the day that while undeniably pleasurable it would probably not be worth it in the grand scheme of things.
I did not punch him in the face and to this day I regret it because he really needs to be punched in the face. If I had the powers of Manimal, who could transform himself into animals, I would turn into a donkey, stand in front of McSavage and kick him right in the teeth.
The reason I mention this man is because he has a new TV show coming up. Called ‘The Savage Eye’. Yesterday’s Sunday Times ran a big two page spread on him in the Culture section. And not once did they mention that McSavage simply is not funny. And not only is he not funny, he’s a cunt.
This is the same Sunday Times that likes to slate pretty much everything. I’m sure when Liam Fay gets around to reviewing the TV show he will give it a good hammering, which is what he does to every TV show he reviews. I’m not sure why they employ a TV reviewer who doesn’t like anything on TV, but there you go.
A publication that, certainly from an Irish perspective, sees reviewing as the art of criticising something, had nothing critical to say about a man who has proven time and time again that he is to comedy what Josef Fritzl is to babysitting.
Maybe they’re keeping onside with the Andrews clan, what with cousin Ryan now hosting the Late, Late (and I wonder did he help facilitate the production of this monstrosity), and now a man of real influence if limited talent.
How is it that Ireland, a nation famed for writers, wits and performers, has provided a 6 episode platform for an outright cunt to prove to everyone he is as funny as cancer? I know a man who has a genuinely funny sitcom yet he can’t get near anyone to produce it, least of all RTE. Yet they have the money for this wanker? And the Sunday Times don’t have the balls to say anything about it? They’re wankers too.
The country is in a bad enough state already without foisting this twat on us. That they are using licence fee money to pay McSavage should make it perfectly legal to never pay the licence fee again.
I haven’t seen him around town much lately but if he deigns to perform on the public streets again and I hear him make a ‘joke’ like the one about the man and his daughter, I won’t be dissuaded from giving him the smack in the chops he deserves.
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More on McSavage here and here and here on boards.ie (lots of stories of him being a cunt to wade through) – and there was a brilliant YouTube clip of a voicemail he left for the manager of the Sugar Club. The video is set to private though, anyone have a copy?
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November 16th, 2009 @ 9:53 am
I will admit the first time i seen him on the street i thought it was funny. But didn’t take long to realise he is not funny but a one-trick pony with lowest common denominator material.
Perfect RTE viewing
November 16th, 2009 @ 9:59 am
I haven’t read that yet, up to this point I’ve lived in a McSavageless world. Maybe I’m better off.
I read the Katy French piece (you were quoted therein). Wasn’t won over by it, there really was nothing said that wasn’t better put two years ago.
November 16th, 2009 @ 10:09 am
I honestly thought that cunt had mental health issues. It’s a hospital he should be in not a fucking tv show.
Even the name “The Savage View” sends a shiver down my spine. ughhhhh. Have visions of panoramic views of his colon cos lets face it his head is up his well connected ass
The Twink and Jedward show would be funnier then this doss cunt.
November 16th, 2009 @ 10:11 am
I’d never even heard of the chap before now, so I had a bit of a look at some of his stuff on Youtube. Now, I’m a fan of crude humour myself, but this wasn’t even good crude humour. He just gives people abuse, is that it? Or makes jokes about sex in its various forms in a rather simple way? (“I’d love to rape you!”).
Does the busking license automatically exempt him from libel, slander or whatever someone plain abusing you is? I mean, if I can get arrested for being verbally abusive to someone on the street, surely he can?
November 16th, 2009 @ 10:34 am
Yes, he abuses people, basically, and assumes they won’t have the stones to confront him (which is correct in most cases).
I read the Katy French piece (you were quoted therein). Wasn’t won over by it, there really was nothing said that wasn’t better put two years ago.
Yeah, saw that too. I’m still not sure what the point of the piece was.
November 16th, 2009 @ 10:35 am
the ryan report was funnier than mcsavage. any chance we could loose the shouty bloke on him permenantly?
in any just world both himself and his cousin would be employed in a tin mine in bolivia.
