Frank McCourt v Gerry Hannan | Late Late Show 1999

[@tipperary1082]

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[@troubleman4125]

Your channel has made it Tippster you ledgebag

[@beep_]

conspiracy

[@ciaran9203]

WOMEN

[@B1ssetplaysbass]

WIMIN !

[@badonk7618]

Legend

[@Chook181]

Now this is an argument I'd love to recite in a tunnel to passing walkers and tourists.

[@ryanfisher1440]

hahahaha i love you

[@darren2900]

You hammered your mother

[@TobyLerone-yn3rr]

You hammered your mother

[@nswanson315]

Also recite whilst playing resident evil

[@sybennett1179]

Been done

[@rosmith606]

just passed some fella in a tunnel reciting this by heart and I thought it sounded familiar

[@realboltfan]

9/4

[@sybennett7392]

Francis Higgins

[@MickyD]

The girl behind Jerry laughing is the absolute star of the show

[@MossyKong]

Was this comment with her consent?

[@edmundpower1250]

I agree... She smiles through it all

[@Haerinx87]

@@MossyKong Lies lies lies ALL THE FLIPPIN WAY

[@johndoyle2429]

But in fairness would not blame her, because everyone was laughing this argument.

[@michaelwalsh9145]

How do you know what she’s laughing at?

[@madman407708]

The one man modern remake is just as good as the original and I'll die on that hill

[@acovenofmany333]

Francis ‘the Viper’ Higgins Legend.

[@TheEejitNetwork]

He’s like the human incarnation of a half-melted block of Kerry gold butter

[@marymcelroy5967]

🤣🤣🤣

[@vickyoshea1293]

this comment. I laughed from the depths.

[@roisinmc7442]

Dying Ciaran 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@davomccranko]

Gold, brother 🤤

[@arthurmorgan7086]

Great argument thanks

[@reubenrules5429]

Francis Higgins one take, is the greatest recreation of all time, almost reptilian in his movements.

[@scottrobinson4611]

Those reptilious repetitions

[@eatingpeppermint]

He moves like a SHNAKE

[@gusmcsweeney222]

Shnakespearean in his delivery

[@realboltfan]

9/4

[@reubenrules5429]

@@realboltfan it's an iconic price

[@ciaran9203]

Miserable lanes of Limerick ✅ Miserable childhood ✅ Miserable people of Limerick ✅ Misery (x3) ✅ The whole flippin way ✅

[@michaelwalsh9145]

And McCourt knew that misery sells, the more misery the more sales, looks like old Frank was good at spinning yarns. His rebuttal leaves a lot to be desired.

[@gungagalunga9040]

Good Limerick

[@pclm]

Gerry is the moistest Irishman I've ever seen, and that's coming from a two-time gold medallist in Vaseline surfing.

[@Xerrand]

"Moistest" lol that's the best word ever.

[@therespectedlex9794]

He's a certain type, or maybe all of them... or none of them.

[@muse3324]

never knew that vaseline surfing was a thing

[@onepoeticromancer]

Gold?! I was never good enough to get silver!

[@Rashers-]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@brianm2881]

I notice that Gerry Hannan never spoke about his paid employment, starring as the Yellow Man in David Lynch's Blue Velvet.

[@kevinwhelan9607]

Zinger!

[@andythefork]

David Lynch is after ye

[@anadaroth]

Thank you, Viper, you are truly insane for memorizing this.

[@InnocentBastard]

Fine line between genius and insanity

[@realboltfan]

9/4

[@ghostofgralton6859]

Glad you reuploaded this. KZbin CENSORED this before, they won't censor it again

[@padraicglynn2657]

We often censoir videos for length

[@ghostofgralton6859]

@@padraicglynn2657 Ah that's crap

[@conorthomas89]

@@ghostofgralton6859 it's not crap it's customary practice

[@DG-mv6zw]

​@@padraicglynn2657 One doesn't censor for length. One edits it.

[@LuDel95]

Gerry- "You seem to have a morbid fascination for necrophilia." Frank- "I do. I like women." What a response 🤣.

[@terri6854]

No. He started that "response" before Gerry had finished his question.

[@michaelwalsh9145]

Frank had very little to say and only used the fascination line to ignore the questions.

[@spa2damax]

​​​@@michaelwalsh9145 to be fair he was trying to respond to the ream of accusations and got interrupted with another one while attempting to do so.

[@michaelwalsh9145]

@@spa2damax he gladly avoided the answers, it’s well known that franks book and movie was based on complete lies even the dogs on the street know that.

