David McSavage: never again
When Pat Kenny anounced that David McSavage was his next guest on Friday night’s Late Late Show, it needed superhuman effort not to either:
a) throw a glass at the screen
b) turn over and watch Northern Irish celebrities do Children In Need
I’m glad I didn’t turn over. I’m glad I saw it. And I hope McSavage is never on television again.
Alongside the usual outbursts of witless bombast, his appearance included impressions of both Ryan Tubridy and Pat Kenny having sex (not together) and ended with an appalling song about a man snorting coke off a boy in Thailand. I realise that the description may possibly make this sound funny in a boundary-pushing kind of way. It wasn’t. It was unfunny in a boundary-pushing kind of way.
Despite being one of our lesser comedians, he has received a lot of help from the Late Late in the past - appearing more than once before. But this was already a show that had involved Pat Kenny telling Jade Goody that “some people out there still love you” and ended with him doing his gameshow host impression while commentating on people trying to open locks in sequence - television of almost unparalleled banality. Although, it had at least allowed Ian O’Doherty to talk in an hysteria-free way about cocaine, so proving it can occassionally do something right even in the midst of such calamity.
But its highlight was Kenny’s reaction to the punchline in McSavage’s song: an “ah, now” that was pure Partridge. Really. It is a cliched observation, but it is uncanny. All that’s missing on this show now is for someone to accidentally shoot a guest dead.
The Late Late Show doesn’t usually put the previous programme online until mid-week, but when it’s there you should watch it. It’s terrible, of course. But it’s thrilling nonetheless. You won’t spend another fifteen minutes of this year with your knuckles so firmly lodged in your teeth while your mind tries to burrow its way out through your ears.
An expensive way to stand out from the mainstream masses
2:03 pm
I had to wait for somebody the other week on Grafton Street and I had to listen to that utter cretin McSavage (someone told me later it was him) doing a performance at the top of the street.
It was, without question, one of the most witless, unfunny things I have ever witnessed - and I saw an old lady get flattened by a bus on Eden Quay once - yet people stood around and laughed.
I truly wanted to kill him.
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