Ray D'Arcy-Jesus Wept

He is no Jimmy Fallon.

Didn't see last night as I am still watching Making a Murderer so don't want to spoilers yet but I am not surprised to see criticism of D'arcy here.

Did any of you see how he treated Pamela Anderson?
Yes, she's a sex-symbol but she's very intelligent and had a very successful career but D'arcy just treated her like she was a woman who was just famous for sex and had done nothing in her life and was not smart.

He should have been sacked alone for that interview.

The problem for me was that Ray done zero research. Zero.
He put absolutely no thought into any of his questions at all. He sought quite outrightly to trivialise the whole thing and make a mockery of some very, very serious issues.

Dean Strang isn't doing the rounds to grow his profile. Dean Strang believes in justice and he believes in equity.

It would have been better to have seen Ray stop and think for a bit, pull the issues and questions from the series and address & discuss those with Dean, because that's where the debate needs to be.

No one was expecting Ray to come across a genius and expert, but there was sweet f#ck all effort at analysis or awareness of the issues. It was real waving one's dick in your face and saying f"ck you to the country. It epitomises what is wrong with this country in terms of RTE, the public service, government bodies, the whole lot of them. Piss poor performance. Piss poor effort. And still retained. At salaries they don't deserve at all. And f#ck you to the rest of us.

These boys think they're untouchable. It's the whole P Flynn thing all over.

steddyeddy wrote: »

Jesus he is talent-less. RTE have two main prongs of their modus operandi: Nepotism and using a crop rotation style of presenting TV programmes by switching the same presenter again and again in different roles.

The problem with nepotism is obvious (Ryan Tubbs was grandson of directer general of RTE), you hire relatives above talent and once you find out they definitely lack talent you're reluctant to fire them because they're family. Also see Gerry Ryan's daughter and half the staff at RTE.

Presenter rotation is the species we see here. A presenter suited for one role (children's TV) is recycled for radio, adult TV programmes and beauty pagents. Again there is a reluctance to get rid of staff like this. I hope that people make a big deal about this because it's not just about a wasted opportunity, it's about the misappropriation of public funds again and again.

All of which is fine....until you're doing it with public money...money that people can be IMPRISONED for not giving you....then its not fine, its a national ****ing disgrace.

How can someone so incompetent earn a higher salary than the leader of the free world, the president of the USA. It hurts my head to try make sense of it. Can we get a petition going to have him removed from all forms of media funded by license payers.

osarusan wrote: »

Haven't seen the interview, but it sounds familiar to what often happens on Irish chat shows - an interviewer who has such contempt for their audience that they assume the audience will be happy to be served up the same bland and inane tripe rather than something engaging or insightful.

Must have decent figures.

Wonder what they need to do before people switch off.

he reached his peak when he was wrestling Ted the Panda

maudgonner wrote: »

The irony is that if there's one person I'd love to see replacing Darcy it's the guy who got his Today FM slot, Anton Savage.

He's very intelligent, well-informed and can handle both lightweight and serious topics with ease.

His father happens to be the chairman of the RTE Board. His mother is a PR guru who has represented Fine Gael among many others.

Can you explain to me why we draw from a VERY limited gene pool of RTE relatives? We export great actors and tv presenters (Terry Wogan, Graham Norton ect) and yet the best we can do is another relative of someone in RTE. No sorry I can't believe that by some huge coincidence that the one person who can replace a someone like Darcy is someone related to the people who hire him. that would be mathematically highly unlikely.

steddyeddy wrote: »

Can you explain to me why we draw from a VERY limited gene pool of RTE relatives? We export great actors and tv presenters (Terry Wogan, Graham Norton ect) and yet the best we can do is another relative of someone in RTE. No sorry I can't believe that by some huge coincidence that the one person who can replace a someone like Darcy is someone related to the people who hire him. that would be mathematically highly unlikely.

I didn't say here's the only person in the country who is capable of replacing Darcy, I said he's the one person I would like to see replacing him, he would be my personal choice. That's why I find it ironic that he's related to the Chairman of the RTE board.

I can't come up with anyone I'd rather see hosting that show. Can you?

maudgonner wrote: »

I didn't say here's the only person in the country who is capable of replacing Darcy, I said he's the one person I would like to see replacing him, he would be my personal choice. That's why I find it ironic that he's related to the Chairman of the RTE board.

I can't come up with anyone I'd rather see hosting that show. Can you?

Can I name someone? No. The reason for that is our state broadcaster doesn't give new talent much of a chance.

maudgonner wrote: »

I didn't say here's the only person in the country who is capable of replacing Darcy, I said he's the one person I would like to see replacing him, he would be my personal choice. That's why I find it ironic that he's related to the Chairman of the RTE board.

I can't come up with anyone I'd rather see hosting that show. Can you?

I can

Francis Brennan

Excellent with people very funny and a total professional

The short sighted morons in RTE probably can't join these dots and give him a chat show

Tommy Tiernan had a brief chat show run over the Xmas. He was surprisingly good, there was no awkward silences and he got a fair few laughs from the guests. Which is a lot more than what D'Arcy can ever achieve