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?

…I have to say I was cheered by the fact that Joe O’Reilly lost his appeal.

I’m cheered by the fact he’s going to spend years in jail. Happy that his dead wife’s family can get on with their lives.

Delighted that his lover will be ‘deprived’ of her man. And fucking chuffed that in a time when it seems every cunt can get away with anything they like, that one cunt got what he deserved.

A bit of Shawshank Redemption style laundry room, unlubed, tea-towel holder tearing fun with the big boys and I’d almost start to believe in God.

I hope it hurts, Joe, you poxy cunt.