Celebrity Deathmatch…
If you’re going to shuffle off this mortal coil well then you certainly don’t want to do so having been found in a suitcase stuffed in a Los Angeles bin. Your fingers having been hacked off and your teeth smashed in. The only thing left to identify you the serial number on your breast implants.
All of this by your one time husband who you’d met only a few months previous.
It all sounds like something from a Coen Brothers movie but it’s real.
As I say not a way you’d choose to go. But then again there really are some fucked up people out there. Many of whom seek, and subsequently find, celebrity.
But at what price?
“A humbling honour”, says he…
So the powers that be in RTÉ have decided, and announced this evening, that Ryan Tubridy is the man to replace Pat Kenny. The 35-year-old presenter’s first programme as host of The Late Late Show will be broadcast in September.
Ryan Tubridy with Twink and Grainne Seoige. Win some, lose some.
Commenting on taking over the programme from departing host Pat Kenny, new host Tubridy said: “I’m very taken aback by this announcement. ‘The Late Late Show’ casts a wide net across this island and it is a humbling honour to be asked to present such an iconic programme”.
So that’s that.
At least it’s not Gerry Ryan. Be thankful for small mercies.
Pat Kenny’s last Late Late Show as host will be broadcast on Friday, 29th of May.
‘Tubridy Tonight’ will not return in the Autumn. Instead RTÉ bosses “want to look again at the Saturday night schedule”. How that pans out we’ll just have to wait and see.
Also published here.
Bye Bye Pat, it’s been real…
Pat Kenny, knowing me, knowing you, AHAA!!!
Some people will be delighted. Some will be quietly disappointed. But either way Pat Kenny has thrown in the towel. “All good things must come to an end”, said Pat.
And with that, as announced on tonight’s show, his tenure of The Late Late Show comes to a close at the end of the current season.
He said he had come to the decision in consultation with his family and that “it had been a joy to present the show for almost ten years”. He added that, “he was stepping down at a time when the viewing figures were at an all-time high”. Recession anyone?
Pat did however hint that he would be moving to present another TV show in the autumn, but gave no further details of this. Paddy Power have since suspended betting on who will be the next chairman of Questions & Answers, now John Bowman has announced he intends to step down. Make of that what you will.
I wonder will he take a further pay cut? Word is that Pat has lost his shirt on bank shares. Pat is ‘battered and bruised’ apparently. Is that anything to do with his decision?
Is he sick of the abuse, and more abuse, and the stalkers?
At least now he can relax and enjoy that plot of land at the back of his garden.
Anyway… the show will go on…
Pat made sure to thank his audience for their support and wished the best of luck to his successor.
My money’s on Dara O’Briain.
I take it all back…
Previously, both on this very blog and others commented upon by yours truly, I have questioned the success and popularity of Dara O’Briain across the water. It seemed he was on everything. Absolutely everything. And I just didn’t get it.
Maybe it was just ignorance on my part or the begrudger in me, I don’t know. But now I take it all back. Mainly because he is genuinely funny. He’s clever, and writes sharp, original material. He’s confident, has a unique style and an infectious enthusiasm. And that’s why he’s achieved such success. I can see that now. And he’s still on fucking everything! But that’s okay. Could be worse, could be Ed Byrne.
So I take it all back Dara. It wasn’t you, it was me. Maybe I was blaming you for Andrew Maxwell and the other half-wits on The Panel. But now I’ve come clean I really hope we can move on?
All You Scoundrels, All You Villains…
It happened here a while back with the legendary Mighty Mouse. And some people complained then of the catchyness and the brain takeover. But I bet you all secretly loved the nostalgia trip!
Today is a different set of crime fighting cartoon legends altogether. So Ladies and Gentlemen I give you… Sharky & George; “Crimebusters of the Sea”.
After all these years we’ve spent apart I don’t for the life of me know how, or why, they’ve re-entered my head on this very day, Valentines Day 2009. But who am I to question the cosmic forces?
They’ve taken over my brain. Go here to let them take over yours. You’ll be bowled over by the brass stabs of the intro and I guarantee you’ll be clicking your fingers within seconds.
Again, don’t fight it. You won’t win.
