Your Bad Self
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{{Infobox television
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| genre = Comedy
| creator = John Butler
Ben Kelly
Eoin Williams
| director = John Butler
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| starring = Andrew Bennett
Karen Egan
Emily Fairman
Tom Farrelly
Domhnall Gleeson
Amy Huberman
Peter McDonald
Michael McElhatton
Justine Mitchell
Hugh O'Conor
Jason O'Mara
| country = Ireland
| language = English
| num_series = 1
| num_episodes = 6
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| executive_producer = Rebecca O'Flanagan
| producer = Ben Kelly
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| runtime = 30 minutes
| network = RTÉ Two
| first_aired = {{start date|2008|12|26|df=y}}
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Your Bad Self is an Irish sketch comedy show which was originally broadcast on RTÉ Two on 26 December 2008 at 21:40 before being developed into a series which was shown in 2010.
History
Your Bad Self stars Domhnall Gleeson as well as Michael McElhatton, Justine Mitchell and Peter McDonald.{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/dancing-on-ice-at-christmas-utv-8pm-1573761.html|title=Dancing On Ice at Christmas utv, 8pm|date=13 December 2008|access-date=6 January 2009|work=Irish Independent}} The show was produced by Ben Kelly for Treasure Entertainment (I Went Down and Mad About Dog) and was co-written by Kelly, the director John Butler, Eoin Williams, Justine Mitchell and Emily Fairman. Butler was the co-writer and director of George and Spacemen Three for the Irish Film Board.{{Cite web|url=http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/domhnall-gleeson-to-star-in-rte-christmas-special-1569093.html|title=Domhnall Gleeson to star in RTÉ Christmas Special|date=10 December 2007|access-date=13 December 2008|work=Evening Herald}}
In June 2009, RTÉ commissioned a six-part series of Your Bad Self.{{cite podcast|author-link=Jarlath Regan|author=Jarlath Regan|date=29 April 2017|edition=189|work=An Irishman Abroad|title=John Butler|publisher=SoundCloud|url=https://soundcloud.com/an-irishman-abroad/john-butler-episode-189|access-date=30 May 2017}} The series was to be filmed towards the end of 2009 and broadcast early in 2010.{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}}
Reaction
John Boland of the Irish Independent sat through it in "stony silence".{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/rte-comedy-youre-having-a-laugh-1597863.html|title=RTE comedy? You're having a laugh...|date=10 January 2009|access-date=10 January 2009|work=Irish Independent}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20081217114520/http://www.rte.ie/tv/christmas/yourbadself.html Official website]
{{RTÉ Comedies}}