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Ellen Films Show In Ireland For St. Patrick's Day

  • 16-03-2012 6:54am
    #1
    Sindri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭


    POPULAR US TALK show host Ellen deGeneres is to film part of her St Patrick’s Day show from Dublin, it was revealed today.
    Ellen’s crew will host segments of the talk show from the Guinness Storehouse. Filming for the pre-recorded episodes began today and will continue through Sunday.

    http://www.thejournal.ie/ellen-starts-filming-for-st-patricks-day-show-in-dublin-386231-Mar2012/


    Well, I don't think she's funny and I don't really like her show but it could be good for tourism; or a huge cringefest.

    Hopefully Bono doesn't show up.


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  • #2
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users Posts: 4,421 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    Ellen is ok. Her wife is quite something.. Maybe portia de rossi will be about


  • #3
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,419 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    I hate her with a passion and would not watch it, I bet she does a stupid Irish jig dance. We do not need Ellen promoting us.


  • #4
    tonycascarino
    Registered Users Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭tonycascarino


    hondasam wrote: »
    I hate her with a passion and would not watch it, I bet she does a stupid Irish jig dance. We do not need Ellen promoting us.

    We should be happy that somebody is promoting us


  • #5
    danniemcq
    Registered Users Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    Can Portia promote us instead?


  • #6
    beks101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,802 ✭✭✭beks101


    I think she's fcuking awesome, her coming out back in the 90 s changed the face of American tv and opened a lot of doors for the gay community in Hollywood.

    And let's face it, her show is one of the if not THE biggest chat shows in America, a bit of free PR work from her wouldn't do us an ounce of harm.


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  • #7
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 14,544 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    It's ok, she'll be swiggin' Jameson with Crystal Swing on Grafton Street, she'll fit right in.....


  • #8
    dee.
    Registered Users Posts: 1,461 ✭✭✭dee.


    Considering her show is one of the most popular in the USA, if she films how ~awesome~ paddys day is in Ireland - I can see that helping tourism in Ireland around this time next year.

    Now...she has to find a way to make St Patricks Day here actually look good. New York blows us out of the water and it'd be cheaper and more convenient for Americans to travel there instead.


  • #9
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    I hope they don't make us out to be a bunch of twinkly eyed leprechauns puffing on clay pipes and sprouting top o the morning to ya.


  • #10
    bamboozle
    Registered Users Posts: 3,699 ✭✭✭bamboozle


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    I hope they don't make us out to be a bunch of twinkly eyed leprechauns puffing on clay pipes and sprouting top o the morning to ya.

    if it attracts a few thousand extra tourists to these shores i'm not too bothered how we come across on american TV!


  • #11
    sunflower27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,822 ✭✭✭sunflower27


    I don't see how it can be a bad thing. As said, she is hugely popular in the US so no harm in her promoting Ireland and I am sure she will do it in a positive light.

    I really don't get the whole 'we don't need her promoting us' mantra - she is doing more than anyone else on here about promoting Ireland as a tourist destination.

    Some people will seriously moan about anything. :rolleyes:


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  • #12
    theteal
    Registered Users Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭theteal


    I couldn't pick her out in a lineup but I've read that its a fairly popular show in yankland so thank fcuk they're pre-recording and not broadcasting live from the piss/vomit strewn cesspit that will be Dublin on the actual day. It'll just be a load of diddly dee with leprechauns and the likes as opposed to what actually happens i.e. Bart Simpson locked, walking at an angle that disproves gravity down Dame St.


  • #13
    Kolido
    Registered Users Posts: 13,358 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »
    It's ok, she'll be swiggin' Jameson with Crystal Swing on Grafton Street, she'll fit right in.....

    AFAIK she won't actually be here herself. Just some pre-recorded footage from Dublin on her show.


  • #14
    CardBordWindow
    Registered Users Posts: 3,191 ✭✭✭CardBordWindow


    Kolido wrote: »
    AFAIK she won't actually be here herself. Just some pre-recorded footage from Dublin on her show.
    WHAT??
    But I've made a 'WELCOME ELLEN' banner! It was all nice colours and glitter and everything. :(


  • #15
    ollie1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭ollie1


    I hope it can't be worse than this :eek:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2XXuRHq15o


  • #16
    walrusgumble
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,062 ✭✭✭walrusgumble


    Nearly as bad as that other Gimp, Conan O'Brien. Jesus he once wrote for The Simpsons (good stuff). He is a clown. I see where Ryan Tubs gets his inspiration from


  • #17
    gazzer
    Registered Users Posts: 4,051 ✭✭✭gazzer


    If you took all the holloring and clapping out of the Ellen show it would be about 10 minutes long.


