The classic show could be returning.
With the Podge and Rodge Show returning after an eight year absence, it’s odd to think that some viewers are only being introduced to Ireland’s favourite feckless rogues, Pádraig Judas O’Leprosy and Rodraig Spartacus O’Leprosy, for the very first time.
Christ, we still remember Podge’s original appearance on The Den as a villain!
Having appeared in numerous TV shows, their own radio show, a stint on Vicar Street, and their own weekly column/yearbook, it’s clear that Ballydung’s most famous brothers are here to stay.
On this note, for viewers of a certain age, the gruesome twosome first terrified the shite out of the nation with their beloved parody of RTÉ’s religious show, A Prayer at Bedtime.
With extremely racy jokes, obscene stories, and strange reenactments, A Scare At Bedtime proved to be a massive hit with Irish viewers. It’s easy to forget that Ballydung is actually a converted insane asylum that the lads used to live in alongside a lunatic nurse that they called ‘Granny.’
With characters like Ulick McGee, Neil Down, Mickey Scratcher and Inspector Bush, it provided the perfect platform for the O’Leprosy brothers to perfect their wicked style of comedy.
The award-winning show proved to be such a hit that it was picked up by TV stations in the UK and the DVD box-set was extremely popular with viewers.
On this note, JOE recently had the chance to sit down with the Podge and Rodge and here’s what they had to say about the potential return of A Scare At Bedtime.
Podge: We might do it, you never know.
Rodge: Could you imagine what that would be like now? How depraved and sinister that would be now if we came back. Real life has kind of caught up with A Scare at Bedtime when you think about it. A lot of those stories have kind of come true.
Podge: Grindr alone. There’s a whole series in that. Brexit too, there are some real horror stories out there. A reality show host becoming a President!?!?! That sort of shite. That’s the type of stuff we used to talk about on the show.
Aside from this, we also heard from Podge and Rodge about a variety of other topics. Here are the lads’ views on…
Clip via killannelad
Conor McGregor
Podge: The thing the gets me going is the auld Conor McGregor thing. You know that fighting that he does. I don’t understand that at all. We used to get two cocks and stick them in a cage and they’d fight it out. MMA is basically that, with people. Cock fighting. What the fuck is that about? It’s not a sport. It’s cock fighting with people. We’re trying to get McGregor on the show, we had his sister on. He can beat the shite out of Rodge! I mean, I get that aspect but it’s not a sport!”
Their dream guest
Rodge: We want to get that fella who pretends he’s an architect, Dermot Bannon. We’d love to get him on. He could do up the Manor.
Podge: No, no, no! When Rodge cooks, it smells like shite. He’d (Bannon) knock the wall between the kitchen and the living room. I’d be sitting her watching TV and having to smell the shite. We’d have to talk to him about that sort of stuff – to keep the smells out.
The hardest guest they’ve had to entertain at Ballydung Manor
Rodge: Shane McGowan, he came in here and he was locked. We actually had to kick him through the back door and onto the seat. That was the worst. What we ended up doing was we did about 15 minutes with him and about a minute of it you could understand. We ended up having to do a dream sequence which pretended that it happened. He was the toughest.
Here’s that interview in full.
Clip via thepodgeandrodgeshow
Offended the worst
Podge: Wendy Richard, she was Ian Beale’s mum in Eastenders and she died under a Christmas tree on Christmas Day on the show. We had her come on and presented her with a snow globe of her dead corpse. It didn’t go down particularly well! Abi Titmuss too. She had a sex tape and she said ‘I’m not going to talk about the sex tape. If you show it, I’m walking.’ So, we showed the sex tape but it featured one of us in it. She wasn’t impressed.
The Podge and Rodge Show airs on RTÉ tonight at 22:30 with Nadine Coyle and Hughie Maughan heading along to Ballydung Manor.
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