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Memories of mad stuff that happened on live TV.

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    #362
    ek motor
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    ShamNNspace wrote: »
    Bit of a false memory there old boy, Francie was a hillside man from galway, Chicks barber shop was down at the end of shop st kind of accross from juries, that interview was filmed out at hillside, the ould brain is a funny thing all right


    Chicks was on Lower Dominik St.


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    #363
    inforfun
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 20,862 Mod ✭✭✭✭inforfun


    the purple tin wrote: »
    Bill O'Reilly has a melt down because he can't understand the phrase 'to play us out'
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_HyZ5aW76c

    Silly arse!

    It is like watching Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman) on Newsradio :D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsxd3Vi5fJY


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    #364
    Hangdogroad
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    Morris Garren wrote: »
    1996 Olympics in Atlanta.
    Francie Barrett boxing for Ireland.
    A traveller from Tuam, coached by the local barber named Chick. It was a great story. A decent sportsman doing everyone proud and making a bit of history for his people.

    Until Marty Morrissey went down to interview Francie's family one night for RTE...
    A gathering of various Tuam people, headed by numerous local travellers, gathered round a barrell on fire, replete with every visual stereotype you could imagine. And Marty famously asks Mrs Barrett, or one of the assembled women, in words I can't exactly remember, if Francie had ever practiced his boxing skills on her.... you know, that sorta thing...
    And that man remains one of RTE's most prominent presenters to this day.

    Jaysus, I remember that and the question. It was his mother all right.


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    #365
    Morris Garren
    Registered Users Posts: 485 ✭✭Morris Garren


    ShamNNspace wrote: »
    Bit of a false memory there old boy, Francie was a hillside man from galway, Chicks barber shop was down at the end of shop st kind of accross from juries, that interview was filmed out at hillside, the ould brain is a funny thing all right

    Apologies - geography isn't my strong point. Too many head punches methinks
    Sorry Shams


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    #366
    ShamNNspace
    Registered Users Posts: 4,678 ✭✭✭ShamNNspace


    Morris Garren wrote: »
    Apologies - geography isn't my strong point. Too many head punches methinks
    Sorry Shams

    Never mind I made an error myself


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    #367
    foxy farmer
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    Jack o Connor SIPTU couldn't stick the heat so he got out of the kitchen.

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


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    #368
    Samsonsmasher
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    I remember a tribute show to Jack Charlton I think after he retired. I can't remember who was presenting the show - Gay Byrne or Pat Kenny or Jimmy Magee? - Anyway the mic was going around to people in the audience who were singing his praises until a Indian or Pakistani doctor from Limerick said he knew a man from back home who looked the spit of Jack which drew a laugh. Charlton was visibly vexed and replied "Well I wouldn't want to look like you!" The doctor's face fell and he was clearly hurt humiliated and angry. Charlton laughed and the audience laughed too and the mic went onto the next person.


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    #369
    Hangdogroad
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    Samsonsmasher wrote: »
    I remember a tribute show to Jack Charlton I think after he retired. I can't remember who was presenting the show - Gay Byrne or Pat Kenny or Jimmy Magee? - Anyway the mic was going around to people in the audience who were singing his praises until a Indian or Pakistani doctor from Limerick said he knew a man from back home who looked the spit of Jack which drew a laugh. Charlton was visibly vexed and replied "Well I wouldn't want to look like you!" The doctor's face fell and he was clearly hurt humiliated and angry. Charlton laughed and the audience laughed too and the mic went onto the next person.

    I remember that, the guy was African. Think he was talking about someone in Ireland rather than his own country. As far as I recall Jack said "well I dont look like you".


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    #370
    cml387
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    Needless to say Youtube is silent on this matter but I have a definite memory of Samantha Mumba being on the Late Late in the Kenny era when a "wardrobe malfunction" occurred.

    The front of her top was gaping open so much that Camera 3 closed in on her face while presumably safety pins were fitted. Does anyone remember this event?


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    #371
    Thargor
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    Just came across this mini documentary on this gobsh1te on Youtube, funny to read other nationalities reactions to him in the comments:



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    #372
    LollipopJimmy
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    foxy farmer wrote: »
    Jack o Connor SIPTU couldn't stick the heat so he got out of the kitchen.

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

    Another from Jack. I was watching this at the time


    https://youtu.be/-8x3sr4cCXE


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    #373
    everlast75
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    silliussoddius wrote: »
    I can't remember if it was People in Need on RTE or some other charidee show, but I remember Van Damme being on as a guest and an actress from Eastenders. Van Damme was around the peak of his career which I'd say was early 90's and I'm not sure if it was the pressure of being amongst the stellar talent at rte of if it the event was sponsored by Pablo Escobar, but I remember him being really creepy and smarmy trying to shift yer wan.

