Comments on: Bland vs Podge and Rodge

by: megan

Sun, 24 Dec 2006 14:48:57 +0000

i love podge & rodge an im half irish an they’re so cool keep it up YAY!!!

by: The Community At Large » Pat Kenny on €900,000

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 10:28:19 +0000

[...] Luckily, we have podge & rodge to keep us sane; Bland Vs. Podge & Rodge says it all. The historical vandalised edits of the Pat Kenny entry on Wikipedia, like this one are always entertaining: Nickname in college was “The Plank” because of his tendency to ‘get wood’ at inappropriate times. Is reported to have bedded over 40 show girls. Was once a trainee priest, but was forced to leave the seminary over allegations of sexual relations with a nun. Was once suspected of being “The Midnight Commando”, a Batman-style vigilante who fought night crime in late 1970s Dublin Once claimed to have travelled to space in “a giant hat”. Send this post to a friend [...]

by: Mark Waters

Fri, 28 Apr 2006 08:54:34 +0000

One of the things that goes unnoticed in Podge and Rodge is the professionalism of it. Despite the appearance of improvisation and ad-libbery if you listen closely you realise that a lot of thought is going into what new angle they can approach an interviewee. You definitely learn more about a guest from an appearance on Podge and Rodge then you would from an equivalent interview on Tubridy or Kenny where they throw the same stock questions at all the guests with very little background research (Tubridy especially). They’ll ask every foreigner what they think of Ireland, and every Irish person who’s made it abroad, what the foreigners think of them, being Irish and all. Zzzzz.

And Podge and Rodge come up with a different game every night. When is Tubridy going to give up on the done-to-death “Who’s older?”. As for Pat Kenny and his car giveaways that take up half the show and pretty much tell the viewers, “go and talk among yourselves for this bit”, give me a break, even a commercial break.

Morrison and O’Hara are thinking and working. Kenny and Tubridy are just turning up, going through the motions and collecting the cheque.

by: tim

Fri, 28 Apr 2006 08:35:40 +0000

If I had one gripe about Irish TV, it would be about the main RTE News in the evening. They tend to do the Irish stories to death. The format is: Introduction by the presenter, report, then discussion with a guest in the studio. So you get the same shit three times in a row. This is exactly the Sky news paradigm. I’d much rather something like euronews where the reports are short and much more wide ranging. Nice article by the way. When is your next one?

by: Andy

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 23:05:55 +0000

Podge and Rodge is one of the few decent programmes ever produced by RTE. What happens if Simon Cowell steals them away? What’s left? Pat Kennzzzzzzzzzz….

(I knew there was a reason other than tight-fistedness that stopped me getting a TV licence)