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The Late Late Show 08/04/11

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  • #702
    the scorpion
    Registered Users Posts: 10 ✭the scorpion


    macjohn wrote: »
    Ah at last - Lar Corbett was doing loads of talking cause he wanted to push his new pub, fair enough but a standard man on the dole wouldnot hav got the businessman he mentioned to back him. IE being a gaa player has helped him.
    I do wish him the best with new venture (or anyone that trys a new venture) - but would have done more so if he had not tried to suggest earlier that gaa players should get extra breaks

    Could all be very short lived if Tipp fail to regain the All Ireland title


  • #703
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    Jayob10 wrote: »
    I think he has lost the drive considering the dross he has as guests every week. He looks bored and you cannot successfully fake interest in things you have no interest in.

    I thought he looked incredibly bored and disinterested when reading out the list of guests at the start.. Even more so than normal..


  • #704
    Poor Craythur
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,382 ✭✭✭Poor Craythur


    Jayob10 wrote: »
    He is probably seething with the quality of guests delivered up and feels he is better than this. The snob in him doesn't want to be interviewing Biddy from Glenroe.

    I totally agree. Problem is, he's not better than this but just doesn't realise. He fancies himself as an intellectual, a heavyweight, but he's pure lightweight.


  • #705
    Tipsy McSwagger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,068 ✭✭✭Tipsy McSwagger


    Waterford lad defending Keith Barry last week
    Tipp lad defending Lar Corbett this week
    Meath lad defending Hector next week?????????


  • #706
    starryeye
    Closed Accounts Posts: 148 ✭✭starryeye


    Well, I think you should just take all views as just individual views and leave it at that. It would be impossible to agree with everyone all the time. It has not changed my personal view on the guest I liked last week.
    That is all I can say.


  • #707
    starryeye
    Closed Accounts Posts: 148 ✭✭starryeye


    I also believe that if an occasion does arise and a post is extremely offensive about a guest on the LLS. This is in extreme circumstances. It should be just deleted by the moderator. This is only my opinion of course.


  • #708
    starryeye
    Closed Accounts Posts: 148 ✭✭starryeye


    Don't worry. I am finished expressing my view on this topic now.


  • #709
    violator13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 274 ✭✭violator13


    absolutely


  • #710
    Fraher91
    Registered Users Posts: 66 ✭✭Fraher91


    Diddler1977 wrote: »
    I see all people as equal.

    I don't see a hurler as deserving any more attention then a "joe soap" on the street.


    "Hoty" means nothing to me.


    Well at least he is doing something productive with his life, unlike some of the keyboard warriors on here who begrudge him any success.


  • #711
    amdublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭amdublin


    mulner92 wrote: »
    Interesting to look at some of the attitudes of the posters on here, judging by what they say you get the sense that Lar and the lads should turn down jobs and be almost apologetic about talking about their troubles.

    "Judging by what they say"
    :confused:

    Eh sorry, could you maybe quote someone who gave you the impression they want Lar and the lads to "turn down jobs"
    :confused:
    Deleted User wrote: »
    Yes i have logged on often and i have contributed posts to it. i admit it. But i find there are posters here who log on every week habitually to complain before, during, and after the show about the presenter, the guests, the topics etc. its as if they have an evoked set and are programmed to moan and bitch. seriously why watch a show and write a review every week it happens? im not having a go at you personally but i seems to be the running theme every week no matter if its Nelson Mandela on the show or Biddy from Glenroe

    Yeah, does this not seem to you that there is a serious problem with the show, the host, the producers and the research team??

    A guest like Nelson Mandela, I could only dream of! I seriously wonder what the LLS staff do at their production meetings at all.

    Week after week:
    We are presented with guests of the standard of "Biddy from Glenroe shilling her book", we give out about this and we are the bad people :confused:
    We are presented with guests of the standard of Samuel L and Juliette Binoche, the host makes a mess of the interview, we give out about it and again we are he bad people :confused:

    Week after week we give out because of the above...and we get criticized...come on folks, let's get to the root of the problem here: the show itself! The host! The producers! The researchers!
    Fraher91 wrote: »
    Well at least he is doing something productive with his life, unlike some of the keyboard warriors on here who begrudge him any success.

    So you know what he is doing every second of the day do you?

    Plus you know what what we are doing every second of the day do you? One of us "keyboard warriors" on the LLS thread could be FOTY for all you know..... :p


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  • #712
    telekon
    Registered Users Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭telekon


    Gave up watching the LLS months ago, and that was only to partake in this humourous thread.

    But I no longer can sit through the boring, depressing dross that is meant to be some sort of 'light' entertainment. DLB is out of his depth, very poor presenter indeed. Even slagging him off has lost some of its appeal.

