Memories of mad stuff that happened on live TV.

Hangdogroad · 28-12-2020 1:24pm #1

The time Derek Davis had an English female wrestler as a guest on his live chat show Davis At Large in 1985. I think he was getting her to demonstrate some of her moves and she got him in a headlock. He was down on his knees waving his arms about and couldnt speak as she was covering his mouth with her hand. Two backstage guys ran onset and pulled her away from him to which she started shouting "nobody touches me" and pushed or threw one of them into the set them kicked him or the other guy on the ground. At this stage Derek could be seen with a nosebleed holding a handkerchief up to his face. It was the talk of the schoolyard the next day.

Gardesana Pecher · 28-12-2020 1:26pm

The Bulgarian prime minister almost getting assassinated during a live press conference. Assassin gun jammed.

PsychoPete · 28-12-2020 1:26pm

Guy who slipped on ice

MadYaker · 28-12-2020 1:28pm

Hangdogroad · 28-12-2020 1:29pm

PsychoPete wrote: »

Guy who slipped on ice

Dont think that was live though

Hangdogroad · 28-12-2020 1:30pm

MadYaker wrote: »

I was watching that and thought at first it was one of the guys from Apre Match or something till he started effing.

NewbridgeIR · 28-12-2020 1:30pm

Live phone call to Anything Goes with someone shouting abuse down the phone.

MonkstownHoop · 28-12-2020 1:30pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

The time Derek Davis had an English female wrestler as a guest on his chat show Davis At Large in 1985. I think he was getting her to demonstrate some of her moves and she got him in a headlock. He was down on his knees waving his arms about and couldnt speak as she was covering his mouth with her hand. Two backstage guys ran onset and pulled her away from him to which she started shouting "nobody touches me" and pushed or threw one of them into the set them kicked him or the other guy on the ground. At this stage Derek could be seen with a nosebleed holding a handkerchief up to his face. It was the talk of the schoolyard the next day.

Please say there is online footage of this

eviltwin · 28-12-2020 1:30pm

Jarvis Cocker running wild at the Brits

JeffKenna · 28-12-2020 1:31pm

MonkstownHoop wrote: »

Please say there is online footage of this

I had a look and can't find anything.

SpacialNeeds · 28-12-2020 1:31pm

MadYaker wrote: »

[You.TUBE]pat kenny[/YOU.TUBE]

This thread could just be about him.

Derek Davis used to fill in for Pat before he passed away, he was much more likeable.

28-12-2020 1:32pm

Brian Lenehan's "Mature Recollection" in the Presidential Election. Robinson won.

weldoninhio · 28-12-2020 1:32pm

I remember someone phoning up some kids Saturday morning show when 5-Star were on, and telling them they were sh1t.

Hangdogroad · 28-12-2020 1:33pm

MonkstownHoop wrote: »

Please say there is online footage of this

Unfortunately not. RTE might have it in their archives but live stuff often wasnt recorded even up to the 90s.

Silent Running · 28-12-2020 1:36pm

Tubs saying fuck on the toy show.

Collie D · 28-12-2020 1:37pm

Dave Fanning not realising his mic was on while introducing a Boyzone video and saying Ronan had “more talent in his big nose than the rest of them put together”.

He then had them on as guests a week later.

some random drunk · 28-12-2020 1:39pm

I know it's not live tv, but I'd love to rewatch the whole "jousting question" from the Irish version of Who wants to be a millionaire?

