PK@rte.ie (again). The All New (Patrick Kielty) Late Late Show Thread

You fill in a form and then a member of the team will contact you. I know this.

So for the Late Late Show to have 'RA supporters' in the audience they would have to go through the applications and find the forms with 'I'm a 'RA supporter' 'Gerry Adams is my hero' on them and then one of the team would have contacted them (it says it there on the website) and invited them on. For one guest. 😁😁😁

Wow, RTE staff are doing a real deep dig on applicants to fill an audience with 'RA supporters' for one guest??? Just Wow!

Gay Byrne was good, but he is dead and gone sadly. Was as opinionated and biased on certain subjects as anyone TBH

Well known to have 'views' planted in the audience and on the panels of his shows to ambush guests. Ask Annie Murphy or Gerry Adams about that. Both of those guests schooled him though.

The RTE staff on the Late Republican show do not have to do a "deep dig" on those who fill in the application forms / the family and friends of guests. Would be a fairly easy dig. Especially considering virtually all of the people who he has had on his show commenting about N.I.Ireland politics have been Republicans, from McLean to McAleese to O'Neill to Rea etc 

If Kielty wanted to be even handed, he should have had the other joint minister on, Emma L.P. That is what Gay Bryne would have done.

You do not think there were Republicans whooping and clapping on cue on the Late Late last Friday night? Then listen again.

When Ian Paisley appeared on the Late Late show in 2009 I don't think there was a Shinner present to balance things up.

Even his great friend Martin McGuinness didn't appear with him.

I seem to remember another occasion when he appeared on an RTE chat show and was given a very very easy time of it by the host who just happened to be ... his own daughter!!

You are right, when he interviewed Gerry Adams in 1994 he didn't have a Unionist with him, but neither did he give him an easy ride and neither where the hand-picked audience literally whooping and clapping on cue. In those days you did not have to give your social media profile, your list of Irish heroes etc on your application for a late late show ticket.

Even though Byrne sometimes had debates where most of the panel were nationalists, whenever he had a debate on N.I., at least he sometimes - not often, but the odd time - had on his show politicians from the other community in N.I.

Listening to the likes of McLean, McAleese, Michelle O'Neill, Stephen Rea etc talking or commenting on Northern politics gets tedious after a while - you know what they are going to say, especially when they are always unchallenged.

Well done Gay Byrne, fair play. No wonder he had a higher number of viewers.

Kielty asked to be Grand Marshall of St. Patrick's Day parade.

Curious as to whether any of the previous LLS hosts were Patricks Day Marshals ... I couldn't find a list.

Edit, you noticed yourself

Are Kneecap on tonight? That's brilliant, really want to see their award winning documentary and hear what they have to say. Fair play Kielty and producers.

Quick, FrancieBrady’s distracted over on the ‘Callan’s Kicks’ thread 😀

Kitteh, puppeh etc.

Kneecap, balaclava Jedward. No thanks. Slating the Brits, then crying when their begging bowl wasn’t filled by them.

'Puff Paddy'

(checks calendar to make sure it's not 1997)

Knuckles McGinty!

Pat Kenny was a Hot Air Marshall. Lifetime honorary too.