The Late Late show

[Itchy]

When will it be renamed "The Ulster Late Late Show So It Is"?

Well it was never renamed the Leinster Late Late in previous incarnations so I would say your idea is unlikely.

I though Michelle O Neill was good as was Kielty who asked her some probing questions.

It's a pity they then refused to allow the Aisling singers permission to sing with while they wore Gaza Tee Shirts

[seafoid]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRjVS4X3Wfo

[Wee Barky]

Watching that clip it sounds like they muted the audience as Michelle walks in.

[From the Bunker]

PK is not bad and not brilliant. But it's not easy make a silk purse out of a Pigs ear. Talk shows have changed a lot. Big names no longer give their time. More choices mean there is less of a hold on an audience on a Friday night. Social media has made interviews, quotes and stories more accessible.

[From the Bunker]

Watching that clip it sounds like they muted the audience as Michelle walks in.

Yes, good call - there seems to be a controlled element to it.

[burdizzo]

Watching that clip it sounds like they muted the audience as Michelle walks in.

Yes, good call - there seems to be a controlled element to it.

Jaysus, it seemed the Shinner goons in the audience were clapping and cheering her every banal soundbite. Not much control there, then.

[balladmaker]

Watching that clip it sounds like they muted the audience as Michelle walks in.

Yes, good call - there seems to be a controlled element to it.

Definitely muted as it appeared Michelle was receiving a rapturous welcome from the audience, music turned up, audience turned down ... maybe FG/FF had a word beforehand, surely not?

[RedHand88]

Watching that clip it sounds like they muted the audience as Michelle walks in.

Yes, good call - there seems to be a controlled element to it.

Definitely muted as it appeared Michelle was receiving a rapturous welcome from the audience, music turned up, audience turned down ... maybe FG/FF had a word beforehand, surely not?

Lol would you's all wise up. There is no big conspiracy. This is why southerners laugh at us.
The music comes on and goes into the sound mixer along with audience mics. Of course the audience will appear quieter. The final output has to be equalised so the entire country isn't turning their TV up and down throughout the broadcast.

[seafoid]

PK is not bad and not brilliant. But it's not easy make a silk purse out of a Pigs ear. Talk shows have changed a lot. Big names no longer give their time. More choices mean there is less of a hold on an audience on a Friday night. Social media has made interviews, quotes and stories more accessible.

The range of potential guests is really limited compared to 30 or 40 years ago. Entertainment is like soccer. Superstars get all of the money. Peter Ustinov or Barry Humphries spent years refining their talent whereas very few  get the space to do that now. Entertainment was way better in the past.


Stewart Lee was interviewed in the Financial Times a while ago
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/bea2c458-14fd-11e1-a2a6-00144feabdc0.html#

Towards the end of lunch, though, he becomes quite angry about present conditions. There's no way he would have made it to Oxford today, he says. "For a start, I was adopted. In the 1960s, the process took three months, now it can take three years. That's going to affect people differently. I might have been damaged by longer in care. And I wouldn't have gone anyway because of the debts. There's no way I would take that on. Thirdly, a whole generation of people are being made to feel that they shouldn't be studying the arts. They're being told that their degree has got to be cost-effective."

He especially regrets the disappearance of the old "support networks", such as the unemployment and housing benefits, that enabled artists to live cheaply and find their way. "It's all over. There'll come a point when somebody will suddenly realise – there's loads and loads of Coldplay but there isn't a Radiohead, there's loads and loads of ITV1 sitcoms, and things with Robert Lindsay in a house, but there isn't a League of Gentlemen. Someone will be reading an embossed novel about a missing artefact, and they will suddenly think, 'Didn't there use to be books that were not just a list of events?' " (Lee's well-known parody of a typical Dan Brown sentence goes: "The famous man looked at the red cup.") In 40 years, he reckons, people will be saying, "Where's all that stuff gone that was ... good?"

[Applesisapples]

I thought Paddy was respectful and pressed MO'N  without turning it into a confrontation. I also thought she answered well. We are nearly 30 years post ceasefire, MO'N wasn't involved in the conflict so this constant need of political opponents of SF to make them ear  sackcloth and ashes is a bit pathetic. I recently saw pictures of the pogroms of 69 where the RUC were petrol bombing Catholic houses in Belfast. Those who condemn her for saying that many saw no  other option should take a good look at  these.

[93-DY-SAM]

I liked Paddy's dig at the end of the interview when he was talking about the competition and told Michelle not to bother entering as she was from the North and we couldn't enter.

[From the Bunker]

Good interview the Kneecap there. PK was marginally uncomfortable. Tubridy would never have had them on or if he did would be able to have that interview as open.

[Truthsayer]

Aye Paddy was a bit flummoxed but he did OK, he's over a barrell with RTE policy on Palestine. Thought the three lads were brilliant highlighting the genocide and good too on sectarianism and a need for a workers' revolution.... "more in common with a working class lad on the Shankill than a rich man in Dublin even if we have the same passport".. or words to that effect. True dat!

[Duine Inteacht Eile]

How many times has Imelda May been on the LLS at this stage?

[Tony Baloney]

How many times has Imelda May been on the LLS at this stage?

Save me the bother and let me know who else is on. I watched the pre-ad intro where he was announcing the guests and I heard Cheltenham jockey, GAA All Star etc.