It has emerged that the man standing on top of a big pile of Fine Gaelers singing “I’m the king of the castle get down yis filthy rascals” Enda Kenny was overruled by his party last week after he proposed a mandatory quota of female candidates.
“Sure isn’t that how you got in Edna?” asked Lucinda Creighton
Ms Edna Kenny TD, the first woman to not lead Fine Gael
Another Endacentric cut, this time from from The Emergency Series 1 Episode 13 (The June 2009 Local & European Election Special).
The scene is the counting centre the day after the elections and Enda and his tallyman, Count von Count assess the scale of Fine Gael’s gains. There’s an unwelcome interruption by Gerry Adams who appears to have left his “mon bog” in Enda’s office.
Cast: Nick McGivney (TV Interviewer), Morgan C Jones (Enda Kenny, Gerry Adams), Dermot Carmody (The Count)
Continuing our Enda Kenny mini-season, this sketch also features Garret FitzGerald sitting in his house propounding his political anagram theory. It’s from episode 10 of Series one, broadcast just before the June local & European Elections. Fine Gael and Enda are historically high in the opinion polls and Enda calls to his predecessor to bask and wallow in the magnificence.
Cast: Joe Taylor (Garret) Morgan C Jones (Enda) Karen Ardiff (Radio Announcer)
This sketch was written following media reports that Enda had lost the improbably coiffured rag with the emergent Lucinda Creighton (hair envy probably) and with Galway East’s Ulick Burke who took exception to the parachuting into the region of former PD leader Ciarán Cannon.
Enda Kenny With Murphy’s Ice Cream during ’09 Election Campaign
Photo from post on icecreamireland.com
It’s not natural to imagine Enda as a violently furious person, but with reference to the performance of Robert de Niro in the famous “Enthusiasms” scene in “The Untouchables” it becomes all too apparent how things must have gone. You don’t have to have seen that scene to enjoy this, but it doesn’t do any harm and you can catch it here on YouTube.
The sketch was first broadcast in The Emergency Series 1 Episode 4 on April 4th on Newstalk 106-108.
Cast: Morgan C Jones (Enda), Karen Ardiff (Lucinda), Nick McGivney (Cannon), Joe Taylor (Ulick), Dermot Carmody & Eoin Byrne (Various FG members)
As our leaders publish the latest catalogue of hairshirt requirements just prior to fecking off into the sunset, it seems appropriate to reprise on the site this sketch/song: Summer Recess.
Cast: Everybody!
Recorded by Mark @ Mutiny Studios.
In this sketch from Series 1 Episode 6, Enda Kenny goes on a search the renegade Colonel Cowen that brings him deep into The Heart Of Darkness.
This episode first broadcast April 18th 2009 on Newstalk 106-108 FM. The Emergency is broadcast every Saturday on Newstalk at 11:30 am and is available as a podcast from iTunes or use this URL in your podcast software:
http://newstalk.ie/newstalk/podcasts/39/the-emergency.xml
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