The Saturday Night Show The Saturday Night Show The Saturday Night Show is a talk show hosted by Brendan O'Connor broadcast on RTÉ One between 2010 and 2015. The show features guest interviews, audience participation and live music. "The Saturday Night Show" is broadcast every Saturday night during the autumn-spring season directly after "", the main evening news bulletin. Following Pat Kenny's stepping down as host of "The Late Late Show" in 2009, RTÉ announced that Ryan Tubridy, host of his own Saturday night chat show, would be Kenny's replacement. "Tubridy Tonight" had aired since 2004 and had regularly drawn an audience of up
Ryan Tubridy pseudonym of David McSavage. Tubridy started in broadcasting at the age of 12, reviewing books for the RTÉ 2FM show "Poporama" presented by Ruth Buchanan. He earned £25 per show. After leaving college he became a runner in RTÉ, initially working on "The Gerry Ryan Show" as maker of tea and coffee. Tubridy said at the death of Gerry Ryan that "The moment I set foot in RTÉ, he put his wing around me and said: 'I like what you do. I like what you are. I'm going to look after you.'" He credits Ryan for his kindness "in a