Ryan Tubridy is the one that I always wanted. I love the fact that children are uncontaminated by the reality of adulthood". "Tubridy Tonight" concluded on 30 May 2009. Tubridy's first guest on "The Late Late Show" was Taoiseach Brian Cowen, an interview that drew an audience share of 62 per cent. Gay Byrne, the original host, was one of Tubridy's guests in December 2009. While hosting "The Late Late Show", Tubridy has often clashed with his own guests, including Gordon Ramsay ("a bit, em, British for my liking"), Louis Walsh (giving Jedward a "hard time" on "The Late Late Toy Show"),
The Tubridy Show concerts that had taken place that weekend in Croke Park. The programme was a two-hour show for the summer months before becoming a one-hour show from the start of September. In 2006, the show's entire crew of producers and researchers were moved elsewhere. In August 2009, Tubridy expressed shock on the show when "Big Brother" housemate Noirin Kelly declared before an interview that she had never heard of Tommy Tiernan. In 2010, "The Tubridy Show" helped launch "Ireland's Greatest", though Tubridy was displeased at some of the contents—"There are some really silly names in there. It's contentious to say the