is Brendan O Connor an embarrassment?

dublinman1990 · 05-02-2012 3:31pm

You may have missed it just now but I have seen Brendan O'Connor in the new Mace ad. You or I might see it later while I'm watching the Rugby now.

Fuinseog · 05-02-2012 5:43pm

dublinman1990 wrote: »

You may have missed it just now but I have seen Brendan O'Connor in the new Mace ad. You or I might see it later while I'm watching the Rugby now.

have seen it. at least he appreciates self depreciation. he smiles his gargoyle smile at a baby who bursts into tears.

beks101 · 29-02-2012 9:15pm

I'm not one for jumping on bandwagons, but last week's show in particular was just a car crash from start to finish.

From a TV production point of view, this guy was virtually un-produceable. I watch the show regularly, never find it to be note-worthingly good, but when it's bad it's just seriously embarrassing.

His crude humour was in overdrive last week, joking repeatedly about that Operation Transformation guy leaving his wife now that he's lost weight, something 'going on' between him and the teenage girl on the panel etc etc...then his complete incompetence when interviewing that Reservoir Dogs actor really showed. Granted to say he was a tad eccentric would be an understatement, but any professional host would have been able to reign him in and prevent the ridiculously long and weird cringefest at the end when yer man started reading an obscure poem and completely isolated the audience in the process.

I've also noticed that he regularly talks over his guests and his line of questioning with guests is all over the place, really frustrating to watch and reduced to innuendo at any opportunity.

I guess he's in the teething stage of his TV career, but usually when networks 'take a chance' on someone it's usually because their charm/charisma/likeability outlines their potential. I'm not sure how this guy qualifies at all on any of those fronts tbh.

Fuinseog · 29-02-2012 10:02pm

he has probably had no training as a host. neither has someone like Craig Doyle, though the latter is somewhat amiable and does not need to be crude every minute.
Tubs has his critics but at least he has studied how to moderate a show instead of being plonked in front of the camera and learning by doing.

Salt001 · 29-02-2012 10:21pm

I quite like him as a journo, don't always agree with him but I can find his articles interesting at times,sometimes even funny

However I can not under any circumstances watch him on television:eek:.

I have tried many,many times.
You know 'ah sure there's nothing else on' or 'maybe someone interesting will be on' or even 'have a glass of wine and see what he's on about tonight '

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Nope he's still terrible under any and all circumstances .

jimgoose · 29-02-2012 10:24pm

Is he an embarrassment? Probably. But you need to understand that he is the Niall O'Tobáin for the new millenium. The Ultimate Corkman. The Über-Langer, if you will!

Disco George Murphy · 29-02-2012 11:50pm

jimgoose wrote: »

he is the Niall O'Tobáin for the new millenium.

Are you joking (no pun intended)?

jimgoose · 01-03-2012 2:00am

Disco George Murphy wrote: »

Are you joking (no pun intended)?

Sadly, no. And happily, yes.

mickdw · 01-03-2012 2:21am

Just to defend brendan re the comments at start of thread about making fun of Gino, the chef. I saw that chef on BBC Saturday kitchen shortly after his appearance on the Saturday night show and the same routine was acted out with the play on the word beach etc. We can therefore assume it was not rudeness on o Connors behalf, more a set piece joke.

mumblesalot101 · 27-03-2012 3:01pm

He's an offence to decency and good taste! That and a smug idiot! remember seeing a clip on the news a few years back where he started heckling a reclaim the streets protest about how they were loudly, obnoxiously forcing themselves down an uncaring publics throats (or some such), pots, kettles black teapots?

bbsrs · 01-03-2014 10:42pm

Why the fcuk is Brendan O connor still on tv, unbelieveably poor quality tv and he's interviewing the guy from savage eye , what a waste of tax payers money , savage eye included.