Actually just remembered another one, where Gay Byrne helped the idiot contestant who got the first question wrong. Question was to complete this line, " Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me....?" with the answer being "your ears" but the contestant picked the joke answer "a few bob". Gay just quickly muttered "I think that would be a bad move" and let her guess again. I remember being so annoyed that he helped her out

Mad_maxx · 28-12-2020 1:41pm

MadYaker wrote: »

that guy rammed the RTE studio with his car a few weeks or months later while Ryan Tubridy was hosting his saturday night show ( RTE news interviewed Tubs outside where the glass doors were smashed )

mad as a brush he was , apparently he sent some crazy madcap idea to various RTE staff and kept getting ignored so held a grudge , think he took his own life a number of years ago

Thelonious Monk · 28-12-2020 1:43pm

I remember watching The Den when Ian Dempsey was on it, must have been some time in the 80s when these kind of jokes were popular, but he was reading out jokes that kids used to send in and he said "Here's one from Brian in Ballywherever - why did the Ethiopian..." and then stopped and apologised. Mad that they didn't even screen the letters.

spurshero · 28-12-2020 1:45pm

MadYaker wrote: »

In fairness he made good points behind all of his rambling .if he just done it in a more controlled way most people would agree with him

tobeme2020 · 28-12-2020 1:47pm

Tommy Cooper in the UK. I will never forget this. Everyone thought it was part of the show but in fact he dropped dead in front of millions on live TV. Gone in a few seconds and shows life can be taken in no time.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DHpZq3ul1ld4&ved=2ahUKEwjBs8WJ2vDtAhXpQhUIHcIzAz8QFjACegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw3Fkfchl621AheD-L0TvsnJ

lawred2 · 28-12-2020 1:50pm

tobeme2020 wrote: »

Tommy Cooper in the UK. I will never forget this. Everyone thought it was part of the show but in fact he dropped dead in front of millions on live TV. Gone in a few seconds and shows life can be taken in no time.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DHpZq3ul1ld4&ved=2ahUKEwjBs8WJ2vDtAhXpQhUIHcIzAz8QFjACegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw3Fkfchl621AheD-L0TvsnJ

Christ

some random drunk · 28-12-2020 1:51pm

I'd have loved to have seen Eamon Dunphy at the 2002 World Cup when he was famously "tired and emotional" while acting as a pundit for an early morning game after a night at Lilies Bordello. He was apparently so drunk RTE sent him home before halftime. I think the match was Russia vs South Korea, but can't seem to find any footage online.

For Forks Sake · 28-12-2020 1:51pm

tobeme2020 wrote: »

Tommy Cooper in the UK. I will never forget this. Everyone thought it was part of the show but in fact he dropped dead in front of millions on live TV. Gone in a few seconds and shows life can be taken in no time.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DHpZq3ul1ld4&ved=2ahUKEwjBs8WJ2vDtAhXpQhUIHcIzAz8QFjACegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw3Fkfchl621AheD-L0TvsnJ

As fondly referenced to in this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5LdYA0wef8

some random drunk · 28-12-2020 1:53pm

tobeme2020 wrote: »

Tommy Cooper in the UK. I will never forget this. Everyone thought it was part of the show but in fact he dropped dead in front of millions on live TV. Gone in a few seconds and shows life can be taken in no time.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DHpZq3ul1ld4&ved=2ahUKEwjBs8WJ2vDtAhXpQhUIHcIzAz8QFjACegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw3Fkfchl621AheD-L0TvsnJ

I read about that and apparently he didn't actually die in the live footage, just collapsed. He died a few hours later in the hospital.

Edit: I may be wrong on that actually. Wikipedia suggests CPR was performed on him behind the curtain and he was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. I can't remember where I read he lived for a few hours later, so maybe that's not true.

LollipopJimmy · 28-12-2020 1:53pm

some random drunk wrote: »

I'd have loved to have seen Eamon Dunphy at the 2002 World Cup when he was famously "tired and emotional" while acting as a pundit for an early morning game after a night at Lilies Bordello. He was apparently so drunk RTE sent him home before halftime. I think the match was Russia vs South Korea, but can't seem to find any footage online.

