“Pat Kenny, another reason I’m leaving Ireland”…revisited

No conspiracy theories, please, but I just deleted a bunch of posts by mistake, including the Pat Kenny one. Here’s the Seinfeld clip again…

And here’s the text…

“Johnny pointed out this extraordinary example of Pat Kenny at his hilarious worst. The audience obviously knows who Jerry is, but Pat doesn’t. His researchers have dug deep and discovered that Jerry likes Superman! Pity they didn’t tell Pat how to pronounce ‘Seinfeld’!
Pat spoke to me, Arthur and the Ted cast once and I have never seen an interviewer so dependent on his list of questions, so lost when confronted by an answer he wasn’t expecting, so incapable of turning an interview into a conversation.”

Sorry to have lost all the comments that were attached. I lost a few other posts too, including the link to the “all work and no play page”, but I couldn’t be arsed posting that again.

WTD hits the MSM

Oh, dear. I’m so used to rambling away in my own little corner of the interwebs that it’s a shock when anyone actually pays attention. Apologies to Pat Kenny, who may have choked on his eggs this morning when he turned to page 6 of The Sunday Independent. For those of you unfamiliar with the paper, here’s a sample headline from today’s edition.

(I had to photograph it; no-one would have believed me otherwise.)
Pat, a plea. Don’t be too upset by either the news story or the original post. The Seinfeld interview was a car crash, but Larry King didn’t do too well either. Perhaps my original and somewhat harsh words were based on circumstantial evidence. I’ll quote Kieran who said in the comments on the original post “…To be fair, (Pat) is one of the most tenacious and assured political/current affairs interviewers in the country…” So, there! Quit the ‘Late Late’ with its confusing popular culture types and start the Irish version of Newsnight! After all, why be Partridge when you could be Paxman?

(P.S I love the way they printed photographs of Pat and I on either end of the piece (in the print version), like we were two prize-fighters about to rumble. And printing my subject heading as a direct quote was a typically disingenuous bit of journalistic jiggery-pokery. You stay classy, Jerome Reilly!)

We’re cooking, people! Let’s go!

You know what I like to do on a Friday night around nine p.m? I like to cook a three-course meal while watching a blonde version of the dummy from ‘Magic’ curse, slap his thigh and nervously shout “Come on, Chris!” every five seconds. It’s how I roll!

“I was uncalled for.”

I know the phrase “that was uncalled for” but someone in ‘Heroes’ (the ‘Six Months Earlier’ episode) just said “I’m sorry. I was uncalled for.”

What? What does that mean? How did that make it all the way to the screen?

And listen, does ‘Heroes’ get better? My patience is wearing thin. It’s like ‘Dawson’s Creek’ without the violence.

Prank shows: A comparison

One is a silly ‘family’ show with cheesy music and what feels like canned laughter. The other is a hip, ‘edgy’ yoof show. Notice how the edgy yoof show sucks (oh, how it sucks!). Then see how the the family show makes its participants undergo a genuinely mind-bending experience that is very amusing and pleasurable to watch.