Mc Gowan on the Late Late

Guru Maith Agut

Oh my God why did they bother!! Twas a Holy show. And that was meant to signify what on this our native holiday :mad:

Embarassing, is all I can think off!! :eek:

murphaph

Agreed. Why any show invites him on anymore is beyond me. He can barely speak, nevermind sing anymore.

ronbyrne2005

nice row with eamon dunphy on there a few minutes ago!
he does that for attention so he can keep up his public image.

Dave!

Damn, missed it Saw him speaking a while ago, couldn't understand him, and he laughs like a snake cos he has no teeth!

Litcagral

DaveMcG wrote:

Damn, missed it Saw him speaking a while ago, couldn't understand him, and he laughs like a snake cos he has no teeth!

Don't worry, you missed nothing, (apart from the cringe factor).

johnnyrotten

He literally could'nt hold his drink - Spilled it a few times.
I'm sure that Coke had a mixer in it!

crosstownk

What a disgrace that f**ker is. I think Ronnie was embarrased for him.

Shay was langered. What a spa. Great image of us Irish:mad:

johnnyrotten

crosstownk wrote:

What a disgrace that f**ker is. I think Ronnie was embarrased for him.

Shay was langered. What a spa. Great image of us Irish:mad:

Who's Shay?

aidan_walsh

Jesus, you'd swear that he was the only one drinking tonight.

You invite someone like this on the show, what in the name of Christ do you expect?

mike65

Middle-aged men gather, drink and argue in public. Sounds thoroughly Orish.

Mike.

Concannon7

I'm just disapointed that he didnt get a chance to sit down and talk!

Must agree though that it was sad seeing him reach down to pick up his drink during the middle of the song and then go on and spill some more as he sang.

By the way why during the song was the sound cut in parts of it?

twogunkid

johnnyrotten wrote:

He literally could'nt hold his drink - Spilled it a few times.
I'm sure that Coke had a mixer in it!

George best on wogan---
Richard harris on ?
And now Shane on Late Late--again
Why do the presenters let these guys get tanked up prior to appearing
Is this what we are paying our liscence for
and as for that hippprocit who glorifies the taking of 'recreational drugs' which is supporting the drug dealers who dispatched his sunday independent co worker on the naas rd 10 years ago -why do we give him airtime

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same guy just wont leave off Minister mcdowell ---who whatever people think of him is only impleminting the law.

cormie

Quite sad to see alright, quite a shame how people turn out.

ronbyrne2005

i think there should be compulsorary sectioning of chronic alcoholics if their families demand it.

OFDM

Great how neither Ronnie nor Shane can sing in tune anymore.

Ghey.

grumpytrousers

He wrote Rainy Night in Soho. Leave Shane alone...

RoundyMooney

grumpytrousers wrote:

He wrote Rainy Night in Soho. Leave Shane alone...

Go 'way... legend...










I love your prospective role models....

Chucky the tree

twogunkid wrote:

George best on wogan---
Richard harris on ?
And now Shane on Late Late--again
Why do the presenters let these guys get tanked up prior to appearing
Is this what we are paying our liscence for
.

WHy do you think? If they got some "normal" person on do you think there would be a thread in after hours about it? hell no. Alot more people are going to be looking out to watch the repeat of this cos of what he did.

more viewers=more money.

lostexpectation

what ya think of brendan gleeson?

he always seemed a down to earth man,he seems to be talking from personal experience and although its not always pretty or useful to rant angrily (about a subject few disagree with), maybe he needs a powerful man to show the anger occasionaly.

didn't see the rest of the show

murphaph

Yeah Gleeson was clearly getting quite emotional thinking about his mam on that trolley. He'd make a super spokesman for the ordinary health system user. He tore into Michael Martin, which I totally agree with, that twit bungles his way from crises to crises.

Hagar

I watched it, I'm sorry I didn't watch all of Podge and Rodge instead.

Corruptedmorals

Hmmm, I thought it was really funny....

