RTÉ One hosting nine seasons as Late Late host he stepped down to host a new political programme. In September 2009, Ryan Tubridy took over as host. In its early years the show was known for its controversies. Most Irish chat shows continue to use a similar formula to The Late Late Show, most shows are live and contain a mix of serious and entertaining interviews. In the late 1970s and early 1980s the biggest rival to The Late Late Show was The Live Mike, hosted by Mike Murphy. The show was a mix of comedy sketches and interviews. Mike Murphy decided
Ryan Tubridy on Amazon.com—appearing on "Seoige and O'Shea" in April 2008, he proclaimed his top three books of the previous year as "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy, "Christine Falls" by Benjamin Black and "Exit Ghost" by Philip Roth. He is fond of the humour of Gerry Ryan and the fictional character Ross O'Carroll-Kelly. Tubridy has expressed his disdain for "anonymous cowards on the internet", those who operate "under the shadowy cover of names like Catman or Twenty Rothmans or whatever", and believes Wikipedia is "a fact-free bull run for any passing eejit to come along and add whatever fact or fiction they