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As another Friday night rolls around, a little socially distant jokes could help break the monotony.
With the temperatures falling, there is no better night to sit on the couch and watch some quality chat shows.
Here’s our latest rundown of talk show content for the week and what’s airing tonight. There should be a lot here to keep anyone busy.
Trick or treat?
- The Late Late Show, RTÉ One, 9.35 pm
It’s hard to believe that it’s been five months since Daniel O’Donnell joined Ryan one last time to chat and sing a song. So naturally, he’s back tonight.
You might take this news as an All Hallows Eve bedtime scare or a chance to dance on cobwebs with Donegal’s finest – that’s what they invented dance for …
He will perform Come What May from his new album and will speak about the ongoing struggles facing the Irish music industry.
Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick he will be talking about the “life-changing event” that happened to him earlier this year, and how he supposedly predicted the pandemic would happen. Since I’ve never seen Super Vet, I can only assume, and hope, that the show’s tune is a reworked version of Rick James’s Superfreak.
Activist and historian Catherine Corless will discuss the importance of this week’s clarification by the government that adoptees and survivors of maternal and child homes have a legal right to access their personal data.
Funny Bernard O’Shea will offer his experience of the midlife crisis, and the chef Donal skehan He will also talk about his recent return to Ireland and how to keep anxiety at bay.
The guests of tonight’s video link are TV presenters Phillip SchofieldY Cat Deeley.
Schofield made headlines earlier this year when he decided to appear on This Morning. He will tell Ryan what led him to speak for the first time about his sexuality, his early days on children’s television, and his friendship with Holly Willoughby.
Deeley, who rose to fame on American television, will discuss her decision to return to the UK after 14 years. Her Irish connection is her husband, Patrick Kielty, so expect a full segment on that.
Source: The Late Late Show / YouTube
- The Graham Norton Show, BBC One, 10:45 PM
Ireland is well represented on the red sofa tonight with the actress Jessie buckley, which stars Netflix’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things, and Dermot Kennedy who will perform his current single Giants.
Among the guests joining Graham tonight are the comedian and Strictly contestant. Bill Bailey, Oscar winner Octavia spencer, who is in the new film adaptation of The Witches, by Roald Dahl, BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner, and a children’s comedian and author. David walliams.
Source: The Graham Norton Show / YouTube
Across the pond
Jimmy Kimmel looks at Team Trump’s last full week in the election campaign in his monologue. Highlights include Trump’s disdain for the weather at his rallies and Lil Wayne’s visit to the White House, with Kimmel calling them Young Money and No Money.
Source: Jimmy Kimmel Live / YouTube
Trevor Noah spoke to Ice Cube about the goals behind his contract with Black America and the reaction he received after it emerged that he was working with the Trump White House to close the racial wealth gap.
Daily Show correspondent Jordan Klepper addressed a Trump rally in Pennsylvania to gauge the reaction of US President supporters to the “big October surprise” that is Hunter Biden’s laptop, while others compare Ivanka Trump’s work to the late Lady Diana.
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Source: The Daily Show with Trevor Noah / YouTube
In Last Week Tonight, John Oliver looks at immigration and how the Trump administration has handled asylum seekers for the past four years. An issue that was central to Trump’s 2016 election campaign, but not so much this time.
Source: LastWeekTonight / YouTube
Meanwhile, Stephen Colbert spoke with Sacha Baron Cohen about his new Borat movie and the story behind his infamous interview with Donald Trump during his Ali G.
And over the weekend, Bette Midler spoke to Seth Meyers about his new mockumentary In Search of the Sandersons Sisters, based on the 1993 film Hocus Pocus.
Source: Late Night with Seth Meyers / YouTube
From the archives
Have you ever wondered what scares horror author Stephen King? In a 1986 interview, he admitted that cars and trucks frightened him since childhood. My money would have been in clowns, to be honest.
Source: CBC / YouTube
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