[@jameskidd3502]

"Morbid fascination with necrophilia" Has gotta be an oxymoron. Necrophilia is morbid in its nature.

[@Brewmaster757]

5:53 "But who's to say my book will be contradicting his?" Amazing line lmao

[@maolsheachlannoceallaigh4772]

"It's a squabble and nobody is interested", says Frank McCourt at the end of the video. Twenty-four years later we're still watching it...

[@gungagalunga9040]

IRRELEVENT

[@kennedyobrien1]

Gerry interviewed me last July, and I recited all of this for him, word for word

[@padraicglynn2657]

What did he think of it?

[@kennedyobrien1]

He couldn't get over it, i memorised is word for word, and it brought memories back to him

[@jplb96]

Was it recorded? I'd of loved to hear it.

[@kennedyobrien1]

@@jplb96 Gerry recorded it, he had it on Facebook but the stuff that he puts up doesn't last, I asked him dis he have a copy of it and he said no

[@jplb96]

@@kennedyobrien1 ah a shame. Would have brilliant I bet!

[@Tumbledry100]

Can we all just acknowledge that some of the best you tube moments from Irish tv are from times when Pat Kenny is presenting a show? He just attracts the crazies. Good man Pat, we salute you! Never lose the cringe factor 😂

[@jtnilc]

Shout out your one in the background, the under-sung hero of this masterpiece, and my extremely niche celebrity crush.

[@Deebar14]

Same!!!!! She is gorgeous! 😂😂😂

[@Deebar14]

Mine also is the blonde lady beside your man talking about pontificating on the Pat Kenny frontline video. Babe.

[@phon37]

Shout out to you good sir 👏👏

[@newspaperface]

I had to keep it real like that in a gazebo at a wedding in bunclody when a woman i was having a cigarette withs husband came in and started giving out stink about a supposed affair years before then other family members came in and got involved i had difficulty finishing my smoke then getting out without incident

[@jtnilc]

@@newspaperface haha I'd love to have been there

[@seanthompson6088]

YOU SAID WILLY HAROLD. YOU SAID WILLY HAROLD. YOU SAID WILLY HAROLD.

[@GERARDKENNELLY]

Frank lied about Harold

[@johnnyboy18778]

This man said.

[@dympm9884]

This was why the Late Late used to be great.

[@funnellbyrd]

Frank McCourt 1999: It's a squabble. Nobody's interested. Viper fans 2022: .....

[@TheAtticusFinch]

A man recreating this in a tunnel made me understand art

[@ozmage100]

I’m here from Francis Higgins 🤣

[@realboltfan]

9/4

[@selectgood_timesidfrommemo3192]

"YOU SAID WILLY HAROLD"

[@BagOfKnives]

The women behind Gerry is the true star of this piece

[@semi-sane5149]

'Had'nt noticed her & so i scrolled back & she did'nt look out of the ordinary to me; what was it about her that made her your "star" ?

[@charliegeorge.]

Seemed childish and immature, why not listen to the heated discussion like an adult.

[@kevinmcguinness6526]

Viper's recreation of this is nothing short of a masterpiece

[@biulaimh3097]

The old lady who gave loans to people seemed like a lovely person.

[@thehand1358]

That guy is what we nowadays refer to as a "hater".

[@michaelwalsh9145]

Oh look another person conditioned how to think by the media and their government.

[@dogwklr]

He was also correct. Frank's book was trash

[@thebillryan]

@@dogwklr How would you know? You haven't read it.

[@phhiggins]

The reactions of the girl behind him is worth a rewatch

[@geremymac]

I searched the late late from the 90s because my kid won't go to bed... fool me, this video was top gold entertainment 😂

[@MatthewOnlinee]

‘Gerry Hannan didn’t even write the book ashes’ ‘Hohoohohoho’

[@michaelwalsh9145]

He never said he did

[@splonkydoo]

Very fitting that the Viper did his maestro one-take under a bridge, seeming as Gerry Hannon is Ireland's fantastic, unwavering, original troll

[@realboltfan]

9/4

[@sitdowntwice]

​@@realboltfanwith rice

[@MrWilliamlynch1984]

The reaction of the woman behind Gerry is gold!

[@clasinamittiga3315]

Whether the story is true or not, McCourt is a great story-teller. It’s painful and humorous at the same time. Read it for that, if anything.