November 16th, 2009 @ 10:41 am
- tin mine
+ miner’s brothel
November 16th, 2009 @ 10:57 am
I’d had enough of him in the profile when he admitted early on to being a bully to his brother.
He’s still a bully.
November 16th, 2009 @ 10:58 am
Yep, a really shit one as well, Medbh.
But then he comes from a family where a sense of entitlement is the norm.
November 16th, 2009 @ 10:58 am
The French piece played more to the vanity of Trevor White than anything else, I reckon.
November 16th, 2009 @ 11:10 am
McSavage is a Fianna Fail child isn’t he? Like Tubridy and many others no doubt. Getting into RTE is nothing to do with talent and all to do with where you went to school and what political family you are in.
November 16th, 2009 @ 11:11 am
Yes he is, HM.
Father = David Andrews, brother is Barry Andrews, Minister for Children, Uncle = Niall Andrews MEP, cousin = Tubbers, whose brother is on the FF ticket now as well.
Radge – yeah, it was a very strange piece. I didn’t quite get what he was trying to do nor did it seem to reach any conclusion.
November 16th, 2009 @ 11:22 am
I’d never heard of him so just had to look him up and it turns out I have met him before, about 20 years ago, cause he’s really David Andrews.
McSavage is a member of one of Ireland’s most established political families. His father is the prominent former Fianna Fáil politician David Andrews[3], and his brother is the Fianna Fáil politician Barry Andrews. He is a nephew of former TD and MEP Niall Andrews, and his cousin Chris Andrews is a TD for Dublin South East. He is also a first cousin of RTÉ presenter Ryan Tubridy.
He was a friend of some guy I knew in college, way back. Two supposedly true stories about the guy.
One, he used to ride a Honda 50, turn the headlight off, and crash into cars on dark roads. Then turn the light back on as he lay on ground, claim they’d hit him and try to get money out of them.
Two, he pulled stunts like thrashing the upstairs of a 46A bus with another guy, ripping up seats etc.. When the bus driver stopped the bus and came upstairs to them, they pretended to be somehow mentally handicapped, giving him note saying “Please let these boys off at St. John of Gods”.
November 16th, 2009 @ 11:24 am
Isn’t there a book due out soon?
That ‘controversial’ one that got delayed*?
*More likely rewritten for the Christmas market.
November 16th, 2009 @ 11:28 am
And his grandfather destroyed the railway system !
November 16th, 2009 @ 11:29 am
I don’t believe that St. John of God’s story because that is actually pretty funny.
November 16th, 2009 @ 11:36 am
Jeez, bitter much about the Sunday Times?
Liam Fay regularly praises shows that deserve his praise. Not his fault that 80% of RTE’s output is hackneyed rubbish.
November 16th, 2009 @ 11:36 am
I wonder does anyone have a Fianna Fail Matrix – a huge diagram showing the connections between prominent Fianna Failers and their friends and families which shows how they control power, influence and finance and the judiciary.
November 16th, 2009 @ 11:39 am
Didn’t know he was from the Andrews clan. Makes a little bit more sense then. Actually, I didn’t even realise he was a “comedian”, just thought he was some sort of deluded street perfomer. Once walked past him with a buggy and he shouted that I had stolen the baby. Maybe that’s what passes for funny at an Andrews family gathering.
November 16th, 2009 @ 11:39 am
Brock – I don’t really have any problem with Liam Fay. Most of the stuff he says is shite is shite, and if there’s a positive review of something it’s a few paragraphs at the end.
Just funny how they’ll fawn over a cunt like McSavage when you know Fay will tear the show to shreds, if he’s allowed review it, that is.
November 16th, 2009 @ 11:40 am
HM – there’s a project all right.
November 16th, 2009 @ 11:41 am
Once walked past him with a buggy and he shouted that I had stolen the baby.
How humbled you must have been to be in the presence of comedic genius like that.
November 16th, 2009 @ 11:50 am
McSavage is one of the biggest cunts the country has ever produced and a coke head to ompound it. My brother was a cycle courier in Dublin and McSavage took a dislike to him. While my brother was cycling along, working, McSavage ran out from behind a car and punched him so he fell off the bike and battered himself. This was at the top of Grafton St.
