Ray D'arcy on RTE Radio 1 **Mod Warning post 1, 1263, 1610**

somesoldiers

sudzs wrote: »

As Id never listened to Ray before I didn't know what was going on with the background voices and laughter either. I only found out from this thread that it was the missus! Not sure what the older generation must make of it... if any of them are still tuning in, that is!

They were a lot more muted on day 1 and 2 and yesterday kind of only spoke when spoken to so I reckon they have been told not to get involved but are slowly going back to old ways.

I think it adds to the show having someone to talk to but I've never listened to RTE1 until recently so have don't know if this is unusual, I'll have to ask my granny.

crazygeryy

Expunge wrote: »

So, on days 1,2 and 3 of the shiny new D'Arcy Show on Radio 'Won', as he calls it, he has given us observation based opening monologues.
Who will forget the, by now, infamous 1 euro 2 cent RTE soup, the Kindle waking the childer classic and how the English can't pronounce our beautiful, native names in their own country. How very dare they!!!!

By Wednesday at the D'arcy production desk, a picture of which was famously tweeted by the presenter's missus before her new colleagues knew they were her new colleagues, it seems somebody suggested a change of monologue strategy might be needed. It was becoming clear that the presenter is no David Letterman or even Brendan O'Connor when it comes to delivering a monologue.

So yesterday we had a news based opening - Rory McIlroy and his 22 million Euro payout, minimum alcohol pricing etc. The problem with this is that by 3 pm on Radio 'Won', it has been done to absolute death.

Would it not kill him just to play the opening track after a brief 'good afternoon' and contact numbers/ e-mail shout out and then go into an interview?

Why do himself and John Murray and their producers think it's a good idea to do opening monologues when they are both clearly rubbish at it?

There ya go Will, Jenny and Ray, you can have that consultancy for free!

he has to do his monologue its what hes done for the last 14 years.only he did it with the help of "whats in todays papers" on today fm.so i guess as one poster said old habits in his case will never ever ever die.

Oops69

sudzs wrote: »

As Id never listened to Ray before I didn't know what was going on with the background voices and laughter either. I only found out from this thread that it was the missus! Not sure what the older generation must make of it... if any of them are still tuning in, that is!

Don't take this in a wrong way ,but If you're tuning into Ray darcy on radio one , you may just have joined ' the older generation' , join the club , sometimes it's a shock to realise it .

BaZmO*

crazygeryy wrote: »

he has to do his monologue its what hes done for the last 14 years.only he did it with the help of "whats in todays papers" on today fm.so i guess as one poster said old habits in his case will never ever ever die.

I don't think he did always do it. I think he only started doing it after Gerry Ryan died, or at least around that time.

crazygeryy

BaZmO* wrote: »

I don't think he did always do it. I think he only started doing it after Gerry Ryan died, or at least around that time.

5 years .....close enough.:)

clappyhappy

Think we know what his opening monologue will be today, joe Duffy just said that Ray fell while out running and has more bruises than Padre Pio!!!!!

Jack the Box

clappyhappy wrote: »

Think we know what his opening monologue will be today, joe Duffy just said that Ray fell while out running and has more bruises than Padre Pio!!!!!

Oh dear. Another lawsuit on the way.....

crazygeryy

Jack the Box wrote: »

Oh dear. Another lawsuit on the way.....

Did anything ever come of the first one? He said he was going to give proceeds to charity.

Jack the Box

crazygeryy wrote: »

Did anything ever come of the first one? He said he was going to give proceeds to charity.

He says a lot. Enda being Taoiseach was supposed to hasten Ray emigrating

brooke 2

sudzs wrote: »

As Id never listened to Ray before I didn't know what was going on with the background voices and laughter either. I only found out from this thread that it was the missus! Not sure what the older generation must make of it... if any of them are still tuning in, that is!

Some of the older generation would have her chained to the kitchen sink,
methinks!!

Gits_bone

crazygeryy wrote: »

he has to do his monologue its what hes done for the last 14 years.only he did it with the help of "whats in todays papers" on today fm.so i guess as one poster said old habits in his case will never ever ever die.

And I am glad

BarryD

clappyhappy wrote: »

Think we know what his opening monologue will be today, joe Duffy just said that Ray fell while out running and has more bruises than Padre Pio!!!!!

Running, running.. good for the sole, if not the knees

swingking

50 shades mentioned

Meathlass

They mustn't show many Hollywood films in that cinema in Buncrana

the_barfly1

"ray at t........rte dot ie"

somesoldiers

soup again- is someone on the fiddle in RTE canteen? A cunning plan to stop them by changing the prices of everything....wtf

JM Skipton

Review of the Ray D'Arcy show in the herald today.....it's as if the review was carried out by someone on this Thread:D

ThisRegard

Another guest taken from the canteen, while he was getting his soup.

BarryD

More RTE narcissism??

BarryD

Jimmy McGee next..

BarryD

then Gaybo?

CarrickMcJoe

Joe Duffy surely.

jetfiremuck

Looks like all the relics are being dusted off to appear. I thought Larry Gogan was......

BarryD

Mooney maybe

somesoldiers

Arthur Murphy up next or is he still doing email bag on todayfm?

CarrickMcJoe

Larry probably paid truppence for the soup back in the day...

somesoldiers

CarrickMcJoe wrote: »

Larry probably paid truppence for the soup back in the day...

you had to pay with one of them old notes the size of a bed spread. this way the cashier was forced to give you change, stopped fiddling....genius!

somesoldiers

will D'Arcy be reviving the "What's In My Head Quiz"?

Chip Whitley

JM Skipton wrote: »

Review of the Ray D'Arcy show in the herald today.....it's as if the review was carried out by someone on this Thread:D

http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/radio-review-no-mistaking-rays-style-30966836.html

First, we just need to rewind to Monday afternoon, and the very beginning of Ray’s new beginning. Just hang on a sec and let me find the right knob to push or twiddle. This one? No. That one? Plays jingles. That one way over there? Activates the self-destruct mechanism, I think. Ah, here we are. And here’s D’Arcy.

“Ah, it works.”

Yup. Those were actually the very first words uttered on The Ray D’Arcy Show 2.0. A wearily-sighed “Ah, it works”.

“How’re ye doing?” D’Arcy then asked us (slightly more cheerily), before following up with a surprised “Oh!” and an exasperated “I’m hearing myself back in something there” and a resigned “That’s to be expected”.

After some fumbly knob-adjusting and a mumbled “Turn that down...turn that down,” the returning hero finally got round to greeting listeners, new and old. “Anyway ... good afternoon,” he groaned, with all the (apparent) enthusiasm of an apathetic funeral director.

...

Same old, same old, then. Now where’s that bloody ‘Stop’ button. Got it.

Pretty scathing, and deservingly so tbf.

Gits_bone

Brendão wrote: »

http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/radio-review-no-mistaking-rays-style-30966836.html



Pretty scathing, and deservingly so tbf.

Eh, where is the scathing review?

All I see is a shítty journalist describe the opening moments of the show.

"He opened the show and pressed a button...then he talked about something and something".

Can't believe someone gets paid to write that.