Savage Eye returns
For one thing, he lacked that fundamental qualification needed for a comic: the ability to be funny. Add that to an uncanny ability to irritate people, and you’d be suggesting that the man christened David Andrews Jr should have followed his brother Barry and his father David into Fianna Fáil.
But then the young buck’s redemption came in the first series of The Savage Eye (Monday, RTÉ Two, 9.50pm). While his street performances and stand-up shows were well worth missing, his TV show was essential viewing. McSavage really ‘got’ the medium. His sketches — directed by Kieron Walsh and Damien O’Donnell — provided plenty of laugh-out-loud moments, as well as some of the best satire we’ve had in Ireland since the demise of Scrap Saturday.
