Funboys
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The three funboys, Callum Brown, Jordan McCafferty and Lorcan Boggin, may have taken the scenic route through emotional development but they're trying to make the most of life in rural Ballymacnoose.
The three funboys, Callum Brown, Jordan McCafferty and Lorcan Boggin, may have taken the scenic route through emotional development but they're trying to make the most of life in rural Ballymacnoose.
Caleb Anderson here: Funboys trades polished setups for the comedy of rural ennui, mining its tiny‑town stasis for observational wit. As someone who loves the improvisational spark of a live jazz combo, I felt the show’s banter—over caffeine jitters, video‑game rites and the boys’ fear of “post‑nut depression”—unfurl with a similar spontaneity. There’s a playful honesty in each gripe about fizzy drinks or fatalistic commentary on the TV, capturing a generation’s muted anxieties beneath everyday absurdity. Then there’s the show’s fearless dive into scatological surrealism.
Funboys is that something-a gloriously surreal, aggressively original fever dream of a series that injects pure chaos and wit into a genre that's grown sluggish with predictability. Created by and starring a duo (or possibly cult) of deranged visionaries, Funboys doesn't just tell jokes-it dismantles the very idea of what a joke can be.
