Ruby Wax on Irish TV (RTE).

Is she really funny?
There's a lot of canned laughter added to most of her stuff!
This Interview is just one of many from the RTE TV series "The Meaning of Life". I have them all carefully stored and I have tried to uploaded others to youtube for you to enjoy, but this seems to be the only one that's not banned Worldwide? other than the Gay Burne radio clip on "The Soft Irish T" see ...
• Gay Byrne on The Soft ...
Something to do with sales I have been told!
Note: RTE is the Irish National TV Broadcaster that people pay for via a TV License like the BBC is in the UK, the difference being its a commercial station with adds like ITV etc depend on - and they've been getting away with it since 1962? This type of rip-off could only happen in Ireland.
see:
www.irishtimes.com/news/irela...
Lets Pray the chemotherapy works for Gay.

[@fortymillioncoins9066]

I love Ruby Wax- she's a brilliant interviewer and also great at comedy. WOW- I just did not realise her harsh upbringing. What an interesting woman. OMG Her childhood is so sad, I don't know how she got through it, this is one of the most tragic stories I have ever listened to, it's really touched a nerve.

[@tlneader]

I was aware of Ruby, but didn't know a lot about her. I love her take on mental illness, understanding the complexities of the subject, yet showing that those of us with mental illness can have a sense of humor. We use humor to deal with our disorder. I loved the part when she asked which is worse, clinical depression and cancer, one makes you want to live and the other makes you want to die. I have been diagnosed as bipolar and was prescribed many medications and felt exactly the same. Now I take nothing, using great caution, I've been able to manage. I love laughing, this video made me hopeful.

[@audspod1]

Having just recently watched Ruby's story on Who do you think you are, I can see where she's coming from. Such a tragic story. God bless you Ruby and your family.

[@club1fan552]

This is GREAT television...the way it was decades back. It is tragic and hilarious at the same time. Ruby is a natural, gifted comic and public speaker. Love her!!!

[@wisemanspoke]

We love you Ruby👏

[@lol365]

What a great interview. Love Ruby and what a thoughtful interviewer.

[@johnking5174]

Gay Byrne the interviewer here was host of the Irish talk show "The Late Late Show" from 1962-1999, plus he began his career on Granada Television in Manchester as a presenter in the late 1950s, so he has a vast amount of experience. He is the world's longest running talk show host, beating Johnny Carson and Letterman in America. 37 years.

[@villaparis2]

Ruby your a comic genius

[@plutone1983]

God was never mentioned… maybe when I was swearing… I love this woman. She looks so natural, and yet there’s a lot going on in her head. So intelligent and full of energy she did history in tv

[@suesturges6022]

So sorry about your childhood, Ruby.

[@helenrider8781]

She did a documentary years ago about her parents and showed us their apartment and everything was covered in plastic so that it wouldn't get dirty 😂😂😂

[@josephineprain5135]

love this interview!

[@rah62]

What a lovely gentleman. Never seen him before, but I'm an American.

[@galoglaich3281]

rah62phx He died in 2019.He was a legend in irish broadcasting his show the late late show is the longest running chat show in the world .He retired from that show in 1999 but he was on it for 30 years.

[@rgearr1808]

He was at his best in the 1980s... he broadcasting lasted from 1961 till 2017 kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIq3e4FsfLGcoac

[@elaineweinberg7094]

I love ruby. I can listen to her all day. She not only talented and funny, and attractive. She is very intelligent. When I listen to her talk about mental illness. I feel not so alone. She is comforting to me. That may sound silly to some.

[@Rose-qd2bl]

Always loved Gay Byrne.

[@kristinawashington1773]

Wonderful. Thanks heaps for the video. 😊

[@bridamcgarbheith8856]

Great interview ...!!

[@lottiehowes585]

Great interview

[@yvonnehyland1753]

Ruby you are Absolutely iconic ♥️♥️♥️

[@silviah2302]

I can see a lot of myself in her...a lot of what she said is going on in my head too....unfortunately I'm not clever like her , just depressed....

[@connienail4013]

How's things now?

