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What's your favourite ridiculous moment on Irish Television?

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  • #32
    Mike Guide 69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,546 ✭✭✭Mike Guide 69


    Aidric wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu6d0ns-JJU


    This for me hasn't been topped. It had it all, a squirming Fianna Fail TD, a squirming Pat Kenny being confronted with the uncomfortable truth, a squirming woman in the chair next to the contributor who in herself is so typical of middle Ireland when someone dares to speak up, the cringe-worthy break the tension joke by Pat to alleviate an audience crippled by the wish to cheer the contributor but just couldn't bring themselves to, but most of all the semi coherent nutter in the pineapple check shirt who makes very valid points only to be shorn by his crippling inner self doubt and borderline psychotic inner monologue.

    Thats brilliant,if memory serves me right, that bloke was the same fella round the late 90's , early 2000's, use to do a soapbox debate in henry street,giving out about the government and bertie ahern


  • #33
    vitani
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,824 ✭✭✭vitani


    Aidric wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu6d0ns-JJU


    This for me hasn't been topped. It had it all, a squirming Fianna Fail TD, a squirming Pat Kenny being confronted with the uncomfortable truth, a squirming woman in the chair next to the contributor who in herself is so typical of middle Ireland when someone dares to speak up, the cringe-worthy break the tension joke by Pat to alleviate an audience crippled by the wish to cheer the contributor but just couldn't bring themselves to, but most of all the semi coherent nutter in the pineapple check shirt who makes very valid points only to be shorn by his crippling inner self doubt and borderline psychotic inner monologue.

    I'm in stitches at the woman next to him. God love her, she's absolutely mortified.


  • #34
    Meangadh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,963 ✭✭✭Meangadh


    Anyone mention Aengus Mac Grianna's "WHAT?!" yet?

    So bloody funny.


  • #35
    MacBizzle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 913 ✭✭✭MacBizzle


    "Now I'm off to go sue an old woman for a field" :D

    Absolute legend.


  • #36
    Lucifer MorningStar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭Lucifer MorningStar


    Aidric wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu6d0ns-JJU


    This for me hasn't been topped. It had it all, a squirming Fianna Fail TD, a squirming Pat Kenny being confronted with the uncomfortable truth, a squirming woman in the chair next to the contributor who in herself is so typical of middle Ireland when someone dares to speak up, the cringe-worthy break the tension joke by Pat to alleviate an audience crippled by the wish to cheer the contributor but just couldn't bring themselves to, but most of all the semi coherent nutter in the pineapple check shirt who makes very valid points only to be shorn by his crippling inner self doubt and borderline psychotic inner monologue.

    Yer man is a ****ing legend :D


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  • #37
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,610 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Aidric wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu6d0ns-JJU


    This for me hasn't been topped. It had it all, a squirming Fianna Fail TD, a squirming Pat Kenny being confronted with the uncomfortable truth, a squirming woman in the chair next to the contributor who in herself is so typical of middle Ireland when someone dares to speak up, the cringe-worthy break the tension joke by Pat to alleviate an audience crippled by the wish to cheer the contributor but just couldn't bring themselves to, but most of all the semi coherent nutter in the pineapple check shirt who makes very valid points only to be shorn by his crippling inner self doubt and borderline psychotic inner monologue.

    Turns out Pat was actually worth what he was getting.


  • #38
    Degag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,162 ✭✭✭✭Degag


    Gaybo putting condoms onto bananas would have to be pretty high up there....


  • #39
    e_e
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


    "How are ya doing pat?!"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiIsIE8iT28


  • #40
    Lucifer MorningStar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭Lucifer MorningStar


    I love how Kenny keeps popping up in this thread


  • #41
    KungPao
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    Degag wrote: »
    Gaybo putting condoms onto bananas would have to be pretty high up there....

    For real!?


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  • #42
    Sound of Silence
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,192 ✭✭✭Sound of Silence


    Mike Guide 69 wrote: »
    Thats brilliant,if memory serves me right, that bloke was the same fella round the late 90's , early 2000's, use to do a soapbox debate in henry street,giving out about the government and bertie ahern

    Debating on the street? Nobody tell him about Boards?