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    foxy farmer wrote: »
    Jack o Connor SIPTU couldn't stick the heat so he got out of the kitchen.

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


    Vincent finished the show by playing "hit the road, jack" as the credits rolled...


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    #374
    razorblunt
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    Just thought of another, Marc Vivien-For collapsing and dying on the pitch for Cameroon.
    I think it was a summer tournament in France and it was on Eurosport. I was on crutches for the summer as a teenager so I'd watch anything on tv to pass the time. I was delighted when I saw some football was on.

    I remember him getting treatment at the time and the commentators not really knowing what was going on (might even have just been that one commentator that does everything on Eurosport). But when they were stretchering him off it was clear he was possibly already dead, his arm was limp and hanging down and his eyes were rolled back. The camera lingered a bit too long before cutting away.


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    #375
    Hangdogroad
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    I was watching Sky News when they were reporting on the first IRA ceasefire in 1994. They were taking calls from members of the public in the North I think talking about their experiences of the troubles. One old guy from Belfast came on talking about discrimination against Catholics in the 60s when he came out with the line "we were treated like the n!ggers in South Africa". I think it was Adam Bolton in the studio. I'll never forget the look on his face as he quickly moved on to the next caller.


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    #376
    the purple tin
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    I was watching Sky News when they were reporting on the first IRA ceasefire in 1994. They were taking calls from members of the public in the North I think talking about their experiences of the troubles. One old guy from Belfast came on talking about discrimination against Catholics in the 60s when he came out with the line "we were treated like the n!ggers in South Africa". I think it was Adam Bolton in the studio. I'll never forget the look on his face as he quickly moved on to the next caller.
    Who was the Irish politician, female I think, who thanked some people in a speech by saying 'they have been working like blacks'?
    It was quite recent too.


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    #377
    Thargor
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    Mary O Rourke, she's disappeared actually, she used to be on every second rte show for ages.


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    #378
    The Nal
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    the purple tin wrote: »
    Who was the Irish politician, female I think, who thanked some people in a speech by saying 'they have been working like blacks'?
    It was quite recent too.


    Thargor wrote: »
    Mary O Rourke, she's disappeared actually, she used to be on every second rte show for ages.


    Well retired now on a huge pension.


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    #379
    BrianD3
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    At about 1 minute in, Geoff Hurst says the N word

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMBDL2qjQ1Y


    The fact that it is used here in a well known idiom would make it slightly less offensive but still. However I don't recall any fuss made about this at the time.


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    #380
    paleoperson2
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    Honestly youtube and "the old vt" have spoiled us a bit for clips, there are so many treasures we can all see now:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SLzze3rvFI


    I recommend the News Be Funny youtube channel - I'm sometimes embarrassed at how funny I find it.

    youtube.com/user/NewsBeFunny


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    #381
    Schwiiing
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    #382
    Northernlily
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    Right now in Washington DC will go up there as one of the maddest things ever seen on TV.


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    #383
    The Inbetween is mine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,705 ✭✭✭The Inbetween is mine


    Northernlily wrote: »
    Right now in Washington DC will go up there as one of the maddest things ever seen on TV.

    Popcorn moment


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    #384
    [Deleted User]
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    A badly executed coup in the Spanish Parliament. What s time to be trying to learn Spanish!


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    #385
    tayto lover
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    History in the making now live on tv as Trump supporters take the Capital Building.


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    #386
    LessOutragePlz
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    tayto lover wrote: »
    History in the making now live on tv as Trump supporters take the Capital Building.

    Yup definitely one of the craziest things I've seen in a very long time on live TV.


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    #387
    mad m
    Registered Users Posts: 9,002 ✭✭✭mad m


    I was twelve I think, watching the great Tommy Cooper at a live Royal variety show. Few mins into sketch, he drops to floor, curtain comes down while you see someone drag him back. He had a massive heart attack. What a way to go though. The crowd thought it was part of the act


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    #388
    Thargor
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    It wasnt live but the nation was absolutely riveted:



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    #389
    John.burke
    Registered Users Posts: 57 ✭✭John.burke


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu6d0ns-JJU


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    #390
    John.burke
    Registered Users Posts: 57 ✭✭John.burke


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdLfkhxIH5Q


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    #391
    Atlantic Dawn
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    I remember this live call on Late Late Show, turns out he was a spoofer using the mans name, they had to apologise the next week to the man named...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JkwQoHiYug


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