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AS ANOTHER FRIDAY night rolls around, a bit of socially distant light banter might help to break up the monotony.
With the drop in temperatures, there’s no better night to sit on the couch and watch some quality chat shows.
Here’s our latest round-up of talk show content from the week and what will be on tonight. There should be plenty here to keep anyone occupied.
Joining Ryan in the studio and via Zoom will be Glen Hansard, U2′s Bono and The Edge, Imelda May, Hozier, John Sheahan, Finbar Furey, Shane MacGowan, Danny O’Reilly, Roisin O, Declan O’Rourke, Lisa O’Neill, and Kodaline’s Steve Garrigan.
All involved are expected to perform and have chat about memories of the busk from down the years, and the importance of the work of the Simon Community
“This will certainly be a night to remember with the best of Irish talent in one room coming together for some incredible performances,” Tubridy said.
“In return, our friends here are asking viewers to dig deep to donate to the Simon Community and to help our brothers and our sisters who are currently homeless to get off the streets, to be safe, to be warm, to be treated with dignity and decency and ultimately to get the type of secure housing that everyone deserves.”
Ryan will also interview special guest Philip Powell, who was staying in a hostel when he struck up a friendship with Glen Hansard and became a staple performer of the Grafton Street busk. Philip will speak of his experiences of being homeless on and off for two decades.
Unlike the Tubridy, Graham will be back on our screens for a New Year’s Eve special alongside Tom Hanks, Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Nish Kumar and Jessica Chastain.
But tonight, you’ll have to settle for George Clooney, Michael Sheen and David Tennant, Viola Davis, Daisy May Cooper, and Vanessa Kirby.
Michael Ball and Alfie Boe will be performing a rendition of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.
Joe and Jill Biden sat down with Stephen Colbert for their first joint interview since last month’s presidential election.
The future first lady said she was surprised at the tone of recent attacks on her doctorate degree, after an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal called for her to drop Dr from her title (she earned a doctorate of education from the University of Delaware in 2007).
When Colbert asked Joe his thoughts on the matter, he said: “I’ve been suppressing my Irish-ness for a long time.” We’ll take that as a compliment then…
Colbert also spoke with Whoopi Goldberg about the third instalment of Sister Act. 27 years on the nuns are having another go around, but Goldberg was tight-lipped about possible plot lines.
If you’re still doing some last-minute Christmas shopping, Jimmy Kimmel has the gift for you. The mayor of Atlantic City is auctioning off the chance to blow up one of Donald Trump’s former casinos. Whoever donates the most money (to charity) gets to press the detonator next month. Kimmel says a much a simpler way to make a Trump casino implode is to put Trump back in charge of it again.
Kimmel also spoke with Viola Davis about her new movie Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, and acting alongside the late Chadwick Boseman. And for the season that’s in it, here’s Alanis Morissette performing Happy Xmas (War Is Over).
Ahead of the release of his new album today, Paul McCartney told Jimmy Fallon it came about while he had some time on his hands during lockdown. It was only after he finished eleven songs he thought “this might be an album”.
Watch the interview below if you want to feel like you accomplished nothing this year.
Graham Norton makes another appearance on the list, this time as a guest of Fallon. Talking about filming his show during the pandemic, Graham said nothing fills the void of his missing audience (not even the laugh track from the last season, shudder).
And if you were wouldn’t whether Santa Claus is a savage, he is. This Megan Thee Stallion remix is, naturally, not for the kids in your life.
Despite being released 26 years ago, Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas Is You is currently top of the charts around the world.
Here she is in 1994 talking about her new “peppy Christmas number” before it became a staple of the season.
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Cool. I know what I’ll be watching tonight.
All thanks to the communist principles of Kim Jung Un …… Maybe socialism aint so bad !
The journal is now an advertising platform of torrents.eu
Those pesky North Koreans trying to destroy the world one torrent at a time! Oh the humanity
All available on showbox..Thats me sorted for the week..
Check out movie 25
This is a job for Team America and Gary Johnston’s fantastic acting skills.
Unless there is a North Korean working at Sony Studios. These are more than likely advanced screener videos for critics and award purposes that have been leaked out by staff themselves and found their way into the wrong hands.
Screener season is January. Love January.
This has publicity stunt written all over it. “Let’s release 4 rubbish films and blame it on a hack from the country our possibly good film is about. That will stir up free advertising”. And it has, reading this and other articles.
Fury is a class film anto oscar material
Apart from Annie they’re all films with legit Oscar intentions. Mr Turner played in the Cannes film festival and Timothy Spall will likely get a nominations for Best Actor.
Someone in Sony will be in deep Sh#t! 5 movies lost to torrents! Cyber Monday eat your heart out!
Good movies, but I haven’t watched em yet sure that’s illegal ;)
It’s actually not (unless they’ve changed the law in the last two years), I checked with INFACT who are in charge of copyright infringement in late 2011.
It’s illegal to download audio (music), however it’s not illegal to download video as long as you don’t distribute it (seed torrents, sharing, burning disks etc).
Personal use is totally legitimate as long as no distribution occurs.
Maybe someone in the journal could verify this with INFACT.
I seed man , actually I don’t that’s against the law ;)
The day is coming where all entertainment will have to be released globally at the same time, people don’t wanna wait for months to see a movie which is spoilt by people on social media giving away the fecking start middle and ending !!!
The ship hits an iceberg and sinks… Oh and jack drowns.
Shame it wasn’t Interstellar. I can’t wait to see that flick
On your own there
Go see it so? It’s on in every cinema in the country.
Actually don’t bother it’s crap
Yeah it’s not great. Fury is one of the best films I’ve seen in a while and worth the price of admission. Worth seeing in the cinema for the better sound.
I live in a foreign country with lovely, but foreign, words
Are they taking requests?
These include unreleased titles “Annie,” “Mr. Turner,” “Still Alice,” and “To Write Love On Her Arms,” as well as World War II drama “Fury.”
Praise the Lord for showbox
Jaysis Fury was woeful,couldn’t be more ridiculous,Saving Private Ryan meets Rambo,Still Alice is very good though,so one of the cast tells me….
It’s a good film let down by its over the top unrealistic ending
The ending did wreck it a bit
It started well and I was enjoying it but descended into farce,for me if the last half hour of a film is a joke you’ve just wasted your time
I recommend Fury and I’m looking forward to American Sniper.
Fury is a great show. Thanks.
Too bad it wasn’t Foxcatcher or Whiplash leaked instead. Can’t wait to see both
Want to see American sniper next, anybody know if I can locate it online yet?
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