[@Deebar14]

Misery misery misery the whole flippin’ way

[@michaelwalsh9145]

If Frank wasn’t lying does that mean he had lustful feelings for sheep 😂😂😂

[@gungagalunga9040]

If you spend a winter in Limerick you may agree with this.

[@SuperDutchGold]

But the late Jim Kemmy said that Frank's book was an accurate portrayal of the Limerick of their mutual youth

[@Ditka-89]

And Richard Harris said it was all lies and mentioned how awfully Frank and his brothers treated their mother

[@davidsjlawless]

In the Limerick of their mutual youth

[@robertpirsig5011]

Yeah one person.

[@XanltheCSG]

Jim Kemmy, who as a socialist needs to peddle an image of religious working life as evil and dour in order to consolidate his power. Very reliable and trustworthy testimony.

[@bobbydogg2860]

My grandfather knew Frank McCourt grew up with him and he said that the book was lies aswell

[@neil2905]

that black haired girl behind him giggling all the time was great.

[@FatHairyBeast]

I was walking over a bridge just the other day and heard some of these exact lines bellowing forth from a tramp below.

[@robertpirsig5011]

I'll give your man Gerry one thing, he will fight his point tooth and nail. I love his response to pat saying they often chop interviews @2:01. "Awwwhh that's Crap!!"

[@LuDel95]

I interviewed Máire Gallagher. She describes Angela McCourt as the ANGEL OF THE LANES!

[@gungagalunga9040]

Aka the local bike??

[@spiralon]

😂😂😂😂😂😂​@@gungagalunga9040

[@gungagalunga9040]

@@spiralon sounds like it

[@jackjones4248]

We used to be a country. A proper country.

[@HarryFontaine]

Because, Frank Jesus Christ up in heaven

[@TheGreatWhiteCount]

Gerry Hannan makes great points. There's something more to this whole argument. At first Frank McCourt has no clue who Hannan is, but his wife magically is able to recite an echo about Frank Hamilton being Hannan's boss? Something weird.

[@jg6059]

Don't be talking shite

[@TheGreatWhiteCount]

It's in front of you. Frank and the wife know nothing. But then Frank Hamilton is brought up? How would you know someone's old boss if you didn't know who they were?​@@jg6059

[@TheGreatWhiteCount]

​@@jg6059 That's like me saying "I don't know who you are" - and then my girlfriend brings up a weirdo you used to work for.

[@simonfeakes]

He really doesn't make any good points. Try and understand even one of his three points - they aren't really points, more just verbal diarrhoea with no real substance. The reason this is so funny is because Frank responds in an equally bizarre way, and literally no one in the audience has a clue what's going on. I think they're both being childish here. Obviously yes Gerry points out inconsistencies in Frank's book, yes, but to what end?

[@TheGreatWhiteCount]

You're not understanding what I am saying. How did his wife know so much about Hannan when they ​claim to have no past with Hannan. I smell bullshit. @@simonfeakes

[@Shadyganleymawn]

I see the Viper Higgins brought you here, rest weary traveller.

[@realboltfan]

9/4

[@amandarheckinwieth5908]

The woman behind him is trying so hard not to lose it....hilarious!

[@yescharliesurfs]

The lass cracking up behind Gerry is pure class

[@realboltfan]

wonder where she is now

[@Shadyganleymawn]

She's hot af lol

[@realboltfan]

@@Shadyganleymawn agreed

[@ciaran9203]

He spends his days in America reminiscing about his miserable time in miserable Limerick

[@michaelwalsh9145]

He decided to write a book on his life with plenty added misery because misery sells.

[@mikehinton9079]

Great book and his brothers also

[@mikehinton9079]

Gerry can’t keep his lies even plausible , a pathetic person

[@patriciafeehan7732]

No way, could this man be a contemporary of Frank McCourt.

[@deirdremannion749]

Well done to the gentleman in mustard shirt from the audience he spoke the truth and he is right to speak highly of Limerick it's a lovely city and county. From a Dublin lady

[@sallybird4]

Frank McCourt was entitled to write about his childhood, which was miserable by any standards. This joker was more worried about Limerick's image than anything else. He is not a very good representative of that city. In fact, he looks like he had a few too many. Angela Ashes was a great book and film imo.

[@FoMoCo123]

Thank you

[@user-fz9vk4js5l]

5:08 “I made a mistake” So Gerry actually got him to admit something in this clip

[@quibster]

Well spotted. I heard it a bit differently: (Frank accusingly) "Will you handle the mistake?"

