Trubridy’s Final Late Late Show EVAH! Special Thread 26th May

Oscar_Madison

As this is his final one, I thought a dedicated send off thread might be nice thing to do.

Bring your puppies and kittens along an let’s settle in for the final few hours of this momentous occasion.

Lets hope the misery slot is a good’un😛

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2023/0525/1385594-guests-revealed-for-ryan-tubridys-last-late-late-show/

Man Vs ManUre

Fu€k off Tubridy, don’t bang the door on your way out.

bigroad

It's terrible to see such a nice millionaire fall on hard times .

Bobtheman

**** guests. **** host

JP Liz V1

It's going to be a Toy Show kids reunion with Mickey D H

Oscar_Madison

My goodness a challenging audience if ever there was one going on the posts so far 🤪- your works cut out for ya Tubbs😀

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120640103#Comment_120640103

I doubt he gives a shïte about what a few lads on a message board think about him.

Oscar_Madison

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120640176#Comment_120640176

I know- I’m just having a bit of fun😐

JP Liz V1

It's a shame no Rhys Ifans

Shakyfan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120640176#Comment_120640176

As much of a shite as those lads give about what you think of them I would say!

Welsh Megaman

Great, poetry from Michael D. Higgins.

StevenToast

What absolute drivel from Tubridy talking about his family....

Get his cousin McSavage on to tell us what a real prìck Tubridy actually is....

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120640176#Comment_120640176

He does actually as he mentions it a lot 😂

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120640235#Comment_120640235

Ahh the DLB 😂😂😂

freshpopcorn

Has anybody any idea about what gifts Ryan might get?

I know he likes sad stories and maybe a tie.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120641325#Comment_120641325

A bucket of tears

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120640577#Comment_120640577

I froze your tears and made a dagger, and stabbed it in my cock forever. It stays there like Excalibur, Are you my Arthur?

MrMusician18

Will we ever find out why he "quit"?

Atlantic Dawn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120641325#Comment_120641325

I'm thinking a new Vespa, he has one in the real world. It could have JFK graphics on it 😁.

Hotblack Desiato

Special musical guests

https://youtu.be/cGB-Z3y_8l4?t=24

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

KevRossi

Ironically his last show is guests he's had on already this year a few times.

Just waiting for Jason Byrne, Francis Brennan and Dermot Bannon to make an appearance.

Hotblack Desiato

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120641414#Comment_120641414

Has he quit or is he just trying to cut down?

Hotblack Desiato

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120641545#Comment_120641545

Nothing ironic about it at all. Completely predictable but that's Tubs all over. Everything within his tiny little comfort zone. A useless presenter.

Be right back

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120641422#Comment_120641422

If U2 doesn't give him a harley davidson, I'll be extremely disappointed 😔!

Welsh Megaman

And so, for the Ryan’s final Late Late…

Puppehs eh kittehs!

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120641554#Comment_120641554

He didn’t really engage with u2 , gay Byrne was important to them

Masala

SUPERGROUP…… ????? That’s pushing it

Oscar_Madison

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120641778#Comment_120641778

Good man!!!!😂

Oscar_Madison

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120641554#Comment_120641554

It will be more like some country and western singer giving him an electric scooter 😀

Oscar_Madison

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120641414#Comment_120641414

You could say he’s being clever.

Everyone knows TLLS is just years beyond retirement- it can’t be easy dredging the same old Z list stars from an ever decreasing weak pool every week. He’s covered every misery slot imaginable. There’s nothing more to do. Covid actually provided something “different” but even that’s over now - whether or not there’s more to him leaving than we know, there are plenty of reasons to call it a day anyway.

He’s just turned 50- he’s made probably more money than he needs to live comfortably. He can now pick and choose his projects and I’d say he has a few ideas lined up, be it BBC/UK work, documentaries etc - and of course he still has his radio show which will keep a decent chunk of change coming in the door.

While I didn’t like him as a presenter, it’s clearly a good time to leave the show now.

I don’t envy Kielty at all tbh.

walshb

A sound enough lad, but what an absolute dose of a broadcaster. On radio now and me me me me me…

KevRossi

Higgins pre recorded his interview it seems. Not a good sign.

The AI bot mentioned here is probably the way forward. Needs a bit more Francis Brennan though.

https://twitter.com/nwl88444048/status/1661994660691099650?t=AZlOayWMRMSBSTslGw_hDQ&s=19

FishOnABike

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120641545#Comment_120641545

Just have Mario Rosenstock and Oliver Callan on and they can be all the guests.