Now, my brother is 6’4″ and built like a brick shithouse but he was a bit stunned and only managed to slam McSavage to the ground and hold onto him till the police came, there were loads of eye witnesses.
But guess what, McSavage is the son or nephew of some senior TD or something and apparently he’s famous for doing shit like this and getting away with it because the police won’t touch him due to whatever this shady connection is.
Revenge is a dish best served cold and I will set that motherfucker on fire once the opportunity arises.
November 16th, 2009 @ 12:00 pm
*compound
Sorry, only read through the comments after posting that. I see ye had sussed the political connections already.
PS – The reason he took a dislike to my brother was that he was screaming at people in some parade so my brother and his mates persuaded him to fuck off
November 16th, 2009 @ 12:06 pm
Revenge is a dish best served cold and I will set that motherfucker on fire once the opportunity arises.
that wouldn’t be cold though
November 16th, 2009 @ 12:10 pm
Don’t always agree with Twenty naming half the population of Ireland (at least) as cunts, but there’s no contest on the mac-savage cunt.
Curiously, Wikipedia lists his website as
davidmcsavage.com, but when you nip over there to do some basic cuntology research, this is what you see:
davidmcsavage.com – This Domain is for sale!
Domain Listed in Directory: Yahoo & Dmoz.com
List Price: $500
Seems the cunt must be short of a few bob as well as a few marbles.
November 16th, 2009 @ 12:10 pm
Ewar Woowar is dead.
November 16th, 2009 @ 12:11 pm
Well spotted Peadar.
November 16th, 2009 @ 12:15 pm
RIP, The Equalizer. Never quite understood why master crims were so afraid of a portly middle-aged man in a beige mac, but there you go.
November 16th, 2009 @ 12:18 pm
I’ll throw him in the Liffey after Peader
November 16th, 2009 @ 12:20 pm
I’d be afraid of anyone in a mac
November 16th, 2009 @ 12:30 pm
“But guess what, McSavage is the son or nephew of some senior TD or something and apparently he’s famous for doing shit like this and getting away with it because the police won’t touch him due to whatever this shady connection is.”
And at the opposite end of the spectrum you have Blueshirt TDs calling for Tommy Tiernans head for doing a parody on Nazis. What the fuck is wrong with this country.
I hope McSavages show bombs like the FF vote in the local elections.
November 16th, 2009 @ 12:37 pm
Fiona, he did the exact same ‘gag’ to me once when I walked past with my kid in a buggy. Not only lame, but repetitive. Tool.
I have it on good authority that he has pretty bad psychological problems, really hates himself and does all this stuff because he wants people to hate him. (Mission Accomplished, I’d have to say.) That kind of provocative ‘hate me cause I’m so dangerous’ behaviour is understandable (although still annoying) in a teenager struggling to find their own identity, but is very, very pathetic in a 40-something man with kids of his own.
He could try to write something witty, original and insightful instead of relying on tired old offense tactics, but that would take hard work and genuine talent, something that’s not apparent in him (or his pesky family).
November 16th, 2009 @ 12:38 pm
By the way, is there a link to the Sunday Times piece on Katy French that’s mentioned here?
November 16th, 2009 @ 12:42 pm
Jean – I don’t think the Sunday Times put the Irish edition stuff on their website anymore. It was in the Review section.
November 16th, 2009 @ 12:52 pm
Jean, do you really, really want it?
I could dig it out of the bin and scan it for you, but only if you really, really want it.
November 16th, 2009 @ 1:07 pm
I watched a bit of the Late Late on Friday night, and was stunned as Tubbers asked a Jaded British TV celebrity if he was a bit of a ‘Hibernophile’. Are Irish Presenters still stooping to this sort of ‘love us we are Irish’ shit? It sounds so fucking obsequious, it just drives me fucking mad.
MsSavage is a cunt. But most decent Irish comics end up in Britain.
November 16th, 2009 @ 1:14 pm
What the fuck is a Hibernophile?
November 16th, 2009 @ 1:20 pm
Hibernophile:
A person who suffers from an irrational fear of hibernation.
November 16th, 2009 @ 1:33 pm
It means you wear tweed, holiday in Spiddel and sign your name ‘as gaelige’ I think..
