Late Late Valentine Special?

Feisar

What S H wan T!

It was so crude and classless. I'm as up for a laugh as the next however it wasn't funny at all. I found it really kitsch. The "celebs" Crystal Swing and whoever was in the RTÉ canteen? Terrible effort.

Yes I know, I'm not forced to watch it but is that the best they could come up with?

BTW Croghan Hill isn't an extinct volcano, it's a volcanic plughole. Which in itself would have offered an oblique joke. Plughole mentioned with sexual undertones = butt plug.

freshpopcorn

Deano's still happy out!

Feisar

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Deano's still happy out!

DEANO!

cruais

There was so much mention of ploughing championships and tractors that I was waiting for crystal swing to sing...

ive got a brand new combine harvester and im giving you the key

Grandeeod

Who was the dude on at the start with Linda Martin??

Grandeeod

Apologies. It was Al Porter. Is he gay?

Feisar

Grandeeod wrote: »

Who was the dude on at the start with Linda Martin??

Al Porter the GF tells me

freshpopcorn

Grandeeod wrote: »

Apologies. It was Al Porter. Is he gay?

I don't see him tonight but generally that's all he talks about!

JupiterKid

Al Porter was pretty funny but the rest was cringeworthy. Linda Martin was trying to look like a cross between Suzi Quattro and Courtney Love

The "Blind Date" bit was especially cheesy. If I wanted to see Blind Date I'd get a time machine set to 1991.

Grandeeod

Ok. Had to google a tad and Al Porter is gay. I didn't want to assume anything. Sorry gay folks but this arsehole is an ....arsehole. He sets gay men back about 25 years in this country. Will it take another 50 years for gay people to feel relaxed and comfortable in Ireland? Or do us heter'os have to put up with this enforced sh1te on TV and in news print? I know gay marriage was legalised. I know civil partnership was before that. I've lots of gay friends and that, who think this media driven gay abandon queendom is embarrassing. How long will it take a gay person to feel normal in this sack of a country?

ygolometsipe

Feisar wrote: »

but is that the best they could come up with?

PARlance

Grandeeod wrote: »

Ok. Had to google a tad and Al Porter is gay. I didn't want to assume anything. Sorry gay folks but this arsehole is an ....arsehole. He sets gay men back about 25 years in this country. Will it take another 50 years for gay people to feel relaxed and comfortable in Ireland? Or do us heter'os have to put up with this enforced sh1te on TV and in news print? I know gay marriage was legalised. I know civil partnership was before that. I've lots of gay friends and that, who think this media driven gay abandon queendom is embarrassing. How long will it take a gay person to feel normal in this sack of a country?

Too much Porter?

TallGlass

Who de fúck is crystal swing..

cruais

TallGlass wrote: »

Who de fúck is crystal swing..

the incestual family from ballygobackwards

Grandeeod

PARlance wrote: »

Too much Porter?

Too much Al.

PARlance

Grandeeod wrote: »

Too much Al.

Artificial Insemination?

Grandeeod

PARlance wrote: »

Artificial Insemination?

No. Too much Al Porter overplaying the gay man thing as if its 1967 and not 2017. Its pretty simple really. Gay people are cool. This dipstick thinks he's sticking it to a different country. Nauseating.

Feisar

Grandeeod wrote: »

No. Too much Al Porter overplaying the gay man thing as if its 1967 and not 2017. Its pretty simple really. Gay people are cool. This dipstick thinks he's sticking it to a different country. Nauseating.

"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there"

readyletsgo

Grandeeod wrote: »

Ok. Had to google a tad and Al Porter is gay. I didn't want to assume anything. Sorry gay folks but this arsehole is an ....arsehole. He sets gay men back about 25 years in this country. Will it take another 50 years for gay people to feel relaxed and comfortable in Ireland? Or do us heter'os have to put up with this enforced sh1te on TV and in news print? I know gay marriage was legalised. I know civil partnership was before that. I've lots of gay friends and that, who think this media driven gay abandon queendom is embarrassing. How long will it take a gay person to feel normal in this sack of a country?

As a gay meself, I fooking hate him! Terrible stand up. Terrible person. Durt.

#notmyhomo an all that

Canis Lupus

TallGlass wrote: »

Who de fúck is crystal swing..

Where have you been?

annmc882

Feisar wrote: »

What S H wan T!

It was so crude and classless. I'm as up for a laugh as the next however it wasn't funny at all. I found it really kitsch. The "celebs" Crystal Swing and whoever was in the RTÉ canteen? Terrible effort.

Yes I know, I'm not forced to watch it but is that the best they could come up with?

BTW Croghan Hill isn't an extinct volcano, it's a volcanic plughole. Which in itself would have offered an oblique joke. Plughole mentioned with sexual undertones = butt plug.

