This will most definitely put a smile on your face and God knows, we could all do with a few more reasons to smile these days.
An old clip dating back to a 1983 episode of the Late Late Show with Gay Byrne has resurfaced online and to say it’s TV gold would be an understatement.
Showing host Gay chatting to one of the women in the audience, he invited her up to sing “just one little verse” of Mick McGilligan’s. And that she did, putting on quite the show in the process.
According to one, the video shows why the Late Late is “different from all the other celeb driven chat shows on TV”, adding that clips like this are what make the programme “unmissable”. Several put the moment down to the “great natural connection” Gay always managed to forge with audience members – perfectly demonstrated here.
Gaybo: Just one little verse…
Herself: What am I singing?
Gaybo: Mick Mcgilligan's…Uncle Gaybo setting up 2 minutes of pure honest TV gold.
A gem. https://t.co/U87iwXP7Rx— Adrian Legg (@memenow) August 16, 2020
Absolute TV Gold!!! Gaybo had a pure great natural connection to his audience demonstrated perfectly here. https://t.co/TAzKNZjjkU
— Pádraig MacSuibhne (Tony Sweeney) 🇮🇪 (@MadPaddie) August 16, 2020
This is a delight. Never underestimate the musical powers of older Irish ladies – at one of our socially distanced street parties this summer, one older lady got up and sang a hilarious and frankly bawdy song that would have been at home in a rowdy Edwardian music hall https://t.co/XWNh9GgQhR
— Anna Carey (@urchinette) August 16, 2020
Some have even gone so far as to describe the performance as “one of the greatest moments in Irish television history”.
Aisling Bea was also amongst those who retweeted the clip, captioning it: “Footage emerges of me after three pints.”
Hitting the nail on the head with that one, Aisling.