Following on from main thread in Current Affairs about Tubs in general (now closed and mod suggestion that Entertainment category is more suitable).
Indeed, entertainment in certain respects is what Tubs has provided, albeit perhaps in a way not intended. And still awaiting 150k payback to the licence fee holder.
And of course, his new career in Virgin Radio which is imminent.
copying some frequent posters from original thread.
@Brendan Bendar
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@Ash.J.Williams
@RoTelly
@hawley
@Loafing Oaf
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That sounds great!
If he was 25 years of age and not a self proclaimed "home bird".
Well maybe he does like reading but they’re easy-reading popular fiction books.
Nobody says you have to read high falutin classic novels to enjoy reading. I have a friend and he loves those Ross O Carroll Kelly books, and sport "auto"-biographies. They’re not particularly taxing but they are indeed books.
If you set yourself up as a lover of all books, request new listeners to recommend books one day, bookshops another, call yourself a book nerd the first day and when someone WhatsApps in a recommended book, your response is '700 pages eek, I only read easy books of 400 pages or less', you hav exposed yourself as either completely thinking your farts smell of ice cream or a bog standard try-hard fraud.
When it's a woman author and involves a romance it's chick lit, but if it's a male author with the same plot it's introspective literature.
Ryan Tubridy is hardly going to be lecturing us about the classics of the Western Canon during his mid morning pop tunes show, is he?
Unlike most of the people in this thread a lot of his listeners probably going aren’t going to be big readers so he’d have to keep it to our own equivalents of Dickens and Dostoevsky: Binchey, D. Conroy, S. Rooney.
He said that 1984 and Wuthering Heights were too complicated and too long for casual readers. He told people to avoid those books.
You misheard. He said he wouldn't recommend anything 'hard' like 1984 and wuthering heights. And after one of the more genuine sounding callers/emailers recommended a 700 page book, he said he never reads anything over 400 pages, recommending the 100 page Diving Bell and Butterfly. Bookworm my hoop
Nope he said don’t read 1984 or Wuthering Heights. Too complicated. Sounds like Tubridy is too dim to get an LC book.
I think that it was mentioned upthread that when he was asked about books for people starting off reading, he recommended "1984" and "Wuthering Heights". Those books were on the Irish Leaving Cert syllabus.Wouldn't even dream of inflicting "Wuthering Heights" on Tubridy fans. If he was as literary and musical as he thought he was, he could have linked them to Eurythmics and Kate Bush. :)
Regards...jmcc
Seems to be a lot of very unhappy listeners in the Cork area. Whilst Derry O'Callaghan's Sunday show would probably not be my cup of tea personally, I think Cork 96FM should be taking listeners feedback on this extremely seriously. They could easily skew Tubridy's show by 2 hours to accommodate local programming. For example, US radio weekend syndicated shows are aired at different times to suit their affiliates.
Chick lit? Come on. It’s all “popular fiction”.
The big difference between people who read for pleasure and the "literary" types is that those who read for pleasure read many more books but don't bloviate about it. They don't have to pretend to be "literary" types in the way Tubridy does. Ironically, Tubridy's old RTE demographic might have been more Chick Lit. than popular fiction etc. The Virgin demographics seem quite different from the RTE slot demographics and it remains to be seen if Tubridy's waffle about books will work. If so, he might even get a mention in Private Eye's "Pseuds Corner". At this stage it is probably a case of "Bryan Who?" for Virgin listeners.
Tuned in for a few minutes today, sounds like he's getting into his stride but still wanging on about the Beatles. He played a couple of voicemails from fellas saying they were enjoying the show. Could he not bribe someone to say something interesting. He complained about having to fork out £30 for a museum. No more freebies, wha? I'd like some lively out-and-about in London observations, but not holding my breath. Also, the sheer number of ads... who could suffer through those. On the plus side, he has slowed down and stopped mumbling.
If only Ryan would stop imitating Alan!
Alan Partridge again? Zzz 🥱 😴
None whatsoever. However I know people who are actual 'bookworms', who live for reading and have encyclopedic knowledge of all things literary. Ryan wants to be viewed as one of those but has barely a leaving cert knowledge of books.
It's like calling yourself a huge Beatles fan, cos it suits, and when asked what your favourite album, you say 'The best of the Beatles'. It's the fakery that 'causes ire'.
He talks about the same handful of books, as if he has just read them. There have already been example of this posted.
Yeah. It has become clear that despite Tubridy continually talking about books, that he doesn't. It's his manufactured persona that is 'causing such ire'.
He was at that on the RTÉ radio programme too. One of the last times I remember him talking about books prior to the gravy train derailing was him going about "chain smoking books" over the previous days.
Ah one week isn't the ' last laugh' 🥴😉
He has zero personality so appoints one to himself.
He was ‘the toyman’ in Ireland.
Now he’s ‘the reader ?’ In England.
The above post by @hawley is very insightful.
We all know the type. Wants to to come across as well versed in all aspects of culture but is a sad pseudo-intellectual at best but most likely just a proper ****.
Needless to say he had the last laugh
Double post
It may get easier for him once he gets the melted Toblerone off his face.
Is it just me or are any more getting fed up of the self appointed "nerd" bookworm persona he has created since he joined Virgin Radio.
So boring.
At Least Gerry Ryan and Chris Evans can think off the cuff and come up with original stuff.
I thought the Paddy Power sponsorship was going to start this week, but heard nothing in the half hour or so i lissen to today. It appears he has been told to crank down both the Orish and talking speed. On his first day Tubbs as gasping for air between sentences.
10-1 is their key morning slot?
They picked their man on a hugely knocked down salary.
A no-lose situation for them
Listening to another music station in the car this afternoon. The presenter received a text from a listener stating "Such a refreshing change from the age of talking heads and ads"
He’s painful to listen to. Hard to know if he’s head is right at all
yep open the other thread so things are back to normal.
The toyman was getting some roasting over there.
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