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What gave Gaybo the right to be condescending to a single mother on The Late Late

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  • #122
    Czarcasm
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    Christ the Redeemer wrote: »
    Nope.


    I'm guessing kneemos was referring to a commonly used phrase at the time where Gay Byrne had a habit of taking credit for pretty much anything that made it big, like U2 for instance, even though it was Dave Fanning actually gave them their big break.

    We have Gay Byrne to thank for this though-

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpVyGaHM6rE


  • #123
    TheLastMohican
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    Norwesterner wrote: »
    If Byrne was so pro-Church, why would he give Sinead O Connor a hate platform to tear up a photo of the Pope on the Late Late.
    Around the same time as far as I remember.
    amdublin wrote: »
    You remember wrong.
    That did not happen on the late late.

    True amdub. It was The David Letterman Show


  • #124
    Frank Lee Midere
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    Czarcasm wrote: »
    Except she did that on Saturday Night Live, an American show, and not the Late Late Show.

    Nevertheless he had her on all the time before and after that incident. He also had fairly radical feminists on frequently.


  • #125
    Czarcasm
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    Frank Lee Midere wrote: »
    Nevertheless he had her on all the time before and after that incident. He also had fairly radical feminists on frequently.


    Ah sure it's like I said earlier on in the thread, herself and Tommy Tommy Tiernan were like permanent fixtures on the show, and speaking of radical I remember but can't find a link for the original interview now but he had Salman Rushdie on the show (author of "The Satanic Verses") not long after a fatwa was declared on him by the Ayatollah at the time!


  • #126
    Mardy Bum
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    Czarcasm wrote: »
    Ah sure it's like I said earlier on in the thread, herself and Tommy Tommy Tiernan were like permanent fixtures on the show, and speaking of radical I remember but can't find a link for the original interview now but he had Salman Rushdie on the show (author of "The Satanic Verses") not long after a fatwa was declared on him by the Ayatollah at the time!

    I seriously doubt the presenter had input into the choice of guests that would be a production call.


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  • #127
    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    TheLastMohican wrote: »
    True amdub. It was The David Letterman Show

    Saturday Night Live.


  • #128
    Frank Lee Midere
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    Mardy Bum wrote: »
    I seriously doubt the presenter had input into the choice of guests that would be a production call.

    I'd imagine Gay was his own boss.


  • #129
    WilyCoyote
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    Frank Lee Midere wrote: »
    I'd imagine Gay was his own boss.

    Frankly my dear, in his own house yes. If he was his own boss he would have negotiated a cut of the action, I imagine. If not, then he fell short in the business department.


  • #130
    Czarcasm
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    Mardy Bum wrote: »
    I seriously doubt the presenter had input into the choice of guests that would be a production call.


    As Frank says Mardy, Gay Byrne could pretty much do whatever he wanted on the Late Late, I don't know are you old enough to remember watching the show but the way he hijacked and took some of his guests by surprise was unheard of for it's time.

    He brought down some of the most powerful figures in Irish society from Padraig Flynn's shady development deals, to Charles Haughey's affair with Terry Keane, and as has been mentioned already in the thread, he chaired debates on issues like abortion, homosexuality, and abuses within the RCC that left the Irish public slack jawed with the way he left high ranking members of the hierarchy squirming uncomfortably on live television! :D

    There really hasn't been anything like it on Irish television since tbh!


  • #131
    An Riabhach
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    AllGunsBlazing wrote: »
    That show was a real ambush by Gaybo. Never thought much of him to begin with and even less of him after that.

    Same here-never liked him.

    Always acted like a proper "Mr.Righteous".
    And as for the ambush,that was just him trying to increase his popularity and enhance his reputation.

    Siúl leat, siúl leat, le dóchas i do chroí, is ní shiúlfaidh tú i d'aonar go deo.



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  • #132
    greenie
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    I remember he had Imelda May on (the One Night Only show I think) and she told the audience that when she arrived at the studio he welcomed her then looked her up and down and said 'You're not wearing that are you?'. I don't think he expected her to say it on camera but he didn't seem at all embarrassed. It really annoyed me. I remember thinking what right does he have to ask any guest that, Irish or not, huge star or not.


  • #133
    Samsgirl
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    At least what Casey & Cleary was in someway normal. As in a sexual relationship with a woman.


  • #134
    RobbingBandit
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    Samsgirl wrote: »
    At least what Casey & Cleary was in someway normal. As in a sexual relationship with a woman.

    :mad: Down with this sort of thing.


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