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Jeremy Kyle

  • 01-01-2015 2:29pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 358 ✭✭


    I've been off work for a few weeks and have got into watching Jeremy Kyle on a daily basis.

    For the life of me, I can't understand why anyone would go on such a programme. Their private lives are broadcasted on national TV and they leave themselves open for abuse/humiliation/ridicule from Kyle himself.

    I understand the guests get some payment but surely it can't be worth it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Oops69


    If you don't watch it you won't get vexed about how humans degrade themselves so much .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 358 ✭✭SPM1959


    Oops69 wrote: »
    If you don't watch it you won't get vexed about how humans degrade themselves so much .

    I'm not getting 'vexed' I just can't understand why someone would put themselves in that position.


  • Registered Users Posts: 232 ✭✭TheOtherBloke


    SPM1959 wrote: »
    I'm not getting 'vexed' I just can't understand why someone would put themselves in that position.

    I may be wrong. But some might do it for the money.. they dont care about the national humiliation.


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    SPM1959 wrote: »
    I've been off work for a few weeks and have got into watching Jeremy Kyle on a daily basis.

    For the life of me, I can't understand why anyone would go on such a programme. Their private lives are broadcasted on national TV and they leave themselves open for abuse/humiliation/ridicule from Kyle himself.

    I understand the guests get some payment but surely it can't be worth it.

    They get paid 100 sterling per person plus expenses to appear on the show, it's scripted to a point and also heavily edited.

    There's been several law suits against the production company.


  • Registered Users Posts: 917 ✭✭✭Mr_Muffin


    The man is a genius.

    I love watching the clips on YouTube they are comedy gold.


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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,746 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Given some of the AH threads & discussions in the past, perhaps Mr. Kyle would be considered tame in comparison.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,465 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    You know you live in a bad area when you see him in it with a net.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Mr_Muffin wrote: »
    The man is a genius.

    I love watching the clips on YouTube they are comedy gold.

    Yep. Some great clips on there. "Can you even spell Father?" is a particular favourite of mine.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,308 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Jerry Springer for chavs


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 358 ✭✭SPM1959


    They get paid 100 sterling per person plus expenses to appear on the show, it's scripted to a point and also heavily edited.

    There's been several law suits against the production company.

    Is that all? :eek:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    Wasn't the bould Jeremy caught cheating on his wife?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,565 ✭✭✭K.Flyer


    Some people just need a way to vent themselves in public..

    Americans have Jerry, English have Jeremy and we have Joe.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,907 ✭✭✭✭Kristopherus


    K.Flyer wrote: »
    Some people just need a way to vent themselves in public..

    Americans have Jerry, English have Jeremy and we have Joe.

    Well, Joe is a saint compared to the other two cretins;).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 358 ✭✭SPM1959


    branie2 wrote: »
    Jerry Springer for chavs

    I think Jerry is more honest that it is for entertainment purposes only. Kyle pretends that he is trying to help the people on the show.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 927 ✭✭✭Icaras


    I know a girl who wanted to on it to get her child and boyfriend back. Very low intelligence and desperation are a terrible mix.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,308 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    The guests are probably a dentist's worst nightmare


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,063 ✭✭✭Greenmachine


    Race to the bottom for the guests.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    If you are on welfare, ugly as pure sin, uneducated and ignorant, a junky/alcoholic and missing several teeth then you too could avail of the opportunity to appear on JK.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 474 ✭✭Candy_Girl


    Where do they advertise for guests? They're all quite scary.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 358 ✭✭SPM1959


    Candy_Girl wrote: »
    Where do they advertise for guests? They're all quite scary.

    He reads out contact numbers on the show.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,743 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    SPM1959 wrote: »
    I've been off work for a few weeks and have got into watching Jeremy Kyle on a daily basis.

    For the life of me, I can't understand why anyone would go on such a programme. Their private lives are broadcasted on national TV and they leave themselves open for abuse/humiliation/ridicule from Kyle himself.

