Real edgy stuff there…

wow, what a fluff piece interview… much like the late late show I guess.

Tubbers , your a breath of fresh air :)

I hate when people condemn fair comment on the man’s shows, he is paid partly from the people’s pockets and in my opinion isn’t good enough for the nations main chat show. His interviews are rarely of substance and he has trouble having any banter with his guests (both comic and serious) I’m sure he has a talent for something, but being our flagship programmes presenter isn’t it. I don’t think I’m the only one with this view?

Take a pay cut like the rest of us Tubridy you greedy git, €600,000 a year for being an idiot.

Could he sound anymore like a politician? If you are asked a question answer it!! Why bother having a question and answer session?

my american friends are shocked at the aggressive nature of his questioning, he barrages guests with stuff like “tell us about your nervous breakdown” (This question in particular was from last Friday, i forget the name of the guest).

Tubbers likes his politics American, his interviews mundane, boring, and depressing, and his internet sanitised.

Apparently boards.ie, which isn’t exactly anarchic, was full of “mean people”, because they deign to discuss the failings of his chat show every Friday, and his ramblings on the radio on an ongoing basis.

Diddums.

Thank God I missed this! If I wanted to hear about this guy I’d be getting my news from RTE.ie. Why is Journal.ie giving him airtime???

Never liked the guy. He only says what he thinks people want to hear.

Tbh I just got bored after Q3…..

I just want to know if he’s ever read a book that hasn’t previously been adapted into a film.

Safe answers from a man that asks safe questions. I should not have expected anything more interesting.

Hashtag: #JournalTubs…?

What was the point of this if he basically refused to answer any of the questions!!!

Did he answer any questions directly without brushing them off? Little disappointed Ryan…but more so the interviewer, who didn’t push him on anything. While it may be light hearted, it’s hardly the ‘grilling’ as titled

Tubbers always had the FF streak of never answering a direct question. Unlike Gerry Ryan, who appeared frank and direct even when he was lying, and did so with a bit of charm about him, Ryan just bumbles happily along the middle ground, in his D4 bubble, and is a charisma vacuum.

He tells us all every Friday that we should look on the bright side, and then wheels out someone who has lost their business, their health, or one of their family. Even with able bodied guests, he manages to poke out a negative (unless they’re a buddy, like Ronan Keating). He had Gordon Brown on a while back, and asked him within two minutes about the fact that he only had one eye.

Many of you may have seen his first TV appearance as a young lad on Anything Goes (the fact that his grandad (the guy who closed the tram to Ranelagh, because it was only used by Protestant solicitors) was RTE DG at the time was of course irrelevant!). Anyway, he did children’s book reviews. He didn’t so much review them, as tell us that they all had lovely bottoms. He hasn’t changed in the last twenty five years in that respect.

Can you ask him to leave the country and never come back. Please for everybody’s sake.

Why didn’t you ask him the question that people wanted to know? “Why doesn’t he just go away” ?

Ask him “why can’t he just go away” . Thank you.

If that’s what they consider a grilling, never let this journalist cook for you, you’d be bound to get food poisoning…

grilling:
2. Subject (someone) to intense questioning or interrogation.

Hardly ‘intense’ like.

He should get a kick up the hole out of RTE and stop wasting our bloody licensing fees. He’s as bad as conan or that other trained ape with the chin!

Why so many negative comments,and why be so petty,like or dislike him,there is no need to be cruel,just for the sake of posting something.bit narrow minded,

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Give him a break! Surely the 10 questions were a light hearted twitter exchange?Really tough comments about him. Love the radio show., always fun, yet he interviews sensitively when needed. I think he is always respectful.,speaks highly of children, mindful of the recession and it’s impact on people right now, encourages reading, I love the movie banter, but the music, well…. and we do need fun, positive people right now. His enthusiasm for the queen and president Obama’s vist really added to the atmosphere for me., I will be tuning into the BBC….,.