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lostexpectation

who was the women with damien dempsey singing fairytale in new york, she smiled too much, she wasn't very good at it.

Atrocity

moira doherty? I'm not sure.. she wasn't great..

jimmy carr was great.

aidan_dunne

Atrocity wrote:

jimmy carr was great.

Jimmy Carr was shíte, more like! :mad:

Happened to catch him on it as I was flicking around. Couldn't believe that he's still doing the same stand-up routine again on another chat show (the bit he did just before he sat down to chat with Pat). He did the exact same one last week or the week before on Jonathon Ross' show and I've seen him do the exact same one on another show a while back. And then, to drive another nail into the coffin, a large chunk of it was also used in the live show of his that was shown on Channel 4 tonight. He really needs some new material badly because he's starting to become a bit of a one trick pony at this stage.

I think over-exposure at this stage is killing his career a bit as well. I used to think he was very good on 'Distraction' but he's gone downhill very quickly to the point where I think I only laughed maybe twice or three times during the entire duration of his live show tonight on C4. I think a lot of people, like myself, are starting to get a bit sick of the sight of him at this stage.

SprostonGreen

Jimmy Carr was ok, I agree he does the same jokes over and over.

It was cringey, that Pat Kenny had no rapport with him, he could deal with his humour. He really is so wooden.

Pigman II

I wish Jimmy Carr would just stick to presenting "the 100 greatest toe-nail clippings" and leave this poor island alone. Haven't we had enough oppression from the British over the past 800 years without him trying to worm his way into this market with dated 'gag' humour anyway?

That said tho I did enjoy the way he took the piss out of that heckler in the audience.

Pigman II

Atrocity wrote:

moira doherty? I'm not sure.. she wasn't great..

Was it not Marie Brennan from Clannad?

Atrocity

He did the exact same one last week or the week before on Jonathon Ross' show and I've seen him do the exact same one on another show a while back

I've never seen his routine before and I thought he was brilliant.

Was it not Marie Brennan from Clannad?

I've no idea, to be honest

mickymg2003

He was pretty funny and there good one liners. He could spend more time on each one but i guess the one joke after another format works for him.
Did anybody notice that pat kenny was a bit more wooden than usual. he seemed off with jimmy carr and there was a tension between them!!Maybe it was just me.
His eyes were also red and he looked hung over or something. Maybe it was the late late xmas party on thursday night!!!

jrey1981

Yep I noticed most of the gags were the same as he did on the Jonathan Ross show the other week.

Thought Pat seemed uneasy and very wooden as well - Jimmy was a bit too much for him I think...

I found the gags and how he dealt with the heckler very funny...

Telefís

Yes a lot of his jokes are stale at this stage, though I found his condescending tone towards the Irish quite hilarious - "I look at a Paddy and despair at what could have been"
Quite daring in how far he went, which made it all the more funny.

Yes Pat wanted rid of him in the end - as always with such difficult guests he chucked him off in the middle of a round of applause so as to cover a potentially awkward ending, and to make himself come across as more natural, spontaneously ending as if he enjoyed the chat but 'sigh' we've run out of time . Works very well, except when you've seen him do it 200 times over the past 7 years.....
He simply cannot handle contentious guests. His problem is not so much this, as the fact that these guests know it all too well, and play on the weakness.

Yes his eyes were a bit redder than usual, though he had only come back from Sri Lanka on his radio programme.
Indeed it seemed a couple of segments on the show were again pre-recorded, notably the author's interview at the end. Also the lead-ins and outs from some of the breaks sounded very suspicious too...

Yeah Moya Brennan was not great in either act - her voice is too weak for live television.

Ray777

I have to say, Derek Davis really impressed me on Friday's Late Late. Did anyone else notice that discreet little dig he made towards that drunk idiot from the audience who kept interrupting?

Pat Kenny was woeful throughout, even by his own low standards. The drink-driving topic was the kind of thing he normally excels at, but Derek Davis (who was only a guest) completely outshone him. It never occurred to me before, but Davis would have made a perfect Late Late presenter.

RuggieBear

was this the same episode where he welcomed on the kiwi murderer...?

Elmo

Was it not Marie Brennan from Clannad?

No it was Moya Breannan from Clannad. At least I think thats her name.

I hate damien dempsey.

Telefís

Yes Derek was superb, as he is when he takes over Liveline - probably the only case I know of where a replacement presenter is equal if not actually better than the regular host.
The only niggly thing about Davis is that he's at times a little too full of himself in terms of wanting his opinion to be heard over everyone else's.
As with the Late Late on Friday, on Liveline he also tends to shout down other people, or interrupt to bring his version of events across, which can be irritating the he odd time he does it.
But otherwise he's a superb broadcaster, no question. He was under-rated on Live at Three, and has been stuck in something of a hole ever since.

Indeed it's very interesting how similar he is to Kenny - both very successful in their fields of news and current affairs in the 1980s (Davis even presenting the Nine News), and both moving into light entertainment. Pat obviously has been successful in his new career (arguably just from a personal perspective ), while Davis unfortunately withered away somewhat after Live at Three - only being offered token productions like Out of the Blue etc.

A more regular programme is certainly in order from him - radio and/or television. When Radio 1 eventually goes the BBC Radio 4 route in a few years time, he'll be the perfect candidate for a flagship position. Surprised he hasn't already been snapped up by a commerical station...


Very surprised the Late Late is on this Friday too, the day before Christmas Eve - the latest it's ever been broadcast during Pat's tenure, if not the show's history. Similarly it started back on the 2nd of September, again likely the earliest start in forty years; there's an extra show this side of Christmas as a result. I'm sure the team were delighted with the news.