You can’t be anything but cynical when it comes to RTE and home grown comedy. Recent efforts in this area have been successful in the same way that, say, Paddy Neary was successful in identifying, rooting out and eradicating irregularities and corruption in the financial services sector. But, as the same Paddy is well aware, we as a nation are more than willing to forgive, forget and forge on.
We are not so churlish as to resurrect past embarrassments when it comes to evaluating new output. We can look with fresh, unjaundiced eyes. Which is just as well because if you were to analyse “Your Bad Self” in a job lot with all of the station’s comedy offerings of the last two years, it would only make a barely discernible scrawl on the credit side of the ledger but taken in isolation it is in fact, wait for it , quite flippin’ good.
It passes the crucial comedic test of being able to creep up on you a couple of days afterwards to illicit a bout of involuntary chortling. This has been my experience at any rate with sketches such as the unfortunate paper cut guy, the chap trying in vain to find his self defence class, the x men shop assistant and the piece de resistance so far, the horse trader trying to buy a pair of glasses.
RTE has produced something very funny, all on its lonesome. Something is very wrong in the universe.
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