I came here to mention Dunphy but more the 'I'll tell you who wrote it'

Mad_maxx · 28-12-2020 1:55pm

spurshero wrote: »

In fairness he made good points behind all of his rambling .if he just done it in a more controlled way most people would agree with him

he accused PK of being an " arsehole" because he ignored his brilliant idea of a time machine

Mad_maxx · 28-12-2020 2:01pm

circa 1987 , Bud Dwyer ( treasurer of one of the states governments
) held a press conference following news of his involvement in some scandal

about a minute into it , he pulled out a gun and shot himself

NewbridgeIR · 28-12-2020 2:05pm

some random drunk wrote: »

I know it's not live tv, but I'd love to rewatch the whole "jousting question" from the Irish version of Who wants to be a millionaire?

Brilliant. From what I remember

The definition of jousting was a question on the Irish Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

The guy didn't know, did a 50/50 and then phoned a friend. Mounted combat was one of the options, can't remember the other.

The friend paused for around 15 seconds and said 'I think the answer is jousting'.

The contestant and Gay Byrne looked at each other in horror before shouting 'No! Jousting is what we are asking about'. The friend then said he didn't know. The guy went for mounted combat in the end but wasted two lifelines in the process.

StupidLikeAFox · 28-12-2020 2:06pm

Remember Russell brand presenting the NME awards and was having a nightmare, jokes weren't hitting, crowed were rowdy etc. Bob Geldof gets up to accept an daward and starts off with "Russell Brand...what c*nt". He done his speech then complaining about poverty etc and went and sat down

Russell Brand comes back and says "Bob Geldof everybody - a man who knows lots about poverty as he has been dining out on I Don't Like Mondays for the past 30 years". Cuts to Bob in the crowd and hes looking like a bulldog chewing a wasp

DJIMI TRARORE · 28-12-2020 2:07pm

The mad Irish priest interrupting the Olympic marathon and later the British GP, completely nuts

Atlantic Dawn · 28-12-2020 2:08pm

Pat Kenny getting hammered out of it by an audience member, he also mentions him suing a woman about a field, the hand gestures are gold lol...

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

funkey_monkey · 28-12-2020 2:11pm

Your man giving off to the author of Angela's Ashes on the late late.

Linda Martin confronting an audience member on the late late.

Hangdogroad · 28-12-2020 2:11pm

When Dawn French told Pat Kenny to fcuk off in reply to a lame quip he made about her weight.

WoollyRedHat · 28-12-2020 2:13pm

It's almost like Pat Kenny is a bit of an arsehole.

AMKC · 28-12-2020 2:13pm

MadYaker wrote: »

Lol at the little Philip's 17inch TV. I have the exact same one in my bedroom lol.its ancient at this stage and has not been turned on in years but maybe it will be worth something in years to come.

I also remember watching this live on TV. While Pat was no Gay Byrne he was certainly better that Tubridy. Imagine this happening go Tubridy he would probably have a heart attack lol.

This is only last year and not really live but the axle falling off the Pontiac car on Top Gear was good even if it was scripted or planned.

everlast75 · 28-12-2020 2:13pm

weldoninhio wrote: »

I remember someone phoning up some kids Saturday morning show when 5-Star were on, and telling them they were sh1t.

Going Live - i was watching it when it happened

One of Carter USM running back on stage after schofield slagging them off at the smash hits awards to swing for him.

Stone Roses shouting "amateurs" when their mics wouldn't work.

Bassist at the MTV Awards (think it was live) throwing his bass up into the air and it landing on his head.

BorneTobyWilde · 28-12-2020 2:16pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6nOWx7tqXw

ThewhiteJesus · 28-12-2020 2:16pm

Oliver Reed on Michael Aspel singing wild one where he could barley stand

Mad_maxx · 28-12-2020 2:17pm

sugarman wrote: »

I think you're underselling that one a little, he blew his brains out on live TV. I have never in my life seen so much blood, it was horrific.

i was only nine at the time , only became aware of the event years later , i have only seen the edited youtube video where he pulls out the gun and the film ends

Mad_maxx · 28-12-2020 2:19pm

StupidLikeAFox wrote: »