Totally agree! Nobody forced us to watch it but at the same time it was so poorly put together and the letters of complaint will be flying in next week.
The guest line up was a joke and the 'game' played with the pigs trotters etc was petty.
overall, an epic fail for RTE.

annmc882

Grandeeod wrote: »

No. Too much Al Porter overplaying the gay man thing as if its 1967 and not 2017. Its pretty simple really. Gay people are cool. This dipstick thinks he's sticking it to a different country. Nauseating.

I have starting following Al lately, he is genuine and humble.
Hes very honest and was remarkable on the Cutting Edge in November talking about depression, another time he explained his 600 points in the LC and described how hard he worked and that its a memory test etc.
While he may be OTT at times, hes very humble and hard working.
I think hes a breath of fresh air but that is just me.
It's his raw honesty that has won me over.

annmc882

haha
love this comment!

annmc882

annmc882 wrote: »

I have starting following Al lately, he is genuine and humble.
Hes very honest and was remarkable on the Cutting Edge in November talking about depression, another time he explained his 600 points in the LC and described how hard he worked and that its a memory test etc.
While he may be OTT at times, hes very humble and hard working.
I think hes a breath of fresh air but that is just me.
It's his raw honesty that has won me over.

He speaks about his sexuality and his depression?

Talk about tapping into the zeitgeist. All he's got left is to plug a diet.

annmc882

Deleted User wrote: »

He speaks about his sexuality and his depression?

Talk about tapping into the zeitgeist. All he's got left is to plug a diet.

He's an open book, we all know the Irish love a gabber, he's around for a long time I'd say. :P

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

I'm not easily offended but i was really shocked (and not in a funny way) about his comment re: asking his mother to give him a good seeing to with the wooden spoon. It's the same old ****e with him

vicwatson

Anyone that watched that crap should should have their eyes gouged out. Car crash tv.

Parchment

Any mention of Crystal Swing and i think of this right away. Still hilarious!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex-8bLAQIrI

Wibbs

And yet another time in the long history of the Late Late Show where people are talking about it, but latterly it's usually for the wrong reasons.

LordSutch

Feisar wrote: »

Late Late Valentine Special?

Rude, crude, vulgar, loud, tasteless & Crap (with a Capital C) :mad:

It really was a total and utter disgrace.

Crystal meths more like . . . .

mrsdewinter

Another year, another shambles thrown together by people more interested in the craic they were gonna have post-show in Coppers than in what the viewer at home wd experience.
It was just about watchable for me because I was in a group setting and the 'OMG' moments came thick and fast. But for the likes of pensioners - the Late Late's core audience - what a slap in the face.

longshanks

I thought last nights show was good craic, I knew there'd be a thread on here whining about it though.

Wilbot

I don't want to be mean but it was very obvious to me why the audience were all single. They seemed like an overconfident group and for no obvious reason. I'd love to known where they get such self belief from. I'm all for that but surely there has to be a good foundation for it. A lot of whooping and hollering took place. Are we really just all about the sex too? You can't keep at it indefinitely. Sometimes, you'll just want to talk to your partner? ? I can't imagine having a conversation with any of the audience from last night, except for the lady who said she couldn't flirt. She seemed like the most interesting person in the whole studio. She'll have nothing to worry about if you ask me. And who was the guest at the end who did his best to shock us with talk of flossing? ? Boring! !!

LordSutch

LordSutch wrote: »

Rude, crude, vulgar, loud, tasteless & Crap (with a Capital C) :mad:

It really was a total and utter disgrace.

I forgot 'crass'.

Dr Crayfish

I never usually channel surf to RTE 1 and 2 because they're awful TV channels that produce absolute dross, but I glimpsed this last night for about 4 seconds, and whatever I saw was as bad as I would have expected.
Don't tune into the Late Late, please, you're only encouraging RTE to keep paying that twat 500k a year or whatever he gets. I have a feeling if no one watched it, they'd still have it on anyway.

andekwarhola

The comedian (presume he is a comedian) lad put me in mind of the 80s Kit Kat ad:

"You're a hyperactive, hackneyed tedious fcukwit"

/crestfallen silence

/Snaps Kit-Kat

'You'll go a long way'

/Cheers

andekwarhola

longshanks wrote: »

I thought last nights show was good craic, I knew there'd be a thread on here whining about it though.

I've no problem with the format as a rule. Plenty of other shows do it. It's popular. I actually enjoy it when it's done well, like Graham Norton.

It's a just a bit annoying to see it on what's essentially the flagship show of the national broadcaster. A show towards which the citizens of the country are forced to pay a rather large stipend.

Your Face

I didn't think people still watched the Late Late.

Agricola

Turgiddy is stealing a living. I know he's a smart enough guy who is well aware how utterly terrible the LLS now is, but he neither has the inclination or the ability to do anything about it.

