Memories of mad stuff that happened on live TV.

Lundstram · 28-12-2020 9:01pm

There was a competition on the LLS in the 90s I think it was where Gay Byrne pulled out some lady's name, I think she won a car. He rings her up and tells her, I think Gay asked her how her week was or something and she tells him her daughter had just died in a car crash. Cue awkwardness the likes of which I've neer witnessed before. Gay asks her "why did she die?" He obviously meant how but the woman thinks he's taking the pee, cue epic levels of awkwardness but he saves it by giving her his sympathies.

There was a video of it on Youtube but it was taken down a few years ago.

aristotle25 · 28-12-2020 9:09pm

Don't know when it happened, in the 90's I would think, it was one of those Late Late Shows where Gay Byrne rings someone to say they won a prize and the woman who answers it is distant and distracted. She explains her son or daughter was killed that day (I can't remember the exact details so it might not have been a son or daughter but I think it was) and obviously what would have been a fun surprising live phone call turns somber very quickly.
And then one of the guests, a poet or writer, recites a poem. It really stuck with me.

Found a link to explain - https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/flashback/talk-show-hosts-phone-call-to-prize-winner-takes-heartbreaking-turn-live-on-air/news-story/32394e41c1967ec71f559c647872ce90

mtoutlemonde · 28-12-2020 9:13pm

On a LLS theme, the moment Gay Byrne says to Annie Casey that 'if her son is half the man his father is, he'll do alright' to which she responds 'I'm not too bad either Mr. Byrne' and leaves.

After following this thread all day has shown the importance of the LLS in our lives pre social media. Poor old Ryan wouldn't be able to deal with anything outside the range of Donald Trump, tragic stories and z-list celebrities.

One more that comes to mind is that brave man who outlined his years of abuse at the hands of Christian Brothers on Questions and Answers. That was powerful TV and has not left me.

foxy farmer · 28-12-2020 9:13pm

Some great viewing on the Late Late Show mostly under Gay Byrne's reign.
Condoms, Divorce, Scientology masturbation promiscuity. The audience the panel and the viewers at home really got wound up over things. Comical now looking back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdTCJY9wT3c

Ubbquittious · 28-12-2020 9:14pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

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.

Thats brilliant. Simpler times, now they have to go through everything with a fine tooth comb

pgj2015 · 28-12-2020 9:15pm

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCS6H2d6scE

Like something jimmy saville would do. sad that it was only a few years ago.

Purple Mountain · 28-12-2020 9:18pm

mtoutlemonde wrote: »

One more that comes to mind is that brave man who outlined his years of abuse at the hands of Christian Brothers on Questions and Answers. That was powerful TV and has not left me.

Michael O'Brien from Clonmel.
An amazing man, so brave.

irish_stevo815 · 28-12-2020 9:26pm

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 remember watching this clip a few years ago, my friend warned me about it but I proceeded to watch anyway. It stayed with me for along time after.

I'm not one to be squeamish about blood and gore on tv but knowing it was a real person really but the shivers up me.

Samsgirl · 28-12-2020 9:34pm

A little before my time but was the JFK assassination live on TV?

whisky_galore · 28-12-2020 9:36pm

foxy farmer wrote: »

Some great viewing on the Late Late Show mostly under Gay Byrne's reign.
Condoms, Divorce, Scientology masturbation promiscuity. The audience the panel and the viewers at home really got wound up over things. Comical now looking back.

Ireland being dragged kicking and screaming into the 20th century.

the purple tin · 28-12-2020 9:40pm

Samsgirl wrote: »

A little before my time but was the JFK assassination live on TV?

No it was recorded by a guy called Zapruder on his video camera. The Zapruder Film it is called.

razorblunt · 28-12-2020 9:52pm

A lot of the ones that jumped out to me first have been mentioned but one I haven’t seen yet was the Kanye West’s “George Bush hates black people” at the Katrina fund raiser.

Rothko · 28-12-2020 10:07pm

the purple tin wrote: »

No it was recorded by a guy called Zapruder on his video camera. The Zapruder Film it is called.

I don't think it was shown on TV until some time in the 70's, on Good Night America.

Thespoofer · 28-12-2020 10:15pm

Noel Edmonds Breakfast show each week one part of the show was a contestant carried out a stunt or whatever anyway this week they hang a car high up in the air with a crane ( from what I can remember ) then drop it, the guy in the car gets killed live on air.
They dropped the show after that, it was a very popular show in the 80s if I'm not mistaken.

For Forks Sake · 28-12-2020 10:28pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxNprnas7i8

BorneTobyWilde · 28-12-2020 10:33pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UhME8dcOqc

BuboBubo · 28-12-2020 10:35pm

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UhME8dcOqc

Good old 2 Jags:D

Purple Mountain · 28-12-2020 10:40pm

Thespoofer wrote: »

Noel Edmonds Breakfast show each week one part of the show was a contestant carried out a stunt or whatever anyway this week they hang a car high up in the air with a crane ( from what I can remember ) then drop it, the guy in the car gets killed live on air.
They dropped the show after that, it was a very popular show in the 80s if I'm not mistaken.

