Irishman Paired With North Korean Leader for Dancing With Stars

A famous dictaphone, yesterday. 

A young dancer from Ireland has failed to mask his disappointment, having been paired with a rather surprising entrant for the next series of 'Dancing With The Stars'. Dessie 'Desmond' Hennessy (61), from north Mayo, hence the unusual spelling of his name (though spelled 'Dessie', it's actually pronounced 'Steve'), has battled for almost three years through a series of auditions to get to the televised rounds of the enormously popular TV series, where a dancer gets to perform with someone reasonably famous.

Speaking with The Heraldy Press, Mr. Mulgrew (he'd changed his name by the time we started this paragraph) said; 'When I saw the possibilities for this season's show, I was excited to say the least, I mean, I could've wound up dancing with Alanis Morrisette, Tom Selleck, one of the lads that did the voices for popular '80s kids show 'Fraggle Rock', or the tall man from the 'Police Academy' films. To end up with that b****cks, Kim Jong-Un, probably my least favorite of all the recent dictators, is a bitter disappointment to say the least'.

In what has proved to be one of the most unpopular decisions that the show's producers have come up with in recent years, this season's episodes are to feature political figures from around the world paired with members of the dancing public. Already, one contestant, Harry 'Harry' Svenson from Connecticut has withdrawn from the show, as he disagreed with his partner, Iceland's Minister for Agriculture Jim O'Dwyer's controversial views on goat-herding, while another episode featured a cat-fight between Lorraine Pearson, a cosmetologist from Wisconsin, and her partner Jimmy 'Jim' Pederson, Oslo's deputy lady-mayor, when one said the other had a massive arse.

The North Korean leader meanwhile, not particularly well-known for his dance moves, nor indeed renowned for his friendliness or interest in dancing-themed reality shows from the western hemisphere, has insisted that his scenes be filmed either inside his home in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or in a field behind his uncle Maurice's pub in County Clare. We tried to contact Mr. Jong-Un's office for an official statement with regards to the incident, but there was no way we'd spend nearly four dollars for an international call just to speak to him, sure look at the state of him.

'Dancing with the Stars - Season 96' is to begin filming tomorrow morning, with the special DVD featuring outtakes and bloopers, including one hilarious scene where a fella can clearly be witnessed reading Shania Twain's autobiography, and another which shows two lads from Wexford drunkenly dancing to no music 'for the craic', and to be released in a few years. Probably.

Irish Guy Paired with North Korean Leader for Dancing With Stars

A Dictaphone, yesterday.

A young dancer from Ireland has failed to mask his disappointment, having been paired with a rather surprising entrant for the next series of 'Dancing With The Stars'. Dessie 'Desmond' Hennessy (61), from north Mayo, hence the unusual spelling of his name (though spelled 'Dessie', it's actually pronounced 'Steve'), has battled for almost three years through a series of auditions to get to the televised rounds of the enormously popular TV series, where a dancer gets to perform with someone reasonably famous.

Speaking with The Heraldy Press, Mr. Mulgrew (he'd changed his name by the time we started this paragraph) said; 'When I saw the possibilities for this season's show, I was excited to say the least, I mean, I could've wound up dancing with Alanis Morrisette, Tom Selleck, one of the lads that did the voices for popular '80s kids show 'Fraggle Rock', or the tall man from the 'Police Academy' films. To end up with that b****cks, Kim Jong-Un, probably my least favorite of all the recent dictators, is a bitter disappointment to say the least'.

In what has proved to be one of the most unpopular decisions that the show's producers have come up with in recent years, this season's episodes are to feature political figures from around the world paired with members of the dancing public. Already, one contestant, Harry 'Harry' Svenson from Connecticut has withdrawn from the show, as he disagreed with his partner, Iceland's Minister for Agriculture Jim O'Dwyer's controversial views on goat-herding, while another episode featured a cat-fight between Lorraine Pearson, a cosmetologist from Wisconsin, and her partner Jimmy 'Jim' Pederson, Oslo's deputy lady-mayor, when one said the other had a massive arse.

The North Korean leader meanwhile, not particularly well-known for his dance moves, nor indeed renowned for his friendliness or interest in dancing-themed reality shows from the western hemisphere, has insisted that his scenes be filmed either inside his home in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or in a field behind his uncle Maurice's pub in County Clare. We tried to contact Mr. Jong-Un's office for an official statement with regards to the incident, but there was no way we'd spend nearly four dollars for an international call just to speak to him, sure look at the state of him.

'Dancing with the Stars - Season 96' is to begin filming tomorrow morning, with the special DVD featuring outtakes and bloopers, including one hilarious scene where a fella can clearly be witnessed reading Shania Twain's autobiography, and another which shows two lads from Wexford drunkenly dancing to no music 'for the craic', and will be released in a few years. Probably.

Words by Bosco Coppell. Picture courtesy of Nancy's Oyster Farm.

A dictaphone from North Korea, yesterday

Irish Lad Fails 'Expendables 4' Audition

Hugh Grant, Bill Cosby and the lads.

A young Irish actor has returned home from Hollywood (the Californian city, not the take-away in Wexford Town) disappointed, after failing to land a role in the upcoming 'Expendables 4' movie. Dinny 'Dinnie' Longshanks (61) from Tullamore, County Offaly, was on America's west coast for four grueling hours of auditions, where he hoped to land a role in the film alongside legendary movie tough guys such as Arnold Schwarzeneggar, Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham and Bill Cosby.

