New TV Comedy Hits Our Screens - Then Runs Away Laughing, Having Filmed the Whole Thing
Andrew Stanley and Damian Clark are two of the fastest rising stars on the Dublin comedy scene. Every Monday night for the next six weeks, they make their TV debut on RTE 2 at 9.30 with I Dare Ya.
The programme is based on their highly successful Edinburgh Fringe show, in which they asked members of the public to dare them to perform ridiculous stunts. In the example below they were challenged to re-enact the assassination of Julius Caesar in Burger King on O'Connell Street.
Shot on digital cameras, with no budget, these shorts won them the attention of producers in telly-land - who supplied the lads with a professional film crew and told them to do their worst.
In the forthcoming series, the lads get up to a wide range of stunts, including:
- holding a "Love Munster" rally, on the streets of Belfast
- sunbathing on the northside boardwalk in 'mankinis' (as worn by Borat)
- clamping official vans belonging to Dublin city clampers
Footage from the new series is being kept under wraps ahead of the TV debut (Nov 12). But this is some of the original material which got them noticed in the first place, shot on digital cameras.
Yeah, but is it funny?
Posted by: Georgie | November 12, 2007 at 16:50