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The show also featured a pre-recorded interview with Ice Cube and Kevin Hart, who were in Dublin to promote their latest movie, Ride Along 2.
The pair chatted about everything from Hart’s visit to Crunch Fitness in Dublin yesterday morning to the furore surrounding the lack of diversity in this year’s Oscar nominations.
But Tubs couldn’t leave Ice Cube go without asking him one important question – what’s the craic with his Irish-sounding name?
For those of you who don’t know, the hip-hop heavyweight’s real name is O’Shea Jackson. Yes, O’Shea as in John O’Shea and Rick O’Shea.
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Tubs pointed out to Cube that the name might cause some to think he’s of Irish stock.
See for us, we’d kind of immediately be going, ‘Are you anything to the O’Sheas in Kilkenny or Connemara?’
Unfortunately, Ice Cube didn’t reveal any Irish heritage, but said that his mother merely liked the sound of the name.
I don’t know, man, my mother must have had a little Irish thang on the side. I don’t know! I actually think my mom liked the name, liked how it flowed off the tongue and ended up naming me O’Shea.
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It was also a pre-recorded segment. There was no sign of them after. Imagine the producers hooshing them out after. “Right, You, You, You and You and all of row 19. Time to leave.” Haha. Oh The Late Late Show does it again.
I thought I was the only one who noticed the very obvious tokenism by RTE. “Oh let’s get a few shots of black people laughing at the black actors”. Quite strange political correctness. The very idea they needed to encourage a group of black people to be in the audience with tokenism because when they returned to the live section they were gone again.!
Not the first time some idiot interviewer from RTE failed to cop how African-Americans came to have Irish surnames. Saw Dempsey interview guy in New York years ago convinced that because he was a Murphy there must be Irish in him somewhere – just wouldn’t let it go
Graham norton did well and went to a decent tv channel his interview was superior. Tubridy is a horrible interviewer back in the day RTE had talented people I rate the Ali interview that cathal o’shannon did decades ago to be one of the best I’ve ever heard. Serious at parts and funny in others.
Tubs is a parody of himself at this stage, I rarely switch on the late late because of how cringe it is but anytime I do, he’s trying to create some tenuous Irish link for whatever foreign guest he’s managed to lure in
Tubs was embarrassing as usual to be honest. He never brings out the best in guests. He loses control of the show and the interviews all the time. His questions sound unnatural and rehearsed. The question about the black actors boycotting the Oscars was awkward and too series for the actors involved and took the mood from the interview. All in All he’s possibly had the worst interview skills in media!
Yeah, Tubridy was pretty terrible-but it was an important question to ask for a few reasons. Ice Cube produced ‘Straight Outta Compton’, a film about his and his band’s formation, and it has also been nominated for an Oscar for screenplay. The film defintiely deserved a few more nods, for things like direction or some such. And the only crew nominated for the movie are the screenwriters, who are white. So considering ICe Cube produced a movie that’s up for an Oscar, it deserved questioning.
But a really reasonable, intelligent answer came from Kevin Hart. Anyone who gets in to film, music ro art or any medium entirely for awards does not last very long. You do it because you love it. Straight outta compton made more than many movies nominated this year. One or two films nominated were bombs (Steve Jobs got pulled from cinemas, Carol made less than 2 million in the US). Many of the nominees this year are also nominated for Razzie’s. (Rooney Mara for Pan, Eddie Redmayne for Jupiter Ascending).
Success isn’t the awards (the good ones, unlike the Razzies) it’s connecting with people. When a film makes a lot of money, it’s because it connected with people. People went to see it and enjoyed it-eg Straight Outta Compton. Compton made 10 times it’s original budget. Creed made the majority of it’s budget back on opening weekend. It scooped a massive profit on a film series some would have said had run it’s course. But, just like Rocky Balboa, it proved people wrong. (I love Rocky Balboa, definitely gonna see Creed when I have the chance). That is another film that connected with audiences. How many other films nominated this year can say they connected with audiences? Far less than were nominated I would say.
Alan Partridge more like-Michael Parkinson was interesting, clever interviewer, even if some interviews did not go ‘entirely’ to plan-the Meg Ryan interview for one, the Bernard Manning one for another.
Tubridy has all the compassion of Partridge, but is slightly less embarassing than TV3′s own Henry Seller’s, Alan Hughes.
Did he ask Kevin Hart did he have Canadian heritage and was he related to Brett the hitman Hart. It wouldn’t surprise me. They’re probably looking at Tubridy thinking ‘What’s up with this goofy muthafcker,I thought irish people had charm and humour’.
Tubridy asked cube the same cringe question he asked will ferall last year “so you like Dublin yeah will you come back here and make perhaps “ride along 3….the Dublin adventure”….to a confused ice cube ….last year our paxman asked for “anchorman the Dublin adventure”
Why watch the late late when you know tubridy is that bad? Haven’t watched since gaybo retired. Presume they rounded up a few asylum scammers from mosney and stuck them in the audience for a day out in lieu of a riot.
If you watch the Netflix documentary about Angola prison in Louisiana called the farm,some of the inmates have Irish names,along with the prison warden.
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