    Still sh*t as ever is it?


  • #713
    Lahm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 534 ✭✭✭Lahm


    vWKKi.jpg


    http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/how-tubridy-turned-the-late-late-into-the-lite-lite-2614552.html


  • #714
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Please take note "late late" thread knockers.
    The ease with which Tubridy dismisses online critics of the Late Late as though they were hate-filled begru-dgers brings us to another curious trademark: his black-and-white view of the world and apparent desire to be seen as a Pollyanna figure from whom never is heard a discouraging word.

    Today, for many, it's online platforms like Twitter where the most straight-talking, freewheeling public conversations take place. Tubridy would be wise to heed the word on the street before he discovers that the writing's on the wall.

    http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/how-tubridy-turned-the-late-late-into-the-lite-lite-2614552.html


  • #715
    Tipsy McSwagger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,068 ✭✭✭Tipsy McSwagger


    The condemnation reached critical mass a fortnight ago, following Tubridy's failure to probe Ronan Keating about his reported philandering when the Boyzone smarm-merchant graced the Late Late to publicise a new album.


  • #716
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »
    The condemnation reached critical mass a fortnight ago, following Tubridy's failure to probe Ronan Keating about his reported philandering when the Boyzone smarm-merchant graced the Late Late to publicise a new album.

    If only Ronan had failed to probe that dancer!


  • #717
    amdublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭amdublin


    telekon wrote: »
    Gave up watching the LLS months ago, and that was only to partake in this humourous thread.

    But I no longer can sit through the boring, depressing dross that is meant to be some sort of 'light' entertainment. DLB is out of his depth, very poor presenter indeed. Even slagging him off has lost some of its appeal.

    Still sh*t as ever is it?

    Well there's been no change from when you used post...

    Hey, come on back, you were great craic :)


  • #718
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    telekon wrote: »
    Gave up watching the LLS months ago, and that was only to partake in this humourous thread. Still sh*t as ever is it?

    It's been particularly bad for the past month.. The show about "The Irish - A great bunch of lads" was nauseating and cringey.. The show with Keating was always gonna be judged on that interview and whether Tubridy asked the question, which he didnt... And last night's show had effectively no real guests aside from Jessie J, who Tubrity felt obliged to ask about her illness (i.e. she had a stroke when she was 18) and her Irish connections..

    RTE are gonna have to have a sit down with Tuberity when this season is finished.. The Ronan Keating interview was a real lowpoint for Tubridy, it needs to be put to him that if he is not prepared to ask the hard questions, then he is not the right man for the job.. A new host who is a bit risqué, is what the show needs.. With Pat and now Tubridy, the show is too much interview by numbers and not enough spontaneity.


  • #719
    Diddler1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,765 ✭✭✭Diddler1977


    Deleted User wrote: »
    To those of you who say you dont like Tubridy like you claim you do then why watch the f*cking show? every bloody week moaning here on boards. pathetic!

    theres no middle ground whatsoever. i dont like tubridy but there is times he has good guests and other times it is woeful and yes he is overpaid but every week pages upon pages of how crap the show is. seriously?
    Deleted User wrote: »
    But it is every single week no matter who is on the show still the same criticisms yet he still registers your Nielsen Ratings or whatever the system we have here. If Gaddafi was on the show tonight or if he talked to the dead it would be the same ****e. Ill talk if i like btw as we live in the Republic of Ireland 2011, not Nazi Germany 1939 so if you dont like it you know what you can do.
    Deleted User wrote: »
    Yes i have logged on often and i have contributed posts to it. i admit it. But i find there are posters here who log on every week habitually to complain before, during, and after the show about the presenter, the guests, the topics etc. its as if they have an evoked set and are programmed to moan and bitch. seriously why watch a show and write a review every week it happens? im not having a go at you personally but i seems to be the running theme every week no matter if its Nelson Mandela on the show or Biddy from Glenroe


    The people who come on to this thread to give out at us for critiquing Tubs and his guests amaze me.

    What we are doing on this thread is being replicated in sitting rooms all over the country.

    I think most of us on here, at the very least, hope that this thread is being monitored and that we may affect some change in the LLS - which I think we as the viewing public are all deserving of.

    We deserve quality guests interviewed by an able host.

    Unfortunately the guests for the past while have been sub-par (basically the majority of them have been RTE staff who are hawking books or CDs, etc) or when there have been quality guests DLB manages to drain the life out of the interview. There are numerous instances of this happening, too many to mention, however I will note some that I thought were particularly bad:
    Take That, Juliette Binoche, Ronan Keating, Samuel L Jackson and my fave Rhys Ifans.

