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This Week on Misery Watch: The Late Late Show - Friday 22nd January 2021.

  • 21-01-2021 9:50pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 2,748 ✭✭✭


    Misery abounds this week, with TWO special guests-as does a chance for our hero to pretend to be Johnny Carson, by interviewing a (former) prominent US political figure.

    I'm sure Toyman can lift the spirits of the country once again, channelling the ghosts of trad musicians past, by grilling the ones that are still with us. He can show off his vast musical knowledge as well.
    Former Director of the FBI James Comey will be among Ryan Tubridy's guests on Friday's Late Late Show.

    James Comey will discuss the impact President Biden can make, and what he thinks the future holds for the US and former President Donald Trump.


    Friday's show will also see a celebration of Irish traditional music with Dónal Lunny, Andy Irvine, Zoë Conway, Frankie Gavin, Louise Mulcahy, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, Jim Higgins, Martin O'Connor and Edel Fox.


    With the 40th anniversary of the Stardust Tragedy taking place next month on Valentine's Day, Ryan will speak to author Lisa Lawlor, who lost both of her parents in the fire that claimed 48 lives, leaving her orphaned at just 17-months-old. Lisa's book, Stardust Baby, was released this week.

    Ryan will also be joined by Jeni Pim, whose husband Nigel passed away on 14 January from Covid-19 at the age of 50.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    With the 40th anniversary of the Stardust Tragedy taking place next month on Valentine's Day, Ryan will speak to author Lisa Lawlor, who lost both of her parents in the fire that claimed 48 lives, leaving her orphaned at just 17-months-old. Lisa's book, Stardust Baby, was released this week.

    Ryan will also be joined by Jeni Pim, whose husband Nigel passed away on 14 January from Covid-19 at the age of 50.

    The only person in the country rubbing their hands at the prospect of watching this show is Joe Duffy.


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    Where are the puppehs and kittehs??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,732 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,732 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,206 ✭✭✭Samsgirl


    You know, at this stage I think rte are scrolling through rip.ie to seek out potential guests. That lady who's husband died last week should not be paraded in front of the nation ffs. He only died 8 days ago.
    How the hell is that signed off on and allowed.
    Is there no low they won't stoop to.
    How this passes as entertainment on Friday night is beyond me.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 842 ✭✭✭Butson


    On the Misery Scale, I think we have reached 8 out of 10.
    Solid, but could do better.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88,247 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Samsgirl wrote: »
    You know, at this stage I think rte are scrolling through rip.ie to seek out potential guests. That lady who's husband died last week should not be paraded in front of the nation ffs. He only died 8 days ago.
    How the hell is that signed off on and allowed.
    Is there no low they won't stoop to.
    How this passes as entertainment on Friday night is beyond me.

    Yes I dont think being a guest a week after with Ryan is part of grieving but again it's to show the point how serious Covid19 is which at this stage everyone knows as many worldwide have died


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,498 ✭✭✭KevRossi


    The only person in the country rubbing their hands at the prospect of watching this show is Joe Duffy.

    Joe Duffy will be rubbing more than his hands at all that death.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,498 ✭✭✭KevRossi


    That's an appalling line-up by any stretch. After the week that was, with the Mother and Baby Homes report being released and several hundred deaths, Tubridy turns to more misery.

    I've lived in a few countries, but I've never seen a station as obsessed with illness and death as RTE.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,748 ✭✭✭Pelvis Parsley


    Puppehs and kittehs are helpfully provided each week by our Harlech correspondent, Mr. WM.

    And by golly do we need them!


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    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    Yes I dont think being a guest a week after with Ryan is part of grieving but again it's to show the point how serious Covid19 is which at this stage everyone knows as many worldwide have died

    I think at this stage we know that Covid can cause death, in particular among certain age groups and health profiles.


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    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    Yes I dont think being a guest a week after with Ryan is part of grieving but again it's to show the point how serious Covid19 is which at this stage everyone knows as many worldwide have died

    They could do a stark 2 part documentary as was done in UK which showed us people as they were dying/almost dying from Covid, which would serve that purpose. But this is supposed to be an entertainment show.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,029 ✭✭✭um7y1h83ge06nx


    Joe has probably a semi already from looking at some of that lineup.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,721 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    Leaving aside from the fact that we get an annual pretend country music special, while a celebration of actual trad music gets sqeezed between interviews about dead people, I'm looking forward to the ceol.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84,052 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
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    I was only thinking the other day that Covid was giving us a Stardust a day in death numbers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,285 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    KevRossi wrote: »
    Joe Duffy will be rubbing more than his hands at all that death.

    Ray D’Arcy too.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    Ol' Donie wrote: »
    Leaving aside from the fact that we get an annual pretend country music special, while a celebration of actual trad music gets sqeezed between interviews about dead people, I'm looking forward to the ceol.

    What's the betting we'll hear about the death of Liam-Og O Flynn when he's talking to Lunny/Irvine.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    I was only thinking the other day that Covid was giving us a Stardust a day in death numbers.

    Is that you, Joe?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,321 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    I wonder does it ever cross the minds of Tubs and the production team for the LLS to just say one week "maybe lets have no sad stories this week, just upbeat".

    Of course the answer is no.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,093 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    Late late forcing more misery on use

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,349 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    NIMAN wrote: »
    I wonder does it ever cross the minds of Tubs and the production team for the LLS to just say one week "maybe lets have no sad stories this week, just upbeat".

