You can either celebrate that arguably the greatest comedy ever produced by Irish television is available to watch on YouTube, or lament the fact that due to RTÉ's chronic artistic conservatism, Soupy Norman remains such a rare jewel in the crown of our broadcasting history. Soupy Norman Watch here There are two ways of looking at this. So when she talks about teaching a dog to say, "I love you, mama", you can be sure it's about more than just a funny voice. When Higgins does it, nothing feels forced there is honesty and more than a little slyness to her comedy that helps her jokes work on various levels. It is now de rigueur for comedians to repeatedly batter audiences with endless tales and jokes of self-deprecation, usually in a cynical move to appear more likeable or God-forbid, "relatable". Maeve Higgins Watch here To take Maeve Higgins at face value would be to miss the point, or rather, miss the joke.
All of which proves once and for all that you should never, ever (not even if your life depends on it), listen to a critic. Although critics at the time were unimpressed, it has developed into something of a cult hit, with Jon Hamm and Sacha Baron Cohen among its many fans. Your Bad Self: Golf Club Watch here Filled with brilliant recurring characters, like this unnecessarily shifty wheeler-dealer (played to a tee by Peter McDonald), or a petty criminal forced to repeatedly admit he's from Bray, Your Bad Self was a short-lived RTÉ sketch show that was far funnier than anyone expected it to be. Below are 10 of the funniest Irish videos, carefully curated to help distract from the impending apocalypse raging outside. Thanks to an army of armchair archivists, almost any stand-up set or ancient sketch is available at the click of a mouse.
YouTube is the saviour of the Irish comedy connoisseur. Or meeting an emissary from the Chechen mafia at midnight down by the docks to procure a rare bootleg copy of Tommy Tiernan on the Late Late Show. Or struggling with the VCR to record the last episode of Father Ted. Gone be with the days of swapping Scrap Saturday tapes in the playground.
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