    However personally I also think the GAA Hurlers interview last night was also a low in this season's LLS.


  • #720
    starryeye
    Closed Accounts Posts: 148 ✭✭starryeye


    Who would be a really good host for the LLS?


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  • #721
    buckfasterer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,198 ✭✭✭buckfasterer


    starryeye wrote: »
    Who would be a really good host for the LLS?

    Hector :D


  • #722
    barakus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 399 ✭✭barakus


    miriam


  • #723
    Poly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,807 ✭✭✭Poly


    Moncreiff would be excellent.


  • #724
    Flimbos
    Registered Users Posts: 642 ✭✭✭Flimbos


    Vincent Browne!

    I'm not so sure about his political views but after watching bits of the first couple of his Friday night shows (which are meant to be more "light entertainment"), I think he might be just what the LLS needs.

    He would certainly ask the "difficult questions". And he doesn't have the same smugness and sense of being totally out of touch that we've seen Tubridy display.

    He's an experienced journalist who, in the past has put his neck on the line for the sake of his work.

    I've just noticed on his Friday night shows (when he's not banging on about politics!) that he seems to be a likeable sort, down to earth.

    Of course though, it'll never happen!


  • #725
    Diddler1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,765 ✭✭✭Diddler1977


    starryeye wrote: »
    Who would be a really good host for the LLS?

    Paul Stokes :D


  • #726
    amdublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭amdublin


    Flimbos wrote: »
    Vincent Browne!

    I'm not so sure about his political views but after watching bits of the first couple of his Friday night shows (which are meant to be more "light entertainment"), I think he might be just what the LLS needs.

    He would certainly ask the "difficult questions". And he doesn't have the same smugness and sense of being totally out of touch that we've seen Tubridy display.

    He's an experienced journalist who, in the past has put his neck on the line for the sake of his work.

    I've just noticed on his Friday night shows (when he's not banging on about politics!) that he seems to be a likeable sort, down to earth.

    Of course though, it'll never happen!

    Omg Vincent would be brilliant!!!! And hilarious!!!

    Love it!!!!


    Seriously, my vote is for Vincent.


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  • #727
    amdublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭amdublin


    Diddler1977 wrote: »
    .

    .


  • #728
    Poly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,807 ✭✭✭Poly


    I know we joked about bringing back Gay, truth is stranger than fiction:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1375361/Roll-Colette--Gaybo-light-Friday-night.html?ITO=1490


  • #729
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    Diddler1977 wrote: »
    Paul Stokes :D

    He's dead!
    Poly wrote:
    I know we joked about bringing back Gay, truth is stranger than fiction:

    He's not dead?!

    Rather than devising a whole new show for the summer, surely it would make more sense to run the Late Late all year round, with guest presenters whenever Tubridy goes on his holidays. This would make it easier to eventually find a new permanent presenter. Because Tubridy is clearly unsuited to the genre.


  • #730
    amdublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭amdublin


    RayM wrote: »
    He's dead!



    .

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055889359&page=3

    Oh Jesus, you're right. I did not know.

    No laughing matter.

    RIP.


  • #731
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,161 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    starryeye wrote: »
    Who would be a really good host for the LLS?
    Sean Moncreif and vincent brown


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  • #732
    Mr E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,533 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    It'll be great to see Gay back in a chat show again. If they can get some good acts in (not stuff Crystal Swing and Jedward), it could be a great show.


  • #733
    Poly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,807 ✭✭✭Poly


    Yeah,it would be great to see Gaybo back, even at 76 he could still inject a bit of youthful exuberance, controversy and energy back into the LL show.

    Imagine he brought all his auld cronies back on, Parkie, Billy Connelly, Lenny Herny....


  • #734
    Colmo52
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,370 ✭✭✭Colmo52


    RayM wrote: »
    He's dead.

    He'd still probably do a better job.


  • #735
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    Poly wrote: »
    Yeah,it would be great to see Gaybo back, Imagine he brought all his auld cronies back on, Parkie, Billy Connelly, Lenny Herny....
    and don't forget Sinead O'Connor. Uncle Gaybo loved her too :D


  • #736
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    Sean Moncreif and vincent brown
    And Jedward could be roving reporters...


  • #737
    SuperInfinity
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,449 ✭✭✭SuperInfinity


    "Ryan Tubridy has boosted Late Late popularity."

    If the Late Late Show is getting more audience figures now it's because of the greatest recession since the 1921! They might as well claim that Tubridy is responsible for people not going out on Friday nights anymore.

    Honestly, I would expect more reliability from The Daily Mail (seriously!).

    I don't know what's going to happen to Tubridy, it's hard to imagine him doing this for the next 10+ years (and if he does then God help us all). I hope he throws in the towel soon and says he wants to go on to do "different things".


