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THE TWO STAPLE Friday chat shows – the Late Late and Graham Norton – are on their summer hiatus so it’s mainly across the pond that you can get your fix of affable hosts speaking to a range of guests.
The weather has been positively foul in recent days and with plenty of grim news in the headlines, a bit of light entertainment doesn’t go amiss.
Here’s our latest round-up of talk show content from the week and what will be on this weekend. There should be plenty here to keep anyone occupied.
One of the most consistently viral videos among the US talk show hosts is Jimmy Kimmel’s regular Quarantine Monologues.
This week’s on Donald Trump got over 2 million views on YouTube and features an excellent use of the word “bigly”.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert had some hard-hitting content this week, with an interview with former Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris.
She told Colbert why she’d be “honoured” to join the Biden ticket in the upcoming election and why the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests won’t go away.
Also on Colbert, comedian Mike Birbiglia tried out some new material but what’s most enjoyable from this clip is how problematic the simple question “how are you” has become.
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, meanwhile, had this excellent breakdown of the difference between symbolic gestures and real action in fighting racial injustice and supporting the Black Lives Matter movement.
Over on The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon was having socially distant chats with Sean Penn, Don Cheadle and a Mayan conspiracy theorist this week.
He also had social distancing to thank, among other things, ahead of Father’s Day.
On that theme of Father’s Day, the English comedian Jack Whitehall has a show tonight on BBC One at 8.30pm featuring him having a socially distant celebration with his father.
Whitehall is then on the new chat show from Peter Crouch – yes, the footballer – to play something called Musical VAR tomorrow night at 9.45pm on BBC One.
As a football fan, I can say that if it’s anything like the real VAR, it’ll be frustrating, sometimes baffling and open to interpretation.
Meanwhile, on Sunday at 6.40pm, TG4 has a new episode of Daniel sa Bhaile where the singer Daniel O’Donnell talks with Armagh native and Folk Singer of the Year winner Ríoghnach Connolly.
Apparently, himself and his wife Majella will perform Kangoo Jumping.
Having googled what that actually is, I could suggest a description similar to that of VAR above. It does sound worth a watch though. Best of luck to them!
It wouldn’t be a season of The Late Late Show without Christy Dignam coming on and singing a tune.
Way before we’d ever heard of Covid-19, he went on the show last September and sang this stunning version of Waltzing Matilda.
Sit back and enjoy.
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Inside job
@Misanthrope: definition someone with more knowledge than they should have had..
Nice that he wore a hi-vis. Good to see that health and safety is being taken seriously.
Who withdraws €55,000 in cash for any legitimate reason nowadays? Seriously??!!
@Ciarán McPhillips:
Are you trying to say the business was using the 55000 euro for illegitimate reasons
@Casper: what business? There is no mention of any business in the article above.
@Ciarán McPhillips:
Just because it’s not mentioned doesn’t mean it’s not a business
@Casper: well unfortunately I just read the facts outlined in the article. It must be much more interesting reading the news when you don’t allow the facts to get in the way. Maybe extra terrestrials appeared and abducted them and stole the money. I mean using your logic- just because it doesn’t say it…..
@Casper: Excellent retort there.
@Ciarán McPhillips:
Happy Xmas Ciaran
@Ciarán McPhillips: Agree, I smell a large hairy rat, who carries that amount of cash for either personal or business use nowadays ?
It just does not add up or make sense, why did bells not ring in the Bank either ?
@Casper: Well, if you happen to have that kind of cash on you boarding an aircraft, god help you.
@Ciarán McPhillips: hahahahahahaha just so good. I was saying boooourns.
@Ciarán McPhillips: The robbery happened outside Rialto credit union.
Who other than Cash in Transit Security withdraws €55,000 in cash from a Bank? 20-30 years ago understandable as possibly payroll. But today very very rare. One would have to ask questions as to what it was for.
@Mick Jordan:
Isn’t that the work of the Garda, like I am pretty sure this is all the stuff they will be looking into
@Mick Jordan: Paying a large sum of cash is not at all unusual. Many business sale deals are two thirds through the books, one third cash. Used to be fairly common. Same for selling commercial property. About 30% under the counter is common.
The questions would need to be asked of the person receiving it on such a transaction, rather than the person paying it over, assuming the person paying it over got it legitimately. If they took it from a bank, it’s very likely declared and legitimate income. Revenue know about deposits.
@Casper: my question is why did the Garda wait from the 7th to 21st before asking for witnesses
might be what I’ve heard called the ‘manage’ in cork. A couple of people collect money from colleagues all year, bank it, then give it back at Christmas time.
@Aidan Molyneux: that’s my question too. I’ve been in the area many times,but was I there exactly 2 weeks ago at lunch? Why the delay in looking for witnesses?
The more I read this the more peculiar it becomes
No description other an average height
No mention of any age profile
No mantion of any sort of accent
He approached on foot
Left on a bicycle
Having (presumably) followed them by car?
Tia less fishy in Leo Burdocks
@Ciarán McPhillips:
Keep reading you might come up with more
Why did the guards wait two weeks to make an appeal for dash camera video? How could anyone remember two weeks ago
@David Dickson:
Well if they look at the dash camera on that day the camera will jog their memories
@Casper: cams override constantly no storage
@David Dickson: Plus dash cams overwrite themselves.
I don’t think you can walk into a bank and just withdraw large amounts of cash on demand anymore, as far as I know it has to be ordered in advance.
If I was hedging my bets I’d be looking at an inside job.
Not very difficult to tip someone off to a large withdrawal, sure you even know the person’s name and address in advance.
An oddity amongst oddities
It was Santa ,
It’s the season for a bit of silliness and this inside job is pure silliness
@Casper: taking €55,000 out of a bank in cash is pretty silly too, I would say.
@Dave Murray:
Not if they have 55 members of family that they wanted to give a Xmas pressie of €1000 each
An amazing coincidence. Santa was early.
Sounds like a inside job.
Pedal Cycle; why use one word when you can use two
It sounds like a bloke year’s ago in a bank in Talbot st.someone lodged it .?
Probably an “inside family” job!
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