Late Late Show - The Misery Porn channel

[myboyblue]

Oh yeah, your post reeks of it.

[anon61878697]

Your posting was like a fat kid in a sweet shop - the excitement and tweeness was adorable, bless you.

[johnnysachs]

And don’t forget Boyzone too

[myboyblue]

Jesus you really are annoyed, this is fascinating to watch.

[anon61878697]

How could anyone forget …

[Fagan_ODowd]

@FlakeAway

What attempt did he make or how did he go about it?

He was a minor presenter on a regional channel in the UK in the early 1960s before coming home to work for Radio Eireann. Then in the 1980s in the middle of his I hate this country/everyone should emigrate phase he tried his hand for a summer as a talk show host in Philadelphia but got nowhere.

[johnnysachs]

They’d have ate him without salt in Philly. They don’t suffer fools there.

[myboyblue]

So he used Philly as a bargaining tool for a new contract?

[Fagan_ODowd]

@myboyblue

So he used Philly as a bargaining tool for a new contract?

Didn’t work.

[myboyblue]

Can’t blame a man for trying

[Fagan_ODowd]

@myboyblue

Can’t blame a man for trying

It was after Russell Murphy had cleaned him out.

[myboyblue]

He was in a bad place at that stage

[Ashman]

Fagan

How much did Russell do him for ?

[KinvarasPassion]

@Fagan_ODowd

It was after Russell Murphy had cleaned him out

Russell used to have a little trick he’d play on potential clients… When he’d be meeting them for the first time in his office, before proceedings would wrap up… he had a little button on his desk that he’d press to alert his secretary… she’d arrive into the room in a tissy saying that Peter Sutherland was on the phone and needed to speak urgently.

This had a two fold effect of bringing decisions to a head and displaying the importance of Murphys accountancy practice to big hitters like Sutherland.

Some cunt all the same

[TreatyStones]

@Fagan_ODowd

It was after Russell Murphy had cleaned him out

And he lost his pension in bank shares in later life

[Sidney]

@johnnysachs

There was no prior benchmark for Gays talent as a presenter. He kind of came to prominence just as everyone in Ireland were getting a TV set for the first time. From the get go he had a captive audience and in many respects one he did not have to win over. Gay was compelling and was good at his job but he was the standard bearer. Peoples attitudes to presenters these days is quite skeptical and at times cynical because Ireland has gone from accepting a grand narrative to many versions of the truth and Ireland of today does not accept being told how to think or behave.

Im not accepting he changed the country either. He retired from late late in the 90s. Young people started listening to Top of the pops, MTV, internet came to more and more households even if it was dial up internet, Every kid had gameboys and Nintendos. Peoples access to information increased through the accessibility of technology.

The Late Late Show was the product of a homogenous, mono-cultural, mono-ethnic society, and a small society in terms of size

Ireland was an insular socity, but because of its small size, it was simultaneously outward looking

That’s a contradiction, but both were true

Byrne didn’t change the country, he reflected how the country was changing

It still is those things, and it is certainly more outward looking to a degree that is much greater than other English speaking countries, who are now much more insular

I don’t think the Late Late Show and its format could have worked anywhere else

It seemed to me that non-Irish guests would often open up more here than they would in their home countries, maybe because nobody in those countries would see what they said here - that’s not the case now - and maybe because the so called great figures of US and UK television were vastly overrated at what they did

For all the talk about UK and US television, the standard of their mainstream talk shows and general interviewing is and always has been almost uniformly terrible

Personally I thought Byrne was a much superior interviewer to the likes of Michael Parkinson

Like, the highlight of Parkinson’s career was his Muhammad Ali interview, yet Cathal O’Shannon did a much better interview with Ali

And Parkinson was still miles ahead of the tripe on US television

[Phil_Leotardo]

Fool me once , shame on thee.

Fool me twice , shame on me.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Sidney

@johnnysachs

There was no prior benchmark for Gays talent as a presenter. He kind of came to prominence just as everyone in Ireland were getting a TV set for the first time. From the get go he had a captive audience and in many respects one he did not have to win over. Gay was compelling and was good at his job but he was the standard bearer. Peoples attitudes to presenters these days is quite skeptical and at times cynical because Ireland has gone from accepting a grand narrative to many versions of the truth and Ireland of today does not accept being told how to think or behave.

Im not accepting he changed the country either. He retired from late late in the 90s. Young people started listening to Top of the pops, MTV, internet came to more and more households even if it was dial up internet, Every kid had gameboys and Nintendos. Peoples access to information increased through the accessibility of technology.

The Late Late Show was the product of a homogenous, mono-cultural, mono-ethnic society, and a small society in terms of size

Ireland was an insular socity, but because of its small size, it was simultaneously outward looking

That’s a contradiction, but both were true

Byrne didn’t change the country, he reflected how the country was changing

It still is those things, and it is certainly more outward looking to a degree that is much greater than other English speaking countries, who are now much more insular

I don’t think the Late Late Show and its format could have worked anywhere else

It seemed to me that non-Irish guests would often open up more here than they would in their home countries, maybe because nobody in those countries would see what they said here - that’s not the case now - and maybe because the so called great figures of US and UK television were vastly overrated at what they did

For all the talk about UK and US television, the standard of their mainstream talk shows and general interviewing is and always has been almost uniformly terrible

Personally I thought Byrne was a much superior interviewer to the likes of Michael Parkinson

Like, the highlight of Parkinson’s career was his Muhammad Ali interview, yet Cathal O’Shannon did a much better interview with Ali

And Parkinson was still miles ahead of the tripe on US television

All that is true and the points are well NBC made but Byrne aspired to be Johnny Carson.

[anon26343222]

Rte putting on a live funeral for gay .

[anon61878697]

WTF???