Audience reaction / lack of control on the Late Late show

gigino

In the old days Gay Byrne had a great rappore with his audience. Yet now despite giving handouts / gifts to the audience, Tubridy seems to be losing it a bit / struggling to contain the crowd during the last two late lates.

During the show choosingg the entrant for the eurovision, there was a lot of voval dissent in the audience when Tubridy announced that Jedward had won, and Tubridy changed his tone of voice and struggled to remind the crowd to have manners etc.

Last night, when Tubridy had the three fit and able retired public servants on the stage and was chatting to them for 10 minutes about their lives and lifestyles and futures and how one was going back to do her masters etc, there was a rumpus from the audience and fury at why these public servants should get a pension of over 100,000 a year, over three times the average industrial wage etc. Someone from the audience said it was well for them to be able to go back to uni, and to be able to face the future securely etc. Bruton tried to defend his position but there was heckling from the audience. There is a lot of frustration bubbling under the surface.

orourkeda

Was it the knackers?

Irish Guitarist

Maybe it's because Gay Byrne would have been making fun of Jedward as much as the audience. Remember when Boyzone first appeared on The Late Late Show?

Nodin

gigino wrote: »

In the old days Gay Byrne had a great rappore with his audience.

...in the last years of the show, when it became The Gaybo Show and stopped being a talk show that discussed real issues. I remember him being booed and given the slow hand clap at one stage.

phasers

I hate when Ryan/Pat would ring competition winners and they'd be auld biddies who show no appreciation whatever.

"Bridie, you've won €10,000. Congratulations!"

They say "Right,That's grand" as if you've offered them a fcuking glass of water. Bitches.

Killer Pigeon

gigino wrote: »

In the old days Gay Byrne had a great rappore with his audience. Yet now despite giving handouts / gifts to the audience, Tubridy seems to be losing it a bit / struggling to contain the crowd during the last two late lates.

During the show choosingg the entrant for the eurovision, there was a lot of voval dissent in the audience when Tubridy announced that Jedward had won, and Tubridy changed his tone of voice and struggled to remind the crowd to have manners etc.

Last night, when Tubridy had the three fit and able retired public servants on the stage and was chatting to them for 10 minutes about their lives and lifestyles and futures and how one was going back to do her masters etc, there was a rumpus from the audience and fury at why these public servants should get a pension of over 100,000 a year, over three times the average industrial wage etc. Someone from the audience said it was well for them to be able to go back to uni, and to be able to face the future securely etc. Bruton tried to defend his position but there was heckling from the audience. There is a lot of frustration bubbling under the surface.

I thought it made good television. Besides we need shows like this to be open forums and not run exclusively by RTÉ's agenda.

Micky Dolenz

AH doesn't watch the Late Late Show.

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