The Tommy Tiernan Show Thread - Mod warning, see OP

Annasopra

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120131968#Comment_120131968

Penguins in the zoo....

SuperBowserWorld

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120131926#Comment_120131926

I think we both agreed it was racist comparing people with animals.

FrancieBrady

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120131977#Comment_120131977

??

elperello

Maybe he was talking about ostriches they live on the savannah.

You know, the lads that bury their heads on the sand.

Might be a few in this thread. 🙂

Annasopra

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120132017#Comment_120132017

Your interpretation makes no sense

FrancieBrady

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120132019#Comment_120132019

He was talking about the proliferation of black taxi drivers in Galway and Dublin. Which may be crass but isn't racist.

It really isn't more complicated than that.

elperello

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120132017#Comment_120132017

Why indeed.

Why bother defending Tommy's non joke when he has dropped it from his act and apologised?

I like Tommy's schtick and I enjoy his show most of the time.

I'm happy to let it go at that.

FrancieBrady

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120132063#Comment_120132063

Are you seriously saying that some one with his track record did a Punch cartoon comparison of people to apes?

Deary me, that's preposterous.

Annasopra

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120132104#Comment_120132104

You're the only person that I have ever heard say that he didnt.

FrancieBrady

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120132142#Comment_120132142

You need to get out more.

I think that most people know what happened here and that is why this has gone nowhere. Tiernan apologised if she felt offended. Sin é as they say.

Annasopra

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120132181#Comment_120132181

You are now claiming to be "most people" 🤣🤣🤣 - 1 person isnt most people

elperello

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120132104#Comment_120132104

Do we have to do the "I didn't say he did" dance ?

I'd really rather not.

But I will say he wobbled on the line and may have put a foot over it.

What was that line from Sondheim?

"losing my timing this late

in my career"

He will get over it lesson learned.

FrancieBrady

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120132202#Comment_120132202

So were is the outrage here? Certainly not amongst most people looking at social media. Fairly lame response TBH.

jimjangles

Let's forget about the stupid silly joke. It wasn't meant to offend. Some black people are extremely easy offended and if you accidentally look at them crooked or if someone mentions the word black to describe them they become offended. If you ask where a black person comes from they become offended. They're basically offended by everything now. You have to walk on eggshells around them. To say the rapper preaching about racism had an interesting past is putting it mildly. That's something I find far more concerning.

FrancieBrady

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120132208#Comment_120132208

He has been here before with travellers...when a traveller came on his show and Tommy said the same stuff to him, the traveller laughed heartily and showed up all the woke outrage junkies.

He crossed the line for one member of the audience. No nuns walked out to our knowledge, maybe they don't do twitter. Nor any Irish people who were compared directly to animals. 😮

Nevin Parsnipp

The lad just is not funny...most people would agree that ....also agree that those Rubber bandit dudes have had their bubble burst long ago and have been found out as talentless chancers....

Let's just call it as it is ...

briany

This is the same man who had a Muslim cleric on his show, invited him to sing a verse from the Quran and then ask, "You're not going to blow up now after this, are you?", which got a pretty good response from the audience and the guest. I think that most people understood that he was picking at the undercurrent of tension around having such a person on the show. Although I don't always like his stand up, I have no reason to believe that he approaches any of it in bad faith. If he measured a joke poorly, it's best just to acknowledge it and move on.

appledrop

I've just watched Roy Keane interview now and don't now why everyone is giving out about it.

I thought it was a brilliant and fascinating interview. Learnt loads about Roy Keane and thought he was very open for Roy Keane.

FrancieBrady

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120132260#Comment_120132260

The audiences are all cardboard cutouts eh Nevin?

Lets just say Nevin doesn't like Tommy and leave it at that. You can avoid Tommy easily...I do it with Brendan O'Carroll, Jason Bryne, Joe Duffy's Funny Friday. The Kardashians, Harry and what's her name etc. Life is great.

Try it sometime as Paudie Flynn would say.

Deregos.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120132276#Comment_120132276

You didn't find it awkward at'all, even during the long pauses ?

Nevin Parsnipp

Believe me Francis ...I do avoid him...so do most peeps ....your list is spot on by the way...all best avoided.

We'll leave it there so ...as Bill O'Herlihy used to say ...

FrancieBrady

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120132318#Comment_120132318

Yeh, just like the Doc, you don't watch but feel obliged to comment on here. 😁🙄 I believe yeh.

Nevin Parsnipp

Hard to avoid the Dude if you active on social media....always feel it's better to call out these charlatans before they ends up like Darcy on RTE in an obscure afternoon slot on North of €475K.....

If you get my drift....

FrancieBrady

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120132372#Comment_120132372

I'll see you on the Funny Friday, Kardashian, Jason Byrne threads Nevin...not!

Know what I mean? Why wilfully torture yourself? Weird.

Nevin Parsnipp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120132386#Comment_120132386

Don't think I has ventured into any o them there threads Francie..mind you I nearly dislocated my thumb driving for the orf button on the Roberts when I had forgot it was "Funny Friday".

No ...not for me I fear....

appledrop

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120132317#Comment_120132317

Nope it's Roy Keane, have people actually watched other interviews with him?

It can be like getting blood from a stone, he was actually really relaxed with Tommy(for Roy Keane)

Roy Keane is extremely private, yet in this interview especially in 1st half learnt good bit about him growing up and his family.

That sexologist or whatever she was on the other hand was a total borefest, how to orgasism, give me a break, just talk to your partner instead of wasting time with this one who thinks she is hilliarous 🙄

kowloonkev

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120129603#Comment_120129603

The joke is in the word play and it's quite funny that the 'racist' and 'offended' had the same thought process. He doesn't say anything directly racist. The people who laughed at it and who are offended were thinking exactly the same thing. They both heard African and taxi driver in the same sentence and came to their own visualisation of a black man driving a taxi.

It's a fairly tame joke for Tommy. Again, this woman has no problem laughing at white people, travellers etc but when it's her own race she can't handle it. She is the racist really if she thinks her own race should be exempt from being made fun of.

Still stihl waters 3

In a weird way aren't the people offended the ones who are racist in a roundabout way, they immediately associate the savanna with monkeys ergo a taxi driver is the same as a monkey even tho tommy never said anything of the sort and there's still more white taxi drivers than black so what's their thought process where they immediately take offence because of their own corrupted way of thinking

Did you smash it

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120132890#Comment_120132890

Explain the joke as you understand it?

CGI_Livia_Soprano

Some of the comments in here are eye-opening. Tiernan himself has acknowledged that he made a racist remark and still people here are falling over themselves trying to defend his joke.