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The All-New Late Late Show Megathread

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,251 ✭✭✭Mena Mitty


    More to the point on this thread did he jump ship or was he shoved. Food for thought.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,232 ✭✭✭waterwelly


    They will be looking to be politically correct and give it to a female but it's a **** enough job to be stuck doing every Friday night.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,905 ✭✭✭StevenToast


    👋👋👋👋

    "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining." - Fletcher



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 827 ✭✭✭farmingquestion




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,603 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    She might be asking him for some tips. I thought it odd when she suddenly gave up her political TV show last year.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,254 ✭✭✭archfi


    Great!

    An opportunity for the RTE mothership to get the thinking caps on, analyse why and how LLS has turned into the definition of ultimate telly shíte under the stewardship of Tubridy and make sure the audience doesn't plummet further.

    Yeah right...and pigs can fly.

    Expect the next host(ess) of the LLS to be the one entitled to it by RTE's bizarre league table of 'merit' (connections/tenure etc)

    A thing isn't what it says it is.

    A thing is what it does.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,835 ✭✭✭Brock Turnpike


    Fantastic news.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,798 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    Give it to John Creedon ffs.

    The best man for the job.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,254 ✭✭✭archfi


    A thing isn't what it says it is.

    A thing is what it does.



  • Posts: 0 Molly Spicy Tummy


    He would be a natural choice, but I think he’s firmly rooted in Cork.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,182 ✭✭✭Ger Roe


    I would agree.... John has a good sense of humour, a wealth of knowledge and experience of Irish life and he comes across as really nice person, with genuine interest in people. He has also developed his media presence through genuine hard work, without engineering it through social media manipulation, which is a huge plus in my book.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,798 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    John is a great bloke, who genuinely has the best taste in music I've ever heard. His radio show is great.

    The only man for the job, can do everything that's required of it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,302 ✭✭✭TheIrishGrover


    Heck, if I was being offered such a position/boost I think I could stretch to a return train/flight once a week.

    Or.... Or they could move TLLS to Cork. Can you imagine the uproar???!!! Hosting TLLS in Cork? Would be complete confirmation of "The People's Republic/Real Capital". Jaysus/ Would be worse than when Dublin win the Football constantly. Insufferable.


    Just joking folks. Just joking (Wow, P*ssing off Dublin AND Cork, grover...)


    TBH, I haven't watched TLLS apart from the Toy Show in years upon years. I mean even before Tubs. I gave up on Pat the Plank (Good journalist, terrible host). Creedon would be a good call alright. Sort of a middle ground between Tubs and Kenny

    Post edited by Boards.ie: Paul on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Happy he is gone but he wasn't the sole reason why ratings declined. He was the primary reason why I stopped watching but there are other issues.

    They can't continue to try and be a poor man's Graham Norton. Even Graham Norton isn't that interesting anymore since they went more for big name guests rather than interesting guests.

    With the likes of Joe Rogan being so successful, it should be an eye opener for them to believe that the interesting guest is far superior to the well know guest. I couldn't give a hoot about your new film. I want them talk and get to know interesting people.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,743 ✭✭✭maebee


    RTE should, but won't, take the obvious option and just end the LLS.



  • Posts: 0 Molly Spicy Tummy


    A touch of Gaybo about him in sense of interest and inquisitiveness, doing his research, enjoying the craic, music and all the good stuff, and would probably be sensitive enough without being ghoulish during the misery slots, looking on the genuine positives in the person’s life. Could be good with the Toy Show, I’d say he would bring it more back to old traditions with Santa Claus making an appearance, and a Christmas tree or two to be seen, would pose as a sort of Grandad figure with lots of helpers and not make it about himself.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,278 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    I wonder did he try to pull the usual "if you don't give me an increase in fees I'm going to BBC/CBS as they have been in touch" spiel at contract negotiations and RTE told him where to go.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,913 ✭✭✭Pintman Paddy Losty


    Some very wacky suggestions here. No way will Creedon get it. He's a bit too stale male and pale. That would be a very retrograde step. Tommy Tiernan is out after his disgraceful racism.

    Joe Rogan...jaysus. yes get some covid deniers and extreme right wing nut jobs on to talk for 6 hours about drugs. lol.


