The Ryan Tubridy Show **Mod: Read OP**

jmcc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121933162#Comment_121933162

He's a real nowhere man. :)

Regards...jmcc

Hyperbollix

I like to think I have a good measure of Tubridy and could make a fair go of predicting what utter bilge he will vomit up in this weekly diary but today took the chocolate HobNob altogether.

In possibly his most Partridgesque entry yet, Tub's likens himself to Leo Varadkar, who he implies quit due to social media toxicity. With his family history, in Tub's tiny pea brain he obviously sees himself as a major player in Irish life, no different to Taoisigh or senior political figures. Varadkar has said himself that there is no connection there and that he has a thick skin, he is leaving for other reasons. But of course all the sensitive lovies like Tubs are jumping on the old 'nasty internet people' excuse these days. It's all the rage.

Photos of Tubs shedding a tear on his last LLS and a pic of Leo and Dee Forbes is preceded by a paragraph where he mentions how hard "high profile women" have it when it comes to "nasty and venomous rage" - Our hero isn't happy that the internet is still "the Wild West" where anonymous accounts can get away with saying mean things to rich and famous people. Perhaps he would like a dedicated branch of AGS to knock on these people's doors and drag them out by the ears. I'm sure if he was running things, many accounts on Boards here would be the first to get the treatment!

But the real pièce de résistance had to be the blatent lie that he had "an epiphany" in August 2023 and decided to pack in RTE and his €200k salary for 1 hour a day of radio. It wasn't that he made a mug of himself and gave Bakhurst no option but to say adios, of course. And if you seem to remember him saying in May of '23 that he would be remaining on at Radio1 forever and ever and ever and ever and ever because that's what he loved doing, well you are obviously mistaken. Never happened.

He signs off by saying he got out at the top. Like Leo. It's just astonishing stuff.

I'm off to have a lie down, Absolutely cringed out.

jmcc

Given that in this week's column Tubridy compares himself to Varadkar, next week's Easter Sunday column will see him compare himself to Jesus Christ and claim that his show on Virgin Radio is his resurrection after being crucified by the Oireachtas committees (playing the part of Pilate and Sanhedrin) and RTE. His friends in RTE claiming never to have known him will play the part of Saint Peter. After all, Jesus Christ only started a new religion, but Tubridy was the Toyman. Either that or it will be about Easter eggs. :)

Regards...jmcc

Chocolatier

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121934937#Comment_121934937

Judas Iscariot betraying his colleagues for 30 pieces of silver would be more realistic.

lee_baby_simms

Maybe I’m being too harsh but it seems that whenever a story breaks from Ireland that captures the publics interest, Leo resigning or Sinead O’Connor passing away for example, Tubridy has an uncontrollable urge to put himself in the frame.

What appears to be a tacky attempt to ride the wave of prevailing public sentiment is ultimately more akin to a drunk stranger photobombing a family moment.

He really has been badly exposed over the past 12 months. On a number of levels.

Rubberchikken

Hedors seem to stick himself into any story coming out of Ireland that can be spun to his advantage.

Muscling in on a child's death, Sinead O Connors death, Charlie bird passing. Leo weasling off. All opportunities for tubsy to stick his oar in.

His arrogance is legendary.

But his radio skills will never be.

jmcc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121934960#Comment_121934960

For Tubridy fans, that would probably be Oliver Callan for doing the radio show for 150K instead of the 170K salary that had been offered to Tubridy before he messed up that deal. That 150K for a prime national radio slot has effectively set the starting point for any salary negotiations if Tubridy hopes to return to Irish national broadcasting after Virgin Radio.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2023/0817/1400184-rte-tubridy/

Regards...jmcc

NIMAN

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121935110#Comment_121935110

Seems strange that they handed the fool D'Arcy another 250k per year for 4 years then.