November 16th, 2009 @ 2:05 pm
So you’ve got this obnoxious cross between Bernard Manning, Andrew Dice Clay and an Irish Johnny Knoxville, only this is the kick. He’s reported to have mental problems.
Jesus, RTE must be hard up for ratings………
Hibernophile: Someone who can’t stop bleeding if you belt them with a shillelagh.
November 16th, 2009 @ 2:07 pm
Apparently McSavage was the warm up man for Pat Kenny’s Late Late Show, so that tells you he has been well in with the clique that run RTE for years.
November 16th, 2009 @ 2:10 pm
We kindly ask our members to refrain from carrying mini water pistols when heckling unfunny Street performers. Any members squarting the Unfunnies and shouting ‘That’s what I call funny’ will be dealt with as per rule 3 (a) (i) and (ii)
November 16th, 2009 @ 2:14 pm
How is it that Ireland, a nation famed for writers, wits and performers, has provided a 6 episode platform for an outright cunt to prove to everyone he is as funny as cancer?
Good writing etc comes from oppression and deprivation, which is why Modern Ireland (80s on) and Russia has been largely talentless of late.
November 16th, 2009 @ 2:19 pm
It’s great. I don’t know who this McSavage fucker is. Completely oblivious. Ditto soap characters from Fair City, Ras na Run, Eastenders, Coronation Street, Emmerdale, and other minor B list celebs.
So carry on chaps. I’ll be in my bunker.
November 16th, 2009 @ 2:19 pm
I did not punch him in the face and to this day I regret it because he really needs to be punched in the face. If I had the powers of Manimal, who could transform himself into animals, I would turn into a donkey, stand in front of McSavage and kick him right in the teeth.
One advantage of the US gun Culture, If he had said something like that in the states the father would have whacked him and no court would have convicted him.
November 16th, 2009 @ 2:21 pm
I need volunteers to stage a coup and take control of the State. Any takers? There’ll be no boozing until AFTER the coup though.
November 16th, 2009 @ 2:22 pm
Sorry, only interested in drunken coups.
November 16th, 2009 @ 2:23 pm
Hey Twenty, did you get Todd Andrews, chairman of the RTÉ authority back in the 60s , Ryan’s grandad and who must have been Savage’s grand uncle?
Very tight indeed.
This is why and how Pat Kenny is worth every cent of his much reduced annual €630k approx.
November 16th, 2009 @ 2:24 pm
Ah, good history, Sniffle. Tight is right.
And true about Pat Kenny, putting him in direct comparison to McSavage makes him look worth every single penny. In fact, I’d pay him more if it meant McSavage never appeared.
November 16th, 2009 @ 2:25 pm
Thanks Git, you’re very kind, but I don’t want it that badly. It’s just that since reading John Waters’ piece on Katy French, I have high expectations of all K.French-related writing. But it’s very unlikely that it could live up the hallucinatory awfulness of Waters’ article.
About McSavage – it’s very easy to rile him. I once saw him completely lose his shit when some kids started messing with his equipment during his street ‘comedy’ in Temple Bar. He’d be a great candidate for a pie in the face, in the style of Georges Le Gloupier.
November 16th, 2009 @ 2:43 pm
Does Georges Le Gloupier make pies with spunk in them?
‘Cos that would be perfect.
November 16th, 2009 @ 2:44 pm
“Sorry, only interested in drunken coups.”
I’d be up for that. It would go down in history as the great Irish Sup-a-Coup.
November 16th, 2009 @ 2:48 pm
Fuck Sake Twenty,ive a screaming hangover and its monday,and you remind me that that walking abortion exists??Cheers.. hic..
November 16th, 2009 @ 3:00 pm
“I’d be up for that. It would go down in history as the great Irish Sup-a-Coup.”
Aha! Well done that man.
I’d have to be allowed to smoke my weed as well. That way it would also be the Coup-de-Grass.
November 16th, 2009 @ 3:02 pm
And if it all goes wrong and we have to do ourselves in we can drink Coupl-Aid
November 16th, 2009 @ 3:05 pm
i remember seeing him before and thinking he was funny, perhaps it’s me who’s the cunt. however, depsite what i thought before reading this piece, i can’t resist a good witchunt, the fuckign prick.
