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[[File:Riverdance1.jpg|thumb<!--frame?-->|link=https://youtu.be/PYV8XwYErZs|250px|Anyone who is not terrified by this requires psychiatric help.]]
{{Q|You know how the Riverdance started? Too many drinks and not enough toilets.|Captain Obvious|Irish Riverdance Academy}}
'''Riverdance''' began as a joke by the already smug [[Irish]] who were on the verge of winning the [[Eurovision Song Contest]] for the third consecutive decade; the problem was the rest of [[the world]] didn't get it. When the producers saw the potential profit of showing such a show to [[tourists]], they wasted no time in stretching a five{{NBH}}minute interval act into a three{{NBH}}day{{NBH}}long{{NBS}}{{W|extravaganza}}.

The show consists of a number of Irish people banging their feet in some kind of time to "traditional" [[music]] being played by [[U2]] at the side, while [[Asian]] tourists blind the dancers with the incessant flashing of digital cameras until the star of the show (an [[epileptic]] [[pyromaniac]]) has a [[seizure]] and goes on a [[fire]]{{NBH}}starting rampage. All this happens while the Asians [[clap]] their hands in unison, an event which seismologists predict is slowly destroying the [[planet]].

Despite this, ticket sales are still high and, despite the unlikeliness of getting out of a performance alive, Asians still flock to the show, eager to try out their new [[digital cameras]].

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[[Category:Theatre]]
[[Category:Dance]]
[[Category:Irish culture]]
[[Category:Irish music]]