The Tommy Tiernan Show Thread - Mod warning, see OP

kippy

TheadoreT wrote: »

If Micheal McIntyre is the answer im terrified to ask what the question is.

It's comedy based TV - whether you like the comedy at all, at least the aim is to make people laugh - whether that is successful or not is a matter of personal opinion really.

hold my beer

Pussyhands wrote: »

McVerry means well but putting a right to housing in the constitution or banning evictions is dangerous, very dangerous.

No one will ever disagree with him though because 1. he wants to end homelessness and 2. anyone disagreeing with him will be called out as supporting homelessness.

If there was a legal right to housing, could everyone just stop paying their mortgage in the morning?

I wouldn't worry about it, it will never happen

Mad_maxx

kippy wrote: »

A very fair point.
We have no home produced "fun" TV at the weekend at all, ala Michael McIntyre, Ant and Dec and plenty more.
Are we too small a country? Are we obsessed with misery?

in many ways , we are just as religious as we ever were , the need to be seen as pious and thus praise secular saints like McVerry , i know the man is a priest but hes a darling of the left who preach morality nowadays , the progressive clergy

we used to be guilty catholics , now we are guilty liberals

enricoh

Lesalare wrote: »

Sorry?

I am Irish and I'm sick of people here mainly being full of ****e. All talk and no action.

I'm currently doing a go fund me to help the homeless. It's like dragging blood out of a stone with a lot of people here. They all just "Like it"

Have we 100 homeless charities in Ireland at this stage?! Just apply for taxpayer funding like the rest of them!

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ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

I’ve never been in the room with the dead body and I’m not going to change that. Maybe I should have been pushed into it earlier but I find the whole open coffin wake thing extremely vulgar.

Vulgar. Ah wouldn't agree. Nothing vulgar about something as natural as night and day. I'd rather pay respect to an open coffin than a closed one.

Maybe from farming I've seen death at a young age.

saabsaab

kippy wrote: »

A very fair point.
We have no home produced "fun" TV at the weekend at all, ala Michael McIntyre, Ant and Dec and plenty more.
Are we too small a country? Are we obsessed with misery?

Ant and Dec. Spare us, terrible stuff.

Government buildings

saabsaab wrote: »

Ant and Dec. Spare us, terrible stuff.

Anything we'd produce would be worse, going by our current crop of comedians.

freshpopcorn

I lost all time for McVerry around the time of the water refund and he had this sort of had this attitude to those who paid like they had money to burn and he just expected you to donate it to the homeless charity.

mgn

I think McVerry started out with the right intensions but sadly got hijacked along the way by people who were more interested in what it was in it for them, rather that what McVerry started.

I used to like the man but now I cannot stand him, anytime I see him now he just comes across as a very bitter man,

kippy

TheadoreT wrote: »

If Micheal McIntyre is the answer im terrified to ask what the question is.

saabsaab wrote: »

Ant and Dec. Spare us, terrible stuff.

In fairness, if this is reflective of the general population tis easy see why theres no real desire for a bit of harmless fun on TV at the weekend!

AndrewJRenko

Mad_maxx wrote: »

McVerry believes all evictions should be illegal and also all bank repossessions , he said those very words on the ray darcy radio show a few years ago, D'Arcy nodded like the gimp he is.

Were you watching D'Arcy nodding on the radio? :D:D

Pussyhands wrote: »

McVerry means well but putting a right to housing in the constitution or banning evictions is dangerous, very dangerous.

No one will ever disagree with him though

You just did though.

kippy wrote: »

A very fair point.
We have no home produced "fun" TV at the weekend at all, ala Michael McIntyre, Ant and Dec and plenty more.
Are we too small a country? Are we obsessed with misery?

Oh lord please spare us from such chummy, celeb nonsense. If that's the kind of thing you want though, RTE did have a new family quiz show on Saturday night prime time slot. It's not my thing, but if you want home produced fun TV at the weekend, there you go. And the new series of Reeling in the Years starts tonight.

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I lost all time for McVerry around the time of the water refund and he had this sort of had this attitude to those who paid like they had money to burn and he just expected you to donate it to the homeless charity.

So by asking for charitable donations, the charity is 'expecting you to donate it'? Does the same apply to all charities who ask for donations?

