Smells Like Saturday
| Genre | Chat / music |
|---|---|
| Running time | 10:00 - 12:00 Saturday |
| Country of origin |
 Ireland
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| Language(s) | English |
| Home station | 2FM |
| Recording studio | Dublin |
| Audio format | FM and Digital radio |
| Website | Official site |
| Podcast | SLS podcast |
Smells Like Saturday is a once weekly comedy/music/talk morning radio show presented by the puppet characters Zig and Zag. It is broadcast on Irish radio station 2FM and airs from 10:00-12:00 midday every Saturday morning. The characters present the show from the fictional "Studio Z’ which Zig and Zag claim is their old spaceship from the Eighties; the "Zogmobile" which means they can often fly the studio to exotic locations during the show. The shows theme tune is The Moog Cookbook’s instrumental cover version of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" where the radio show derived its title.
Zig and Zag are two famous and beloved Irish puppet characters who have become household names in Ireland ever since their TV debut on Dempsey’s Den. They also gained popularity on radio as part of Ian Dempsey's 2FM Breakfast show during the late Eighties where they did a five-minute slot on his show for a number of years. On 30 October 2010, Zig and Zag broadcast their first ever radio show.
After only five months on air the radio show gained an impressive listenership and has the third highest audience figures on 2FM with an impressive 143,000 listeners, beating one of the stations flagship show Breakfast with Hector and beaten only by Ryan Tubridy with 216,000 and Colm Hayes with 161,000 according to the JNLR figures released on 17 February 2011.
In the JNLR figures released on 5 May 2011 the show gained a further 5000 listeners and became the stations second most listened to radio show behind Ryan Tubridy with 148,000 radio fans tuning in every Saturday morning. This is unprecedented success for a weekend radio show on 2FM.
" Smells Like Saturday’’ as a comedy/ music hybrid has a number of regular and one off features.
Zig’s knack for finding really cool cover versions of popular hits.
Torty the Tortoise is a character who is also known as 'The Tortoise of Hits' and the 'Hitpicker in a Half Shell'. Zig and Zag claim that their Tortoise, who spins around on his back and chooses the greatest ‘hits’ of a particular type as requested from listeners and challenged by Zig and Zag.
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