    I'd like to see someone Who can appeal to young audiences and bring a fresh perspective. Someone like Emma Dabiri, Lottie Ryan or Ruth Negga, and make it relevant to people under the age of 50.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭CGI_Livia_Soprano
    Holding tyrants to the fire


    It must be fun to make stuff up in your head and then go around telling people about it, like it actually happened.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,278 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    I'm having my fun, that's all that matters 😂.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,523 ✭✭✭MfMan


    Much as my apathy towards Tubridy is, I actually think he's better than Norton. All the latter does is assemble a starry bunch of guests and ask them bland and superficial questions, complete with timed and canned laughter. No depth to it whatsoever.

    In reality, I think the LLS was Gay Byrne. It was his creation and winning formula, consisting of serious and more light-hearted chat, interspersed with entertainment. All subsequent iterations were just a reflection of the hosts themselves and were just another interview vehicle for people. If anything, Tommy Tiernan has come closest to emulating Gaybo in broadcasting terms IMO.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭CGI_Livia_Soprano
    Holding tyrants to the fire


    I’ll be sorry to see Ryan go and the truth is I thought he had another 20 years left in him.

    I’m a little bit conservative when it comes to the LLS: I think the so-called “misery slot” is actually the best part of the programme. It serves to shine a beacon on the infirm members of the public who are too easily ignored by the big men in power.

    As for the host? Sarah McInerney would be a good shout provided she takes lessons to sand off the edges of her West Galway accent.

    I think that people from that part of the world have a tendency to soften the letter T to the point of whistling, and the pronunciation of TH lands with the dead thud of a hard kick to their beloved dinghies.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,149 ✭✭✭SteM


    Lottie Ryan, WTF 🤣

    What has she ever done to get the LLS job? You might as well go down to Dundrum Shopping center and start asking young wans if they'd like a presenting job.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,392 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    She presented one episode of Dancing with the Stars and does a podcast about it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,788 ✭✭✭Karppi




  • Posts: 2,725 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I’d say the last people that RTE would consider doing a straw poll on to see who should be the next presenter are the sort of men who sit down to watch it religiously on a Friday so they can complain about it on Twitter. You know the sort - bald or balding, overweight, usually have “plain speaking” or “against woke nonsense” in their profile, and who like Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson videos.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭CGI_Livia_Soprano
    Holding tyrants to the fire


    Lottie’s actually younger than Gay was when he started, and far more experienced in front of the camera.

    Though I’m not sure about Lottie in particular, I do think that the new host should be very young, and very non-straight-whyte-male. The latter to end the stale, pale, and male monopoly that’s been in place since 1962, and the former to instil a sense of continuity in the new host’s tenure.

    I firmly believe that the host of the Late Late Show holds a certain gravitas, a sort of somewhat regal, secular bishop’s place in the firmament of Irish culture.

    Gay Byrne wasn’t just Gay, he was “Uncle Gaybo.” The silver haired uncle of the nation, who would even give people presents and host the Republic’s Christmas party.

    I was prepared for that role to be filled by Ryan but now I think they need to get a young woman to be coronated, if you will, and sit in The Big Chair for the next 30-40 years.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,149 ✭✭✭SteM


    How much experience could Gaybo be expected to have in front of the camera back in the early 60s?

    Did he get a leg up in RTE because his father was a focus presenter?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,905 ✭✭✭StevenToast


    Jesus...we will have the dragged out long goodbye now until he goes at the end of May....

    Why not just go now?....do us all a favour....

    ...Tubridy will be stroking himself dreaming of Bono showing up on his last show to present him with a motorbike.....


    "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining." - Fletcher



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭CGI_Livia_Soprano
    Holding tyrants to the fire




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 827 ✭✭✭farmingquestion


    I think Claire Byrne will get it. Ryan nudged at her this morning and she just went "you're talking to the person who walked away from work" and "let's not go there".



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 459 ✭✭moceri


    I would definitely start watching it again if CB was at the helm. RT always acted like the court jester: Foolish but not a lot to offer.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,905 ✭✭✭StevenToast


    I am shocked you didnt like it....im sure your friends will be along now to tell me how bald, middle aged and pale I am.....