November 16th, 2009 @ 3:09 pm
splendid one SG
November 16th, 2009 @ 3:21 pm
Jesus Rapey.you support Chelsea the team with Drogba in (footballs version of McSavage) and you found him funny? Seek medical attention immediately…
November 16th, 2009 @ 3:35 pm
Didier Drogba, diddies, heh heh Great name
November 16th, 2009 @ 3:38 pm
SG, that’s poetry. Erin’s Sup-a-Coup.
Our code could be brands of drink.. “Take the Heinekens down to the Beamish fields and block all access to the WKD grounds. Open with the JD and Cokes if you get any incoming Bloody Marys”
November 16th, 2009 @ 3:50 pm
We could blame it all on the Tullamore Jew.
November 16th, 2009 @ 4:15 pm
There’s jew living in tullamore? Fucking hell, this country is really gone to the dogs
November 16th, 2009 @ 4:21 pm
McSavage is the greatest cunt that ever walked the earth. I fully expect him to get a second season from RTE.
I had exactly the same experience Twenty. He was busking in temple bar and gave his own unique brand of humour to some poor girl with a slightly bigger than average arse (but not too shabby) as she walked on front of a group of about 50 punters. McCunt clearly believes there are not enough anorexics out there.
Treat McSavage as you would a zombie. To be 100% sure he can’t spew his unfunny evil anymore, you must completely remove the head.
November 16th, 2009 @ 4:25 pm
“Jesus Rapey.you support Chelsea the team with Drogba in (footballs version of McSavage) and you found him funny? Seek medical attention immediately…”
in my defence fill i didnt know at the time i was supposed to think he was a cunt.
2 wee knackers were giving him a load of shit and he said somethign about the results of inbreeding which i found funny, and agreed with. dont remember him picking on randomers.
November 16th, 2009 @ 4:28 pm
Don’t worry about it rapey. Of course a cunt is not going to think that a cunt is a cunt
November 16th, 2009 @ 4:28 pm
Do reckon McSavage is in Opus Dei like his cousin Tubbers McRubbery?
November 16th, 2009 @ 4:34 pm
Is Tubradoodle a ODer?
November 16th, 2009 @ 4:36 pm
He is. He’s doing God’s work.
November 16th, 2009 @ 4:43 pm
Funnily enough I got a rather bizarre email today from a chap who advised me he was making a complaint to the Gardai about one of the posts about Joe Coleman (under the Blasphemous libel law). He attached a document which outlined his complaint which, it turns out, is against Tubbers and Dara O’Briain after a Late Late Show. A snippet:
Mr Tubridy has showed his Godless nature by leaving his wife and finding a new love of his life. Whilst his private life is his own, when his private Godless behaviours infect our homes it becomes our problem. If Mr Tubridy wants to ignore the teachings of the bible that is his own business also but he would be doing well to learn and learn fast that biblical teachings are for everyone and only the ignorant and immoral ignore them and it catches up with them eventually. Because both these men are uneducated I enclose details for them both to read about this Tree Stump and may God forgive them for their behaviour.
It’s all about the second coming. Seriously.
By appearing in the Tree Stump Our Lady is clearly showing she is an integral part of The Tree of Life and earns the title CoRedemptrix, Mediatrix and Advocate by bring the Second Coming of the son to us all which is happening in Ireland right under the noses of Tubridy and O’Brian both of whom suffer with Spiritual Blindness which should be cured fairly rapidly. The Tree Stump also plays a major role in the Sainthood for Pope John Paul II.
November 16th, 2009 @ 4:47 pm
Capitalised tree stump. Groovy.
I reckon Miriam O’Callaghan would make a splendid Mediatrix.
November 16th, 2009 @ 4:48 pm
So badly written. Must be the man himself. Reads very like his twaddle.
November 16th, 2009 @ 4:50 pm
I reckon Miriam O’Callaghan would make a splendid Mediatrix.
heh
November 16th, 2009 @ 4:51 pm
HM – do you mean Tubrinator or ol’ Joe?
