It's That Man Again: The Nate Nate Show - Friday 12th March 2021

sligojoek wrote: »

Did someone lose the keys to the "Funometer"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6QhAZckY8w

"We all want to do the best - so yeah, I'd only want the best for the show and the viewer," he said.

Tubridy admitted to having boned up on his skills during the summer by reading Michael Parkinson's autobiography, saying: "I love reading about chat shows and that world when I'm on holidays. I think it helps to up your game a little bit."

Having inherited "the institution" that is 'The Late Late Show' seven years ago, Tubridy said the Saturday night show had to forge its own field.

But he concluded: "I want to be the best and I'm going to try to be the best."

“The build up to the Toy Show goes on for three weeks in advance,” Tubridy said.

“I just think people are out the door with planning and buying things and there’s so much that it can get a little crass. So just pull it back a bit and contain it to that lovely three-week run where it should be.”

"The Late Late Show feels like my living room on a Sunday now and I want people to come and join me in the living room like it's my house.

"I'm going to go into the audience more, mess more, relax more, have longer interviews if they have to be, shorter interviews if they're not as good as they should be and just be... it will be honest TV."

He told the Irish Sun: “This September will be Late Late Show year number nine. That means that someone who is 18 this year will have known me as Late Late host since they were nine. That’s interesting. I am their guy.”

He added that 15 years in the Late Late chair “sounded good”, adding: “Maybe beyond that. I’m really enjoying it now. We have a new background team starting in August so we’re in reboot territory.”

"There's big things happening this season, and it's extremely exciting."

"We're kind of tweaking and we're looking at the show and little elements of it to spruce it up a little bit. I think it could do with that little touch of love," he said.

‘We’re going to have to reconfigure, or at least look at, how the show is going to work from September onwards in terms of the change and the shape,’ he said.