High Hopes: The Late Late Show-Friday 8th October 2021

Down with Mika

I doubt the same people are selling blocks to be honest, at least not as the same company, or less they'd have been sued up the wazoo long since.

Was it any good?

You're making my point for me.

or horror of horrors a beer company, then there would be some audience participation and then it would get interesting

Yea you don't see this phenomenon on UK TV , its either full on entertainment show and on friday and saturday nights its just entertainment . maybe misery is entertaining for us though. I think Tubridy over indulges in it though, with Gay Byrne and even Pat Kenny they just through in the oul misery slot now and again just to satisfy our lust for it. Maybe its schadefraude

The late late show thread was my favourite on boards by far,genuine laugh out loud comments on here.Lots of posters id butt heads with on other threads but we could all laugh and cringe at Tubs together on a Fri night.

It's now become the indicator as to how far boards has declined (not in comment quaility) but obviouly in quantity.13 pages for the LLS? Would have been averaging 150 pages before the changeover,even quiet ones would be 70- 80.

Funnily enough that was what made it all the more fascinating for me.The move from standard misery slot maybe 10-15 years ago (which were often shocking and shine a light on uncomfortable parts of life) to a misery slot every show to everything being turned into a misery slot.

I watched on open mouthed as it got worse and worse over time to the point of being bizarre and beyond now.I was glad other people could see this too and turn it on its head and have a laugh a tubridys expense and the weird direction it had taken.(never at the people who tales were just as harrowing as back in Gaybos day but over saturation had made people numb to it) an interesting social development in itself.

I enjoy the commentary on it including the short thread last night even though most of the time I'm not actually watching the show.

Just watched that Ruth Negga interview. Weird. She looked like she had all her comments rehearsed and when her ear rings fell off she acted like a normal person for a few seconds. Why was an interview with an actress conduced is such a serious tone? It's not feckin Prime Time and she's no intellectual.

Kodaline first album was good. But since then seems they just trying to put out slow and mushy, or bad re-enactment of Coldplay’s worst songs. They are fairly awful and have no rock star charisma at all.