Remember Russell brand presenting the NME awards and was having a nightmare, jokes weren't hitting, crowed were rowdy etc. Bob Geldof gets up to accept an daward and starts off with "Russell Brand...what c*nt". He done his speech then complaining about poverty etc and went and sat down

Russell Brand comes back and says "Bob Geldof everybody - a man who knows lots about poverty as he has been dining out on I Don't Like Mondays for the past 30 years". Cuts to Bob in the crowd and hes looking like a bulldog chewing a wasp

perhaps Russell Brand isnt so bad after all if he burned that Geldof king tosspot like that

DJIMI TRARORE · 28-12-2020 2:19pm

Sam fox and mick Fleetwood presenting the brits live, absolutel chaos, a BBC news woman reading about a bomb exploding just as a bulb explodes in the studio, I think she almost sh1t herself

furiousox · 28-12-2020 2:20pm

Johhny Rotten live on "I'm a celebrity" shouting "Oh the f..king cnunts!" when Ant or Dec told him the "the great british public had voted to keep him in the jungle"

Iggy Pop jumping into the crowd at the MTV awards in Dublin.

Penfailed · 28-12-2020 2:20pm

tobeme2020 wrote: »

Tommy Cooper in the UK. I will never forget this. Everyone thought it was part of the show but in fact he dropped dead in front of millions on live TV. Gone in a few seconds and shows life can be taken in no time.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DHpZq3ul1ld4&ved=2ahUKEwjBs8WJ2vDtAhXpQhUIHcIzAz8QFjACegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw3Fkfchl621AheD-L0TvsnJ

Seen the thread title, immediately thought of this, scrolled down to see if anyone else had posted it. It was mad.

EDIT - I was only 8 at the time.

Mad_maxx · 28-12-2020 2:23pm

ThewhiteJesus wrote: »

Oliver Reed on Michael Aspel singing wild one where he could barley stand

thats nothing , he was once so p1SSed on a show , he made a pass at a feminist lesbian who was on with several other members of a feminist lesbian grouping , when she rebuked him , he called her " saggy t1ts "

why they invited Ollie on in the first place is a mystery ?

Wibbs · 28-12-2020 2:28pm

Mad_maxx wrote: »

why they invited Ollie on in the first place is a mystery ?

He was good for ratings I'd reckon.

The J Stands for Jay · 28-12-2020 2:28pm

weldoninhio wrote: »

I remember someone phoning up some kids Saturday morning show when 5-Star were on, and telling them they were sh1t.

I believe that person ended up working on the show as an adult.

For Forks Sake · 28-12-2020 2:32pm

DJIMI TRARORE wrote: »

Sam fox and mick Fleetwood presenting the brits live, absolutel chaos,

I'd forgotten/blanked out that one, what a mess

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

Jimbob1977 · 28-12-2020 2:33pm

September 11th 2001

The second plane strike

nullzero · 28-12-2020 2:38pm

Jimbob1977 wrote: »

September 11th 2001

The second plane strike

To be fair it's probably the worst thing ever to be broadcast live.

trashcan · 28-12-2020 2:40pm

tobeme2020 wrote: »

Tommy Cooper in the UK. I will never forget this. Everyone thought it was part of the show but in fact he dropped dead in front of millions on live TV. Gone in a few seconds and shows life can be taken in no time.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DHpZq3ul1ld4&ved=2ahUKEwjBs8WJ2vDtAhXpQhUIHcIzAz8QFjACegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw3Fkfchl621AheD-L0TvsnJ

First thing that came to my mind when I saw this thread title. It truly was bizarre, and did look like it was part of the act.

Even better ( if that’s the word). Some years later a presenter was interviewing a comedian about stand up in general and actually asked the question “did Tommy Cooper ever die on stage ?}”. :eek: The look of horror on her face when she realised what she’d said.

Memories of mad stuff that happened on live TV.

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