The Tommy Tiernan Show Thread - Mod warning, see OP

itsacoolday

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123020230#Comment_123020230

Certainly for prime time on a Saturday evening anyway. It is as if RTE has just given up. The lads and ladettes there have collected the tv licence fees, duped a few people in to advertising, and gone on a junket weekend away, and laughed that the only people watching tv at 10 on a Saturday night must be OAPs in a nursing home, before they nod off for the night.

suvigirl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123022582#Comment_123022582

Really? I know loads of people that have read his books and when I googled he came up in plenty of lists.

But, tbf, there are probably plenty of others I haven't heard of. I find that the best thing about the Tommy show, he has had very interesting guests I never knew before they were in the show.

itsacoolday

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123022652#Comment_123022652

Yeah, agree he has sometimes had interesting guests on the show. I suppose it is a struggle to get guests to come on though, and sometimes he has had the same guest on more than once eg Roisin Murphy. When googling last nights guests I see the first 2 had heroin addiction issues in the past. Funny old world.

suvigirl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123023025#Comment_123023025

There was a guest on one night, I don't watch it regularly, just if it's on and I happen to be there, but she had fallen in front of a train in the underground in London. Omg, it was shocking, but she was really amazing, the way she had got on with her life, with prosthetic limbs etc.

I think that's when the show is at its best really. Although the one with Dylan Moran, who would be well known, was so sad.

_Quilombero_

not usually a fan but enjoyed the Pete Doherty interview

Oíche Na Gaoithe Móire

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123027988#Comment_123027988

He came across as a gentle soul.

ShagNastii

I adore Irvine Welsh. Have all his books, love the movies and have attended shows relating to him.

IRL I find him quite boring and aloof. He milks the working class Scottish thing but he definitely views himself as a really really really really important smart-than-thou "artiste".

FreshG

I enjoyed the Pete Doherty interview. He has always been quite a melodic, and slower, talker. He's not one to rush into quick answers full of buzz words or quick witty replies. You can see that he has great diction behind it all, and still well able to play the guitar.

Tommy really got inside him too, in a good way, which I don't think Pete was expecting but was ok with. It's very far removed from his interview on the LLS a few years ago where Ryan Tubridy was very dismissive of Doherty and kept trying to force questions that Doherty clearly didn't want to talk about such as his relationship with his father.

Caprica

Just caught up on this today. I found the guests improved as the show went on. Fast forwarded through Pete Doherty after a few minutes,Welsh a bit dour and really enjoyed the Aedin. The musical performance was fantastic, rewatched it.

I’ve enjoyed the show over the years but I feel it’s running out of a bit of steam. It works best, for me, when he doesn’t know the guests. Interviews I found hard going were Jimmy White, Bradley Walsh and Gabriel Byrne. The Roy Keane interview was the worst but that was more so due to Keane’s attitude/form than Tommy.

FreshG

Another musician/singer as the first guest.

Surely Tommy will ask about how odd David Gray has the best selling album of all time in Ireland. It's a random one.

Oíche Na Gaoithe Móire

Nothing wrong or poor with the interview.

But fairly uninspiring at the same time.

Say Your Number

Tommy's question there

https://youtu.be/UZ6JxAgmxXg?si=3JMaTiVHMYWm3WcR

AMKC

Is this David Grey? I missed the beginning of the show :(

Xander10

Nice enough fella, but he seems to think his music is of a level of influence that I personally never got.

Oíche Na Gaoithe Móire

David Grey is always associated with the year 2000 in my mind.

Hard to believe it's 25 years ago since the new millennium..

spakman

he's a bit of a bore really

John arse

😴😴😴

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123045923#Comment_123045923

Ye It's crazy alright. A quarter of a Century ago mad.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123045927#Comment_123045927

Agreed.

Maybe Bernard will be better.

Say Your Number

It's a bit scary

Oíche Na Gaoithe Móire

Love his blue socks with black spots.

AMKC

Now this is a good interview.

Jeff2

I think there was a film about this guy that was locked up in Iran or maybe it was another guy with a similar story.

John arse

Will he do a song at the end?🤔

TinyMuffin

Iran is well down my list of places to visit.

Hold My Hand

only Tommy could say … I’m not flirting with you now …

spakman

Good interview, Bernard is a good speaker. I think Tommy could have got a fair bit more out of the interview though, maybe it needed longer than the usual slot.

Say Your Number

Never heard of these

Hold My Hand

how many times have they mentioned vaginas already?

Oíche Na Gaoithe Móire

I've never seen them on any porn site..

corkie

Is the show good tonight was watching the 1% Club, and maybe choosing this on +1 instead of Norton?