Pete Doherty on the Late Late Show

People are gonna say 'He's all about drugs and thats what he is famous for' but I'm not buying that. First off, I don't like Pete Doherty's music so I'm not the 'I'm a massive fan and don't say anything about Pete' type. The fact is, stories of musicians and their drug habits ARE boring. I mean, tons of musicians have ruined their lives with drugs.....but its old news. Kenny just turned it into a wasted opportunity for an interesting interview. Plank.

yeah its crazy what pat earns considering the average joe could do a far better job

I watched the interview last night and well thats what it was, an interview. I mean you have to put it into context, Pat Kenny doesn't do funny, jovial interviews like Jonathan Ross and he did ask some hard and uncomfortable questions, but what other way was he ever going to do it? Would you prefer had he acted like he knew his music and and serenaded him with questions like "do you see yourself as the 21 century Dylan?". That would have been far more cringe inducing stuff, we have all seen it before, Pat trying to be jokey, its like seeing your mother having 3 sherries and getting up dancing at a wedding, hard to watch, oh the mental scars!
So, in summary, I don't think we should chastise Pat for doing what he is able to do because the alternative would be much worse.

I too was embarrased by Pat Kenny's lack of preperation for the Pete Doherty interview. The Late Late Show's producers show the same contempt for the Irish population by giving Eoghan Harris a soap box. "Sure we've never had it so good" what nonsense.

graveshiftd wrote: »

I see your point but my arguement was that was the only outcome that was ever going to come out of that interview, thats Pat. He does it week in week out and im not arguing the success of his interview last night but that he is a capable seroius interviewer and thats where he directed the interview, to his strengths.

I agree. Pat isnt worth €800,000, but he has his strengths like talking to Eamonn Dunphy and Co. later on ( he's more comfortable with that topic and it shows, its more like his radio show). He's suited to interviewing current affairs people not "celebrities" like pete doherty, That more Ryan Tubridys area. He had no interest in him and it shows.He like most people who watched the late late dont know much else about him other than kate moss and drugs, if anything at all (not saying this excuses him for lazy interviewing).

And what was with the awful camera man for pete doherty. the zoom out button must have been broken. It was sooo annoying, esp when he was singing, it was just a camera full of hat cos he kept moving!!

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TV mods, could this be merged with the existing Late Late Show/Pete Doherty thread?

Thanks

Will there be any more repeats of this?

Hi I agree with most of the above.

I think everybody knows at this stage that Pat is a very limited interviewer. He is excellent on the political stuff, and is very well prepared (almost to the point of knowing more about the subject than the person he is interviewing).

He CANNOT interview particular types of guests... comedians, younger musicians and the like. Anything where a bit of humour might be needed.

He should have noticed how much he was pissing of Pete Doherty, and changed the line of questioning. Instead he persisted with the drug questioning, and when asked to change, he changed to the one other thing that Pete would get asked about most.

I also always find his generic "I listened to your album during the week and thought it was excellent" which applies for all musicians that he has on the show. Comes across as insincere.

They should have put Petula Clark on the Late Late Show and swopped Pete on to Tubridy, although their schedules prob would not have allowed this.

Pat Kenny is a shambles. His status as an experienced interviewer was completely destroyed last night - 06/02/2009 on the ‘Late Late Show’. He showed little interest in his so called “guest” and made a mockery out of the Irish public. He had no manners towards Pete Doherty and was completely unprepared for the show. Pat Kenny gets paid a big enough salary to at least fulfil the basic requirements of his job - to know who he is interviewing. I e-mailed RTÉ last night after watching the show and this morning I received a reply stating that it will be forwarded to the editorial team and to the ‘Late Late Show’ too. I know this means nothing and it is just an attempt to keep a "moaning" viewer content, but I would love Pat to get a “slap on the hand” for his evident faux-pas.

Pete Doherty is an iconic figure and he is evidently talented. Although his life has been scandalised in the tabloids it is obvious there is more to him than just the - “drug abuser” image. I acknowledge that it was obvious, and in some ways necessary to question Pete about his lust for drugs, and his previous relationship with Kate Moss, as it an obvious topic to start with, but this shouldn’t have been the ONLY aspect of Pete that should be emphasised. Certainly the topic should have been avoided after Pete’s clear discomfort was shown. For those people who do not know Pete apart from the “misguided” and “drug abuser” portrayal, well I believe he was disgracefully misrepresented.

Last nights show was an appalling representation of Irish television, however it just goes to show how little interest Pat has in his job and shows how “out of touch” and “out of his depth” he really is. Fair play also to the eloquent “libertine” who was not phased by the ignorance and condescending nature of his interviewer, and brilliantly put Pat in his place when he asked - "I don't know if you could name a song that I've written?", to which the clearly unprepared apparently experienced Pat could only reply: "No, possibly not." That in my opinion just goes to show how ridiculous, rude and rubbish the “Late Late Show” has become.

It really is a disgrace. I have always had a dislike towards Pat Kenny, probably this is because im only 18 and Pat is clearly from a different "school of thought" and I cannot relate to a middle-aged man, but this doesn't mean i don't understand basic manners. He was arrogant, rude and he couldn’t have made the interview anymore boring if he was even bothered to try. He needs to realise how lucky he is, to firstly have a dream job and secondly to be earning a fortune. Years of television has made him lax, maybe if rather than - when, he starts appreciating his job he will become more interested in his work. He is an utter embarrassment.

RTÉ need to "pull up their socks" and get their "thinking caps on" if they are to maintain and entice more youth to watch the show. With the ever growing choice at our disposal with sky digital and the likes, I don't believe the "Late Late Show" has much of a future. They are slowly but surely running out of steam..

Dara Ó Briain or even Tubridy would fill the role more effectively in my opinion.

Would'nt mind a FIRE PAT protest, that interview was just one more -too bad..

UNDER-ACHIEVER wrote: »

I have always had a dislike towards Pat Kenny, probably this is because im only 18 and Pat is clearly from a different "school of thought" and I cannot relate to a middle-aged man...

Is that not the same attitude that (I've heard) Pat displayed to Pete? Other than that I agree with pretty much everything you say, and have to give you an extreme level of kudos for going to the trouble of complaining to the RTE nazis, with little hope of any action ever being taken.

Didn't catch the actual show but I most certainly will be watching the repeat on Tuesday night. My point revolves mostly around what others have told me, what I've read on this post and on certain news websites.

I was one of the lucky enough people to get access to the Trinity interview, and I can testify that there were plenty of risque personal topics touched on (if you haven't heard); his son and drug problems were discussed, and one person even asked "So how is it with Carl these days?". The difference is that Pete was asked these in a comfortable enviornment, where those posing the questions displayed an evident interest in and respect for the man, despite their understandings of his difficult past. From what I gather, Kenny did neither. While the former interviewees may have been Pete Doherty/Libertines/Babyshambles fans, it's not the most difficult thing to do to understand where the line is.

Pat Kenny's problem was paraded on national television last night; his lack of ability to ask original questions, ones he doesn't actually know the answrs to. When Pete took a sidestep and decided to direct the interview himself for a brief moment, Kenny was left to look like an idiot. Rightly so. The man knew that Pete was performing on his show that night!! He could of at least had the decency to learn the name of the single he was playing?

My main concern is that, despite everyone being aware of Pat Kenny's major flaws (Christmas comes early when we see him struggle with children on the Toy Show annually), nothing's going to change. The captain of a sinking ship...