The All-New Late Late Show Megathread

He could possibly get a taxi back and sleep on the way! Also the show will be ending a lot earlier when it comes back so he'll not be as late leaving as you think.

There's always one smartarse...

I'll pass.....good riddance to Tubridy....

The Irish Phillip Schofield.....

I think that this show is doomed .... it to me seems like just Tubridy sans politics and the 'misery slot' is what is planned here .... what does that leave? All that modern music rubbish, airheads, Luv islanders and Vogue 'n' Imelda May 'n' so-called 'comedians' .... worse and worse it is getting .... not everyone wants (very) light(weight) (non) entertainment and I get the feeling the politics and the 'misery slot' were inserted because of the lack of 'entertainment' that exists today .....

This show and the whole Irish entertainment scene is doomed ... all the good guests Gaybo had both Irish and otherwise ... Luke Kelly ... Jerry Lee Lewis ... Peter Ustinov ... Charlie Haughey ... etc etc etc ... are all dead .... maybe this show should have died with them .... because unless someone finds a way of resurrecting these dead legends this show is the living dead !!

You've nailed it. The LLS was always an excellent counter to facist, fundamentalist and extremist opinions. Simply invite these types on and let them self expose their flawed logic and lies.

If you watched last nights Primetime, you'll have seen the current crop of nazis intimidating the populace under the pretence of 'peaceful protest'. A motley mob of tictok warriors peddling their naked hatred and gross misinformation as public concern. Invite these morons on to the LLS, put them next to a balanced selection of normal citizens. Seated and stripped of their livestream cameras, they will be shown up for the latent thugs they really are.

Who of my generation can forget in 1994, Brian D'Arcy's humble humanity flooring the powerful but exposed and hissing Cardinal Bishop Daly, devoid of his pomp and Palace. It was a seminal moment in the irreversible dismantling of the church's power, by one of their own, in a few well spoken sentences. No parade of victims, just face down the perpetrators. It was classic LLS, profoundly changing us as citizens, for the better.

I came in on the end of that Primetime ... will watch the rest later on ... yes the old LLS was a counter to extremism and allowed them to self expose their flawed logic and lies ....

The church, corrupt politicians, etc. were taken down by the LLS .... perhaps its future now is to relocate to Iran!! ... but there is still plenty a proper version could do in Ireland .... surely Tubridy could have had some of those crazy anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers on during Covid and have provided an opportunity for those to crash and burn? .... I'd love to see the likes of Gemma O'Doherty confronted and asked to explain her extremist views on Covid, her perception of 'corruption' and immigration for instance ... and be exposed for the fraud she is .... but alas never was done during Tubridy who preferred to fawn all over Imelda May and Maura Higgins ...

I agree Claire Byrne would have been the best fit for more serious topics .... it was clear she was not interested in hosting any more late evening shows after Claire Byrne Live though ... I feel she would have done well with the LLS and would have been an antidote to Tubridy's silliness ....

I remember Claire demolishing that idiot Nigel Farage ... one of the best scenes from Irish TV in the last decade ... she would have been ideal to do same with self styled Brexiteer pro-Trump 'comedian' Katie Hopkins but sadly it was Tubridy who had her on!!! ... Hopkins is more proof of someone from a reality TV background who has risen to fame with nothing to offer at all ... and then resorts to faux controversy supporting all the bad stuff ...

The Irish music, comedy and entertainment scene has been in terminal decline with years ... in fairness long before Tubridy came on the scene ... ever since reality TV, talent competitions and lazy comedy like imitating politicians took hold ... the goose was cooked wrt the Irish 'entertainment' scene .... Tubridy became little more than a promoter of the mediocre Irish scene and TV's outlet for them ...

The future of the LLS would be in more discussion and serious topics that are not the 'misery slot' either ... we have had way too much cancer, ALS/MND, suicide, etc. on to last 3 lifetimes .... sympathy for those who experience all this of course but should have its own show like Check Up used to do years ago .... Kielty may or may not work out well .... if he continues with Tubridy's 'entertainment' guests then it will not improve .... he seems to be better at things than Tubridy but he does need the guests to go with it and he does need to leave his Luv Island background out of it ... we do need to draw a line in the sand and stop this overhype of reality junk .....

I liked Brendan O'Connor's Saturday Night Show of about 10 years ago ... it was way better than the Tubridy show by a million miles ... he would have been a perfect fit and would have been ideal for the LLS ... I also do not understand why RTE suddenly ended the Saturday Night Show either ... since then not one of the replacements have been as good ...

Tubridy steered clear of anything not safe or easy ... he dropped the more serious and challenging topics of the Pat Kenny era but kept the boybands, Louis Walsh, etc. and then added in more reality TV drivel like Luv Island and also ex boyband stars who went on to sing what passes as country music and who decided to take a shot at the Eurovision ...

One thing Tubridy did a lot of early on and then dropped were the psychics/mediums ... why did he suddenly drop them does anyone know?? ... They were on constantly during his earlier years ....

It seemed that way .... I do not remember him contradicting them at all ... he just asked them to explain what they did .... and they talked about a boxing match with the half man half dog fierce 'devil' .... or angels and feathers helping you in life ... or what ever else these peddled ... it was not that different to the hypnosis merchants he also had on .... personally I do not believe in any of this stuff and it is all a cod to take money off the gullible ...

Tubridy must have gotten complaints about them .... because of a sudden he dropped all that type of content .... they are leeches .... at the same time I remember they had one in Love/Hate saying he was able to communicate with a dead person (Darren's brother) ... Darren's sister believed in him but not Darren ... Darren turned up with a gun and told him to stop charging his sister and to tell her he is in a happy place ... that may well be the only way to deal with them !!!

Never knew he challenged Dawkins, so he's a closet creationist then? I'll second that Thank Fcuk so.

They are all scumbags who exploit emotionally vulnerable people, and RTE should be ashamed for promoting that shyte.

Although the "big two" religions they happily promote every Sunday do exactly the same thing.

I'll have to have a root for that. I'd expect Gay maybe to have dissed Dawkins, his generation and all that, and we all remember his Bishop brown nosing when he had Annie Murphy on, but I'll have to see 'What Tubsy did next' for myself.

It's telling he was let nowhere near Joe Biden, despite being a US Prez super Fanboy.

I remember he attacked Richard Dawkins .... who is whether you agree or disagree with his beliefs not a chancer like these mediums and psychics .... but he said nothing at all when Joe Coleman was on about the boxing matches with the devil and Lorna Byrne was on about guardian angels .... I got the feeling at the time Tubridy actually believed in all that psychic stuff himself !!!

That's an embarrassing interview.

You could tell Dawkins was asked on to discuss his new book, and was annoyed that the host ignored it and decided to go for the cheap questions to get the audience to turn on him.

"So what's the Vatican then? Toy town?'.

Idiotic. So God must exist because the Vatican exists?

"I'm asking questions that are interesting ". We all know about Tubs and his humility.