Republic of Telly is a comedy

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 TV review and magazine programme on Irish public broadcaster, RTÉ Two

RTÉ Two

RTÉ Two is a free-to-air general entertainment channel operated by Irish state broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann. RTÉ Two is available throughout the island of Ireland through digital terrestrial service Saorview, VHF and UHF bands, and is also available via satellite to Irish subscribers of...

. Presented by comedian

Comedian

A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...

 Dermot Whelan

Dermot Whelan

Dermot Whelan is an Irish comedian.A native of Limerick, Whelan is a regular contributor on RTÉ's The Panel, he is also the host of Republic of Telly and has performed at major comedy festivals, including the Kilkenny Cat's Laugh Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe...

. The show takes a satirical

Satire

Satire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement...

 look at television, mocking various Irish and British TV channels, including sketches

Sketch comedy

A sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches," commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio and/or visual medium such as broadcasting...

 and special guests making an appearance from the shows. An added feature of the show is its correspondents Jennifer Maguire

Jennifer Maguire

Jennifer Maguire is an Irish television presenter and reality show participant. She is originally from Dublin.Maguire entered British television series The Apprentice in its fourth series as a 27-year-old marketing consultant, who says that when she first ran an office, she made £60,000 in six...

 and Bernard O'Shea

Bernard O'Shea

Bernard O'Shea is an Irish comedian.O'Shea started out in entertainment at an early age playing traditional Irish music, touring Europe with several groups. While at college he studied Theatre and went on to star in several theatrical productions. He also worked in the National Theatre of Ireland,...

. Maguire conducts vox pops

Vox populi

Vox populi , a Latin phrase that literally means voice of the people, is a term often used in broadcasting for interviews with members of the "general public".-Vox pop, the man on the street:...

 and celebrity interviews, whereas O'Shea conducts "live on the spot reports" (filmed in front of a greenscreen

Chroma key

Chroma key compositing is a technique for compositing two images together. A color range in the top layer is made transparent, revealing another image behind. The chroma keying technique is commonly used in video production and post-production...

). Series two also introduced comedians The Rubberbandits

The Rubberbandits

The Rubberbandits are the award-winning comedy hip-hop duo of Blindboy Boat Club and Mr. Chrome from Limerick, Ireland. Primarily a satirical stage and television act, they have performed throughout Ireland, the UK and USA with shows at events such as Electric Picnic Oxegen and the Bulmers...

 as reporters, bizzarre weathermen and agony aunts. The series has contributed to the chart success of the Rubberbandits single Horse Outside

Horse Outside

Horse Outside is a single by a Limerick group called the The Rubberbandits. It was released on 8 December 2010, after its accompanying music video was aired on RTÉ Television programme Republic of Telly...

 as well as Everybody's Drinkin' and Big Box Little Box

Big Box Little Box

Big Box Little Box is a song by Irish comedy duo Damo and Ivor, released on 24 October 2011.-Music Video:A music video for the song was released on 23 October 2011, which has so far gained over 430,000 views....

 by Damo and Ivor.

Series One

The first series, which was presented by Neil Delamere began in 2009. The first season continued on February 15th 2010 and concluded in the spring of that year. The series featured Mairéad Farrell

Mairead Farrell (Irish radio presenter)

Mairéad Farrell is an Irish radio presenter. She is a long-standing member of Ray D'Arcy's team on Today FM. She has vowed to never leave D'Arcy, who she has described as being "like my mammy".-Early life:...

 and had guests such as Marty Whelan, Kathryn Thomas, the cast of the Apprentice

The Apprentice (Irish TV series)

The Apprentice is an Irish reality television series, in which a group of aspiring young businessmen and women compete for the chance to win a job as "apprentice" to business magnate Bill Cullen....

 and Dermot Whelan

Dermot Whelan

Dermot Whelan is an Irish comedian.A native of Limerick, Whelan is a regular contributor on RTÉ's The Panel, he is also the host of Republic of Telly and has performed at major comedy festivals, including the Kilkenny Cat's Laugh Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe...

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Series Two

The show's second season, with Dermot Whelan taking over as host, began in October 2010. The second series continued in March 2011 and concluded in the spring of that year.

Series Three

Series three began on 17th. October, 2011 with an episode featuring Georgia Salpa, Damo and Ivor, Dead Cat Bounce and Darby the Leprechaun.