Late Late Show 50 Year Celebration Spectacular

HappyBalance

http://www.rte.ie/ten/2012/0521/latelateshow.html

Looking forward to it!

Silvio.Dante

The thought of Tubs, Pat and Gay doing Vaudeville is quite interesting...:D

JP Liz V1

The Late Late Show's 50th anniversary celebrations, which will take place on Friday 1st of June in front of a very special audience with guests including Liam Neeson, Imelda May, Horslips, Tommy Tiernan and Daniel O'Donnell.

I wonder wil Gay and Pat host the show together with Ryan or part of it of their own

Welsh Megaman

What, no Crystal Swing?!

Not a single person watched the Late Late Show until young Derek high-kicked his way through the audience performing 'The Hucklebuck'.

RTE, please rectify this grave error immediately. It's a disgrace, Joe!

Guy:Incognito

Who was on the first late late?any of them, bar Gay still alive enough to put in an appearance?

Lapin

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Who was on the first late late?any of them, bar Gay still alive enough to put in an appearance?

Balfie.

mike65

kitakyushu

Here's to another 50! (not that I'll be watching any of it)

Skid

mike65 wrote: »

More like the descent of spelling standards!

mike65

I knew it looked wrong!

kitakyushu

I only noticed how much Tubridy looks like Andy Bernard from The Office (when he's pulling one of his gormless expressions).

JonathanAnon

Nothing hosted by Ryan Tubridy should ever be called a "celebration" or a "spectacular"... He'll probably be staging the show in a hospice..

telekon

Give a guess which one of the three will be relying on cue cards to get through the show...

JonathanAnon

arrggh wrong thread..

Welsh Megaman

Smithers, release the boards hounds!

http://www.rte.ie/ten/2012/0529/tubridy.html

mike65

Well he's quite right I said on a Tubbers thread that the LLS needs to be cut to 90 mins, 130-140 is taking the piss.

MidlandsM

and where's TWINK???

Cork boy 55

mike65 wrote: »

Well he's quite right I said on a Tubbers thread that the LLS needs to be cut to 90 mins, 130-140 is taking the piss.

Make it into two halfs with news in the middle
A misery, politics and death half and then light entertainment for second half

telekon

mike65 wrote: »

Well he's quite right I said on a Tubbers thread that the LLS needs to be cut to 90 mins, 130-140 is taking the piss.

Didn't feel too long in Gay's day...

Its only feels too long because of the quality of the host that currently presents it.

Lapin

Quality of guests and topics too.

In Byrne's time and to a lesser extent, with Kenny, the show wasn't afraid to tackle contraversial subjects and set agendas.

It has now become a blasé, politically correct couple of hours of TV fearful of appearing to offend anyone.

Lapin

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Who was on the first late late? any of them, bar Gay still alive enough to put in an appearance?

By the way,

My response in post 6 to this question refers to Brendan Balfe who in his autobiography Radio Man describes being present in the studio audience for the first ever Late Late Show.

Given his immense contribution to Irish broadcasting in his 46 years with RTÉ since then, I think it would be a fitting gesture to invite him on to the show this Friday.

However, given the poor manner in which his forced retirement was conducted by RTÉ a couple of years ago, he could be forgiven for politely declining such an invitation.

His unique voice is missed on Ireland's airwaves.

jimmynokia

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/50-year-old-late-late-show-is-one-part-too-long-says-host-ryan-tubridy-3123526.html

RYAN Tubridy thinks his own Late Late Show is too long.

Speaking to the RTE Guide ahead of this Friday’s 50th anniversary celebrations, he criticised the Late, Late for being a four-part ‘‘sprawl’’.

He told the magazine:

‘‘I don’t know anyone who could stay the course that long for a chat show.

‘’I’ll be honest, I reckon it’s too long by a part. It should be a three-part show, a lean mean fighting machine.’’

On Friday Tubridy is joined by his predecessors Gay Byrne and Pat Kenny to celebrate their 50 years presiding over one of the world’s longest-running TV shows.

Liam Neeson, Tommy Tiernan nd Daniel O’Donnell are among the guests on the special show.

According to RTE, Friday night’s audience will comprise of “people who have made the Late Late Show the most successful and watched chat show in Ireland over the past 50 years”.