Oscar_Madison

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120642209#Comment_120642209

That may well be how it goes

monseiur

RTE is no longer relevant, they did not move with the times - still back in the '70's I hardly ever tune in to that station an haven't for years. As for Tubridy he's just unbearable, hope tonight marks is his last appearance on any TV screen. But I fear he'll be back and will eventually have to be carried out of the place, zimmer frame & all, like Gay Byrne, Larry Gogan etc. etc. working or should I say being on RTE's payroll for life....means literally for life😉

How can RTE, who claim to be cash strapped, justify paying him and the likes of Ray Darcy, Joe Duffy etc. eye watering amounts for below average run of the mill sh*t programmes. We're fortunate that there's a good selection of local / commercial radios available.

Hotblack Desiato

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120641850#Comment_120641850

Why would the BBC go near him?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120640577#Comment_120640577

Michael Twee has been busy all night composing

I imagine the disaster that was Toy Show The Musical provided the catalyst for his decision to depart, remember he dissociated himself from it and I reckon he believed it had the potential to dismantle the “magic” of his Toy Show

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120641325#Comment_120641325

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Oscar_Madison

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120642489#Comment_120642489

Because he’s done work there on radio in the past.

Expunge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120642733#Comment_120642733

And, if you recall, it was very underwhelming. The last time was about a decade ago when he filled in on the Chris Evans breakfast show.

He ended being eclipsed by the personalities of the sports and traffic presenters. His name registered with zero listeners to Radio 2.

It was a great achievement by Noel Kelly to get him that gig but when it became obvious that this lad was far from a new Terry Wogan, there were no further invitations.

A story was put about that he was "too busy" to take up any further gigs.

Welsh Megaman

A video message for Ryan from Paul, as promised…

“Hi Brian, your good friend Paul here. So you’re leaving the Late Late Show…I enjoyed our Carpool Karaoke together. All the best on the return of ‘Going For Gold’. Vote for Trump! Love, Paul.”

Oscar_Madison

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120642800#Comment_120642800

His fill in for Norton wasn’t supposed to be too bad- and it doesn’t have to be radio- he could present a documentary for BBC NI also - different times now, it might be something he’ll revisit

avfc1874

Wonder how many presents tub's will get off the guests, and will the false modesty slip when the presents are not as expensive as expected,

Expunge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120642923#Comment_120642923

Maybe. I'm just not so sure there's any great interest in him anywhere to do any of those things - outside of Montrosia.

He's a most unremarkable TV star- if that's what he is. This guy did not do the hard yards as a younger man. Not like Norton, Wogan, Ross, Ant & Dec, Stephen Mulhern, Gay Byrne etc. Not at all an entertainer. He was more or less dropped from almost nowhere into the best know variety TV show in Ireland by one or two RTE executives. And for me it shows - still, 14 years on.

I may be totally wrong but I can't see him having an international broadcasting career. Making documentaries like "How my Grandad ripped up the Railways" and "How my Grandad tried to sack Gay Byrne" are all that's left for this non-entity, who happens to be Ireland's biggest media star.

Amazing.

squonk

Yeah I heard him filling in for GN and remember him being ok but nothing spectacular. I’d say Graham felt fairly safe on his holidays with Tubbs in charge. No danger of being eclipsed! Let’s be honest, he’s 50. If tge BBC were sniffing around it’d have happened years ago and he’d have jumped. They didn’t, he didn’t and nobody ever will. We’re stuck with him. Not only that but RTE also provide a lifeline for anyone whose time has ran out abroad. I’m looking at you Una Healy.

FixdePitchmark

The Ryan Line is Closed

So here we are, after a long 14 years  

Nights of laughs, great wine and beers  

The only way to ever watch, The Late Late show

Was on here on Boards – during the many high and low

Ryan when he started – was youth, full of fun

Finding his feet – he had a great early run

But, the too usual they came – Shortt , OShea, Bannon

Byrne – O’Donnell- Rosestock and the very funny Callan  

But about 7 years in, it got all a bit stale.

Same guest and issues – and the too sad, misery tale

We are too small a country – and too many staff

Friday night, I’m depressed – is it the red wine or just daft ?  

But on Boards – we laughed and made it our own

Laughed at the over seriousness and “CAARRk” again on the phone

The crazy shows like valentines – country and toys

The singing and dancing the Xmas show joys

With amazing posters like,   Walsh Megaman, walshb, Niman

– you could stay up laughing with martingriff till Atlantic dawn

There was plenty of s*it poetry – and horrible songs

And us all here calling out, the rights and the wrongs

Then along came great trolls – saying your sad here, get a life

How can you sit here on a Friday, listening to strife?

