Memories of mad stuff that happened on live TV.

breezy1985

Dana giving a weird statement to a question no one asked in the presidential debate. Pretty sure it was the same debate that RTE blindsided McGuiness and by the end of the day pretty much everyone bar Michael D was dead in the water

Riddle101

quodec wrote: »

Giant Haystack showing Jackie Fullerton the slam!! I remember seeing this on ITV, sometime in the 1980s. Still painful to watch but also hilarious!

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

I'll raise your pro wrestler David Shultz slapping interviewer John Stossel for calling wrestling fake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrX9Ca7LSyQ

tipptom

weldoninhio wrote: »

It was very funny when Preston from Big Brother walked out on Never Mind The Buzzcocks. Simon Amstel just kept ripping the pi55 out of him, then started reading from his wife’s, Chantelle from Big Brothers, autobiography. He threw a massive hissy fit and stormed off.

Simon Amstel tearing apart Donnie from Towers of London piece by piece was brilliant television

Incidentally Sean Hughes who was a captain for a good few years on it,i came across his obituary from The Guardian the other day looking for something else,was written by a "friend",just wow!

thecretinhop

I designed francie t-shirt for atlanta

thecretinhop

https://youtu.be/WNrnnEtZqrA

de Gareth Brooks saga epic.
I became a fan of his website to see press con. glorious..

tipptom

thecretinhop wrote: »

I designed francie t-shirt for atlanta

Any spares,collectors items now along with Feile t-shirts

For Forks Sake

paleoperson2 wrote: »

Remember last year when Nell McCafferty started shouting something during the huge Gay Byrne memorial special on tv and they had to pull the mic away from her. In retrospect it may not have been as mad as it sounds (at least from an article like the following, which might have PR from her/her family) but still a pretty wild moment at the time. (can't post urls because I'm a new user).

thesun.ie/tvandshowbiz/4745989/nell-mccafferty-not-drunk-late-show/

That woman shouldn't be let anywhere a live mic, she cost Newstalk a nice wedge of cash about ten years ago as well.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/harney-receives-450000-over-radio-alcoholic-slur-26729698.html

edit: here's the offensive piece of audio (starts 01:00 in). I remember hearing it live at the time and wondering who thought it would be a good idea to let Nell in studio without a delay.

https://youtu.be/-BPGee7OdVo

BorneTobyWilde

this guy was taking the piss, and everyone fell for it .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj705DvCSxg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQR9kbqw3h8

BorneTobyWilde

That was pretty Mad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a_urdgrl2E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpesYL9iNRs

Purple Mountain

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

That was pretty Mad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a_urdgrl2E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpesYL9iNRs

Was he the same man who ran out into a bicycle race too?

bodhrandude

Purple Mountain wrote: »

Was he the same man who ran out into a bicycle race too?

I don't know if this has been posted already but his famous marathon invasion at the 2004 Olympics.

Joe Don Dante

Blanco100 wrote: »

Link for this?

Bustamante wasn't in the final in 2004

he sure was, versus Earl "The Pearl" Strickland, there was alot of animosity leading up too and during the match over Earl having sexual relations with either Francisco's aunt or his sister. I'll try find the link but it was definitely 2004, I thought it might have been in the Mosconi Cup but Bustamente wasn't eligible to play in that

eastie17

Gaybo had some dr on the late late interviewing him, think he was a phycologist. Yer man was drunk but pretending not to be, gaybo called him out in it and basically starting doing an intervention live on air with yer man claiming he wasn’t drunk or an alcoholic

inforfun

Purple Mountain wrote: »

Was he the same man who ran out into a bicycle race too?

The Olympic Marathon in Athens 2004.
Royally screwing the man in the lead

The Inbetween is mine

inforfun wrote: »

The Olympic Marathon in Athens 2004.
Royally screwing the man in the lead

Pales into insignificance if you are aware of the details of his court case about 15 years ago

thecretinhop

tipptom wrote: »

Any spares,collectors items now along with Feile t-shirts

doubt it my mother is like cleaner robot threw out within days

sparksfly

eastie17 wrote: »

Gaybo had some dr on the late late interviewing him, think he was a phycologist. Yer man was drunk but pretending not to be, gaybo called him out in it and basically starting doing an intervention live on air with yer man claiming he wasn’t drunk or an alcoholic

Hangdogroad

54and56 wrote: »

Don't know if this is true or urban myth and apologies that it's radio not TV related but for me this is a cracker.......if true!!

An RTE 2 Radio Gerry Ryan phone in asking people where they would wish to be buried.

Gerry Ryan: "Would you like to be buried or cremated?"

Caller: "Buried Gerry."

Gerry Ryan: "Where would you like to be buried?"

Caller: "Up to my balls in Bibi Baskin!"

Dont think that happened tbh, at least I've never seen any convincng evidence that it did. Jerry Ryan himself never seemed to mention it

paleoperson2

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

this guy was taking the piss, and everyone fell for it .