The Late Late Show first went on air on Saturday, 6 July 1962, but was moved to Friday nights in September 1986.

- Independent.ie reporters

Skid

Ryan Tubridy, September 2011

This is the year I hope to make the show my own. With two seasons under my belt, I'm looking forward to getting the show on the road.

http://www.rte.ie/tv/latelate/



Ryan Tubridy, May 2012

2011 was not a good year for me. If I was marking my own card it would have read 'could have done better'. I think I had a lapse in concentration. I can't identify one thing but it was a year that I'd like to have done again and done properly.

http://www.rte.ie/ten/2012/0529/tubridy.html


Talk is cheap, Mr. Tubridy. His concentration is not going to be helped by flying over to London for weeks at a time to present the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show. I think he is a decent person in real life, but he has done poorly as host of the LLS. I can't see things improving next year, despite his comments above.

dublinman1990

The guys at FM 104 are really having it in now for Gay, Pat and Ryan. This video is definitely giving them the stick. Even though it is for a bit of craic.

Imagine if they have said this stuff on the actual night. It would be a first for the Late Late Show.

mike65

Hey I demand my picture back! :mad:

Sideshow Mark

Thought the thread title said Cancellation.

Disappointed.

Lando Griffin

I would have stars from Tv3 S latest offering of reality Dublin Housewives on. I would love to hear a 20 minute chat of the brown haired girl giving birth; because you know nobody has ever given birth before.
Avid - avoid LLS fan.

walshb

Tommy Tiernan is on? Cringe!

Shea O'Meara

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Nothing hosted by Ryan Tubridy should ever be called a "celebration" or a "spectacular"... He'll probably be staging the show in a hospice..

What about a 'spectacular disaster' or a 'celebration of nepotistic gombeenism'?

The guest list is decent, but I was expecting; Twink, Dickie Rock, Louis Walsh, Boyzone, Jedward, Brendan O'Carrol etc. so thank **** I suppose.

plasmaguy

Jedward are certainties for this show as is Sinead O'Connor and probably Louis Walsh, Boyzone and every self publicising talentless gimp going.

I'd say even Keith Barry will get another run out.

LLS is just a publicity platform for talentless gimps.

Lady Chatterton

jimmynokia wrote: »

Liam Neeson, Tommy Tiernan and Daniel O’Donnell are among the guests on the special show.

"Crouching Tiger Hidden Guard"

I love Tommy Tiernan!!!!

Welsh Megaman

Aren't we forgetting the most important star of all?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n6Jx_XiLKE

Skid

I wouldn't be shocked if Ryan Tubridy announced tomorrow that he is quitting.

He has been in contract negotiations for ages, with no definitive announcement about the future.

His recent comments suggest he is cheesed off with the LLS and the criticism he is receiving.

If he does quit, you heard it here first. If he doesn't - move along, nothing to see.

JonathanAnon

Skid wrote: »

I wouldn't be shocked if Ryan Tubridy announced tomorrow that he is quitting.

Yeah Skid, cos life is just that good, isnt it..

grey_so_what

MidlandsM wrote: »

and where's TWINK???

Let sleeping dogs lie MidlandsM......:D:D:D

Skid

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Yeah Skid, cos life is just that good, isnt it..

You've got to have a dream,
If you don't have a dream,
How you gonna make a dream come through? ...

grey_so_what

Good start to the impending madness Skid!!!........LOL........Bring it on!..:)

JonathanAnon

Skid wrote: »

You've got to have a dream,
If you don't have a dream,
How you gonna make a dream come through? ...

There's more chance of him opening the show singing that, than there is of making my dream come true by retiring...

Did you hear that interview yesterday on The Last Word... Dear god... "I told Benicio Del Torro I'd meet him for a few pints after The Late Late Show, so we went off and talked Cuba and American politics".... i.e. God amn't I so clever that I have an interest in subject that the average "spuds in his ears" Irish bogger wouldnt know anything about.. insufferable, pretentious twat..

grey_so_what

JonathanAnon wrote: »

There's more chance of him opening the show singing that, than there is of making my dream come true by retiring...

