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

Not to worry, it's never too late to have another run at it 🙂

Irish Times first with the news as always. Coogan didn't appear on the Monday show either. The auditorium was half empty, probably as a result?

Fair play to the Bord Gais, they did email and phone those of us who had prebooked tickets a while ago and offer us a refund if we didn't want to attend in the absence of the star. We went along but clearly a lot of people took the option of the money back.

I wonder did Coogan appear in ANY of the performances at all?

The understudy was some English actor with an Irish name of whom I've never heard before. He did fine, and it is a classic satire/spoof of the Cold War that, sadly, resonates with the world of today.

Some of the jokes are still of the Cold War. You have to be really old (like me) or well versed in the history of the period to get the reference lampooned in "Mr President, we must not allow a mine-shaft gap!!" But the deranged air-force station commander raving about Flouridisation of water being a "Commie plot" that threatens our "precious bodily fluids" is uncomfortably reminiscent of Covid-era antivaxxers and conspiracy theorists who think that Bill Gates is implanting information-detecting microcircuits in our bloodstreams via vaccine rollouts.

The guy who played Strangelove (and the RAF officer and the President of the US-the roles otherwise played by Coogan) was pretty good. So were the other actors although the guy who played the bellicose Buck Turgidson was not a patch on George C Scott from the movie. The set and stage effects were first class. All in all, a disappointment that we didn't get to see Coogan, whom I admire greatly, but a good show nonetheless.

I don't think so 😲.

Thanks for the excellent review 👍

I am not sure any fans of Kubrick and the film might have some interest in going.

The PK Valentines was very sanitised compared to the maul fest of later Tubridy seasons!

Thanks again @Welsh Megaman for your cute pictures!

I like Fiona Shaw, but would give the rest of the guest's a pass.

Seeing your post triggered the opening of the thread, because give it skip last week. And hadn't gone looking yet myself yet for the below info. Was still trying to find out what PrimeTime is about tonight!

• Fiona will be talking about her iconic roles in Bad Sisters and Killing Eve, as well as her latest film Park Avenue which premieres this week at the Dublin International Film Festival.

Who does Doireann Garrity appeal to, - in my 30's and work with a lot of females around 20-40 age bracket and she's never positively received

Im really looking forward to listening to Kathryn Thomas tell us that she has children.

No Operation Transformation for her this year, big cut in salary, no patronising fat people who suffer from depression or other health problems.

Decent impersonation, in fairness.

But let's keep that quiet.

The audience aren't watching

The audience have voted. Zero interest come from them

Good god.. what a mind-numbingly boring and pointless interview