In what way was he taking the piss?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Y4keqTV6w

BorneTobyWilde

paleoperson2 wrote: »

In what way was he taking the piss?

All an act. He's a comic.

Gay Byrne does'nt just impart that his guest is "Tired and Emotional" as he might have to today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5XkFPYWkq4

bodhrandude

Will always remember this from living in Scotland at the time, Scotland playing Wales in 1978, Willie Donachie passing the ball back to his goalie and accidently scoring.

54and56

John.burke wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdLfkhxIH5Q

More than any other single thing Trump did or said over the last few years, and there's a lot to choose from, that was the one which sickened me the most.

tipptom

Deleted User wrote: »

Gay Byrne does'nt just impart that his guest is "Tired and Emotional" as he might have to today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5XkFPYWkq4

I think fair play to the guy that interjected to pull up gay byrne about his rule about people appearing on tv with drink on them

Never heard him before pulling up people that was on the late late before who had drink on them

Didnt see the whole interview but the guy seemed to be okay,have seen worse on there and he could have been on medication

glenfieldman

Gay Byrne was one of the biggest hypocrites in RTE, I think i remember Shane McGowen drunk on his show and he didnt have the balls to check him

Also

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/i-drank-and-drove-home-from-late-late-says-gay-26547792.html

The Nal

bodhrandude wrote: »

Will always remember this from living in Scotland at the time, Scotland playing Wales in 1978, Willie Donachie passing the ball back to his goalie and accidently scoring.

There is a better own goal

Itssoeasy

jill_valentine wrote: »

There's a weird internet underground of people who try to find a recording of this that's somehow more interesting to me than the event or recording itself -

https://www.vulture.com/2016/01/death-hags-christine-chubbuck-suicide-video.html

Well the recording does exist and it’s the widow of the station manager that had it but it’ll never see the light of day. Another American one was the Pennsylvanian politician who committed suicide live on TV. The bizarre thing is that some stations replayed the thing in full with no editing during the day. That would never happen now thankfully. That incident happened around this time of year.

Itssoeasy

breezy1985 wrote: »

Dana giving a weird statement to a question no one asked in the presidential debate. Pretty sure it was the same debate that RTE blindsided McGuiness and by the end of the day pretty much everyone bar Michael D was dead in the water

Oh yeah. It was clear nobody had any idea she was going to say that. I think it was Mariam O’ Callaghan who was moderating the debate and when Dana finished Miriam says “okay” or “alright” in a way to say what the **** did we just hear.

RikkFlair

Diana Ross at World Cup 94, only had the keeper to beat!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyAC4bPe0wY

ShamNNspace

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Oh yeah. It was clear nobody had any idea she was going to say that. I think it was Mariam O’ Callaghan who was moderating the debate and when Dana finished Miriam says “okay” or “alright” in a way to say what the **** did we just hear.

The papers were full of it the week of the debate, about Danas brother and a smear campaign on the candidate. Im afraid Miriam was feigning ignorance imv

Itssoeasy

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Tom Pryce + the Race Marshal in the 1977 South African Grand Prix. The latter running across the track.
The fire extinguisher.....
Rough.

Yes it is rough. There’s the dale Earnhardt crash which is hard to watch and I watched a documentary which is worse.

There’s a few crashes from America which are hard to watch.

Itssoeasy

ShamNNspace wrote: »

The papers were full of it the week of the debate, about Danas brother and a smear campaign on the candidate. Im afraid Miriam was feigning ignorance imv

Ignorance in terms of not knowing she was going to make a statement.

breezy1985

ShamNNspace wrote: »

The papers were full of it the week of the debate, about Danas brother and a smear campaign on the candidate. Im afraid Miriam was feigning ignorance imv

I don't remember seeing it an any papers before the debate and Dana brings it up after a break as if it was something that was just about to come out. Most people looked like they had no clue what she was on about

Itssoeasy

Andrewf20 wrote: »

Another one was the fatal crash that killed Gordon Smiley at Indianapolis in 1982. I have yet to see a more violent crash. Not sure if it was live but its on youtube. Roger Williamsons crash at Zandvoort 1973 was horrific as well.

I saw the crashes that killed Senna, Greg Moore and Jeff Crosnoff live. Of those 3, I thought Senna would live but not the other 2 drivers.

The Gordon smiley when I first watched it, it took me a few watches to realise what was what. There was another one where there was a big crash and the driver went into the fence. It’s horrible to watch.

54and56

Thargor wrote: »

Mary O Rourke, she's disappeared actually, she used to be on every second rte show for ages.

She is 83 in all fairness. If I don't "disappear" from my main professional/commercial activity until I'm in my 80's I'll be happy enough!!

