The Roaring Twenties (2 Viewers)

[F. Fred Palakon]

YouTube - The Roaring Twenties

I can't tell if this was the actual promo made by RTE 2 or a video made by someone mocking what a promo made by RTE 2 for this show would be like.

BIZARRE

NOT GAY

Where's RANDOM?

TOTAL LEDGE.

 

[Lili Marlene]

seriously, 'the hot girl from the FAS ad', it was funny when it was a thread on thumped.....

 

[pete]

it was funny when it was a thread on thumped.....

that's a first

 

[Corey]

It IS the same guys who did the Irish Seinfeld!!!!

HOLY LIVING FUCK.

This changes everything.

 

[Space]

Is this an actual series? How can I get to watch this seemingly amazing program?

If you mean soupy norman just type it into youtube.

 

[flashback]

YouTube - The Roaring Twenties

You know the way when the Hurricane tore through New Orleans, and wrecked the place, and everyone just sat around on their hole while bodies floated about... people got pissed off a little bit, and said who "the fuck can we pin the blame on?".

And they rounded up some gobshite who was the Head of FEMA, and everyone pointed at them, and said, "You're a dickhead, now fuck off."


Well, where is RTE's head of FEMA?
Because, somebody in RTE needs to be told to fuck off.

That is as bad as the Irish Seinfeld, only more condensed. I want to hit someone.

 

[Yurn!]

Not possible.
No one, not even RTE, could give them money to make another comedy.

Where did you hear this?

Stereobaby discovered it. Look at the opening 'credits' of the *chokes back thick streams of vomitus* Irish Seinfeld. Then look at this.

Ray Sullivan.

Moose, all is lost....

 

[Space]

That's pretty shocking. There's a link to the roaringtwenties.net from the seinfeld google video page too. It's both guys.

I'm not lost, seemingly amazing can't possibly be related to the roaring twenties and there's loads of references to soupy norman in this thread.

 

[Goff]

Like for example, that Glen Hansard movie is meant to be good, isn't it? I've never heard anyone once mention that on here.

That Glen Hansard movie is shit of the highest order. No one mentions it for that reason.

 

[Diddles]

I just watched the first minute of that irish seinfeld. Lord have mercy.

 

[Franco]

In fairness he's comparing like with unlike: a good idea well executed with a poor idea badly executed. The common denominator is RTE who seem to assume that the viewing public are only as smart as the decisions that RTE take. The way RTE treat music, comedy, theatre (snigger), etc is pretty embarrassing at the best of times. When taken in context licence payers are quite entitled to be annoyed at this latest kick in the cultural bollocks. It's like they've employed Roland Rat's son as a programme commissioner.

And yeah, it is unfortunate for the creators of this show to have to learn their trade in front of such unforgiving eyes but do you think a brand new show would get this much focus or people would be so irritated by its quality/originality if RTE occasionally developed some comedy that was even marginally funnier than the fucking news?

But is it RTE's fault if the talent simply isn't out there? Who is going to write these hilarious sitcoms we demand? There's a small pool of talent to draw from here, but audiences are more sophisticated now and seem to have unrealistic expectations.

 

[killy kill]

But is it RTE's fault if the talent simply isn't out there? Who is going to write these hilarious sitcoms we demand? There's a small pool of talent to draw from here, but audiences are more sophisticated now and seem to have unrealistic expectations.

Who knows what talent is out there? We only see what we're given and god knows what it takes to get something commissioned

 

[killy kill]

Who knows what talent is out there? We only see what we're given and god knows what it takes to get something commissioned

why does 'commissioned' look bigger than all the rest of the words?

 

[Yurn!]

why does 'commissioned' look bigger than all the rest of the words?

the internet is cranky. go to e-bed internet!

 

[ernesto]

why does 'commissioned' look bigger than all the rest of the words?

because it is?

 

[bloopitybloop]

Who knows what talent is out there? We only see what we're given and god knows what it takes to get something commissioned

Well, according to the interview with the makers, not much.. they just dropped the script into RTE and they called them back the next week with 100 grand.

Go for it!

 

[Diddles]

But is it RTE's fault if the talent simply isn't out there? Who is going to write these hilarious sitcoms we demand?

Even if there are fuck all talented writers out there, RTE shouldn't be handing over money to the best out of a bad new bunch just because they 'need' a sitcom.

There are many talented writers, directors animators etc. in this country doing deadly stuff but RTE are notorious for not taking risks and they're also notoriously incestuous which puts a lot of people off even attempting to get a commision from them.

The Roaring Twenties might appear like RTE took a risk but they didn't. It's hackneyed material that's already been done to death in other shows, both here and abroad.

There's a small pool of talent to draw from here, but audiences are more sophisticated now and seem to have unrealistic expectations.

As a viewer, I don't think it's unrealistic to expect a plausable context
and at least a hint of originality in a sitcom.


For anyone who didn't see it, here's the lowdown:

Modern professional couple living in a dirty eighties-like bedsit. He's a culchie 'writer' and looks about forty. She's a journo for a shitty paper. He tells his landlord his ma just died so he can move out and get his deposit back. Guess fucking what? His ma turns up while the landlord is there. Ensuing hilarity LOL.

Two male friends, weirdy good looking one, and slightly thick fattyish one, who live in a gaff together. Need to find another housemate. Do interviews. Several 'hilarious' interviewees, including one girl who has some gay friends. Cue dream/vision sequence of two panto raging gays feeling fattyish one's arse.

Foxy and sexually deviant goth becomes housemate. Male goth friends are also sexually deviant and violent. Goths try to bondagise fattyish one.

 

[pete]

On the goth / bondage thing - can you imagine the conversation we'd be havng if that had been a female flatmate being forced to participate? Oh boy.

I guess alluding to attempted male rape is just funnier.

 

[ernesto]

On the goth / bondage thing - can you imagine the conversation we'd be havng if that had been a female flatmate being forced to participate? Oh boy.

I guess alluding to attempted male rape is just funnier.

maybe for you Brady

 

[Corey]

But is it RTE's fault if the talent simply isn't out there? Who is going to write these hilarious sitcoms we demand? There's a small pool of talent to draw from here, but audiences are more sophisticated now and seem to have unrealistic expectations.

The talent's out there. Some of it even makes it to donnybrook, but in so far as i've seen and heard from those working on stuff for RTE; and in so far as the standard that gets greenlit in there, all of the stuff has to adhere and be applicable to demographics (ew..) that RTE seem to either have set themselves, or taken back in 1988 ot thereabouts.

It's becoming more and more apparant that they have absolutley no interest in updating those...demographics (ugh..), but if they simply got the fuck out of thier offices and spent 6 months reviewing and researching current trends & public interests properly, instead of simply going on whatever the papers lying on their desks say is hot, it would instantly change the dated attitudes that result in these kind of shows hitting the airwaves when other better proposals are either shot down immediatley, or amended to within an inch of their lives.


I reckon RTE must be a godawful place to work in if you consider yourself passionate about what you do.