The Binge Club

''How do you spice up your binge watching habits? Old to new? Alphabetical? Colour-coded?''

A beginner's guide to sketch binges
Whether you like to watch the sketches from new to old, or old to new, it’s best to know just how much time you are going to spend doing it.

Overall, as of 29/10/2020, if you were to binge watch all of the videos available on FAH’s channel, which are visible (currently 335), you would have 14 hours, 25 minutes and 47 seconds of content to watch to your hearts content. In other words that’s:
 * 51,947 seconds
 * 865.7833 minutes
 * 14.4297 hours

If you wanted to binge watch based on playlists this is how long they would be (Not including the duplicate videos, non FAH videos or private videos in the playlists) All playlists total - 12 hours, 37 minutes and 10 seconds.
 * 1,675.70968 viewings of the McDonnells Curry Sauce TV Ad 2014. (approx 27 minutes 56 seconds of loop time.)
 * 1) Oisín & Parents - 43 minutes and 26 seconds.
 * 2) Quarantine Sketches - 25 minutes and 29 seconds.
 * 3) Live Sketches - 1 hour, 26 minutes and 18 seconds.
 * 4) Word Play Sketches - 5 minutes and 40 seconds.
 * 5) Office Sketches - 4 hours, 34 minutes and 51 seconds.
 * 6) The McCormack Family - 18 minutes and 47 seconds.
 * 7) Visiting Gran - 9 minutes and 29 seconds.
 * 8) Parody & Satire Sketches - 50 minutes and 28 seconds.
 * 9) Out-Takes - 18 minutes and 5 seconds.
 * 10) Out of Office Sketches - 1 hour, 39 minutes and 25 seconds.
 * 11) How to be a Lad - 1 minute and 42 seconds.
 * 12) Driving Instructor - 11 minutes and 42 seconds.
 * 13) J1 Visa - 5 minutes and 32 seconds.
 * 14) Losers - 2 minutes and 18 seconds.
 * 15) The Business Dudes - 9 minutes and 12 seconds.
 * 16) Promo Sketches - 18 minutes and 35 seconds.
 * 17) Irish Themed Sketches - 33 minutes and 53 seconds.
 * 18) Us Messing - 13 minutes and 31 seconds.
 * 19) Hard Lads - 7 minutes and 3 seconds.
 * 20) Ceol Agus Ól - 3 minutes and 37 seconds.
 * 21) House Party Collection - 14 minutes and 51 seconds.
 * 22) Start Up SKetches - 3 minutes and 16 seconds.

From this I have devised a simple visual pie chart of all the playlists, with the longest binge-able being the “Office Sketches” playlist. Overall that is a lot of content that has been created over the past 11 years (on the 23/07/2020). So if you are going to binge everything, grab snacks, a pint (or more) of Guinness and get ready to laugh your socks off!

Stage Sketches Adapted for the Screen
Especially in the early years, FAH turned sketches they wrote for and performed on the stage into YouTube versions. It takes some researching to assemble a comprehensive list of these 'stage to screen' sketches, because the first 5 years of FAH shows werend recorded in full for a DVD release. We do have their 'best of' on the 2014 Vicar Street DVD of course, and we have a bunch of recordings from venues up on a separate page.

Can you help us match old sketches to their original stage versions? Once we have a good list going, we'll redirect from here to a fresh page where we can get to work comparing both versions. Note that there are radio show versions as well, which they also often performed during interviews.
 * Human Smart Phone (Doomdah 2016)
 * Luas Tannoy
 * An Irish Film
 * The Brexit Song (Swines 2019)
 * The Morning After
 * Gaelic Flirt
 * Umm
 * Samaritans
 * The Chairheads
 * The Narcissistic Song Collection

YouTube Views & Subscriber Stats
Every Thursday morning (at 8 o’clock Irish time) a few hundred fans are queueing up for the premiere of a new sketch on YouTube and Facebook. Just a little after, usually before noon, FAH upload the same sketch on Instagram, occasionally followed by a tweet containing the YouTube link on Twitter. Arms is in standby to reply to comments, but we're assuming all three lads are eagerly awaiting the view counts each week, to see how much of a hit their new sketch has been.

If you own a YouTube account you will know all about YouTube statistics, which are generated for users in an app called YouTube Studio. Those official statistics are obviously for FAH eyes only. But for any stats-loving FAHn willing to strap in and do a bit of manual data mining, there's a wealth of knowledge to be gained about FAH sketch & channel popularity! And that's precisely what one FAHn did.

Read all about it by clicking the page thumbnail below!



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