[@phhiggins]

Jaysis I can't hear him saying anything there

[@5wheels178]

Pat dissing the entire audience is an underrated part of this video

[@TOUGHEYES]

Oh, he didn't know who the audience was applauding, huh?

[@stephenryan7855]

When?

[@GERARDKENNELLY]

Notice how Pat wouldn't allow Frank to answer the question about Willy Harold

[@michaelwalsh9145]

Good old pat, he’s supposed to be the interviewer but only listening to one side of the story.

[@Ditka-89]

@@GERARDKENNELLYwho was Willie Harold

[@NukeGlendale]

If only a hash dealer and former Skyline owner would recite this to tourists and hikers in a tunnel...

[@pburnzzz9260]

I admire this man’s passion.

[@johnwalsh7806]

He’s nuts

[@zeezeebigz]

I watch this once a week.

[@gungagalunga9040]

I'm printing TShirts with some one liners from this. "YOU SAID WILLIE HAROLD"

[@jamesh4757]

St Joseph's boy scout movement was the special forces of boy scouts.

[@Deebar14]

I LOVE WOMEN IM MAD ABOUT WOMEN

[@seanshatters]

You are telling lies !

[@jajajajajaja867]

IM INFATUATED WITH WOMEN ahhahahahaha

[@ajon6205]

What an absolute mad lad

[@kierandoran8196]

I was told by one of MC Courts ex-pupils that he was a very violent man. How did he get any education at a time when even second level education was so expensive. I'm Irish and although I never met him I've seen that nasty glance thousands of times in my own childhood.

[@stevenhaas9622]

After he went to the US he was drafted into the army. After his Army discharge he used his GI bill benefits to pay for his university education.

[@therespectedlex9794]

Gerry: "You hammered (?) your mother, that she was a lazy..." Frank: "So that you could be virtuous." The Irish do this like no others.

[@phhiggins]

How do you mean?

[@mickyh78]

Er wot?

[@LordMangudai]

"You hammered your mother"

[@Caesar_Himself]

A poet philosopher artist bus driver who lives in a tunnel sent me here.

[@lifeofpablo89]

Fair play for reuploading …RIP killianM2s channel #TommyCoin

[@tipperary1082]

It's an awful shame they took him down

[@shanefreeley1963]

@@tipperary1082 We often chop

[@shanedonnelly3169]

killianM2 is a made up name

[@tipperary1082]

@@shanefreeley1963 Ah that's crap

[@padraicglynn2657]

@@shanedonnelly3169 It is not a made up name. You are a liar! you are a liar!

[@HamSaladtv]

Ive always found this fascinating because Jerry Hannan has a visceral hatred for McCourt. We will remember the awkward scene for the insanity, but I think in the long run, McCourt will be remembered as a writer of acclaim, and Jerry will be remembered for just being visceral.

[@rgearr1808]

When did they stop letting the audience get involved like this? Makes it great...

[@frazzleface753]

I love Irish television. Love it.

[@mccarthy5825]

Eventually they made up and Gerry interviewed Frank and its genuinely good.

[@cruddnow]

Number 2 Frank McCourt

[@danielkeegan4923]

We are back

[@paudieslattery7536]

Franks says..."I do, I love women" and then remembers his wife is in the audience 😅😀

[@michaelwalsh9145]

Frank likes sheep as well by all accounts.

[@daithimcnally8212]

You said Willie Harold You said Willie Harold You said Willie Harold

[@kevinwhelan9607]

Hark the Harold angel sang...

[@Ellierua]

Ah those mad late late show days just wouldn't happen now.. Gotta love em..

[@gungagalunga9040]

It's hard to believe Gerry Hannon was 24 here.

[@darbyogill5771]

Francis Higgins brought me here 🎉🎉

[@Ditka-89]

McCourt named Teresa Carmidy’s mother in his book and even listed her actual employment. She was not purely a fictional “made-up” name. The book really distressed the family

[@padraicglynn2657]

Teresa Carmody doesn't exist; it's a made up name

[@arthurmorgan7086]

@@padraicglynn2657 it is not

[@padraicglynn2657]

@@arthurmorgan7086 It is

[@tipperary1082]

@@padraicglynn2657 Tis in my ass

[@conorthomas89]

@@tipperary1082 your new book is called t'isnt?

[@PatrickTCAPIreland]

I watch this way too much, because if you don’t mind I like women

[@ramirosan145]

You have done nothing but lied. You are a self-confessed liar.

[@TobyLerone-yn3rr]

I'm infatuated with women.