  • #43
    e_e
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


    Mike Guide 69 wrote: »
    Thats brilliant,if memory serves me right, that bloke was the same fella round the late 90's , early 2000's, use to do a soapbox debate in henry street,giving out about the government and bertie ahern
    Here he is on Grafton street:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2xsY-rTqOo


  • #44
    _Whimsical_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,008 ✭✭✭_Whimsical_


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ9wsDGolNk


    Possibly the worlds least graceful proposal courtesy of RTE Today Show.Add to this bucket of cringe the fact that after this fiasco they were offered a free night in a five star hotel and dinner there after the show. She was delighted.
    He responded with "We can't, my mother's having an engagement party in the house, we have to be there at 6".

    Hopefully they're blissfully happy now.


  • #45
    Degag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,162 ✭✭✭✭Degag


    KungPao wrote: »
    For real!?

    Well, don't think he put them on himself but there was a guest who did.

    Caused absolute uproar.


  • #46
    131spanner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭131spanner


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MahY3MSRug0


  • #47
    MacBizzle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 913 ✭✭✭MacBizzle


    _Whimsical_ wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ9wsDGolNk


    Possibly the worlds least graceful proposal courtesy of RTE Today Show.Add to this bucket of cringe the fact that after this fiasco they were offered a free night in a five star hotel and dinner there after the show. She was delighted.
    He responded with "We can't, my mother's having an engagement party in the house, we have to be there at 6".

    Hopefully they're blissfully happy now.

    "Get out yer finger" :D That whole thing was so cringe.


  • #48
    foggy_lad
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    Anytime Louis Walsh gets airtime! He is getting younger and more like peter pan every day!


  • #49
    interlocked
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 535 ✭✭✭interlocked


    Well, it could be the night on the Late Late that Gay had to take off his trousers before the producer would agree for the programme to go off the air.

    Bur more probably,the night on the show that a stocious Ollie Reed did press ups over a prostate Susan George and er, kept forgetting to press up, He then took off his shirt and proceeded to do a handstand on the back of a kitchen chair.

    They had to bring him back the following Saturday to apologise.....

    Now THAT was entertainment,


  • #50
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    On the Irish version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire the contestant used his 50/50. He still didn't know the answer so he asked the audience. Loads of audience members (something like 20%) voted for the two answers that had been removed. I didn't know it was even possible to vote for an answer that had been removed.

    Years ago on the Late Late Show, Ike Turner was being interviewed. He was talking about having sex with a woman in her forties when he was twelve. Pat Kenny said something like "so you were sexually abused?". Ike Turner replied "we just called it fun back then". The audience started laughing and then changed their minds and sounded shocked instead.


  • #51
    EyeSight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭EyeSight


    Skip to 30 seconds.
    Then withdraw


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  • #52
    WildWater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 789 ✭✭✭WildWater


    I don't think it gets more ridiculous than this Oct 2008 classic:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXu40YW_quw


    “Irish banks are so well capitalised compared to any bank anywhere across Europe that I am confident they can absorb any loan or any impairment that emerges in the ordinary course of business over the foreseeable future.”


  • #53
    buck65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,969 ✭✭✭buck65


    Soupy Norman was feckin brilliant. Bizarre but hilarious.


  • #54
    beakerjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,051 ✭✭✭✭beakerjoe


    Those saps from Boyzone dancing on the Late Late Show. Always gets me thinking "How did ye ejits get famous?"


  • #55
    Adamantium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭Adamantium


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoDYCMPX0Ek


    Shows up the whole ridiculousness of the LLS.

    RTE should pay O Briain big money to come back.


  • #56
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    e_e wrote: »
    "How are ya doing pat?!"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiIsIE8iT28

    I couldn't stop laughing when someone re-uploaded that to Youtube called something like 'Eamon Dunphy confronts Pat Kenny over unfair RTE 5-a-side indoor soccer teams'


  • #57
    Spring Onion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,087 ✭✭✭Spring Onion


    When the FF bagman Gallagher got done by the SF tweet live on the Presidential debate...

    I had €500 on Higgins at the time so I was very pleased.


  • #58
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    Has anyone mentioned The Angelus? Always used to crack me up, the solemn up its bum piety of it. People over here thinking I'm on a wind up when I tell them we used to have a call to prayer on the national station every day :D


  • #59
    Dramatik
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    One of my all time favorites!


  • #60
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    Dramatik wrote: »


    One of my all time favorites!

    Ugh. An all time low, more for Irish political etiquette than telly...


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  • #61
    Spring Onion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,087 ✭✭✭Spring Onion


    old hippy wrote: »
    Has anyone mentioned The Angelus? Always used to crack me up, the solemn up its bum piety of it. People over here thinking I'm on a wind up when I tell them we used to have a call to prayer on the national station every day :D

    We still have it. Joke.



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