The Ryan Tubridy Show **Mod: Read OP**

Not even when the Burkes were dragged out of court again?

Why do you torture yourself?

How busy is your life when you have more posts on this thread than any other poster?

You claim you don't hate watch or hate listen yet you seem to have heard and seen more of Oliver Callan than most.....and have very strong feelings on him.

The anger and seething rage from your posts is disturbing.

You are hate posting and hate scrolling.

He's a big deal

If you chuckled then it's at least better than Mrs brown

Helen mcentee was brilliant

They've got the eye on the prize, a regular column for the Toyman in Ireland Own.

So not any any social media outside of X but Tubs show isn't really driving the tweetmachine. Most of the tweets are from Irish people (many disgruntently, and few really saying anything much) but there is very few comments from UK listners

Usually this would make a new article on RSVP

On the issue of Tubridy and his agent making a "big success" of things with the Virgin gig, the column, the syndication and this being a good barometer of Tubridy's inherent high value as an in-demand media personality etc........ time will tell.

I would be more inclined to swallow that narrative had Tub's moved to what many would have perceived as his natural home in the UK, BBC radio, for a suitably eye watering contract with suitably little airtime or responsibilities to boot. But he didn't. He hung around for 6 months while his agent got him into very small beer station, for a salary a fraction of his old one and with a workload multiples of anything he's had to cope with before.

If anything his " big success" is just the bare bare minimum you would expect from a man who was Ireland's leading broadcaster and highest paid on air presenter. To be quite honest, the Virgin gig would be more befitting a young guy or girl 20 years his junior. Would Gay Byrne, Gerry Ryan, Pat Kenny et al, ie former RTE highest paid people, have walked out of Montrose at 50 years old to go to the UK to do what Tubridy is doing now? And if they did, would it be seen as a success?

Also, the idea that he would end up on the street with a brown paper bag shouting at the sky was never a realistic prospect and none of us who believe he was purely a product of nepotism and latterly "the golden circle" would ever have expected that his media career would just end immediately. Ryan Tubridy is a trademark, a brand that obviously has value after 20 plus years front and centre of Irish life. Of course some media company was going to take him on to see if there was an audience there that could be capitalized on. Of course some UK outfit would look at his enviable CV and think "This guy's got something, I mean look at the jobs he's had over there. Maybe he's the new Wogan. Can we get him cheap? We can? Lets try him!"

The proof in the pudding is...time. If Tub's is still on UK radio and writing that column in 12 months, I will go to my menswear retailer and eat every hat in the place. My money is on a return to RTE in one to two years? Why? Because Tubridy has no scrupples and no shame and will bite Bakhurst's hand off with any offer he gets. He is desperate for a return to the La La Land that is Irish public service broadcasting. And RTE are, and always will be, a basketcase that will look after their own. As a previous poster said, FF wrecked the country and sent 100s of thousands of young people abroad and yet they now sit in government and much is forgotten. By contrast, 150k and financial cute hoorism is easily forgotten in a couple of short years.

Tubs show isn't really driving the tweetmachine...there is very few comments from UK listners

That might signify he's doing enough to justify his existence. As long as he isn't driving UK listeners to switch off or over in their droves that may be good enough for Virgin...

Conan was a big deal once upon a time, less so now. I think Tubs based a lot of his style on Conan. If you watch Conan's 90s show clips on YouTube you'll see what I mean. It's like he apes his mannerisms and physicalities, and tries to be a charming in a similarly buffoonish way, but it worked for Conan, who at least had some impressive accomplishments to his name, less so for Ryan who has the charm of a second hand toilet seat. I reckon the younger generation have never heard of either Conan or Tubridy, and don't care about either. I wish Conan well because he wrote some great Simpsons episodes and also has some legendary interactions with Norm MacDonald on his chat show, whereas I hate Tubridy and everything he represents.

I'd say that was it alright. It all makes total sense now - when you look at his big break from Tubridy Tonight where he was considered a goofball and a bit shambolic but with a touch of comedy - that touch of comedy was almost certainly largely inspired from Conan, who Irish viewers would be largely unfamiliar with at the time. Hardly any Irish people would have been watching Conan, and Tubridy likely just copied his style and mannerisms that would have been all original stuff to Irish audiences. Once he got his foot in the door then it all opened up for him and he was pushed for The Late Late Show.

If people can remember back to when he was first chosen for the Late Late Show,,, the biggest discussion at the time was whether or not he could do serious discussion, because he was known as a bit of a clown on Tubridy tonight (the good kind of clown but a clown nonetheless).

And we certainly got our answer, and it was all downhill from there.

I don't know that they will boot him from UK radio, he might go on regional radio or middle-of-the-night filler and claim he loves the quietness of it all, the only thing we can be certain of is he won't do well.

Could be the basis for a new column in the Phoenix magazine. :)

Regards...jmcc

The LLS show last night was arguable the best yet. I hadn't watched it in over a month but its certainly improved.

Patrick Kielty has really relaxed into his role, what I like about him is that he allows his guest to talk, to answer questions, he picks up on the thread in the conversation and goes further with it. That aside his guests last night were top notch.

Conan O Brien was hilarious, we need more of this, less insular, less "Irish celebrities", more outward, worldly, travelled, different perspectives, the way it was when Gay Byrne ran the show! Conan got away with taking the pi## with the Irish language names yet singing an Irish ditty at the end. He wasn't asked how much he "liked Ireland" and what was his "favourite thing about Ireland"? (looking at you Ryan!!)

Then Graham Norton... wow! The trad fest music was great too. Just a fantastic show .

We are being shown now just how limited Ryan Tubridy's skills were! How he got such adulation and such money is beyond me. He was made a "star" yet Patrick Kielty is quietly getting on with the job, smashing it and NOT making it all about him!! Go Patrick.