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

Definitely slowing down.

I've yet to hear a single second of his Virgin show, just haven't had the interest, despite this thread.

Since the start I've probably listened to about 8-10 of his links over the course of about 5-6 different days and won't be tuning in again as my previously held belief that Tubridy is an utterly useless broadcaster has been (in my mind) confirmed, and that once removed from the molly coddled cushion of angel farts that he existed in within RTÉ, he'd be shown up for being as much.

I'll still however enjoy this and any other threads that are opened on the subject matter, as they reaffirm to me that I'm not the only one that believes how utterly dislikable & talentless Tubridy is.

Yes, I really don't like him, but not in an unhealthy way as I actually enjoy not liking him. He doesn't 'live rent free' in my head, as the only thoughts I give to him are when I read/participate in this thread... outside of that he doesn't really exist in my world (thankfully).

I can't be bothered tuning in either. I only ever heard his RTE radio show in waiting rooms etc. Even that made for tough listening at times because he seemed to have become increasingly insufferable over the years. I was curious to know what he would be like on a British radio station and if he'd change his style at all. We know the answer to that now. I'm pretty confident that if I was to listen any day this week it'll be more of the same. The only things of interest now are how long he'll last in London and what new tricks NK has up his sleeve. I'm sure there are fans who are happy to hear him back on the air. Most of us, I suspect, are looking at this and enjoying the drama. It is a great tale to be fair. How a limited broadcaster made it to the top of his profession and messed it up through hubris.

As someone who has helped pay his wages for years, I can't say I'm unhappy that RTE presenter pay has come under the microscope. If he doesn't do well in the UK, it's going to make those arguments for inflated presenter pay look increasingly hollow. I don't want to see anyone living in bedsits living in pot noodles but sanity has to prevail.

When the NK stops astroturfing threads like this then it's over. Ryan will ring Noel and Noel will reply "new number, who dis?"

Yeah I definitely won't be even accidentally dialing in, the station is a stretch too far for me 😀

He must have killed everyone with his joke. :) We'll have to start referring to his show as "The Alan Partidge Project". (With apologies to Alan Parsons.)

Regards...jmcc

☹️ I was hoping to have a little flutter.

I wonder what vegetable we could use as a benchmark? He's not going to be a Liz Truss lettuce. Maybe a turnip? Something that'll hang around for a while but eventually reaches a sell-by date.

Absolutely stunned that you are trying to explain a Tubridy joke. Will you be doing this for each one Tubridy attempts? It might have worked with his dedicated Dublin listenership. How do you think this stuff goes down with a UK audience?

Regards...jmcc

Seeing as how he met his comeuppance maybe a leek?

I'm sure you have the real inside scoop.

It's perfectly logical in the circumstances.

Regard, not jmcc

Except I didn’t explain the joke at all in my post, so I really don’t know what you’re on about. 🤷🏻

Do you for some reason think a UK audience won’t get a golf pun? Or that they all somehow have a highly sophisticated sense of humour over there?

They do have golf in the UK, and they also have Bradley Walsh. This kind of thing wouldn’t be alien to them at all.

Schrödinger's Presenter: He's hated by some because they don't like that he earned between half and three-quarters of a million euro a year for more than 15 years running, but he's simultaneously poor because the same people don't like him and want him to be.

He's most certainly not getting paid as he did on RTE. We all know that. But this idea that he's living in a bedsit in Kilburn eating dry pot noodle from his shoe with a fork he found on the tube while paying for his slot on national radio is patently laughable.