    "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining." - Fletcher



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 827 ✭✭✭farmingquestion


    I thought it was hilarious!

    I also can't not laugh at Glaucoma so maybe they're right!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,905 ✭✭✭StevenToast


    The ego on Tubridy is ENORMOUS!

    Hes talking about the kids jaw dropping when they see him......what about those kids that recorded themselves hurling abuse at him and calling him a cùnt??!!


    A final thought...."Santas ambassador on Earth"....Santa is already on earth and doesnt need an ambassador here....

    If he had said Irish ambassador...then maybe ok......but he said "Earth"....justs highlights the fact that Tubridy is an Egomaniac....

    "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining." - Fletcher



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,251 ✭✭✭Mena Mitty


    Was listening to that this morning. Claire said herself and two of her children met Ryan in a bookshop recently and one of her children recognised Ryan. Claire relayed what her child said

    'Look it's the man from the Toy show'

    Tubridy corrected Claire 'Toyman' says he.

    Every child knows there's only one 'Toyman' and that's Santa.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,788 ✭✭✭Karppi


    We haven't found out why he's leaving, though. That reason will be almost as interesting as who gets the gig (if RTE is daft enough to try to keep it going at all, IMO). Strange things can happen. NK must be involved, somehow.

    I'm a bit worried....



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,622 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    @StevenToast Ambassador to Santa Claus? Is there a vacancy for Irish ambassador \ representative to Greenland perhaps?

    Or did we already try that with Charlie Bird...

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75,109 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Tomorrow night’s St. Patrick’s Line-Up (in case you’re interested!!)…





  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 854 ✭✭✭Denny61


    Ive a feeling. Tubridy willl also make a big announcement too after late late show..ive heard something on the grapevine watch this space??



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,302 ✭✭✭TheIrishGrover


    Yeah, let's lamp Ruth Negga with TLLS. An Oscar-nominated, extremely talented actor. Plus... She's from Limerick...

    (That's THREE, grover)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,373 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    I'm partial to your abracadabra,
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,743 ✭✭✭maebee


    You're such a tease Denny :). Giz a hint. Even a tiny one :)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,835 ✭✭✭Brock Turnpike


    Imagine having nothing better to do in your life than go on Boards and try (badly) to wind up people like this poster.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,373 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    I've seen things floating in toilets which had more broadcasting talent than Lottie. Not the right connections though

    I'm partial to your abracadabra,
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 995 ✭✭✭Ragwort and Stones


    About 3 or 4 posters have arrived on here at the same time, all sounding like the one poster, insulting middle aged white men. Calling them pale, male and stale. And irony of ironies they have platitudes and empty phrases like 'be kind' as signatures! You couldn't make it up🤣

    Imagine if the shoe was on the other foot and middle aged ladies were being called incontinent, over weight and smelly. This 'be kind' rubbish is such a farce. Basically I'll be kind to those who agree with me, but very nasty and insulting to those who don't agree with me. There is absolutely no kindness or compassion behind this empty statement.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Tubridy running for president. Would be funny in fairness.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 861 ✭✭✭techman1


    Probably the Covid period killed his credibility and he became utterly establishment and governmental voice. Its very hard then to return to being a fully fledged entertainment host. I think he never got any traction especially since Covid. Also the line up of guests (usually woke wanne be celebrities) where you had to be utterly careful what you said scared him away from the whole thing.

    As for the potential replacements, they are all safe and boring RTE types, Claire Byrne and Sarah McInereney are too serious and current affairssy for light entertainment but they tick all the RTE boxes. The misery slots well get much bigger and not sure they could convincingly carry off the Toy show. We all know Tubridy was a bit out of his depth with big name celebrities, but I think because these have no light entertainment kudos they will be even further out of their depth. When Gay Byrne was doing it the big name celebrities like Peter Ustinov and Billy Connolly saw him as their peer not a mere TV mandarin



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,788 ✭✭✭Karppi


    I'm no fan of cancel culture, but that definitely doesn't extend to what should happen to the Late Late Show.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89,830 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Irish Goodbye Oscar winners Ross Lewis and James Martin and Liam Neeson tonight



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