    I understand the guests get some payment but surely it can't be worth it.

    Most of them are skangers, they don't care how they look on the show, it's money for a few more cans of Dutch Gold.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    Jeremy Kyle is an egotistical gobsheet.


  • Registered Users Posts: 677 ✭✭✭Cheese Wagstaff




  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭The Diabolical Monocle




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,812 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Wasn't the bould Jeremy caught cheating on his wife?

    Gambling addict also.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,228 ✭✭✭mrsbyrne


    "Put something on the end of it"in a voice filled with contempt followed by rapturous applause. Almost every episode I've seen. Strangely compelling. People with a nauseating sense of entitlement coupled with zero self esteem.TV gold.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 256 ✭✭wilhelm roentgen


    branie2 wrote: »
    The guests are probably a dentist's worst nightmare

    What's got 20 faces and 3 teeth?

    An episode of the Jeremy Kyle show.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,901 ✭✭✭Mince Pie


    I can't watch it. I find it utterly depressing and just cannot fathom how popular it is. Only time I've been subjected to it is at work in a breakroom and its always on with people frothing at the mouth watching it. I'd rather stick rusty spoons in my eyes than subject myself to watching pondlife on the TV and that's just describing Vile himself. Odious little man.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 358 ✭✭SPM1959


    mrsbyrne wrote: »
    "Put something on the end of it"in a voice filled with contempt followed by rapturous applause. Almost every episode I've seen. Strangely compelling. People with a nauseating sense of entitlement coupled with zero self esteem.TV gold.

    Compelling is correct. I watch it every day now for the same reasons.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 889 ✭✭✭opiniated


    SPM1959 wrote: »
    I think Jerry is more honest that it is for entertainment purposes only. Kyle pretends that he is trying to help the people on the show.

    I think they're both twats, tbh.

    Gerry is a sleazebag twat, and Jeremy is a self-righteous, pompous twat, imo.

    Hard to say which of them are the most sickening, but I think Gerry just edges it for his obvious enjoyment of other peoples misery.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 893 ✭✭✭PLL


    syklops wrote: »
    Yep. Some great clips on there. "Can you even spell Father?" is a particular favourite of mine.

    Hahaha.

    It is awful to say this, but I think some of the guests are lacking so little intelligence they don't realise he is mocking them. I think many of them love the attention. It makes them famous in their estate.


  • Registered Users Posts: 172 ✭✭Steve_Carella


    One of the worst shows on the telly. It was actually quite good for the first short while when it started, it seemed like a genuine attempt to reach out and talk people through problematic situations that they were in that others could identify with.

    But then they seemed to decide that the way forward was the lowest common denominator. The lowest of the low, people at the absolute bottom of the barrel who will come on and rant endlessly about being in horrendous situations that I couldn't dream up if I tried, all hosted by this smarmy git with a smug superior attitude who is only interested in dragging his guests' lives through the gutter for the cheapest form of entertainment you could imagine.

    I love it!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭boobar


    Tis car crash stuff really

    Lots complain about this low brow entertainment but almost everyone will watch it at some stage or another.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 677 ✭✭✭Cheese Wagstaff


    Can't find it on Youtube, but the story goes...

    A hilarious Jamaican man named 'Spurgeon' (his actual name) was doing the lie detector for cheating on his wife. He passed the first question asking if he had kissed/had sexual contact with anyone apart from the one woman his wife knew about. Cue him celebrating wildly, very vocal and thrilled to bits. Second question: Have you had sexual intercourse with anybody else?

    "Spurgeon refused to answer the question and later admitted to having sex with five different women."

    Cue Spurgeon's face just dropping. He must have forgotten about the other questions, poor lad.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    You always notice the huge visual difference between the audience and the people on the stage. The crowd look like respectable human beings whereas the guests look like your typical scumbag. No shame from them at all.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,228 ✭✭✭mrsbyrne


    You always notice the huge visual difference between the audience and the people on the stage. The crowd look like respectable human beings whereas the guests look like your typical scumbag. No shame from them at all.