  • #738
    telekon
    Registered Users Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭telekon


    amdublin wrote: »
    Well there's been no change from when you used post...

    Hey, come on back, you were great craic :)

    Why, thank you very much. :)
    JonathanAnon wrote: »
    It's been particularly bad for the past month.. The show about "The Irish - A great bunch of lads" was nauseating and cringey.. The show with Keating was always gonna be judged on that interview and whether Tubridy asked the question, which he didnt... And last night's show had effectively no real guests aside from Jessie J, who Tubrity felt obliged to ask about her illness (i.e. she had a stroke when she was 18) and her Irish connections..

    RTE are gonna have to have a sit down with Tuberity when this season is finished.. The Ronan Keating interview was a real lowpoint for Tubridy, it needs to be put to him that if he is not prepared to ask the hard questions, then he is not the right man for the job.. A new host who is a bit risqué, is what the show needs.. With Pat and now Tubridy, the show is too much interview by numbers and not enough spontaneity.

    I thought the furore over the Ronan Keating was massively overblown tbh. Tubridy's been getting away with avoiding asking the tough questions to his buddies for years. If anything, the controversy over the Keating interview was a culmination of all the times he has repeatedly wimped out and people have finally had enough of it...well, thats what I'd like to believe.

    The fact that Ronan Keating is a dislikable tit had a lot to do with it too I would imagine...


  • #739
    Diddler1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,765 ✭✭✭Diddler1977


    Diddler1977 wrote: »
    Paul Stokes :D
    RayM wrote: »
    He's dead!


    nre.
    amdublin wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055889359&page=3

    Oh Jesus, you're right. I did not know.

    No laughing matter.

    RIP.

    Oh gosh, I didn't know this.

    Didn't mean to disrespect the dead.

    RIP


  • #740
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    telekon wrote: »
    Why, thank you very much. :)

    I wouldnt read too much in to the compliments here Tele.. given that it is the Late Late Show thread, people have a tendency to fall into the same fawning mannerisms as the host... I think you're wonderful as well, btw.. you're "just what the country needs right now".. :D
    Tubridy's been getting away with avoiding asking the tough questions to his buddies for years.

    I completely agree with you on this one.. Not asking the question of Keating was the straw that broke the camel's back for a lot of people.. His prime focus in all his interviews seems to be to avoid confrontation, not to ask interesting, probing questions... After a series of soft soap interviews, people wanted Keating grilled if he was going to get air time to promote his album.. And this interview completely brought to a head his lack of courage as an interviewer....

    And it's kind of ironic that he's pissed off more guests by licking their boots (like Juliette Binnoche) than he has by asking them uncomfortable questions.


  • #741
    goose2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Yes he did mention his new venture, its what business people do and especially in a recession. More power to him. A genuine good guy. the best of luck to him.

    No, what business people do is pay large sums of money for 30-second TV slots. They don't get handed 20 minutes to talk about it to dlb.
    Deleted User wrote: »
    Perhaps they are just trying to give us an indication of the serious jobs crisis in this country when the hurlers cant get jobs.

    Yeah, after all, sideline cuts are a much sought-after skill in the modern economy.
    daddydick wrote: »
    People here who are ridiculing the likes of Larry Corbett and Padraig Maher for going on the LLS and telling their story need to ask themselves two questions:

    1) what went wrong in my life that I find myself sitting in on a Friday night watching a show I hate while moaning and complaining to strangers over the internet?

    better than moaning and complaining to strangers that your amateur sport doesn't pay you a salary. Why not quit the gaa and set up a professional league, see how far they get.


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  • #742
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,161 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    http://eircomsports.eircom.net/News/news/gaa/Ewan-MacKenna-blog-The-Late-Grate-Show.aspx

    It’s almost all as galling as Ryan Tubridy’s ignorance and lack of research into a sport which clearly doesn’t impact his circles. If the GAA wants to help their inter-county players financially, then that is their business, yet the players agree that they don’t want that. But if the GAA thinks inter-county players deserve to get work ahead of everyone else based purely on status, then that’s my business, it’s your business, it’s everyone’s business. Plenty of inter-county players have been looked after for years with jobs they aren’t qualified to do but that Ireland is now over and they need to compete with the rest.

    I wish Lar Corbett well and hope his pub thrives. And I wish all GAA players out of work a job. But no more so than anyone else, because just like sport, getting on top in the real world should be based on skill and talent and ability. Not on a reputation some think should get them ahead of the curve.

    i like lar corbetts models!!
    http://tipptatler.ie/2011/04/2010-hurler-of-the-year-lar-corbett-launches-new-business/


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