[@pjom4191]

That last line is very clever,,,, like ruby

[@lottiehowes585]

I hope you get well soon x

[@classactsexpertiseandinspi4815]

Gay Byrne was the best interviewer of Women Ive ever seen.( Except for his awful mistakes with Annie Murphy, Bishop Caseys girlfriend/mother of the Bishops son on The Late Late Show) but 1 snafu in 37 years is not bad. Here Gay had to ask 3 standard God related questions in a relatively free ranging encounter to act as a comparator between interviewees in this series called The meaning of Life"

[@club1fan552]

Brilliant!!!

[@siusaidhchaimbeul5499]

Never heard of Ms. Wax until WDYTYA.

[@DM0317]

I share the same views on religion as wax except on astrology, the reason I belive is that we are made of water. Water changes with the position of the planet and the moon , just like the tide of the oceans our chemical make must also shift with different gravitational pulls , I also belive as we are formed in the womb at different times of the year, different seasons different environment and different places on the planet would also make us different. A mother pregnant in the summer will eat differently might wear more clothing might be exposed to different sounds , and different light . Those elements are the first building blocks of our development, making us different people .if the moon alone influences the chemical reaction of our bodies I find it very possible that our other neighboring planets might influence our chemistry/ behavior.

[@MustyUnderboob]

Very well put. I'm not fully on board but I'm interested in learning.

[@Sara-ru6tj]

..the whole Jesus -Saga...and there was a gift-item in the end.. *** ;)

[@johndevenny3454]

I always like you Ruby, thanks

[@yvonnehyland1753]

I can hear the pain in your voice. Does not matter how often you tell your story but can see and hear it’s so painful for you.

[@thebadtemperedbrit]

To Radiofones - In your description comment about all of her shows having fake laughter, this is 100% inaccurate. Most of Ruby's shows were made by the BBC, the BBC do not use 'fake' laughter tracks, if the show is not in a studio, it is shown to an audience, recorded & whatever happens then is what you can hear. In her series of major celeb interviews outside of the studio, she is even shown screening the video to an audience in a theatre, it's part of the shows structure & where the audience sound is generated. It is actually very rare for UK shows to have any type of 'canned' laughter, this is an American practise & thoroughly frowned upon by UK production since TV began.

[@pauljamieson4210]

Wow, I love Ruby Wax & never knew any of this ❤❤👍

[@davidegan8076]

When you don’t believe in god it puts so much pressure on yourself to work it all out to know to understand, when you can put your trust in god it releases all that, it not always possible but keep trying it’s worth it

[@philwhitfeld6339]

His interview with Stephen Fry is a killer!!!

[@prettypurple7175]

It's weird that he kept insisting on this God Business? What's that all about? "....I then, try to sell them my book...ha ha ha ha...

[@Lmlappin1]

LOVE HER .. such truths

[@jonnmara6011]

well gay ur there now let us no

[@Ruby20111000]

What talk show is this

[@irish66]

The meaning of life,

[@morganolfursson2560]

It sure helps to be jewish in this industry . had she been Muslim or even catholic working class Brit , she would NEVER be where she ended today .

[@Ma_Ba]

You have an axe to grind. It's like an anti-semitic embodiment of Ruby Wax's joke about wishing all the others with success would die, like Ruby Wax described doing when looking at those pictured in magazines. She sure didn't have privilege. She is more of a survivor. Did you even listen to her?

[@morganolfursson2560]

@@Ma_Ba Oh please !

[@johnbalance3989]

Muslims might get somewhere in showbiz if they lightened up a bit.

[@Thelaceless]

Wow .I feel sorry for u Ruby.

[@dxmxo9427]

Ruby Wax Hilarious :)

[@BOYCOTTOlympics]

" admiration is somebody waiting for your down fall " classic 😏

[@michaelgerardcondon8531]

I really do not like irish accents . 😐

[@Pooty_With_A_Fat_Booty]

WOW All the "stars" at that time just gutted her. I used to love Johnathon Price and Zoe Wanamaker. Wow! What s1111ts.

[@henrikechers9995]

Great interview