What are your Late Late Show memories?

Sephiroth_dude · 15-09-2023 7:13pm

This

https://youtu.be/EE2V_HrzJxw?si=eAdgC6lZL7XatotC

razorblunt · 15-09-2023 7:25pm

Some mad comments on here. Lads saying they were watching MOTD instead (it's on Saturday) and saying Pat Kenny asked a boxer if he slapped his mam around (it was MartyMorrissey).

What I remember most was that guests would come on for a chat, seemed a lot less rehearsed and guarded and scripted. Dermot Morgan was on and I remember it was the first time I recall seeing someone just be genuinely funny.

buried · 15-09-2023 7:25pm

Frank McCourt vs Gerry Hannon 1999

"You hammered your Mother"

hayrabit · 15-09-2023 7:28pm

one from recent times

the #bekind príck going on about their first ever appearance on the show (in Gay's time) #despite being told not to, when Boyzone made an appearance on the show not so long ago

and his folksy "arrah go on tell us" schtick to boot 😒

also, with the same idiot, overriding memory is that of death and misery :rolleyes:

kerrnt !

:)

cml387 · 15-09-2023 8:32pm

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The Late Late Show used to be on Saturday.

razorblunt · 15-09-2023 8:46pm

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Well Holy God...

EmmetSpiceland · 15-09-2023 9:15pm

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Wonderfully re-enacted here:

https://youtu.be/YP4rpogDsiY?si=RmkhpoyqXHDNiMkb

ThePentagon · 15-09-2023 11:34pm

As a small kid in the late 80s/early 90s I watched many an episode of the LLS with Gay as host - rarely, incidentally, out of choice because we didn't have a second tv or more than 2 channels in our house until about 1991.

It definitely felt like more of an 'event' when Gaybo hosted it, probably because there weren't as many channels or, of course, any internet back then so I assume more of the population were likely to be viewing. What stands out in my memory were the 'serious' segments. For some reason they felt more serious during the Gaybo era than with subsequent presenters. Once Gay started the introduction it was like an icy chill came over the show.

I recall around '94 or '95 he had Jamie Bulger's parents on. I can't remember it exactly but Gay asked Jamie's father what he would do if he ever encountered his son's murderers. The father replied very matter-of-factly that he would kill them, which prompted a rather shocked, indignant response from Gay. Even as a small kid, I remember it being painful but riveting tv.

In a similarly depressing vein, a year or two later the parents of one of the girls murdered by the Belgian serial killer Marc Dutroux were guests. It just stands out in my memory because it had been a huge news story at the time and for how bloody bleak it was.

Thankfully though by the serious stage of the show I was wrecked after a long week at school and I usually just drifted off to sleep on our sitting room couch.

Duckworth_Luas · 16-09-2023 1:26am

I remember watching an episode with a housemate about 2000 or 2001 and an American porn star came on to talk to Pat Kenny about her industry.

Next thing Pat brings on an Irish born again Christian to debate the wrongs of her life style with her.

The housemate spits out his tea, his jaw drops and says, "that's @#$king Maurice from next door".

Sure enough our Ned Flanders lookalike wierdo next-door neighbour was on live TV with a porn star and Pat the Plank!

Ezeoul · 16-09-2023 2:01am

Gay Byrne interviewing lesbian ex-nuns, September 13 1985.

It was a very brave thing to do at that time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULO-sHOZxPk

(eta) Video added.

Arghus · 16-09-2023 2:26am

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The "Rita" clip is incredible.

And the poem that Brendan Kennelly acquires such power in the moment. I'm always struck by how saddened he looks when he finishes speaking.

As a moment of live television it's hard to top IMO.

Badly Drunk Boy · 16-09-2023 8:51am

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Indeed. Although, for a while, they showed Match Of The Day after it. 😉

This is from 1980:

tobefrank321 · 16-09-2023 10:23am

A lot of it comes back when you think about it. The restoration segment where someone would bring in a pile of junk and a couple months later come back with something practically brand new they had no help with apart from the local expert restorer.

Apart from that Gaybo was great at giving a voice to the marginalised and taking down establishment figures like the church and politicians a peg or two. Thats not to say he wasn't also deferential at times.

He wasn't perfect but was good at reflecting and shaping opinions.

gormdubhgorm · 16-09-2023 6:07pm

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Not only was the daughter (Linda) killed, she posted the postcard into the competition for her mother (Rita). The last one she posted.

And it just added another layer of heartbreak to it all. Plus, the fact that the woman won a car, after her daughter was killed by car was a cruel irony.

Handled excellently by Byrne and those involved.

padd b1975 · 16-09-2023 7:57pm

Uri Geller bending spoons.

A massive fundraising campaign for a baby boy called Colin McStay to have a liver transplant in America. This was probably ireland's first Gofundme type thing.

Jaysus I'm old....

Say Your Number · 17-09-2023 2:22am

Brigette Nielsen in 2004.

One minute she was crying because her son was sick, the next she was jumping around the place.

Leg End Reject · 17-09-2023 10:01pm

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I was trying to remember that boy's name!

Ezeoul · 17-09-2023 11:35pm

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I read somewhere he became a journalist. Hard to believe he'd be around 40 now.

thesandeman · 18-09-2023 1:53am

Gay and Mel Brooks having a shouting match about American spelling.

The young wan who nearly orgasmed when she thought Daniel O'Donnell was appearing on the country music show only to see Mario Rosenstock arriving. She had another claim to fame not long after when she was in court for fraud or being a gangster's moll or something.

The Toyman cursing in front of a child when he spilled a drop of of orange on himself (he's denied this happend so the 800,000+ viewers at the time must be hard of hearing).

applehunter · 18-09-2023 3:40am

Someone got cancer.

Say Your Number · 18-09-2023 4:10am

Pat Kenny interviewing Pete Doherty and only asking him about drugs and Doherty getting thick with him.

On a topical note, I remember the 'He f*cked your granddaughter' girl doing some dance with a group shortly after that whole controversy.

silliussoddius · 18-09-2023 4:23am

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It’s ok, you got Alan Partridge’s Knowing me knowing you mixed up with PK era The Late Late Show. It happens the best of us.

Duckworth_Luas · 18-09-2023 4:37am

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It's true, although sometimes it was hard to tell the difference between Pat's tenure on the LLS and the first English speaking chat show to be presented from a jacuzzi!

pawdee · 18-09-2023 8:49am

When Annie Murphy was on and some burger faced wagon in the audience started calling her a liar. Makes my blood boil even thinking about it now.
When some young lady was on singing a song standing next to a piano and wearing a long dress. The minute she finished singing she got the gawks.