RTÉ Jokes: RTÉ DG Kevin Bakhurst has responded to the numerous jokes Patrick Kielty made on the Late Late about the broadcaster's secret payments scandal.
"So nice to finally get started because, as you all know folks, The Late Late Show has been off air now for almost four months. Well, I say off-air. It's been on Morning Ireland, Prime Time, Liveline," he quipped in what was the first of many RTÉ jokes.Describing how everything about his version of the Late Late was"new", Kielty also said:"We've got a brand new house band for you, folks.
Give it up for Grant Thornton and the flip flops."He added as well:"We're trying out a brand new format tonight on the show where the host gets to ask the questions instead of having to answer them at the Oireachtas."Based on the latest figures for TV licence payments, we're expecting an audience of 27 people tuning in tonight. Just to put that into perspective, that's almost double the amount of people who saw Toy Show: The Musical.
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