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Your Bad Self
Genre	Comedy
Created by	John Butler Ben Kelly Eoin Williams
Directed by	John Butler
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 of origin	Ireland
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Executive producer	Rebecca O'Flanagan
Producer	Ben Kelly
Running time	30 minutes
Original release
Network	RTÉ Two
Release	26 December 2008 (2008-12-26)

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. 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.

In June 2009, RTÉ commissioned a six-part series of Your Bad Self. The series was to be filmed towards the end of 2009 and broadcast early in 2010.

Reaction

John Boland of the Irish Independent sat through it in "stony silence".

References

1. "Dancing On Ice at Christmas utv, 8pm". Irish Independent. 13 December 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
2. "Domhnall Gleeson to star in RTÉ Christmas Special". Evening Herald. 10 December 2007. Retrieved 13 December 2008.
3. Jarlath Regan (29 April 2017). "John Butler". An Irishman Abroad (Podcast) (189 ed.). SoundCloud. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
4. "RTE comedy? You're having a laugh..." Irish Independent. 10 January 2009. Retrieved 10 January 2009.

External links

• Official website

• Irish television sketch shows
• RTÉ original programming