Podge & Rodge's Stickit Inn
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Podge and Rodge's Stickit Inn (also known as Podge and Rodge Stickit Inn) is an Irish
Comedy entertainment show, broadcast and produced by RTÉ, featuring the popular puppet characters Podge and Rodge
as hosts. The format of the show was originally based around the popular Pub Quiz
featuring two teams of celebrity guests competing for prizes such as a saddle of lamb, a hock of ham or a tin of biscuits. The first episode was broadcast on 20th October, 2009 but soon reverted back to a chat /entertainment show similar to their previous vehicle The Podge and Rodge Show
. The series will run weekly until April 2010.
The TV set is a 360 degree bar set and the audience are fully integrated into the fictional Stickit Inn bar.
Joining Podge & Rodge is sexy Sicilian Barmaid, Gina who is played by real-life Chip-Shop Mafia Moll, Virginia Macari who is apparently on the run from the Casa Nostra and rumoured to know the exact size of Silvio Berlusconi's assets.
Resident music maestro at The Stickit Inn is showband has-been Johnny Dorgan, thrown out of The Indians
in 1978 for pissing in their Wig Wam. Johnny Dorgan is played by real-life ex showbander John Keogh of Full Circle
fame.
The show features three to four guests who join Podge & Rodge for a chat. Other features include musical performances into the ad break; 'Rapper in the Crapper' and a music guest performance at the end of the show.
On November 24, 2009 in what the show admitted was an "unlikely coup" for public interest, they showed for the first time on television in Ireland, the controversial FÁS
ads. The employment agency’s four TV advertisements which cost tax payers €600,000 but were never broadcast. The programme’s producers received the films under the Freedom of Information Act and managed to pip every other programme in the country including the RTÉ News.
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Comedy entertainment show, broadcast and produced by RTÉ, featuring the popular puppet characters Podge and Rodge
Podge and Rodge
Pádraig Judas O'Leprosy and Rodraig Spartacus O'Leprosy are the two central characters on A Scare at Bedtime, an Irish adult comedy televised puppet show. Created and performed by Ciaran Morrison and Mick O'Hara, more recently, the brothers have presented The Podge and Rodge Show, a chat show in...
as hosts. The format of the show was originally based around the popular Pub Quiz
Pub quiz
A pub quiz is a quiz held in a public house. These events are also called Quiz Nights or Trivia Nights and may be held in other settings. Pub quizzes are still extremely popular and may attract people to a pub who are not found there on other days. The pub quiz is a modern example of a pub game...
featuring two teams of celebrity guests competing for prizes such as a saddle of lamb, a hock of ham or a tin of biscuits. The first episode was broadcast on 20th October, 2009 but soon reverted back to a chat /entertainment show similar to their previous vehicle The Podge and Rodge Show
The Podge and Rodge Show
The Podge and Rodge Show is an Irish chat show, broadcast and produced by RTÉ, featuring the popular Podge and Rodge as hosts...
. The series will run weekly until April 2010.
The TV set is a 360 degree bar set and the audience are fully integrated into the fictional Stickit Inn bar.
Joining Podge & Rodge is sexy Sicilian Barmaid, Gina who is played by real-life Chip-Shop Mafia Moll, Virginia Macari who is apparently on the run from the Casa Nostra and rumoured to know the exact size of Silvio Berlusconi's assets.
Resident music maestro at The Stickit Inn is showband has-been Johnny Dorgan, thrown out of The Indians
The Indians
The Indians are an uninhabited small archipelago of islets in the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean. They are west of the small British Pelican Island and east of the small US Flanagan Island....
in 1978 for pissing in their Wig Wam. Johnny Dorgan is played by real-life ex showbander John Keogh of Full Circle
Full Circle
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fame.
The show features three to four guests who join Podge & Rodge for a chat. Other features include musical performances into the ad break; 'Rapper in the Crapper' and a music guest performance at the end of the show.
On November 24, 2009 in what the show admitted was an "unlikely coup" for public interest, they showed for the first time on television in Ireland, the controversial FÁS
Fas
Fas can mean the following:* Fas receptor, an important cell surface receptor protein of the TNF receptor family known also as CD95, that induces apoptosis on binding Fas ligand.* Fes, Morocco, the third largest city in Morocco, as an alternate spelling...
ads. The employment agency’s four TV advertisements which cost tax payers €600,000 but were never broadcast. The programme’s producers received the films under the Freedom of Information Act and managed to pip every other programme in the country including the RTÉ News.