The running joke was RTE would cancel Podge and Rodge’s controversial show, but they’ve survived and have recently started a new series of their weekly show. The two O’Leprocy brothers talk frankly to Michelle MacMullan, the easily offended should tune out now.

Have you ever been mistaken for someone famous?
Rodge: Someone mistook me for Bono once.
Podge: No; they mistook you for a bonobo.
Rodge: And someone once thought I was you!
Podge: What? Who? A feckin blind man??

Do you make celebrity demands?
Podge: No. We’re country boys at heart. A cup of tea and a hand shandy and we’re good to go!
Rodge: At
the Meteors, I asked for a key to the Pussycat Doll’s dressing room as
well as some 2-ply tissues and a bottle of red Cadet. Never got the key.

What was the last showbiz party you were at?
Podge: We never get asked to any.
Rodge: All
our guests hang out in those trendy clubs in Dublin - Lillettes and
Maynards, but they’ve always been full when I try and go because I’m
always turned away.

What’s your best chat-up line?
Podge: I’m lord of me own manor! I don’t need a chat up line!
Rodge: Any chance of a tug?

Are you both natural redheads?
Podge: Of course. Although I have to say, I’m thinning down below. Looks a bit like Ron Howard down there these days.
Rodge: At the moment mine don’t match as I was trying out that new Fun Betty pubic dye. So it’s kinda pink at the mo. And itchy.

Do you have any tips for redheads who want to pull girls?
Podge: Leave the lights off.
Rodge: Don’t use pubic hair dye.

‘Bald’ Brittney, would you?
Podge: Still waiting for her to return my calls.
Rodge: Bald, hairy, insane, fat, skinny, in rehab