Tubridy Tonight had regular viewing figures of 450,000, however, the show also regularly fell victim to so-called "Saturday Night Syndrome", with "The Late Late Show", broadcast on Friday nights, frequently featuring supposedly better guests. In 2009 "Tubridy Tonight" came to an end when RTÉ announced that Tubridy would succeed Pat Kenny as host of "The Late Late Show" for the following series, with the presenter describing "Tubridy Tonight" as "quite the odyssey". Upon Gay Byrne's retirement from "The Late Late Show" in 1999, RTÉ announced that Pat Kenny, host of his own Saturday night chat show, would be Byrne's replacement. "Kenny Live"
Ryan Tubridy against Tubridy who called a paedophile a "monster" and "creature" and added: "From what I gather these guys cannot be quote unquote cured ... only one way to deal with them, and that's physiological ... these guys should have bits taken off." Tubridy returned to RTÉ Radio 1 in September 2015 to host The Ryan Tubridy Show, an hour long weekday morning show. In July 2010, Tubridy's agent Noel Kelly confirmed that Tubridy was offered by the BBC to present a summer filler for Jonathan Ross's BBC Radio 2 programme. He turned down the offer citing preparations for "The Late