Oscar_Madison

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121933008#Comment_121933008

Me me me - his PR crew must have gone to the same college as Meaghan Markle’s PR crew

AndyBoBandy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121935015#Comment_121935015

What appears to be a tacky attempt to ride the wave of prevailing public sentiment is ultimately more akin to a drunk stranger photobombing a family moment

It’s very like Shane Ross when he was sports minister… had to make it all about him…. Almost as if he was directly responsible for the success…

jmcc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121935155#Comment_121935155

The 150K is the starting price for Tubridy.

Regards...jmcc

podgeandrodge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121935218#Comment_121935218

Hope not. I'd like to see RTE in a couple of years offer him 60k and force him to refuse it .

jmcc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121935249#Comment_121935249

Depends how he does with Virgin Radio. If he makes a mess of it then he may not be back as a prime time presenter on RTE or any other station. RTE has its own problems and probably wants to put the Tubridy Payments Scandal behind it. At this stage, giving him a book review programme on Lyric would be politically iffy for RTE. It needs to make a break with the past.

Regards...jmcc

StevenToast

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121935176#Comment_121935176

He is more akin to Britains Prince Andrew after that infamous interview...

My understanding is that Andrew believed that brutal interview with Emily Maitlis went well......much like with Tubridy now...creating narratives in his head to satiate his enormous ego....

Narcissistic egomaniacs...

hawley

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121935339#Comment_121935339

I would think that everything coming from Tubridy about losing his job, is done in conjunction with Noel Kelly. He's trying to use these articles as a way of smoothing his return to RTE. Yesterday's article was laughable.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121935110#Comment_121935110

You must have missed Ray D'Arcy getting is contract renewed at 250k per year, a few weeks ago. Duffy is having a 'Funny Friday' this Thursday, as Friday is a 'non working day'. In the last few weeks it appears Kevin has thrown in the towel and is letting the money flow.

Field east

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121935155#Comment_121935155

That €250,000 beggars belief. RTE could have said to D’Arcy that it no longer requires his services if that is his price. RTE could then go off and devise a new programme to replace Darcy’s hour and and then let D’Arcy apply for the presentation of it @125,000 a year. Simples.

Oscar_Madison

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121935339#Comment_121935339

Since his move to Virgin radio I’ve grown less and less inclined to even discuss him - this out of sight out of mind element is actually quite refreshing - these are my only couple of posts in this thread in probably the last month and I used to be a weekly contributor to the LLS thread - if he wants to live out his career in good olde Englerland then great - I complained for years when he was on our TVs so now that he’s gone, I’m actually happy - I don’t feel the need really to comment much anymore - which I’m sure he’ll be fine with - the problem is though, it’s not just me that’s happy to forget about him - don’t know how his listenership figures are going but I’d doubt they’re anything to brag about especially considering this absolute garbage he’s producing every week.

Anyway that’s my monthly Tubridy post- see you next month- or maybe even not😀

yagan

I follow this thread because I'm intrigued by life imitating art, Tubridy in London is Partridge in Norfolk.

leath_dub

Some guy on with Pat Kenny now. A poet who does a podcast with Paul McCartney. I wonder if Tubs is listening? 🙂

Gregor Samsa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121936299#Comment_121936299

It's like this thread of people who all think their boss was like David Brent:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOfficeUK/comments/18urijp/have_you_ever_had_a_boss_like_david_brent_and_if/

But none of them actually are. It was a really big thing back in 2001 - People saying things like "My boss asked us to work this weekend for the big project launch. He's just like David Brent!" or "My boss was critical that my PDP didn't have any SMART goals, and the milestones weren't aggressive enough. God almighty, he's literally just like David Brent!". I mean, did these people ever actually watch The Office?

Every radio presenter gets compared to Alan Partridge. Because what people don't understand that the power of good satire isn't life imitating art - it's art imitating life. Partridge works because it takes the real-life situations radio presenters find themselves in, and pushes them for comical value. Merely pointing out that a radio presenter might find themselves in one of those situations isn't "just like Alan Partridge", no more than your boss merely holding a meeting is "just like David Brent".