November 16th, 2009 @ 4:52 pm
The Joe Show.
November 16th, 2009 @ 4:52 pm
Only the ignorant and immoral ignore them and it catches up with them eventually.
Because then you’ll all go to HELL!!!!
Tubbers is in Opus Dei, what the fuck is with this country?
November 16th, 2009 @ 4:55 pm
There’s fucking looooads of well known people in Opus Dei. It’s fuck all to do with religion really. It’s more about connections. They only approach people with influence and money to join them.
November 16th, 2009 @ 5:04 pm
I hear they have great sex in OD. Really.
November 16th, 2009 @ 5:11 pm
‘Hear’, yes.
Maggot and Tubbers are totally doin’ it.
November 16th, 2009 @ 5:21 pm
I think it would be fantastic if Joe Coleman cited Twenty in a blasphemy case. You could take his Tree Stump and stick it firmly, but reverently, up his Deluded Hole.
Your Honour.
November 16th, 2009 @ 5:25 pm
Tubbers has to maintain a constant boner to stop himself falling into drains.
November 16th, 2009 @ 6:39 pm
I’ve never seen or heard the fellow and from reading all this about him I think I’ll leave it that way too. The only thing I watch on RTE is football. And I think I’ll leave it like that too. The viewers of rte must be all muching mogadons; it’s the same people on a merry-go-round of banality.
7 pm Channel 4 News
8.30 More 4 The Jon Stewart Show
9.30 – Pub
that’s all you ever need. RTE and “would you like fries with that” – 2 bland partners.
November 16th, 2009 @ 9:06 pm
Complete and utter cunt. A mate told me he [snip]. I believe it because that is what cunts do. And as I said, he’s a cunt.
November 16th, 2009 @ 9:41 pm
Maggot and Tubbers are totally doin’ it.
We maggots don’t do that sort of thing. No prostates.
November 16th, 2009 @ 11:04 pm
Lads, loose talk costs lives. The coup will nevere succeed if you keep up this fouplish babbling in public. We should meet secretly in Ron’s tomorrow night. Just don’t tell anyone where we’re meeting.
November 17th, 2009 @ 11:14 am
Why did Mr. Fink have the snip?
November 17th, 2009 @ 12:28 pm
Presumably cos he spouted something potentially libellous about Master Andrews (which I would’ve been all eyes for). That weird email about Coleman must’ve made Twenty paranoid
November 18th, 2009 @ 4:22 am
Hi Twenty Major,
I was at a screening of two episodes of the Savage Eye last week, and it is the best show to come out of RTE for a long long time, I think you are going to find it very hard to deal with the positive reaction to the quality of McSavage’s work.
The bile you are directing at people does not belong to them, it belongs to you, its yours. Your really saying other peoples potential success threatens you.
Your writing is a lot more aggressive than anything you’ve described about McSavage’ behavior.
He has a TV series, and you have a blog,
Good Luck
Yulia
November 18th, 2009 @ 8:12 am
Hi Yulia,
I don’t want a TV series, I’m quite happy with my blog. Other people’s potential doesn’t bother me in the slightest, assuming they have some. The only potential McSavage has is to be an even bigger cunt than he is now. And if you can’t see the difference between my writing and him suggesting that a father is fucking his 9 year old daughter then it explains why you’re a fan of that cunt in the first place.
Good luck,
Twenty
November 19th, 2009 @ 4:27 am
hello twenty
I dont see the problem with fucking children, priests have been doing it for years, this is Ireland.
your mothers cunt is like a horses mouth crossing the line of the grand national.
November 25th, 2009 @ 12:13 am
God you cant even come up with a new joke Savage you used that in your show last night. I had never hear of you before last night, it was just bad realy bad raoring 20s bad.
November 29th, 2009 @ 8:52 pm
He may well be a cunt, but it was a fucking funny first episode.
July 6th, 2010 @ 5:34 pm
Dear All
I hope all those who disapprove of the disgraceful satirical series ‘Savage Eye’ have sent a complaint to the Broadcast Authority of Ireland: http://www.bai.ie
If not, please do so in order to get rid of this trash. Thanks
Treasa