Forget the guests, everyone is talking about The Late Late Show’s Valentine’s Day audience

Rory Cashin

“One more chewn! One more chewn!”

This was the very unexpected response from The Late Late Show’s Valentines Day Special audience when the first act on the night, the lead singer from T’Pau, performed the hit single ‘China In Your Hands’.

The audience pretty much lost their minds when it was over, but they were already pretty rowdy from the very beginning of the show, when Tubs came out to a rowdy chorus of ‘Ole! Ole! Ole!’

The 200 singletons in the audience were clearly game for the laugh, and unless we were totally mistaken, there were micro-flashes from Ryan when he was genuinely concerned that the entire place was about to descend into a modern day reenactment of the final days of Rome.

Everyone at home watching were also very aware of the audience during the show, too:

Man alive do I want to go to the pre drinks that the #latelateshow audience go for pic.twitter.com/OAhyJisd4l

— Niamhers (@niamhhassell) February 9, 2018

What is going on here on the late late show, your one is miming and all the audience think they're at the pub #rte #latelateshow

— Ｅｖｉｅ (@Evies_tweets) February 9, 2018

Bar staff in the #LateLateShow audience hospitality. pic.twitter.com/TU9V0rILmq

— Paddy McKenna (@PaddyMcKenna) February 9, 2018

RTÉ spent the entire TV license money on getting the audience locked I see 😂 #LateLateShow #TheLateLateShow

— David Connors (@peterswellman) February 9, 2018

The #latelate audience tonight. #latelateshow pic.twitter.com/GqGZunyeyd

— Simon Murdoch 📻📱🎧 (@Simon_Murdoch) February 9, 2018

https://twitter.com/EoghanMcDermott/status/962080452663300097

‘We’re going to find out how a bag of cans may just be the secret to romance’ – the #LateLateShow #ValentinesDay special

— Niamh Hamell (@Niamh_ie) February 9, 2018

https://twitter.com/FintanMusic/status/962079101040275456