Ask yourself: would Tubridy steal a traffic cone? Does he use an oversized plate for buffet breakfasts? Has he befriended a Geordie hotel worker who once thew a monkey in the sea? The answer is a resounding no, no and no.

Ash.J.Williams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121936899#Comment_121936899

Gregor you're a reasonable man but this post is entirely wrong

Brian Scan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121936899#Comment_121936899

"Ask yourself: would Tubridy steal a traffic cone? Does he use an oversized plate for buffet breakfasts? Has he befriended a Geordie hotel worker who once thew a monkey in the sea? The answer is a resounding no, no and no."

I agree with much of what you say in this thread, Gregor, but I don't think that you can be 100% sure that the answer to the three questions you posed is "No".

Gregor Samsa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121937012#Comment_121937012

Look, we've seen the size of the breakfast plate he uses posted on Instagram:

It's actually a small plate. I know the chips are in a separate bowl, so potentially a bigger plate would be warranted, but it is a small bowl, and the combined volume would not constitute a very large plate.

A google search for "Ryan Tubridy Cone" only brings up ice-cream cones.

Are we seriously going to condemn the man as a living Alan Partridge for enjoying ice cream? We'd all be guilty as charged!

As for the final example, if anyone has any evidence of Tubridy or his associates being involved in any abuse of a monkey, I will be the first to condemn him. But until then, the charge cannot be reasonably leveled against him.

AndyBoBandy

The thing is though, Partridge sketches are cringe comedy, it works so well and we laugh because we know its a skit, but with Tubridy, it's the same levels of cringe, but it's actually real life. It's him. It's not intentional. And it's funcking hilarious!! exactly because it's not meant to be...

The only credible way he has out of this is if it turns out his entire career is a skit, and he's trolling us all, and actually he's the greatest comedy mastermind in the world.... Phase 1 of the masterplan (convince Ireland) is complete, and now he's onto Phase 2 (get big in U.K. and convince them too)..

AndyBoBandy

Them eggs look like they've been sat in a warming tray for about 4 hours.....

if that's his idea of heaven, he's a man with very few ideas in his head.

AndyBoBandy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121937066#Comment_121937066

Are we seriously going to condemn the man as a living Alan Partridge for enjoying ice cream? We'd all be guilty as charged!

Like Tubridy, we all probably enjoy an ice cream (I love ice cream).

But unlike Tubridy, we all probably don't photograph the occasion for posterity, and then post it to social media, sharing to the world that we happen to enjoy one of the most common frozen dairy treats in the world. But in fairness, we're not senior hurlers.

GSF

You can certainly get better breakfasts than this in London. Lots of places round by Fitzrovia for starters and he might get to run into some BBC commissioning executives 😉

Brian Scan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121937066#Comment_121937066

We don't know that this is a buffet breakfast.

Even Tubridy wouldn't be daft enough to document his involvement in the theft of a traffic cone, if such a theft had occurred.

I have no evidence that any of his associates were involved in the abuse of a monkey, but that doesn't prove that they weren't.

Hyperbollix

I just love the balls out denial of reality that Tubridy engages in. I mean, it goes well beyond a semantic argument about his culpability in the payments scandal vs RTE. He can make the case all day long that he was an unknowing innocent in that and it was RTE who should shoulder all the blame. Plenty of admirers will carry water for him on that one.....

But yesterday's entry just goes to show Tubs is in no way backward about completely rewriting history in order to bolster his own whiter than white image. Pretending that he had some agency in ditching RTE last summer is just complete BS that anyone who has followed this story will see for what it is. If he's prepared to come out with tripe like that then IMO he's well equipped to deny his own portion of blame for the scandal last year. Which is why Bakhurst had to send him packing. He wasn't going to admit any fault and would probably have used his first show back to settle scores live on air. Queue mass walkout of his radio show team and Tubs getting taken off air on week 1.

I still believe he will eventually make it back to Montrose but the date is getting pushed back into the distance all the time. The whole RTE fiasco will have to be as old news as the banking crisis of 2009 is now.