Did you hear that interview yesterday on The Last Word... Dear god... "I told Benicio Del Torro I'd meet him for a few pints after The Late Late Show, so we went off and talked Cuba and American politics".... i.e. God amn't I so clever that I have an interest in subject that the average "spuds in his ears" Irish bogger wouldnt know anything about.. insufferable, pretentious twat..

On a roll there JA....

We should open a book on the number of threads tom;).....

Skid

Guests confirmed/rumoured for the Show include

Liam Neeson
Imelda May
Horslips
Tommy Tiernan
Daniel O'Donnell
Patrick Kielty
Dickie Rock
Pat Shortt

although they claim to have over 100 people on, so some of them will be blink and you miss them appearances.

Skid

JonathanAnon wrote: »

There's more chance of him opening the show singing that, than there is of making my dream come true by retiring...

Nah, he is more of an Old School fan. He had three compilation CD's of 'Lounge Music' featuring Shirley Bassey, Tony Bennett, Andy Williams ... that kind of thing.

Perhaps Tubs will open by singing a version of this, and dedicate it to all the Boardsies drinking and posting at home

JonathanAnon

I was walking through the shopping centre today and I saw this on the magazine rack...

mike65

Only one of them looks like the bastard son of Pete Campbell

kitakyushu

Skid wrote: »

There's a cat who visits our house and I like to annoy it by singing random "meow meow meow"s in its face off-key in a Chief Wiggum style...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5UEmQPPIiM

Anyway turns out I humming the verse to that Capt Sensible song and I didn't even know it. :eek:

SEPT 23 1989

JonathanAnon wrote: »

I was walking through the shopping centre today and I saw this on the magazine rack...

Switch Tuburty with the owl:D

Shea O'Meara

If Tubbs retired we'd only get next off the RTE bench. Besides we need wait at least another ten years before Gerry Ryan's sprog is of age...it'll happen.

Here's crazy, imagine they interviewed people for the position, y'know people from the broader broadcast industry, granted they may even have to look outside of Ireland as to get experience you need be connected in the first place, but y'know hire based on skills and ability....

Don't run for the hills yet, but maybe they're grooming Tommy Tiernan:eek:

Skid

Shea O'Meara wrote: »

If Tubbs retired we'd only get next off the RTE bench.

They offered it to Patrick Kielty when Gay retired. He would have taken it to a more conventional light hearted show (similar to Kielty's old talk shows on BBC Northern Ireland and BBC1).

But unfortunately he didn't take it, and it has trundled on as an archaic overlong miseryfest ever since.

(Kielty is in the audience tonight, maybe they will introduce him as the next host! He is not in demand much in the UK now, maybe he will take it this time )

Diamond_Ninja

Tommy Tiernan should be the next host.. Sure that'd be gas!

plasmaguy

Diamond_Ninja wrote: »

Tommy Tiernan should be the next host.. Sure that'd be gas!

That's why he would never get the job, RTE are ideologically opposed to comedy in all its forms, so no chance of him getting it or anyone even remotely funny.

plasmaguy

Skid wrote: »

I wouldn't be shocked if Ryan Tubridy announced tomorrow that he is quitting.

He has been in contract negotiations for ages, with no definitive announcement about the future.

His recent comments suggest he is cheesed off with the LLS and the criticism he is receiving.

If he does quit, you heard it here first. If he doesn't - move along, nothing to see.

I'd be shocked because while he's just about good for the odd filling in role on the auld BBC, I don't think he'll be moving over there any time soon.

If Tubridy was really as good as some people make him out to be, he'd have a full time job on the BBC long ago.

Usually the guy who fills in at these stations is a hack broadcaster who is available at short notice, on the cheap and people can tolerate them for a few hours a week but no more.

RoundyMooney

Wonder will someone mention the elephant in the room tonight?

That is, the decline of the LLS from an often humdrum, yet always professional and occasionally brilliant youth, through an anodyne and sometimes cringeworthy middle aged decade under the often ill suited PK, and on to an extended undeserved and unworthy old age, prone to morbidity, dwelling on sadness, ill health and death, only visited in the nursing home by distant barely known relatives, dribbling into its soup and soiling itself with monotonous regularity.