Telefís

An impressive Late Late all round. A lot of bluster by Mannix Flynn and Dunphy, but this was also acknowledged as such by the lack of response from the audience at times and David McWilliams' highlighting it for what it was which did receive public support.

Emer O'Kelly was embarrassingly melodramatic, and is becoming increasing so in her old age - what a shame for such an eloquent speaker.

Gleeson was superb, as were other contributors and all round the programme encapsulated modern Ireland very well - a mixture of contentedness, anger, bluster and a broad concern for the past present and future. Just a shame the programme was recorded during the week - it lacked the edge that the average show has when watching as a result. Just might have had something to do with the fact that both the show's executive producer and director were too busy shooting the St. Patrick's Day Parade earlier that day...
Also paying bank holiday rates for crew was clearly a big no no :rolleyes:

cournioni

Fair ****s to him. Everyone else was the same yesterday. Just because he was on tv doesn't make it any different.

Terry

twogunkid wrote:

George best on wogan---
Richard harris on ?
And now Shane on Late Late--again
Why do the presenters let these guys get tanked up prior to appearing

you do know that it's not only Irish people who make fools of themselves on talk shows, don't you?
read this and watch this

deisemum

I thought Brendan Gleeson was brilliant. He spoke with such passion and anything he said was the truth. I just hope the Government especially Micheal Martin get to see it when they get back from their junket.

Oliver Reed was pi*sed out of his brains on Wogan or Parkinson a while back.
It was high cringe factor watching Shane McGowan and I think Ronnie Drew was trying to alter his pace to Shane's especially near the end. He looked embarrassed. It's a shame what drink can do. I saw Shane McGowan in concert in London back in the mid 80's and he was brilliant. Nothing like last nights performance

ODS

The repeat is on again now on RTE1 - just in case you didnt already hear Radio 1 TWICE today playing the Gleeson clip; milk it baby oh yeah!

jonny68

Shane McGowan is a flawed genius,he might be in bits as regards alcohol,etc but he's been around the block more times than all of us put together,i also recommend people read his book,excellent stuff

ODS

jonny68 wrote:

,i also recommend people read his book,excellent stuff

That the book by his ex/ current (), Victoria Mary Clarke, "A drink with Shane"?

Just seen it now; cant see what all the fuss was about tbh - ive seen shane a lot more langered than that

ODS

jonny68 wrote:

,i also recommend people read his book,excellent stuff

That the book by his ex/ current (), Victoria Mary Clarke, "A drink with Shane"?

Just seen it now (id missed the first part on friday night); cant see what all the fuss was about tbh - ive seen shane a lot more langered than that

smodgley

roumer has it that shane is gonna play brendan behan in a new movie .what do ya think???

smodgley

pity there aint spell check on here

Terry

the folks on the "spell czechs" forum will help you with that.

it's "rumour" BTW, or rumor if you're simple (read "simple" as "american")

gilroyb

cormie wrote:

Quite sad to see alright, quite a shame how people turn out.

And that's just Dunphy, as for McGowen...

ODS

smodgley wrote:

roumer has it that shane is gonna play brendan behan in a new movie .what do ya think???

Yikes Im going all literary-like tonight - 2nd book ref in almost as many lines -:eek:

Anyway, yeah its as the Behan-like character in JP Donleavys "The Gingerman", which I can confirm as fact (trust me on this ).

Great book, which id strongly recommend reading - drunken misadventures by an anti-hero set in 1950's Dublin, of which both Donleavy and Behan were familiar with. Mc Gowan as Behan is Donleavys choice; however theres many a slip between cup and lip between casting/ planning a film and the finished product. Still seems quite an apt part, even if its not that big & without too many lines.

StupidLikeAFox

Shame i missed McGowan, the man really fascinates me, such a genius yet such an.....i dunno.....alcoholic!

Went to see the pogues at christmas, it was an experience to say the least. But both him and Ronnie Drew forgetting lines of the Irish Rover was disappointing! I wouldnt be surprised if Ronnie Drew had a skinful himself the other night, hes no saint is our Ronnie