[@MrShaneHardy]

Women who are 3 days away from their death?

[@Haerinx87]

@@MrShaneHardy Teresa Carmedy???? It was a made up name!!

[@TB.....]

I just still don't know who to cheer on. Who's lying? I change my mind every other year it seems but I can't struggle with this for another 20 odd years.

[@davidbroder1313]

This is the greatest moment in the history of culture

[@vintagebrew1057]

Richard Harris gave a very good interview about Angela's Ashes. He calls it a pack of lies too. Be wary of people's memoires. I abhorred the Call the Midwife books. My family came from Poplar and the dotty author has all the woman there as either slatterns, whores or the products of incest. What a lie and an insult to the women of the East End who had recently struggled with the Blitz and World War 2. My partner came acoss this dotty author in his bookstore and she was rude and demanded that her sordid little book was elevated in the shop window! Now the BBC promote her lies in an excrable tv show of the same name. She was a bored retired nurse who decided to make money off the backs of her poor patients. Good Riddence to Her!

[@punkeasy]

Mad as a bag of mustard suits!

[@adiboo8142]

Francis Higgins you genius!

[@chekkatechno]

Almost 2025 and still proving Frank wrong when he says "and nobody's interested" right at the end

[@jamesfulton8251]

Both of them are insane, 😂

[@chrisdonohue1607]

When people could call out bullshit.

[@skullzyy6633]

The audience is very confusing I literally never knew who the were clapping for😂😂

[@michaelwalsh9145]

They use cue cards to instruct the audience when to clap.

[@TheAtticusFinch]

Frank does look like he’s lying

[@btrav667]

In New York Mccourt walked on water. My Old Irish mother thought he was full of malarky. She got tired of answering questions about the book.

[@hammersmashedspud4345]

McCourts family dont talk to him because of the book. Gerry was more than likely right

[@johnpatrick6998]

Old Frankie sure made a ton of money off his " miserable " childhood.

[@selectgood_timesidfrommemo3192]

How old are you by the way?

[@CaolanRasta8]

Irrelevant!

[@rockinsteady406]

When did the Conan O'Brian Show get so serious?

[@elizantoinette]

where can I purchase "Ashes"?

[@Niallacus]

just burn some coal, save your pennies

[@sobbyhasselhoff]

Gerry Hannan coming in hot.

[@gungagalunga9040]

Staring: Angela McCourt Frank McCourt Frank McCourt's mother Frank McCourt's wife Jackie Brosnan Gerry Hannon Teresa Carmody Teresa Carmondy's mother Willie Harold Jesus Christ The Girl in Bavaria Moira Gallagher Jim Kemmy Frank Hamilton Women

[@treventures2422]

Has anyone figured out who the audience was applauding that Pat questioned?

[@michaelwalsh9145]

The audience didn’t know who they were applauding themselves as they use cue cards to tell them when to clap, of course pat the plank knew that full well.

[@janetclaireSays]

Why wasn't Frank McCourt allowed to actually answer the man's accusations? Why would an audience member be allowed to attack a guest like that and ramble on interrupting him when he tried to respond? Very bad control of the show.

[@questionmark9819]

It is interesting to see another side to his version, the man in the audience is not the first person to question McCourt about the inconsistencies in the book, he would not be the first person to be a little creative with the truth.

[@rmirandauk]

And what's the point???

[@deisegirl4123]

@@rmirandaukPeople are sick of lies to sell books

[@klawlor3659]

Its good to know that after the show they both had a few pints in the local boozer, had a right good sing song on the karaoke (pretty sure Gerry was singing that 'ol classic Billy Ray Cyrus number about the Achy Breaky Heart) and Gerry and him became bosom buddies.

[@padraicglynn2657]

I wonder if Gerry Hannan ever heard the expression "truth hurts"

[@dogwklr]

Yea, he was telling the truth. You're spot on

[@johnnybgood5836]

-tis an- mi ass - .....priceless...he looked suitably proud of his creative inspiration...... i doubt FMcC knew this terrier was in the audience.....but P K certainly made sure he was invited ...ambushed Frank

[@darragh5054]

Francis brought me here 😂

[@realboltfan]

9/4

[@BenjaminRees-j2w]

I'm team Gerry. He speaks with conviction.

[@spa2damax]

He speaks like hes had a skinfull (every evening for decades)

[@BenjaminRees-j2w]

Also, the American lady is Frank McCourt's wife, who has obviously been brought on to smear Gerry Hannan