Marty Whelan

Tim Robbins

How annoying was he last night? He kept talking over people and song clips. He kept trying really hard to being funny.
RTE would be better off having no commentry at all.

Hard luck Dustin, the parody was a good idea and it was a catchy rap but the presentation off it was very rough around the edges.

Skinfull

Hard luck? Are you serious? that "show" was horrible on so many levels! :mad:

nhughes100

Marty was awful, he must have still been drunk from winning celebrity Banisteoir. I don't know how he manages to get so excited over Eurovision, it maybe because it's the only time he's on TV.

As for the song it was crap, the Europeans were never going to get Dustin. We need some quality looking women ala Poland and Armenia if we're ever going to get to that final again.

Yakult

I hate the eurovision as it is. He just makes it way worse.

Morgans

Sees what Wogan does and tries to imitate. Doesnt work. Poor Marty.

Queen-Mise

have to agree with previous poster, it sounded like he was trying to imitate Terry Wogan. And that isn't going to work, Wogan's wit is far sharper than Marty Whelan's.

Did anyone else find him really hard to understand, his pronunciation was awful, I really struggled to understand what he was saying sometimes.

and another point, why was the irish entry preceded by Argentine tango????

Rineanna

queen-mise wrote: »

and another point, why was the irish entry preceded by Argentine tango????

I could be wrong, but I think it was only the colour of their clothes which reflected the country that was up next, while their actions, or whatever they were doing, were reflecting Serbian culture. I could be 100% wrong there though.

Sam Kade

If they had a couple shapely half naked girls as backing singers we might have got to the final. Not a hope with the fat wan and the plain Jane.

Amz

He is trying too hard to be Wogan-lite, and nobody can do Wogan's humour, but Wogan, so it's never going to work. His speech isn't clear enough as he's always rushing his "quips" and because he speaks over so much other noise it's never going to be heard correctly. I don't that's entirely his fault either. However I do feel that he should probably have taken it a bit easier out on the town in Belgrade if that's the state of his voice after a night or two out and about. He always sounds hoarse and it's one of the things that puts me off him.

Much as it pains me to say it though, I'm glad he beat that Gerald Keane twat in the football.

nhughes100

Maybe Marty is thinking - mmm Eurovision used to be Pat Kenny's gig.

RubyXI

Leave poor marty alone!

kerry4sam

I thought Marty done well considering what it was he was commenting on :pac: We don't have anyone else for something like that...he was quirky and sarcastic and made it somewhat bareable while waiting for the Irish turkies to sing and prance around the stage

JIZZLORD

wogan makes the eurovision bearable
the parents prefer marty though. i feel rte use him as a wogan-alike and this was confirmed to me when 2fm had the marty in the morning show

Lil' Smiler

it'd be worse if you actually had to look at Marty during the show


and especially if he was still dying his hair like he used to!!

Nolanger

nhughes100 wrote: »

We need some quality looking women ala Poland and Armenia if we're ever going to get to that final again.

In that case there's no hope of reaching the final again.

Mr.Nice Guy

He's diabolical. A poor man's Wogan.

Fulton Crown

Thought Marty did OK...sort of - given the material he had to work with...made his usual Radio mistake of trying TOO hard.
He will never match "Wiggy" for the quips and really shouldn't try.

Pigletlover

Didn't see most of the performances, but watched it for a while when the votes were coming in. Marty was so annoying, kept 'predicting' who each country were going to give their votes to and got it wrong *every* time.

brendor

I had the honor of being in the audience of lotto scratchcard program on saturday nights when Marty hosted it.

He never wears anything below the waist, the pants you see on tv is cgi'ed in afterwards - that;s why the tv licence is so dear.

Still he's worth every penny.

tintin67

The wonders of technology. My friend works for RTE and says Sharon Ni Bheolain regularly reads the news wearing a full suit of armour. Not one viewer has ever copped a thing.

Jimbo

tintin67 wrote: »

The wonders of technology. My friend works for RTE and says Sharon Ni Bheolain regularly reads the news wearing a full suit of armour. Not one viewer has ever copped a thing.

Please let that be slang for nude