    In the front row of one show I watched I spotted 5 or 6 ladies of Asian persuasion all wearing their headscarves.They were riveted by the puerile carry on of the infidels who live amongst them. Great stuff.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,816 ✭✭✭Baggy Trousers


    mrsbyrne wrote: »
    In the front row of one show I watched I spotted 5 or 6 ladies of Asian persuasion all wearing their headscarves.They were riveted by the puerile carry on of the infidels who live amongst them. Great stuff.

    Asia is a big place. Do you mean from the middle east or muslim?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,986 ✭✭✭mikeym


    If only Jeremy knew how good the scroungers have it over here.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭ireland.man


    The man should be a guest on his own show. Kyle had a huge gambling problem, stole from his wife and repeatedly cheated on her. I would never judge another person normally but by god he has some neck! The only difference between him and his guests is his middle class appearance.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭Saralee4


    I think the guests go on the show because they almost become a local celebrity in their area.

    It seems like a lot of them are alcoholics, drug addicts or cheaters with mental health problems.

    Jeremy kyle abuses this situation for his "show" and plays the good guy trying to help when really he is just exploiting them.

    He doesn't really care about them. Sure you wouldn't have a show like that if you genuinely cared. Imagine the embarrassment the guests children go through, the fact the guest is going to have a hard time getting a job after going on the show etc.

    anybody who benefits from "helping" someones misfortunes publicly ie with viewer ratings, fame etc is not a genuine nice person them self.

    If jeremy kyle knows better and knows how to help these people then he would not be in the business of exploiting them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,228 ✭✭✭mrsbyrne


    Asia is a big place. Do you mean from the middle east or muslim?

    Well let me see.......based on the few seconds they were on screen, it would be hard for me to pinpoint their origin to any more than 100 miles square....but I would hazard a guess at saying they were all British born Asians. I don't believe they have a problem with that description. You do though. What problem do you have?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,271 ✭✭✭annascott


    They don't have any self respect and most are ESN.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,816 ✭✭✭Baggy Trousers


    mrsbyrne wrote: »
    Well let me see.......based on the few seconds they were on screen, it would be hard for me to pinpoint their origin to any more than 100 miles square....but I would hazard a guess at saying they were all British born Asians. I don't believe they have a problem with that description. You do though. What problem do you have?

    You said "Asian persuasion" but also mentioned "headscarves" and "infidels" so I was trying to clarify whether Asian really meant muslim women from the middle east or somewhere else in Asia which is Earth's largest and most populous continent (4 billion people+) stretching from Istanbul to Moscow to Vladivostok to Tokyo to Kuala Lumpur to Singapore to Bangalore to Riyadh.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,228 ✭✭✭mrsbyrne


    You said "Asian persuasion" but also mentioned "headscarves" and "infidels" so I was trying to clarify whether Asian really meant muslim women from the middle east or somewhere else in Asia which is Earth's largest and most populous continent (4 billion people+) stretching from Istanbul to Moscow to Vladivostok to Tokyo to Kuala Lumpur to Singapore to Bangalore to Riyadh.

    Why do you want to know?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,816 ✭✭✭Baggy Trousers


    mrsbyrne wrote: »
    Why do you want to know?

    I think I know already but I hope you learned something about "Asian persuasion". Happy New Year!


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭ireland.man


    This bickering is so sad and the last thing I expected on a Jeremy Kyle thread.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,228 ✭✭✭mrsbyrne


    I think I know already but I hope you learned something about "Asian persuasion". Happy New Year!

    I have no idea what your talking about and funnily enough I don't think you do yourself so Many Happy Returns and try to lay off the sauce a bit for 2015!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    What's ESN?


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