Vincent Browne - worst presenter ever

thier

Just watching Tonight with Vincent Browne on TV3. That guy is the worst presenter ever! He lectures all the guests and doesn't let them get a word in edgeways. It's f*cking hilarious to watch! He's a dithering, contrary old man...

smash

I love how condescending he is with politicians.

HondaSami

I think he a great presenter, you never know what he will say next.

KenSwee

Nah he's brilliant. Some of them need a good telling to.

Annasopra

I think he's fantastic.

C.K Dexter Haven

Vincent Browne rocks- and rocks.

/thread.

thier

HondaSami wrote: »

I think he a great presenter, you never know what he will say next.

Yeah, for pure comedic value!

policarp

He's better than Kenny or Tubridy IMO.

FueledbyCoffee

He's the only presenter on Irish television that I have seen take the politicians on and cut through their BS - love watching him making them squirm

EoghanIRL

He really is boring . I remember when jedward went mad on his show .

ERPR

He was very good tonight with the hypocrisy charge

smileyj1987

He reminds me of Eamon Dunphy for some reason .

http://www.eamondunphysoundboard.com/

ChippingSodbury

The worst presenter of all is Fintan O'Toole: he'll go off on a 5 minute question (rant) that leaves the interviewee with a choice of either Yes or No as an answer...

Annasopra

He is the complete opposite of boring

HondaSami

thier wrote: »

Yeah, for pure comedic value!

No I like him, think he is good, says it as it is. He is not afraid to speak his mind.

Havermeyer

You're talking through your hoop Biiiiiiiiiiilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll........

decky1

rock on vincent-give it to them-pity there is not more like you on the ould tele.

1ZRed

I hate that about the house dickhead Duncan and his dull as horsefuk voice. He was on TV there two nights ago in a forest talking about trees and I honestly wished one would fall on him.

mix_up

smash wrote: »

I love how condescending he is with politicians.

i do like how he has such little respect for politicans and power in general

disagree with his worldview in every sense otherwise

smash

During a live press conference about the EU bailout he tore Olli Rehn a new asshole. What a legend!

mix_up

mango salsa wrote: »

He is the complete opposite of boring

most mad people are

mix_up

smash wrote: »

During a live press conference about the EU bailout he tore Olli Rehn a new asshole. What a legend!

that was his finest hour

RTE cut away while he was humiliating cowen

RikkFlair

Oh you gone made Vinny mad now!

smileyj1987

RikkFlair wrote: »

Oh you gone made Vinny mad now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD6lN9FEHao

MagicMarker

He has as much charisma as a brick and a face like Victor Meldrew.

He hasn't the intellect to have any kind of meaningful debate. He just rambles and mumbles, repeats himself often until he can't think of anything else to say, at which point he quickly moves on to a different point.

Goat the dote

I love vinnie b!

Sarky

If he can get a catholic church representative to admit on air that yes, they do consider their morality more important than democracy, then he's all right by me.

C.K Dexter Haven

MagicMarker wrote: »

He has as much charisma as a brick and a face like Victor Meldrew.

He hasn't the intellect to have any kind of meaningful debate. He just rambles and mumbles, repeats himself often until he can't think of anything else to say, at which point he quickly moves on to a different point.

His late night radio show in the 90s was second to none.

ERPR

Sarky wrote: »

If he can get a catholic church representative to admit on air that yes, they do consider their morality more important than democracy, then he's all right by me.

Spot on

Amirani

C.K Dexter Haven wrote: »

His late night radio show in the 90s was second to none.

Agreed, t'was great radio.

mix_up

id love if we had a conservative equivelent of vincent

variety is the spice of life and irish media is a liberal lovein 99% of the time

Biggins

thier wrote: »

Just watching Tonight with Vincent Browne on TV3. That guy is the worst presenter ever! He lectures all the guests and doesn't let them get a word in edgeways. It's f*cking hilarious to watch! He's a dithering, contrary old man...

I take your opinion - disagree with it and laugh at how he's not willing to take the bullscite road that RTE go-softly interviewers often take.

Browne might not be everyones cup of tea - but he's his own cup of tea, and more power to him!

Sarky

mix_up wrote: »

irish media is a liberal lovein 99% of the time

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

suicide_circus

C.K Dexter Haven wrote: »

His late night radio show in the 90s was second to none.