Cheasus.

silliussoddius · 28-12-2020 10:45pm

It may have been mentioned, but didn’t Tommy Cooper die on live tv?

ExMachina1000 · 28-12-2020 10:50pm

The English fans wrecking lanstowne road leading to the match being abandoned.

Joe Don Dante · 28-12-2020 10:51pm

Villa beating Liverpool 7-2

Itssoeasy · 28-12-2020 10:51pm

silliussoddius wrote: »

It may have been mentioned, but didn’t Tommy Cooper die on live tv?

Yes. I think it has been mentioned. Not an Irish moment but the death live on air of Christine chubbuck who shot herself in the head while reading a story she’d written about the exact thing she did. Years ago I read the police interviews with her colleagues at the TV station in Florida she was working at. Awful tragic stuff.

Itssoeasy · 28-12-2020 10:52pm

ExMachina1000 wrote: »

The English fans wrecking lanstowne road leading to the match being abandoned.

Yeah I remember being in my aunts house watching it. The kid on the pitch seemed to be the image of that moment. I’ll never understand why the English fans were placed where they were given their reputation for causing hassle.

Itssoeasy · 28-12-2020 10:54pm

Samsgirl wrote: »

A little before my time but was the JFK assassination live on TV?

Not the shots. The news channels came on air soon after it happened.

ExMachina1000 · 28-12-2020 10:56pm

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Yeah I remember being in my aunts house watching it. The kid on the pitch seemed to be the image of that moment. I’ll never understand why the English fans were placed where they were given their reputation for causing hassle.

I remember that kid! Staring in disbelief out on the pitch.

If I remember correctly I think the fai gave him a heap merchandise afterwards. Posters, pjs, curtains etc

I would have been about 10 myself at the time. Anytime it's on reeling in the years I can remember it clearly again

rtron · 28-12-2020 10:56pm

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Slash being interviewed by Cat Deeley on the kids morning show one Saturday morning when he started telling her about getting a blow job from a groupie.

Looks like my memory had slightly exaggerated things - see end of this cllip

https://youtu.be/11tBL4Gy1II

I remember this one, he says f*cker in reference to his snake that bit him?

Dillonb3 · 28-12-2020 11:02pm

Dunphy been taken off air during one of the 2002 world cup matches because he was "Tired and Emotional". Pity footage of it hasn't been uploaded on youtube

Skid X · 28-12-2020 11:03pm

Thespoofer wrote: »

Noel Edmonds Breakfast show each week one part of the show was a contestant carried out a stunt or whatever anyway this week they hang a car high up in the air with a crane ( from what I can remember ) then drop it, the guy in the car gets killed live on air.
They dropped the show after that, it was a very popular show in the 80s if I'm not mistaken.

That didn't happen live on air, it was in rehearsals some days before the live show

But there was another incident on a different episode where a driver flipped a car several times during a stunt and flew in to the crowd.

People could have been killed but they handed back to Noel Edmonds who said it looked like the crew were sorting it out, and that Kid Creole would be on next week. This was live on BBC1 at 6.30pm on Saturday, madness

Itssoeasy · 28-12-2020 11:07pm

ExMachina1000 wrote: »

I remember that kid! Staring in disbelief out on the pitch.

If I remember correctly I think the fai gave him a heap merchandise afterwards. Posters, pjs, curtains etc

I would have been about 10 myself at the time. Anytime it's on reeling in the years I can remember it clearly again

Was it February 1995 or do I have the month wrong. I’d have just turned 10.

So I’ve gone through the thread and I’m shocked to see the space shuttle challenger breaking up live on TV hasn’t been mentioned yet. It’s clear the news presenters weren’t sure what had happened other then it wasn’t normal. The camera focusing on Christa McAuliffe’s parents looking into the sky in shock would hopefully not happen now.

Pauliedragon · 28-12-2020 11:10pm

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Yeah I remember being in my aunts house watching it. The kid on the pitch seemed to be the image of that moment. I’ll never understand why the English fans were placed where they were given their reputation for causing hassle.

I was about 15 it was mad. The Irish cops were warned beforehand by English cops that these loons were heading over and ignored it.

completedit · 28-12-2020 11:13pm

Moscow Theatre Siege. What was up with the turn of the decade where major news stories actually played out like Hollywood movie plots?

Scudges Da · 28-12-2020 11:14pm

Bradford City fire

Only took 4 minutes, terrifying

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7vflhp

Sardonicat · 28-12-2020 11:15pm

Skid X wrote: »

That didn't happen live on air, it was in rehearsals some days before the live show

But there was another incident on a different episode where a driver flipped a car several times during a stunt and flew in to the crowd.