Hangdogroad

Richard Littlejohn (creep of the Neil Prendiville, Niall Boylan type) is put in his place, unexpectedly, by Michael Winner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS5S2Dio2_Y

BorneTobyWilde

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KNjNk7mrec

BorneTobyWilde

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-L-ZUac0Z4

BorneTobyWilde

Even to this day the medical attention giving to tennis players is a joke. Not like football where if you go down badly, you have a team of medical staff to help you. In tennis people get seriously injured and just lay there in agony while everyone just sits there like dopes .

Not cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOUBQ-rn1Sk

SpacialNeeds

OK this might sound like it pales in comparison to a lot of other stuff in the thread.

But there was a creepypasta on 4chan in around 2007 or maybe later about Spongebob Square pants. It's called Squidward's Suicide and features mutilated children. Lots of people did tributes. There's a synopsis of it
here.

As you see, it's not that mad in and of itself, it's at best a reasonably well-written ghost story.

But the studio actually clipped scenes from a gruesome fan video of it into a real episode of the children's cartoon

https://twitter.com/surrealegg/status/1175440097371656192?s=20

I think it's fairly f'd up.

They subsequently removed it. It's edited to be slightly less bad than the original. Still, probably scared the shjt out of unsuspecting children.

StupidLikeAFox

John Lydon aka Johnny rotten of the sex pistols was on judge Judy once. It wasn't very punk rock to see Judy put him in his place

cj maxx

PsychoPete wrote: »

Guy who slipped on ice

Was he ever found, / outted?

Hangdogroad

SpacialNeeds wrote: »

OK this might sound like it pales in comparison to a lot of other stuff in the thread.

But there was a creepypasta on 4chan in around 2007 or maybe later about Spongebob Square pants. It's called Squidward's Suicide and features mutilated children. Lots of people did tributes. There's a synopsis of it
here.

As you see, it's not that mad in and of itself, it's at best a reasonably well-written ghost story.

But the studio actually clipped scenes from a gruesome fan video of it into a real episode of the children's cartoon

https://twitter.com/surrealegg/status/1175440097371656192?s=20

I think it's fairly f'd up.

They subsequently removed it. It's edited to be slightly less bad than the original. Still, probably scared the shjt out of unsuspecting children.

It's not something that happened on live tv though, weird as it is.

Quantum Erasure

Very few cartoons are broadcast live, it's a terrible strain on the animators wrists

joebloggs32

I vividly remember the fall of communism in the late 80s.
Two really stand out.
Firstly, Romania. Ceacescu making his usual annual bullsh1t speech from the presidential Palace, but failing to read the room as they say now
His sectet police whisked him away, but the army flipped, and it wasn't long before we saw pictures of himself and his wife executed.

The second one was the fall of the Soviet Union.
First Gorbachev had gone away for a "retreat" of sorts, but the hardliners had staged a coup.
However after some tense days of standoffs in moscow again the army flipped and the game was up. I remember Boris Yeltsin emerging as the hero standing against the leaders of the coup (there must have been a threat to the supplies of vodka!)

The J Stands for Jay

joebloggs32 wrote: »

I vividly remember the fall of communism in the late 80s.
Two really stand out.
Firstly, Romania. Ceacescu making his usual annual bullsh1t speech from the presidential Palace, but failing to read the room as they say now
His sectet police whisked him away, but the army flipped, and it wasn't long before we saw pictures of himself and his wife executed.

The second one was the fall of the Soviet Union.
First Gorbachev had gone away for a "retreat" of sorts, but the hardliners had staged a coup.
However after some tense days of standoffs in moscow again the army flipped and the game was up. I remember Boris Yeltsin emerging as the hero standing against the leaders of the coup (there must have been a threat to the supplies of vodka!)

I vaguely remember both. Ceaucescu and his lads being hunted through tunnels under the city possibly? And did a tank fire at a tall building in Moscow during the coup? I was quite young at the time. I prefer the crazy, possibly wrong, memories than trying to find info online

fryup

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KNjNk7mrec

oh how i wish there was an irish version of that show it'd be great craic

the_pen_turner

fryup wrote: »

oh how i wish there was an irish version of that show it'd be great craic

thats my idea of hell. must be what being a teacher is like. a bunch of noisy xxxxs screaming crap at you while your stressed out of your head trying to get the one remotely smart kid to write it on the board.

Hangdogroad

joebloggs32 wrote: »

I vividly remember the fall of communism in the late 80s.
Two really stand out.
Firstly, Romania. Ceacescu making his usual annual bullsh1t speech from the presidential Palace, but failing to read the room as they say now
His sectet police whisked him away, but the army flipped, and it wasn't long before we saw pictures of himself and his wife executed.

The second one was the fall of the Soviet Union.
First Gorbachev had gone away for a "retreat" of sorts, but the hardliners had staged a coup.
However after some tense days of standoffs in moscow again the army flipped and the game was up. I remember Boris Yeltsin emerging as the hero standing against the leaders of the coup (there must have been a threat to the supplies of vodka!)

Yes, not screened live but I vividly remember Ceasceu and his wife's execution by firing squad being shown on the news.