That show gave me my interest in Irish current affairs

mix_up

Sarky wrote: »

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

your so conditioned by it , you cant see it

name one conservative idealogue on radio or tv bar marc coleman who is on late at night and has a small audience

amacca

I like him because his cantankerous slightly erratic condescending schtick can be entertaining especially when he dismisses politicians/guests as if they have been just summoned to the arena and he is about to have them thrown to the lions because they have mildly irritated him - he does have a good nose for a bullsh1t artist, ill give him that

I dislike him because his socialist views can be very childish at times - I often wonder if he really believes most of the sh1t he spouts himself....part champagne socialist part deluded fantasist - I've come to the conclusion that he himself realizes the ridiculousness of his question sometimes and they are just a device to throw guests off balance....keep the texts/tweets etc coming in

Cienciano

policarp wrote: »

He's better than Kenny or Tubridy IMO.

In fairness, if Tubridy is the benchmark of a presenter, my ringpiece is a good presenter

amacca

Cienciano wrote: »

In fairness, if Tubridy is the benchmark of a presenter, my ringpiece is a good presenter

cant help picturing an arsehole presenting the late late - just like what happens every friday

Max Power

*cough* *cough* *cough* *cough* *cough*

What?

ITS_A_BADGER

In fairness he is a cantankerous old man and he can be a bit of a terrier, but he doesn't put up with bullsh1t either so ya have to hand to him like

suicide_circus

mix_up wrote: »

your so conditioned by it , you cant see it

name one conservative idealogue on radio or tv bar marc coleman who is on late at night and has a small audience

George Hook? D

allthedoyles

He was accused of disdain tonight and did'nt like to hear it .

He also ignored the priest for 15 minutes , because he did'nt like the answer he gave .

Vinny is too self-opinionated for a chat-show host

suicide_circus

allthedoyles wrote: »

He was accused of disdain tonight and did'nt like to hear it .

He also ignored the priest for 15 minutes , because he did'nt like the answer he gave .

Vinny is too self-opinionated for a chat-show host

Its not a chatshow though, its the Vincent Browne show, people tune in to see Vincent Browne break balls and stir sh1t.

RoundyMooney

He's an intolerable leftie, or at least pretends to be for the purpose of courting controversy.

But, aside from anything else, he is unconventional in his delivery, vociferous in his questioning, and is remarkably free of the strained formality and enforced rigidity that characterises and often throttles RTE current affairs programming.

Basically, he's free to say and do as he likes with TV3 as long as the figures stack up, and does it for a modest wage, comparatively speaking. Overall, Irish tv would be a worse place without him, and he's given us some golden moments over the years. Aside from his ill advised yet gloriously entertaining in parts chat show, some of his political maulings are the stuff of legend. Here are some of my favourites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66obb7_t7nw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSnCj_ApI94

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR0k2G7rlmQ

dd972

saw him once at Tara St Station, he walked past me on the platform gawking at me, thought his eyes were going to pop out

RoundyMooney

Maybe he was considering you for a job reading from the twitter machine

Arpa

One of the best political presenters we have. Compare him to Miriam O' Callaghan as a journalistic presenter then you might understand what it is he contributes.

dcmm

Vincent is sometimes hard to watch and listen to,but I forgive his cranky idiosynchrasies after tonight's show. I agree he doesn't allow fair time to his
panel to reply to his accusations, but he was 100% right to boil verbally tonight
when he tried to get two questions answered, and was rebuffed.
1.What right does the Catholic Church have to dictate morals to anybody with their history of denial, secrecy and sheer dishonesty, at all costs to the abused,
with their own self and financial preservation their only goal?

2.Who is or should be entitled to make the decision over a woman's life and pregnancy? Surely it is the woman's right following all due advice to make
her own decision?
At least Tom Stack when he was pinned for a reply backed down and admitted he did not have that right.
Nice one Vinny!

K4t

dcmm wrote: »

Vincent is sometimes hard to watch and listen to,but I forgive his cranky idiosynchraties after tonight's show. I agree he doesn't allow fair time to his
panel to reply to his accusations, but he was 100% right to boil verbally tonight
when he tried to get two questions answered, and was rebuffed.
1.What right does the Catholic Church have to dictate morals to anybody with their history of denial, secrecy and sheer dishonesty, at all costs to the abused,
with their own self and financial preservation their only goal?

The part in bold is enough, no need to even list out all of the evils they have perpetrated on the world, though it is nice to be reminded.

dcmm wrote: »

2.Who is or should be entitled to make the decision over a woman's life and pregnancy? Surely it is the woman's right following all due advice to make
her own decision?
At least Tom Stack when he was pinned for a reply backed down and admitted he did not have that right.
Nice one Vinny!

No, apparently a fetus in the womb has equal rights in all circumstances to a woman who has lived and experienced this planet as a physical and conscious human being for many years.

starviewadams

Would rather watch Vinny then RTE's head eejits Miriam and Pat Kenny.

FueledbyCoffee

VB and Ursula Halligan - I'd say politicians are bricking themselves when they come up against either one of this dream team