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Forgotten Irish Game/Cookery/Travel shows

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    #62
    branie2
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    Aglomerado wrote: »
    Did Marty Whelan present that (before he went grey)?
    I think the tenor Ronan Tynan appeared on that.

    Edit: he won https://www.list.co.uk/event/1408909-ronan-tynan/

    He did


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    #63
    Hangdogroad
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    Aglomerado wrote: »
    Did Marty Whelan present that (before he went grey)?
    I think the tenor Ronan Tynan appeared on that.

    Edit: he won! https://www.list.co.uk/event/1408909-ronan-tynan/

    Yes thats right, I forgot Ronan Tynan was on it, that was his big break as a singer. (That link though. Televsion show from the United Kingdom???)

    Another contestant I remember was a stand up comic, youngish fella. He clearly was a big Woody Allen fan because his whole stage persona and appearance, down to the glasses, were based on Woody. The poor chaps act bombed though. His opening joke went "in college i was caught entertaining a girl in my dorm, they even took away my juggling balls". He paused for a laugh from the audience and was greeted by stone silence. All the rest of his jokes were greeted like that.


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    #64
    branie2
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    Rapid Roulette, a quiz show


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    #65
    Aglomerado
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    branie2 wrote: »
    Rapid Roulette, a quiz show

    Presented by Maurie Taylor who might well have been the inspiration for Alan Partridge.
    He was later succeeded by Maxi.


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    #66
    Cienciano
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    Speedsie wrote: »
    Aidan Walsh - Master of the Universe, sort of a n early David O'Doherty.
    https://vimeo.com/206885726

    I thought Blackboard Jungle was more late 80s/ early 90s, but yep, wasn't great.

    Quicksilver anyone? Stop the lights for five P.

    My dad still uses the phrase "stop the lights"


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    #67
    Sgt Hartman
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    The Beat Box with Simon Young on Sunday mornings back in the 90's. He would regularly have a hungover and disheveled looking Smiley Bolger as a guest on the show. Dave Fanning was on it also for a while, he left his microphone on during a Boyzone video where could be heard saying that the band "were all f**king useless"


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    #68
    KKkitty
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    Sgt Hartman wrote: »
    The Beat Box with Simon Young on Sunday mornings back in the 90's. He would regularly have a hungover and disheveled looking Smiley Bolger as a guest on the show. Dave Fanning was on it also for a while, he left his microphone on during a Boyzone video where could be heard saying that the band "were all f**king useless"

    I remember him saying Louis Walsh said the next boy band he was getting together wouldn't have passengers. More or less saying some in Boyzone couldn't sing really.


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    #69
    Hangdogroad
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    Bit of Talkabout with Ian Dempsey. Dont think he was on it long before being replaced by Alan Hughes.


    https://youtu.be/pvAE4fxj8uc



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    #70
    Hangdogroad
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    I Dare Ya. Lowest common denominator stuff from tail end of the Celtic Tiger. Two "comedians" carrying out stupid pranks suggested by viewers. One of the presenters is not going to be seen on our screens again.



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