Mad_maxx wrote: »

hes a lot more than you describe , he espouses a hard left political system, let him put his name on a ballot or else stay off the bloody airwaves , he has no mandate

Blanco100 wrote: »

Hate that nobody has the balls to challenge McVerry? Even those who know he's talking ****e won't challenge him as its one of those populist stances that means your basically Hitler if you dare to question it.

I'd ask him him how in the name of f*ck would a constitutional right to housing work? Wheres the incentive for anyone to work hard and buy one?

Strange how that's not a problem with the constitutional right to education - where's the incentive for anyone to work hard and buy an education?

Water John

Ant & Dec and McIntyre are as false as they come. McIntyre is not a very pleasant guy.
Liked some of the guests on TT not others. That's the nature of the draw. Reflects more our Irish thought process than the above mentioned.

RobertKK

mgn wrote: »

I think McVerry started out with the right intensions but sadly got hijacked along the way by people who were more interested in what it was in it for them, rather that what McVerry started.

I used to like the man but now I cannot stand him, anytime I see him now he just comes across as a very bitter man,

When asked about love, he said there is no one he loves in this life.
He said there are people he respects, but no love at all for anyone?

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AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Were you watching D'Arcy nodding on the radio? :D:D

You just did though.


Oh lord please spare us from such chummy, celeb nonsense. If that's the kind of thing you want though, RTE did have a new family quiz show on Saturday night prime time slot. It's not my thing, but if you want home produced fun TV at the weekend, there you go. And the new series of Reeling in the Years starts tonight.

So by asking for charitable donations, the charity is 'expecting you to donate it'? Does the same apply to all charities who ask for donations?






Strange how that's not a problem with the constitutional right to education - where's the incentive for anyone to work hard and buy an education?

Are you equating free education with a free house?

Ash.J.Williams

If houses were free we wouldn’t need education

Rotting Carrot

Mad_maxx wrote: »

what passes for weekend " entertainment " in this country is like nothing in any other country , when has discussing homelessness been a feature on BBC or ITV saturday night ?
?
will we see Ant and Dec trying something like that some time soon ?

I would rather watch the Tiernan show than the silly things Ant and Dec get up to.

Rotting Carrot

RobertKK wrote: »

When asked about love, he said there is no one he loves in this life.
He said there are people he respects, but no love at all for anyone?

I think love just means something different to him than it does to you. He said that to love someone, it means to be willing to give up your life for them. There's plenty of people out there who haven't found someone that they'd be willing to give up their lives for. It doesn't mean he doesn't experience emotional connections with people in the same way you do.

AndrewJRenko

Government buildings wrote: »

Are you equating free education with a free house?

Did I say that, or anything near that?

AndrewJRenko

Water John wrote: »

Liked some of the guests on TT not others. That's the nature of the draw. Reflects more our Irish thought process than the above mentioned.

For me, I don't need to like someone for them to be an interesting guest. I didn't like the neurologist he had on last week, but he was still a fascinating guest.

AndrewJRenko

Mad_maxx wrote: »

hes a lot more than you describe , he espouses a hard left political system, let him put his name on a ballot or else stay off the bloody airwaves , he has no mandate

Can we apply the same logic to your postings here? Put your name on the ballot or stay off the boards, you have no mandate?

Galwayguy35

No time for McVerry at all.

ford fiesta

Remember T. Tiernan is the Producer of this show, of course he knows who is appearing.
He seems to have been conveniently listening to a guests album or reading their book "a few days ago".

Are viewers still falling for this big lie?

I don’t actually think he does, though even if he does I don’t really care.

jimmymack

ford fiesta wrote: »

Remember T. Tiernan is the Producer of this show, of course he knows who is appearing.
He seems to have been conveniently listening to a guests album or reading their book "a few days ago".

Are viewers still falling for this big lie?

Whether that's the case or not, who really cares?

dobman88

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

though even if he does I don’t really care.

Yep

Say Your Number

Yeah, who gives a sh1t.

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It's not as if TT has a set of queue cards reminding him of his questions.

ford fiesta

Say Your Number wrote: »

Yeah, who gives a sh1t.

RTE / his production company should be honest about it

mgn

https://extra.ie/2021/04/11/must-see/station-shake-up-rte-have-huge-plans-for-tommy-tiernan-as-popularity-continues-to-soar


I knew RTE would do something about the TT show, cant have any show beating the LLS on ratings can we.

elperello

ford fiesta wrote: »

RTE / his production company should be honest about it

Do you know for sure or is it just a hunch?