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<a href="/wiki/Political_satire" title="Political satire">political satire</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Running time</th><td class="infobox-data">29 minutes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Country of origin</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland" title="Republic of Ireland">Republic of Ireland</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Language(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Home station</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/RT%C3%89_Radio_1" title="RTÉ Radio 1">RTÉ Radio 1</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">TV adaptations</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Spiritual_successor" title="Spiritual successor">spiritual successor</a> to <i><a href="/wiki/Hall%27s_Pictorial_Weekly" title="Hall's Pictorial Weekly">Hall's Pictorial Weekly</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Starring</th><td class="infobox-data">Dermot Morgan<br /><a href="/wiki/Pauline_McLynn" title="Pauline McLynn">Pauline McLynn</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Owen_Roe_(actor)" title="Owen Roe (actor)">Owen Roe</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Created by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Dermot_Morgan" title="Dermot Morgan">Dermot Morgan</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Gerard_Stembridge" title="Gerard Stembridge">Gerry Stembridge</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Recording studio</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/RT%C3%89_Radio_Centre" title="RTÉ Radio Centre">RTÉ Radio Centre</a>, Dublin</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Original release</th><td class="infobox-data">1989<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1989</span>)</span> –<br />December 1991<span style="display:none"> (<span class="dtend itvend">1991-12</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><abbr title="Number">No.</abbr> of series</th><td class="infobox-data">3</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>Scrap Saturday</b></i> was an Irish satirical radio sketch show created by <a href="/wiki/Dermot_Morgan" title="Dermot Morgan">Dermot Morgan</a>, who was also the main performer on the show, and <a href="/wiki/Gerard_Stembridge" title="Gerard Stembridge">Gerry Stembridge</a>, which ran on <a href="/wiki/RT%C3%89_Radio_1" title="RTÉ Radio 1">RTÉ Radio 1</a> on Saturday mornings from 1989 until 1991. <a href="/wiki/Pauline_McLynn" title="Pauline McLynn">Pauline McLynn</a> and <a href="/wiki/Owen_Roe_(actor)" title="Owen Roe (actor)">Owen Roe</a> participated as performers. </p><p>The half-hour show lampooned political and cultural figures in Irish society such as <a href="/wiki/Charles_Haughey" title="Charles Haughey">Charles Haughey</a> and <a href="/wiki/P%C3%A1draig_Flynn" title="Pádraig Flynn">Pádraig Flynn</a>. At the centre of the show was the relationship between the then <a href="/wiki/Taoiseach" title="Taoiseach">Taoiseach</a> <a href="/wiki/Charles_Haughey" title="Charles Haughey">Charles Haughey</a> and his political advisor <a href="/wiki/P._J._Mara" title="P. J. Mara">P. J. Mara</a>. A number of Irish cultural figures came in for a lampooning on a regular basis such as broadcasters <a href="/wiki/Mike_Murphy_(presenter)" title="Mike Murphy (presenter)">Mike Murphy</a> when a presenter of RTÉ Radio 1's "Arts Show", <a href="/wiki/Gay_Byrne" title="Gay Byrne">Gay Byrne</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bibi_Baskin" title="Bibi Baskin">Bibi Baskin</a>. 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