  • #18
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    gazzer wrote: »
    If you took all the holloring and clapping out of the Ellen show it would be about 10 minutes long.

    With ads....it's down to thirty seconds.


  • #19
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users Posts: 26,283 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    Ireland definitley does not need that "i think im funny because i like to munch rug" fcukwit.


  • #20
    samina
    Registered Users Posts: 329 ✭✭samina


    theteal wrote: »
    i.e. Bart Simpson locked, walking at an angle that disproves gravity down Dame St.
    This gave me a giggle :)


  • #21
    DarkJager
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,960 ✭✭✭DarkJager


    Once Ellen has done her crab dance in the middle of the city, it will never be the same again.


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  • #22
    cena
    Registered Users Posts: 9,961 ✭✭✭cena


    while were talking about patricks day. I was watching this last night.

    Do ye agree with what they say.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKa3GUrtBxU&feature=g-all-u&context=G27b6fd7FAAAAAAAABAA


  • #23
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    I think it's great that Americans will get to see some actual footage of Ireland and Irish people, which they don't really get to see too often.

    I wouldn't be the biggest Ellen fan but I've no animosity towards her and I don't get the anger about her coming here before they've probably even shot any footage, and certainly before anyone's seen anything. Let's wait till then before we decided it's "all diddly-dee Leprechaun nonsense," which will be hard to find in Dublin.

    I just hope Ellen isn't too disappointed when she realises that the mother in Crystal Swing was lying when she told her everyone in Ireland watches her chat show.


  • #24
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,038 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    Sindri wrote: »
    http://www.thejournal.ie/ellen-starts-filming-for-st-patricks-day-show-in-dublin-386231-Mar2012/


    Well, I don't think she's funny and I don't really like her show but it could be good for tourism; or a huge cringefest.

    Hopefully Bono doesn't show up.

    so should we expect an influx of lesbian americans coming into ireland?


  • #25
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,038 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »
    It's ok, she'll be swiggin' Jameson with Crystal Swing in Grafton Street the george, she'll fit right in.....


    fyp


  • #26
    Bad Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,205 ✭✭✭Bad Panda


    beks101 wrote: »
    I think she's fcuking awesome, her coming out back in the 90 s changed the face of American tv and opened a lot of doors for the gay community in Hollywood.

    And let's face it, her show is one of the if not THE biggest chat shows in America, a bit of free PR work from her wouldn't do us an ounce of harm.

    I like her, but let's face it - if he didn't come out as a lesbian she wouldn't be where she is now.

    People eat that sh!t up!


  • #27
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Bleedin' lessers coming over here increasing our publicity. :pac:


  • #28
    trollin trollin trollin
    Registered Users Posts: 53 ✭✭trollin trollin trollin


    Bad Panda wrote: »
    I like her, but let's face it - if he didn't come out as a lesbian she wouldn't be where she is now.

    People eat that sh!t up!
    The truth is back in the 90's ellen had an brilliant sitcom based on observational humour and social akwardness.After she came out at the end of season 4, her show was seen as too gay by the conservatives and was soon cancelled ruining her career at the time.This was despite the fact that the coming out episode itself won multiple awards and became a cult phenomenon!





    A few years ago she returned like a pheonix from the ashes with the ellen talkshow.Although i'm a massive fan of her sitcom and standup routines i'll admit the talkshows a bit crap and i don't watch it, since it's aimed at the "oprah audience" demographic,so she's really just responding to what they want.


  • #29
    Doc Ruby
    Registered Users Posts: 3,956 ✭✭✭Doc Ruby


    ToddyDoody wrote: »
    Ellen is ok. Her wife is quite something.. Maybe portia de rossi will be about
    Nah, Ellen will be up to her ears in red carpet.

    ;)


  • #30
    Toby Take a Bow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭Toby Take a Bow


    tonycascarino wrote: »
    We should be happy that somebody is promoting us

    LOADS of people are promoting us. They're green-lighting buildings around the world for tomorrow.

    But I can't see how this would harm us. I'm sure it'll be twiddly-dee oirish-y but it'll probably encourage some tourism, and there'll be some money from her and her entourage.


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  • #31
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Ireland is awesome.

    I love my country me.


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