The Blame Game, S12E05

[@tonidavidson1808]

This is absolute gold I only found this recently but it is so refreshing to see something light hearted come from Northern Ireland for a change

[@deadgamer21]

@Shane Gallagher living in the past pal......

[@mcollinss116]

It’s 2021 and I still watch this episode because it’s so damn funny.

[@Dermacrosis]

It's off iplayer now, thank god for YTers as this is another pant wettingly funny episode of The Blame Game. Thank you.

[@mc77727]

Please upload Fri Dec 13 2019 episode with Miles Jupp

[@norabrown5584]

It is so true about the guy in the bank.

[@goldencheese7247]

I never knew this existed. What a pleasant surprise!

[@celenemckane1715]

Funniest show on tv...! Jazuz ..... 😀😀😀 Irish humour at its best

[@barrygeary1890]

Love this show ❤

[@petergreen2552]

Dara O Briain_ the sharpest comic on the circuit today

[@geraldwalsh6489]

Funny show...gives risque a whole new meaning

[@glenatkinson4066]

Brilliant show

[@stjimmy1642]

Ive never heard of this show , its funny doe

[@zwide4]

the Brussels joke😂😂

[@peterneal5423]

8:37, you're welcome

[@SidneyBroadshead]

*The Blame Game* (Season 12, Episode 05; 01 December, 2017) Host (Seated to the Far Left): Tim McGarry. Panelists (Left to Right): Colin Murphy, Dara O'Briain (Guest), Jake O'Kane, Neil Delamere.

[@SidneyBroadshead]

_Who's Who and What's What_ 07:48 *Iain Duncan Smith* [Great Britain] - Tory Member of Parliament for Chingford and Woodford Green (1997-Present), former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in Tory Prime Minister David Cameron's Cabinet (2010-2016). 08:01 *Michael Daniel "Mickey D" Higgins* [Republic of Ireland] - President of Ireland (2011- Present). 08:25 *...slightly magical-looking...* Michael D. Higgins is 5 feet, 4 inches small. He looks like he's either the Professor of Apportation and Summoning at Hogwarts or the manager for Gringott's Dublin branch. 11:16 *O2 Data Eir* - Neil Delamere is joking that if he were to pose as the Tánaiste (Vice President of Ireland), he could unify all of Ireland. The first sign would be his sudden nationalization and uniting of UK's O2 Mobile and Ireland's Eircom Mobile. 11:32 *Stormont Estate* - The Headquarters of the Northern Irish Civil Service from 1973 to 1998. (David Sterling, head of the Northern Irish Civil Service, is proposing that the Northern Irish Civil Service have a centralized headquarters built on the Stormont Estate near its Government's main offices.) The Stormont Estate was also the former Northern Irish Parliament buildings from their opening in 1932 to the suspension of Parliament in 1972 due to The Troubles. Stormont House was originally the residence of the Speaker of the House of Commons until the suspension of Parliament (1921?-1972), but was then taken over by the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) (1972-Present). Stormont Castle was the seat of the Northern Irish Prime Minister and his cabinet (1921? to 1972) and the Secretary of State for Ireland (head of the NIO) from 1973-1998. 11:40 *"A Single Voice"* - One of the big disagreements in Northern Ireland is what its official language (or languages) should be. The Loyalists want to speak English, the Irish Nationalists want to speak Erse (Irish Gaelic), and the Ulster Scots want to speak Ullans (Ulster Scots). 11:47 *Shergar* (b.1978-d.1983?) - A thoroughbred racehorse owned by the Aga Khan that was stolen in 1983. A ransom of L2 million was asked but not paid due to negotiations breaking down. He was never recovered. 12:48 *Arlene Foster* - Leader of the conservative and Loyalist Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) since 2015 and twice First Minister of Northern Ireland (2016-2017 and 2020-Present). 14:33 *having an H-block...* - Neil Delamere is making a dark pun. The "H blocks" were prison cells for Loyalist and Nationalist prisoners at HM Prison Maze and were the scene of the 1981 hunger strikes. Initially it was the scene of rioting at their treatment as criminal prisoners rather than their self-defined political prisoner status. HM Prison Maze eventually was dominated by political prison gangs that actively murdered each other. This continued until the 1998 Good Friday Agreement forced both sides to behave. 21:07 *Storm Ophelia* (October 9-18, 2017) A Category III tropical storm that hit Western Europe and Scandinavia. It hit Ireland especially hard, killing three people. (Neil is talking about stormchasers who went out in that windstorm, then moves on to talk about the Free-Runners who broke into the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children.) 23:30 *Shankill Road* - A predominantly Loyalist Protestant neighborhood in West Belfast. During The Troubles it was notorious for the infamous Shankill Butchers death squad. (Tim McGarry was raised Catholic, but is a noted Secular Humanist. Jake and Colin are implying there may be some "potential friction" at his appearance there.)

[@janetmackinnon3411]

WHy did I not know about this show before?

[@malikmarikar9135]

👌

[@homolgus1]

Why dont we see this show in England it is brilliant

[@allig2461]

20:18, Dara's face!

[@SidneyBroadshead]

20:35 ...And when he's turning it around in mock evasion due to his "complicity" in "The Flat Earth Coverup". I love how quick Dara is.

[@thomashart6769]

Irish the only nation who can throw bouquets at you all night,then you go home have a coffee and realise they have taken the piss outta ya allnight and you have agreed with them.....May it long continue god bless them republicans and nationalists from a scouser born in the capital of Ireland Liverlool

[@tonimoroni742]

me Ga

[@DuncanDis0rderly]

All I could see. Bet its disguised gaelic or something lol

[@mc77727]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE upload last Fridays 2019 episode with Miles Jupp . Really appreciate if you could. Thanks in advance.

[@jaleljara8330]

Tim McGarry

[@jaleljara8330]

Tin McGarry hosts

[@petergreen2552]

Please please for the love of God get rid of the obvious canned Laughter. Yes there's a live audience,but for some of the gags,you can tell it's not real.

[@KDC_Electrical]

Not a mention of the fact the republic of Ireland voted to leave the EU twice and were ignored twice!... I expect nothing less from the Brussels Broadcasting corporation #BREXIT 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@nigelmurphy6761]

no we didn't actually.

[@katielarkin1124]

snodfella When did they vote on that?

[@knowlegablesalmon7963]

Source that one?

[@wynty200]

They didn’t mention it because it never happened.

[@markwalshopoulos]

This is the kind of thing that explains why brexit happened, brexiteers don't understand what a referendum on European treaties are that are then amended so that the people would vote for them again