Said Dinny: 'I made it down to the last 168 auditionees for the role of 'lad who does walk up to Wesley Snipes's character and gives him a high five, only to be shot in the shoulder by some other lad'. It was not to be however, and his thick Mullingar accent (he just moved to Offaly in 1982), prevented him from winning a role in the film, with producers deciding instead, on an elderly woman from Longford for the role.

Having been involved in the acting business since his late teens, Dinny was quite well-known in parts of his home town, due to his (uncredited) role in a Flahavans Oats television commercial back in 1973, and since then was twice in the audience at 'Live at 3', a daily TV show aimed towards elderly residents of Ireland in the 1980s, though he failed to get on camera on either occasion. Since then, his acting career has consisted mostly of his 'adult' mime act, working in gentlemen's clubs throughout the length and breadth of Ireland's midlands (and Carlow) region.

Having decided to bypass Irish drama productions ('A load of oul' sh*te'), Dinny, or Dinnie, as he prefers, has ventured towards the big time, and once he landed on American soil, set out to meet his heroes, though he admits to having been 'fierce disappointed' to find that Robert Mitchum, Steve McQueen and John Wayne had all passed away. He did however, get his picture taken with a Renee Zellweger impersonator, and bought all the Sigourney Weaver key-rings that one shop stocked.

Of his recent experiences, Dinny, an occasional movie-goer, who claims to have seen over twenty films in his lifetime, is said to have been emotional when seeing one of his action heroes in the flesh for the first time. 'I was just walking down Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills looking for somewhere to have a slash, when who did I see, but the lad who played Willis, on 'Diff'rent Strokes', I think it was him, he was a fair bit away, and in a car, but he looked fairly like him, and sure, it's a good story to tell the grandkids, or someone else's grandkids, because I've none meself'.

'The Expendables' franchise, which has featured most of Hollywoods action-hero stars, such as Morgan Freeman, Hugh Grant, Nathan Lane and Chevy Chase, is a  comedic remake of the dark 1970s Scandinavian epic 'Not I, Says The Raven', which starred a young Burt Reynolds as a rodeo rider who earned a degree in Nuclear Science and went on to wow the world of high finance.

When we asked what roles he was to audition for next, he said in a desperate, albeit miserable attempt at humor; 'I'd love an oul' ham and cheese roll now!' He then added, completely unnecessarily, and in doing so, hammering his lame joke to death; 'But not tuna, I developed a rash on my elbows last time I had that, on me lunch break in the Tesco car-park in Ballymun.'

Words by Bosco Coppell, Picture by Dorothy's Angling and Shooting Store (Lingerie Department)

Taoiseach Loses Phone Asks All BFFs To Text Numbers

Enda Kenny, Ireland's only Taoiseach (Prime Minister), is reported to have lost his cellphone, and is urging all his BFFs (Best Friends Forever) to text him their numbers, so he can go on with BAU (Business As Usual). Mr. Kenny, leader of the Fine Gael party for ages now, is thought to have mislaid his phone 'at a mate's gaff' over the weekend.

Jimmy 'James' Donovan, said to be close to the Irish leader (he lives just seven towns over from Mr. Kenny), is reported to have seen Ireland's Secret Service, 'The Quiet Men' (Buachallai Ciunas in Gaelic), look behind Mr. Kenny's couch, under that big Mayo Camogie Under-14 Runners-Up '73 rug he has in the living room, and even behind the dartboard bearing the likeness of an old political foe's arse in the bathroom, all to no avail.

When one of the Quiet Men approached a stack of envelopes containing greeting cards from the Irish Water Board to search for the phone there, he was told by a member of Mr. Kenny's entourage to 'Feck off out of that and leave them oul' envelopes alone, sure there's nothin' for the likes of you in there, you pup'.

The phone, a flip-up pay-as-you-go Nokia model, was given to the Taoiseach, along with a 9-Euro voucher for Dunnes Stores by an aunt for his birthday in 1996. It is believed to contain the numbers of several important people, as well as several Irish politicians' details, and is distinguishable from other similar phones, due to its 'Mayo Are Magic, Roscommon Are Tragic' sticker on the battery cover.

Other members of Ireland's parliament are said to have called the phone, in a bid to listen out for its unusual ringtone, which is a song-for-song playlist of Lionel Richie's entire back catalog. Meanwhile, representatives of Ireland's opposition parties, are said to have taken advantage of Mr. Kenny's not being able to access caller ID, and resorted to calling his messaging service, leaving rude messages. Some of which have used words and terms such as; bum, willy, pipe-licker, dirty oul' Mayo gobshite and bizarrely, Satan's wig-sampler.

Though the phone is said to be financially worthless (3Euro according to 'Dermo's Elderly Phone Emporium' in Sligo, which definitely didn't receive the phone last Tuesday morning from an individual from Aberdeen named Steve), sentimentally, it's priceless, as it contains photos of Mr. Kenny with members of Sweden's Olympic swimming team, and a text from popular Irish singer, Red Hurley.
Anybody who finds the phone, is asked to mail it to Mr. Enda Kenny c/o Anywhere But Roscommon, Ireland.

Story (completely fabricated) By Bosco Coppell, Picture courtesy of Desdemona's Fireplaces and Garters.