Saw 2 minutes of it myself and it confirmed just how bad it now is. Let's be honest, the reason they go in for this horse shít is because RTE chat shows are really struggling to get anyone on. That was effectively a week off for the people who line up guests.

The weekend of the Trump inauguration was a prime slot to get on some good political commentators and thrash out what the hell happened in the US and what this is going to mean for Ireland..........
What does the LLS do?
Get on Katie Fúcking Hopkins to say some outrageous shíte and pander to the lowest common denominator.

Bambi985

jesus christ RTE, know your fcuking audience like.

i know most of us think of the LLS as a laughing stock these days, but sadly with RTE there's a loyal viewership of an older generation who will tune into the Six One News, watch Nationwide and tune into the Late Late as part of their Friday evening ritual, and this was just an almighty slap in the face to those loyal viewers who frankly deserve a lot bloody better. Without them half of RTEs shows would have disappeared from lack of numbers a long time ago.

Crass, tasteless, classless, structure-less, offensive and highly unprofessional shyte out of the LLS team last night. The likes of which would've been shut down after about 2 minutes if it had ever gone to air on any other national broadcaster in any other country, not that it would ever even get that far.

I hope RTE get swamped with complaints and are torn to shreds by the Broadcasting Authority.

What a depressingly hopeless situation it must be to a single 20-something in Ireland too if that bunch of over-groomed cocky clowns is a representation of what's on offer.

And who the fcuk is that James Kavanagh pleb who talks with plums in his mouth and looks like some sort of hipster w@nker with an eating disorder?

BuilderPlumber

Did not watch much of it but got to see a few minutes of it. Al Porter trying to kiss Tubridy, rude crude vulgar talk. Too much mention of the R word and not about horses and bicycles either. Tubridy acting the clown. Is this what we pay our taxes to prop up?

gramar

I didn't see much of it but enough to see some fella in the audience grabbing the wan beside him around the neck to kiss her when the kiss cam was on them that seemed closer to assault than anything else.

buck65

I didn't even watch it but it was still terrible.

"And who the fcuk is that James Kavanagh pleb who talks with plums in his mouth and looks like some sort of hipster w@nker with an eating disorder? "

lads like him make me want to fook me TV out the window!!
when is all this, it's cool to sound and act and worship everything American SHYTE gonna end!! anyone who replaces the letter T with D should be drowned in their grannys piss!! are you coming to our parDy??? you are raiight???

and you cant escape it, it's on that first dates thing as well, this Faux yank accent!!

Cameo

It's ironic that The Late Late was at times a bastion of enlightenment from the 60s to the early 90s with Gaybo.

Yet now, with much of Ireland's ultra conservativism a thing of the past, the Late Late today is weirdly a relic from the aforementioned time.

The seeming explosion in country n' Irish music is strange I think. I know there'll always be a market for it in rural Ireland (and not saying there's anything wrong with that) but there seems to be a marked increase in it, reminiscent of about four decades back.

blastman

Al Porter is not funny in the same way that cancer is not funny. He should be, given his reputation for stealing jokes, but he's not.

there's a real underlining smirk of snobbery from tubridy too.. he asked your man Deano, what class of woman are you looking for tonight??

on a subconscious level he associates this guy with being of lower stock so much so that the word CLASS even comes into the question. Like he'd ask a heavily accented posh paws what class of lady he's looking for... it's village idiot exploitation to be honest and most of the audience were happy to be there as such..the feckin eejits!!

like he'd also follow it up with "did ye get de roide"!!!! false or what!

the big baggy weak chined face on trubridy too. I expect him to pull his face off Scooby doo style and be old man hubbard the
carnival controller !!!!! if it wasn't for you pesky kids!!

Bambi985

rusty cole wrote: »

"And who the fcuk is that James Kavanagh pleb who talks with plums in his mouth and looks like some sort of hipster w@nker with an eating disorder? "

lads like him make me want to fook me TV out the window!!
when is all this, it's cool to sound and act and worship everything American SHYTE gonna end!! anyone who replaces the letter T with D should be drowned in their grannys piss!! are you coming to our parDy??? you are raiight???

and you cant escape it, it's on that first dates thing as well, this Faux yank accent!!

had to google him and "snapchat celebrity" is what they're calling this wan. Or "social media influencer". is this what we've come to as a nation?

bodhrandude

It was like a combination of Rag Week, awful country western and awful comedy, awful, awful stuff. That Porter lad gets the bloody Body & Soul slot in the annual Electric Picnic TV programme, such a tosspot.

social media influencer, roughly translated, cannot stand the thought of getting a real job and dealing with life vicissitudes. would rather preach shyte from the parapet of his bedroom!! and the hack of them on these shows, they'd crumble if all their yes man friends hit them with the harsh truths!!

freshpopcorn

Looks like certain people weren't happy with the night. Over 300 complaints made to RTE!



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