They were right in a way – but missing the point

The show was not the attraction – it was the thread and a pint

So we now move on – and we will think of the sad time  

Poor Aslan’s Christy and Vicky – and the unique Gerry Ryan

Ireland is a very unique strange place

A small community and connection – a brilliant race

But it is time for a change in a new Ireland now

More open , diverse + a new direction and show

A nod to look out – be more entertaining and fun

No longer, a ballot in one hand, the other a gun

So Ryan, I genuinely thank you – an incredible tough job

A show that is bonkers – when you are facing a mob

You absolutely nailed “the covid” – you gave it your all

But at what cost we don’t know – stand proud and tall

To Boards , I feel, a new time, a change

The shift of social media – and to other exchange

But for the old school like us – we loved it all here

A forum is more deep  - more time and more layer

So we drive on in hope – say goodbye to the thread cats

Hope Patrick works – or it could be -That is that

We had a great time – on our Boards Late Late thread.

But it is time for, the owl and Ryan to hit a much needed bed.

Fix 

jojofizzio

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120641967#Comment_120641967

i wonder if the First Dog will be on with his Master?might tune in if he was..

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120643705#Comment_120643705

I wouldn’t give up the day job….

Brock Turnpike

Reminder once again of the state of play ahead of the big night:

Total Episodes: 36 - Note: "Special" eps guests apps are not considered in number of apps for guests (Taking care of biz, Toy Show, Eurovision, Valentines, Repair challenge)

Total "celeb" Guests: 189

Season Start Date: 02/09/2022

Season End Date: 26/05/2023

Most frequent guests this season:

• Daniel O'Donnell (2 apps)
• Mario Rosenstock (2 apps)
• Nathan Carter (2 apps)
• Vogue Williams (2 apps)
• Joanne McNally (2 apps)
• Richie Sadlier (2 apps)
• Panti Bliss (2 apps)
• Santis O'Garro (2 apps)
• Vera Pauw (2 apps)
• Aoife Moore (2 apps)
• Nicola Tallant (2 apps)
• Rory O'Connor (2 apps)
• The Academic (2 apps)

Shortest gap between between guests' previous appearance on the show:

• Nathan Carter (2 apps) appeared 03/03/2023 and again 4 weeks later on 31/03/2023
• Nicola Tallant (2 apps) appeared 06/01/2023 and again 13 weeks later on 07/04/2023
• Vogue Williams (2 apps) appeared 09/12/2022 and again 23 weeks later on 19/05/2023
• Mario Rosenstock (2 apps) appeared 09/12/2022 and again 23 weeks later on 19/05/2023
• Panti Bliss (2 apps) appeared on 02/12/2022 and again 11 weeks later on 17/02/2023
• Rory O'Connor (2 apps) appeared on 11/11/2022 and again 26 weeks later on 12/05/2023
• Daniel O'Donnell (2 apps) appeared on 28/10/2022 and again 22 weeks later on 31/03/2023
• Santis O'Garro (2 apps) appeared on 07/10/2022 and again 14 weeks later on 13/01/2023
• Joanne McNally (2 aps) appeared on 07/10/2022 and again 32 weeks later on 19/05/2023

Of guests who appeared this season, Top 10 highest number of appearances since Tubs became host in 2009:

• Daniel O'Donnell (14 apps)
• Mario Rosenstock (14 apps) - a late equalizer last Friday to level it up with Daniel
• Brendan O'Carroll (9 Apps) - this only includes apps where he was announced in press release
• Eamon Dunphy (8 apps) - surprising given his "family of chinless wonders" comment in the past
• Imelda May (7 apps)
• Dermot Bannon (7 apps)
• Nathan Carter (7 apps)
• Pádraig Harrington (7 apps)
• Vogue Williams (7 apps) ((Joanne Mc on 4apps))
• Amy Huberman (6 apps) ((BOD on 5 apps))

*Stats based on a combination of information available at https://thetvdb.com/series/the-late-late-show-ireland/allseasons/official and (where thetvdb didn't list the eps) via RTE press releases/articles for guest lineups.

LambshankRedemption

Catriona Perry leaving RTE News today as well.

I predict this: Catriona and Ryan elope to the US and start a new cable chat show, maybe on CBS, which lasts one series.