The John Murray Show

My God that radio show is shocking .Murray hasn`t a clue .

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Another awful "comedy" intro by John.. about Sinead O'Connor.. the whole premise of the joke being that she said in some newspaper yesterday that she likes hairy men.. cue a load of badly put together soundbites, and his usual lowest common denominator slagging of Paul Galvin.. RTE should let John do the show seriously... He cant do comedy, and his attempts are cringeworthy, where as he has proved that he can do the serioues stuff competently..

They should go one better and just take the show off air altogether and put something; anything else on instead. It's been one bad, bad car wreck of a show from the dayit came onto air and has created nothing but scorn onto the daytime schedule. Whatever good or bad and whatever you like or dislike about Murray taking on the semi serious topics, he can't be taken seriously anymore due to the attempts at humour he forever persists with and he should be hidden away from the schedule for the long term until it's long forgotten about.

I finally got around to typing "John Murray crap" into google to see if there was a discussion going on somewhere about how something so f**king brutal could make it onto national radio and - the part that really mystifies me - stay there for a year with no noticeable changes to its format.

Glad to see it's not just me cos there's probably nobody in the country who's listened to that bloody show as often as I have (I'd say I've missed <1% of them unfortunately) despite hating it so much. Except other people who have Radio 1 on in their workplace against their will maybe.

Here's a list of what I hate about John f**king Murray - most of which has already been said but I'm going to say it again anyway.

• His combination of voice and accent, more suited to boring the passengers in a taxi to death than being on national radio
• That cringe-making 'monologue' that he opens the show with. I don't know which is worse, him writing his own jokes despite having no background in comedy (does he realise the likes of David Letterman have a team of people who do it?) or, if he doesn't write it himself, the fact that someone is getting paid to write it and they haven't been fired for being unbelievably f**king unfunny
• The fact that he has to ask everybody he interviews about how rich they are or how much money they earn, despite the fact that nobody ever answers the question and it just makes both the interviewee and the listener think "What a nosey c**t". Seriously, listen out for it. He'd ask a rape victim if they got a good compensation payout.
• That whole Operation Transformation thing. Turns out fat people are about as fun to listen to as they are to look at.
• The way every day he asks people to text in about something at the start of the show and then doesn't read out any of them (or maybe nobody does)
• The way he occasionally makes up text messages. "So, extremely minor celebrity, someone texting in here wanting to know when your book will be in the shops". No, John Murray, nobody actually texted in to ask that and we both know it

Kathryn Thomas in my opinion is no better. When she's on, the already lightweight subject matter gets bulked up with interviews about fannies and wedding dresses and diets. She's a more natural interviewer but no more interesting than John Murray.

The one thing I love about working on bank holidays is you turn on the radio and instead of John Murray, you (sometimes) get Pat Kenny and he is bloody brilliant by comparison.

I'd actually rather listen to Liveline than John Murray and that's saying something. Even Turgidy on R1 was marginally better - I've never heard him on 2FM.

And I can't say I noticed when Kia pulled the plug until I read about it here but I thought they were a fitting sponsor.

Anyone know how the listenership figures have been over the lifetime of the show?

I never liked the way Morning Ireland segue into the JMS and I always hit the presets at 9.05 usually to Newstalk who can be a breath of fresh air compared to the stuffed and stifled style of RTE.

He was much better on that Business Show and on Morning Ireland, another example of RTE trying to make a "star" out of a news reporter, they try it on all the time, Miriam O Calllaghan, Charlie Bird etc etc

Slidey wrote: »

Has Murray dropped his comedy "sketch" from the show.

Was there comedy to even drop?

I listened yesterday to John with the Garda whose wife was an alcoholic. It was thought provoking and sensitively handeled.

I listened this morning when he spoke to the guy who was running a swingers club in Dublin. He was ripe for comedy and John never rose to the bait.

When John was finished his next guests managed to get a laugh out of the item.

Then I realised John is not funny in a spotaneous way he may be when he can script, rehearse and use someone out of context .

He was unfair to Michael O Leary , he made a good and thoughtful point about the Childerns allowance and all we got was a cheap crack about a tax on sex. He should have played the full piece it was only 60 secs.

Its not everyday Michael O Leary is thoughtful

Mammy U Know O'Rourke is about to descend on us clucking on about Christmas,sad and happy times,I s'pose.Does she and RTE not realise O'Rourke and her comfortable ilk are downright depressing

Delamere is bad enough on TV but this is bloody awful