The Late Late Show (season 48) The Late Late Show (season 48) The 48th season of "The Late Late Show", an Irish television chat show, began on 4 September 2009 and concluded on 28 May 2010. It aired on RTÉ One each Friday evening from 21:30. It was the first series to be hosted by Ryan Tubridy, the show's fourth permanent host following the resignation of Pat Kenny live on air the previous season. Tubridy's first episode as host achieved a 62 per cent audience share, the highest audience for a regular season episode since 1999. Local guests this season included Taoiseach Brian Cowen, his predecessor
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