KEARNEY'S GONE QUIET WHO is your favourite comedian from the last half a century of laughter? Tony Hancock? Morecambe and Wise? Mike Yarwood? Lex McLean? Glen Daly? Andy Cameron? Billy Connolly? All of them could be side splittingly hilarious. But for me, the best, the very best, was that gifted man from the Republic of Ireland, the late and extremely great Dave Allen. Remember him? He was the guy, perched on a stool, holding a cigarette in a way which highlighted the fact the top of one of his fingers was missing. There was also a dram for him to sip. No target was safe from being savaged in Allen's rich Irish brogue, and tears streamed down my face when Dave Allen was in full flow. But I think we can safely assume the Irishman was not on the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland's spokesman, Peter Kearney's Christmas card list. For one of the targets Allen, who knew a bit about it, often aimed his most barbed gags at, was the Roman Catholic Church. Now there is a new kid on the block, and this one is a Glaswegian called Frankie Boyle, and he launched his new show, Frankie Boyle's Tramadol on Channel Five this week. Boyle followed in the tradition of Dave Allen, and his fellow Glaswegian Billy Connolly, is seeing much in the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland to poke fun at, and some dark and sinister things to highlight through humour. One of the attacks he made on the leader of the Roman Catholic Church was a lot worse than the email Hugh Dallas forwarded, and was seen by a lot more than the 25 people who got that email. However, since the Boyle blast we have not heard a peep from Peter Kearney. He has not been talking to his favourite wee reporter and saying the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland demands Boyle's head on a silver platter. Kearney has not, as far as we know, written to the man who owns Channel Five, the wonderfully abrasive and marvellously politically incorrect ,Richard Desmond, demanding that Boyle be sacked. If he did, then I think we can take it as read what Desmond's reaction would be. The letter would probably be put to good use in his executive loo. In fact, he may even make a call to Boyle and tell the Glaswegian gagster to up the tempo. So why then did Kearney, representing the official view of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland, step into the Dallas affair and place outside pressure on Stewart Regan's Scottish Football Association? Pressure which Regan gave many the impression he was eager to bend his knee to. There is still much to uncover about what machinations may have taken place, and how the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland and Kearney wielded naked power out of all proportion to its size in Scotland. But while we wait for the reporters who, as we speak, are going about the business of uncovering the background, we can still have a laugh with Frankie Boyle. Of course, he isn't in the same class as Dave Allen, but he may just get there in about a couple of decades. AND..... IT appears my name for the Times of London's Scottish edition district reporter, Odious Creep, has caught on. And not just among the wider readership, which now extends to more than TWENTY countries. More of that later. For the moment, I will answer the question from many of my press pals who think the name is bang on the money, but wonder where it came from And so to a seasonal literary tale. No author was more gifted in naming his characters than Charles Dickens. When he was searching for a name for one objectionable character, Dickens wanted to show in that name - by way of the use of onomatopoeia - that the character was both odious and a creep. Dickens hit the jackpot with Uriah Heep. I appear to have done the same with Odious Creep. Of whom there will be more soon. Very soon.
Its not pish!! but he does drivel on a bit, a well lucifer loves to hate him so he will obviously notice the mistake
its called tramadol nights anyway not tramadol. it was originally goin to be called 'Deal With This, ******s' but channel 4 said it wud put off advertisers
Thats just getting desperately pointless from Leggat ; boyle , allen and connelly - comedians ; dallas.....oh , right enough he is a comediam too ?? Uriah Heep Of ****e
Does the thick **** who wrote this article (Laggat rather than BH1972, although...) not realise that Hugh Dallas was guilty of breaking his empoloyer's rules and that Frankie Boyle was not?