    Of course the answer is no.

    It's unreal. You'd think in the middle of a miserable January with bad news all round that they'd try to lighten the mood. Not a chance, instead they're doubling down on the misery.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,264 ✭✭✭Be right back


    NIMAN wrote: »
    I wonder does it ever cross the minds of Tubs and the production team for the LLS to just say one week "maybe lets have no sad stories this week, just upbeat".

    Of course the answer is no.

    Wouldn't it be great if they thought that there is enough sad stories, without piling more on us? Light entertainment for a Friday night?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭washman3


    I was only thinking the other day that Covid was giving us a Stardust a day in death numbers.



    And those responsible for that got away scot-free too, just like those at the top in the W.H.O. and the C.C.P will, now that the only powerful World leader is no more. The only person to call them both out on their incompetence/corruption.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,748 ✭✭✭Pelvis Parsley


    They could do a stark 2 part documentary as was done in UK which showed us people as they were dying/almost dying from Covid, which would serve that purpose. But this is supposed to be an entertainment show.

    Well, it entertains Tubridy. It *excites* him, one might say.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,084 ✭✭✭statesaver


    More misery porn......I'll pass


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,721 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    NIMAN wrote: »
    I wonder does it ever cross the minds of Tubs and the production team for the LLS to just say one week "maybe lets have no sad stories this week, just upbeat".

    Of course the answer is no.

    I'm fùckin sick of it. Really. Even this thread can't be any craic when it's just guests talking about their suffering.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,321 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    I stopped watching the show a long time back now.

    Even before Covid, he was prone to a bit too much misery, plus his standard of guests is truly awful now.
    It was the same cycle of Z listers and canteen staff, with many being on numerous times each season.


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    Ol' Donie wrote: »
    I'm fùckin sick of it. Really. Even this thread can't be any craic when it's just guests talking about their suffering.

    We can have a drinking game!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    May I be so bold as to suggest a new drinking game for The Late Late Show. Every time you hear the phrase:
    "When the doctor told you that your illness was terminal how did you feel"
    You take a bottle of whiskey and a pistol, and head out to your private study at the back of the house.


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    May I be so bold as to suggest a new drinking game for The Late Late Show. Every time you hear the phrase:
    "When the doctor told you that your illness was terminal how did you feel"
    You take a bottle of whiskey and a pistol, and head out to your private study at the back of the house.

    I was thinking more along the lines of every time Ryan attempts empathy we take a drink but your idea is much better :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    I was thinking more along the lines of every time Ryan attempts empathy we take a drink but your idea is much better :pac:

    I played an alternative game the other night. I said I would only take a drink every time I felt that Ryan was being genuinely empathetic, and I ended up driving everybody home. :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,748 ✭✭✭Pelvis Parsley


    Every time he steers a topic toward illness, health issues, or misery (like the ten minutes he spent wittering on to then recently departed PM Gordon Brown about his glass eye), take a shot.

    You'll be on the floor before the show is half over.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,055 ✭✭✭Hitchens


    b b b b but de Covid doesn't take de weekend off


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,732 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Here we are again :(


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    And don't forget to remind yerselves of the latest #misery news that the new variants are much more deadly and don't respond to vaccine. #cyanide.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,206 ✭✭✭Samsgirl


    Did anyone who emailed rte last week get a response?

    I have just emailed them there re tonight's show.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    I've decided to listen to Nick Abbott on LBC instead, now there's a pro.


  • Registered Users Posts: 33,758 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Trump is gone but Ryan Tubridy is still overpaid by many hundreds of thousands of Euro per year, so not much has changed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,055 ✭✭✭Hitchens


    Samsgirl wrote: »
    Did anyone who emailed rte last week get a response?

    I have just emailed them there re tonight's show.

    I got a reply from them asking me why I haven't paid the licence yet:pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    Straight in with Trump.

    "Toy show vibe about the place."

    Kindness.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,732 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    "KINDNESS!"


    :mad: :mad: :mad:


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    Samsgirl wrote: »
    Did anyone who emailed rte last week get a response?

    I have just emailed them there re tonight's show.

    Two days later got the same standard response as to every other complaint I've made there, most recently one re Liveline.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    And do t forget to remind yerselves of the latest #misery news that the new variants are much more deadly and don't respond to vaccine. #cyanide.

    GP on Claire Byrne show during the week. 32,000 deaths every year in Ireland. 3000 extra deaths because of COVID last year. 10% increase in deaths and we shut the entire country down. Questions really need to be asked. We can either ask those questions now, or when the economy has been completely burned to the ground and we have been stripped of all of our rights.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84,052 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    Why come in tonight? Completely unesessary.


  • Registered Users Posts: 33,758 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Oh God, I am changing channel.

    DEATH.

    Terrible for her family and friends but life is hard enough without this.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    We'll have early tears.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,206 ✭✭✭Samsgirl


    Two days later got the same standard response as to every other complaint I've made there, most recently one re Liveline.

    I invited them to read this thread every week.


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    The deadly runny nose.
    Ring a ring a rosy....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84,052 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    The bubbles were only as good as the most wreckless person in them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,501 ✭✭✭FintanMcluskey


    Jeasus you can’t put it straight in Ryan you need to warm us up 1st


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