Give the gig to Tubridy.
The man has a brain. He makes guests comfortable and brings them out. He can be serious and feel-good all at once.
His saturday show is pure fluff, it's not what he does best at all.
Give the gig to Tubridy.
The man has a brain. He makes guests comfortable and brings them out. He can be serious and feel-good all at once.
His saturday show is pure fluff, it's not what he does best at all.
Originally Posted by QuizMaster
How's it going Ryan!! Haven't seen you in Finnegan's in a while. I hope all's well.
11% of FF voters are Eoghan Harris followers?Which says an awful lot about the intellect of LLS viewers.
Why is there so many people in this country who have to be told what their opinion is.
And that Tubridy garbage is just as bad.
Thats hilarious. The pack of West-Brits.
well to be fair harris at one time or another has held just about any political view point you would care to name in his role as a political harlot....
hehas held views diametrically opposed to the views he currently holds.
its disturbing to think that the endorsement of an absolute political charlatan like this could count for anything in modern ireland.
PK was a chemist I think, before he got involved in broadcasting, and brings a tedious, methodology to the programme. And the fora he hosts are awful - as if Ian O'Doherty is a qualified, paid up Irish Everyman. His attempts to create provocative - yet staged - discussion, are appalling.
Tubridy, on the other hand, is a man of letters and is interested in personality and what makes people tick. I enjoy his radio discussions on history and books but the topical discussions with two 'guests' are a bit lame. He's a good interviewer and lacks Pat's irritating condescension. His Saturday night programme is what it is and doesn't pretend to be anything else.
But I've given up watching the Late Late as it tries to figure out what, exactly it is.
And the State of Us sketch of P Kenny and Enda was spot on, even if it wasn't highbrow political analysis.
the problem with recent late late is that there too many segments, which totally undermines the serious last bit, get rid of the second rate soap star segment they always have the show ill improve...
the late late show is quite simply an advertisement, where "guests" pay for a slot to plug whatever garbage it is they happen to be selling;
whthere that be a book, a song, a video or even a political viewpoint.
the show had some integrity under byrne but under kenny it is just lightweight advertising.
Oh yes, and you are sooo clever, aren't you.Which says an awful lot about the intellect of LLS viewers.
On his radio show, when Tubridy has a writer on flogging their new book, he has read the book from cover to cover. Every time.
Who else does that?
PK?
Firstly, I specifically set out to divide the Late Late Show of Gay Byrne from Pat Kenny's. So we're talking about less than fourty-odd years.
5 lines of dialogue out of 40 odd years of TV?
I'd say you were a wizz in college.
Secondly, I specifically set out to carve up the Late Late Show as it is hosted by Kenny between serious content, which I argued he does excellently, and light entertainment, which I think he is fairly dreadful at.
And thirdly, the dialogue was intended as a summary of the interview he did with Eddie Izzard. Did you see it? I would say my summary was fair: it was a terrible interview that never really moved beyond him being a straight transvestite.
I thought my post was one of the least glib, and most supportive of Kenny, on this thread. In fact, I'm not at all sure why you have singled me out at all.
He was a chemical enginner and lectured in one of the ITs in Dublin as far as I know.
