150KTubs - future career in Virgin Radio and other soulful pursuits **Mod: Read OP**

He's making a hames of a his new job across the water, and is exposing his limitations for all to see. He's not going to come across any better to Americans of any sort. He's not witty or charming, he's not much of a storyteller and he doesn't have red hair. Not a chance!

James Corden has next to nothing going from him, and look at how he took off in the US. Tubridy won't ever reach those heights, but a little of being from "across the pond" can go a long way.

They elected Trump, it was the future once.

There's no universe in which I'm going to defend James Corden but there's really no comparison between him and Tubs. He might be an arsehole but he created, wrote and starred in his own very successful sitcom. I watched a number of his interviews on that US chatshow and while I'd rather drink bleach than watch it regularly, there's no denying Corden belonged in that millieu and was very comfortable rubbing shoulders with A listers. For what he had to do, ie fluff 7 minute entertainment chats and viral video segments, he was adept and didn't look out of place.

Try to imagine Ryan Tubridy catapulted into anything like that. It would be a nightly car crash of awkward lines of questioning, stilted conversation, Irish heavy blather, pissed off guests and an audience increasingly uncomfortable with the ineptitude of the the host who looks completely out of his depth.

Unless Tubridy went on one of the propaganda channels like Fox, where I'm sure an empty "My butler's fourth cousin had an Irish grandfather" schtick would probably be enough to carry a show, then there's no chance he is going to go into US media.

If he wants to make a go of it in London, he'd be better off joining the Daily Mail there.

Irish Daily Mail rather than the Daily Mail. Not sure that the main edition will be be carrying it. It is all part of keeping Tubridy's Irish profile current and making him more marketable to Irish broadcasters. The problem with a return to RTE is that RTE is now a slightly different RTE to the one that dumped Tubridy and lot of the previous management has been replaced.

Regards...jmcc

Gift grub did a great sketch of him this morning.

I feel like I'm hallucinating reading some of this. The guy is out of his depth in the UK and being completely exposed for his lack of wit and personality. Suggesting he could be a good fit for a bigger job in the US is ludicrous in my opinion.

Ah would ya stop

Apart from a nationwide radio show in Britain and a national newspaper column over here? NK proving why hes worth his commission.

This James Corden?

Didn't Tubridy try to break into the US broadcasting market about ten years ago with his "The Irish Are Coming" book. It got him a few interviews on local and morning TV programmes but I don't think that there were any job offers. Do you think that he's going to try to break into the US market (again)?

Tubridy seems to be an RTE lifer whereas Corden seems to have a range of talents. Fast-forwarding a year, do you think that Tubridy will be back, full-time, on an Irish radio station?

Regards...jmcc

This is such a disappointing response. Anyone who tries to inject a bit of reality into the debate, to increase the standard of discourse from base-level pile-on, is deemed a shill. This is designed to silence anything that goes against the narrative. It's unhealthy, and it's wrong.

There's lots of things to criticise Tubridy about, but it's just bizarre that his obvious and objective successes keep being used.

Let's just look at the facts.

In July last year, Tubridy and Kelly were up in front of an Oireachtas hearing, being rightly grilled in front of the Committee and the nation about the payment scandal that was had rocked the country. In August last year, RTE announced that Tubridy's contract would not be renewed. Everyone thought; that's it, the end. Both he and Kelly would fade into obscurity. Kelly was dismissed as a jumped-up chocolate salesman who had got lucky with fooling an inept quango into hiring an incompetent nepobaby for obscene money in a job he was unqualified for.

Then, less than 6 months later, Kelly has secured for his client:

• A national daily radio show in the UK on a private radio station owned by none other than News Corp.
• Syndication across multiple Irish radio stations
• A dedicated syndicated Irish Sunday radio show
• Sponsorship from a major international corporation
• A weekly column in a national Irish Sunday newspaper

Remember, these are all private, for profit, companies we're talking about. Operating in a cut-throat environment where every cent, every second, every drop of ink, every pixel counts and has to be accounted for by and to the major players of the media industry. It's not RTE, it's the real world. There's no reason for ANY of them to engage with Tubridy at all, other than the pursuit of success and cold, hard profit.

Is this the work of an out-of-his-league chocolate salesman? Is this the work for an inept "Alan Partridge" type broadcasting buffoon?

Be honest, if not here on Boards, at least in your heart.

Like him or loath him - and there is much to loath - Kelly has delivered for his client. 100%

And there's so, so many things to criticise Tubridy for, but his objective success to date at bouncing back from certain ruin is not one of them.

And no, I'm not a shill for Kelly or for Tubridy. Not a fan, not on his side.

I'm just pointing out objective facts. And if you're going to condemn me for that, its says an awful not more about you than it does about me.