People could have been killed but they handed back to Noel Edmonds who said it looked like the crew were sorting it out, and that Kid Creole would be on next week. This was live on BBC1 at 6.30pm on Saturday, madness

Not one accident, but two? My mouth was swinging open after the second one. How the hell did they get away with carrying on with stunts until someone was killed after that?

Itssoeasy · 28-12-2020 11:16pm

Scudges Da wrote: »

Bradford City fire

Only took 4 minutes, terrifying

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7vflhp

That fire taking hold is as you say terrifying.

FatherTed · 28-12-2020 11:19pm

dasdog wrote: »

I remember the gasps of the news presenters when the second plane hit and the realisation this is no accident.

And even though the full extent wasn't known at the time this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esyxX0iVnYc

I remember watching that Liverpool-Notts Forest game ay Hillsborough on RTE and then the crowd starts coming on the field with the players looking around wondering what's happening.

B.A._Baracus · 28-12-2020 11:22pm

completedit wrote: »

Moscow Theatre Siege. What was up with the turn of the decade where major news stories actually played out like Hollywood movie plots?

Yeah. Tenet took a page out of that event at the start.

I'll always remember the picture of a woman on a bus after the siege ended. Gawking out the window as she's still messed up on the drugs they deployed.

Hangdogroad · 28-12-2020 11:28pm

I remember once on the Panel when Joe Duffy was on as a guest some drunk lad in the (unseen) audience started kicking off. You could hear some fella with a strong Dublin accent going "shuddup, shuddup" then a largely unintelligible tirade that included the f bomb as Duffy was speaking. It then went to a break and when it came back on the host (might have been Dara O Broin) apologised for the interruption.

Humberto Salazar · 28-12-2020 11:30pm

Hamsterchops wrote: »

Oliver Reed and his many drunk appearances on TV chat shows. (The one with Des O'Connor stands out) plus the the last one being in the late 90s, when he appeared on 'The Word' with Terry Christian & Katie Puckrik.

Ollie was totally hammered as per usual, wearing a giant leather jacket and sporting a massive handlebars moustache, brilliant TV

Probably available on YouTube.

Yes he came on hammered on the Late Late years ago, and didn't he apologise the next week with another appearance this time quite sober?

Humberto Salazar · 28-12-2020 11:31pm

And the Bee Gees walking off Clive Andersons talk show... Think it's on YouTube somewhere

Itssoeasy · 28-12-2020 11:32pm

Humberto Salazar wrote: »

Yes he came on hammered on the Late Late years ago, and didn't he apologise the next week with another appearance this time quite sober?

I don’t know if it was the next week but I’ve seen a clip of gay Byrne saying that Oliver Reed was a man of his word.

Mad_maxx · 28-12-2020 11:35pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

He wrote a supposedly warts and all biography of him. No idea as to its accuracy, I just remember that interview mainly for him walking off. Wouldn't have known who Miriam was at the time.

Miriam knew that defending Andrew's was a shrude career position to take

generalgerry · 28-12-2020 11:45pm

It's always Challenger for me.

Mad_maxx · 28-12-2020 11:46pm

Humberto Salazar wrote: »

And the Bee Gees walking off Clive Andersons talk show... Think it's on YouTube somewhere

They were right, he called them " Tossers "

StupidLikeAFox · 28-12-2020 11:53pm

Sardonicat wrote: »

Not one accident, but two? My mouth was swinging open after the second one. How the hell did they get away with carrying on with stunts until someone was killed after that?

Health and safety wasn't invented yet

doublejobbing 2 · 28-12-2020 11:59pm

Jimbob1977 wrote: »

September 11th 2001

The second plane strike

nullzero wrote: »

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

Prior to 2016 anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mrs._Brown%27s_Boys_episodes#Live_special_(2016)

Oscar Bravo · 29-12-2020 12:03am

A loaded(from drink) David Cassidy on This Morning

doublejobbing 2 · 29-12-2020 12:14am

James Brown, somewhat under the influence, as the quick rub of the nose would indicate.....

Harry Palmr · 29-12-2020 12:22am

Watching World Snooker Championship final on BBC when they cut live to the Iranian Embassy just in time to see the SAS going in through the front windows to end a hostage drama.

dasdog · 29-12-2020 12:25am

FatherTed wrote: »

I remember watching that Liverpool-Notts Forest game ay Hillsborough on RTE and then the crowd starts coming on the field with the players looking around wondering what's happening.

Given the times it seemed almost run of the mill (wall) but when the news came out over 90 people died in a crush watching a game of football...

This wasn't live but around the same time and my 13 year old jaw dropped in horror.

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

Instant violence in the 1980's was a look away - thankfully by 1990 MDMA/E's got people interested in enjoying themselves rather than wanting to punch and kill each other.

doublejobbing 2 · 29-12-2020 12:27am

This was quite shocking when it interrupted Brookside with the breaking news.

Memories of mad stuff that happened on live TV.

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