The Tommy Tiernan Show Thread - Mod warning, see OP

Arghus · 12-01-2017 11:32pm

Tommy is a pretty good interviewer. Ray is a boring sod, but at least Tommy is trying to get some proper conversation out of him.

furiousox · 12-01-2017 11:32pm

Watched the first 6 or 7 minutes but it was just Tommy Tiernan shouting a story at the audience so I gave up on it.

sligojoek · 12-01-2017 11:34pm

Another RTE guest on a chat show. A big ad for Ray's radio show.

thelad95 · 12-01-2017 11:36pm

Christ this is painful it's like trying to freeze ice cream in the Sahara.

Joe_ Public · 12-01-2017 11:37pm

Arghus wrote: »

Tommy is a pretty good interviewer. Ray is a boring sod, but at least Tommy is trying to get some proper conversation out of him.

He may be but the whole set-up of the show where he doesn't know the guest line-up is totally pointless and counter-productive in my view. It's actually more like a D'Arcy interview where he does absolutely no research, lets his own prejudices interfere and ends up regularly in trouble with the BAI. That annoying "balance" issue again.

the whole year inn · 12-01-2017 11:38pm

Loved the dig Tommy have to Ray "Your not known for your Comedy" haha, Ray didn't like it

Arghus · 12-01-2017 11:45pm

Joe_ Public wrote: »

He may be but the whole set-up of the show where he doesn't know the guest line-up is totally pointless and counter-productive in my view. It's actually more like a D'Arcy interview where he does absolutely no research, lets his own prejudices interfere and ends up regularly in trouble with the BAI. That annoying "balance" issue again.

Ah yeah, as the interview went on Ray got increasingly boring alright. Personally, though, I like the format of the show.

Atlantic Dawn · 12-01-2017 11:46pm

On the subject of RTÉ balance how in the jaysus does Joe Duffy get away with it? Today he was 100% anti Trump.

sligojoek · 12-01-2017 11:50pm

One at a time girls please.

Joe_ Public · 12-01-2017 11:51pm

He had one soft dig at D'Arcy but brown nosed him for the rest of it. Found it fairly sickening to be honest. Obviously tommy wasn't aware that D'Arcy has been pulled up several times by the BAI for his biased interviews, at least i hope he wasn't because there's no other excuse for not firing it at him, comedy show or not.

Ghost Train · 12-01-2017 11:52pm

Bit high pitched... hurts the ears a bit

duridian · 12-01-2017 11:55pm

Oh dear Odin, what have i just turned on?

sligojoek · 12-01-2017 11:55pm

Joe_ Public wrote: »

He had one soft dig at D'Arcy but brown nosed him for the rest of it. Found it fairly sickening to be honest. Obviously tommy wasn't aware that D'Arcy has been pulled up several times by the BAI for his biased interviews, at least i hope he wasn't because there's no other excuse for not firing it at him, comedy show or not.

The whole thing was rigged, Ted.

laugh · 12-01-2017 11:58pm

Complete waste of television.

duridian · 12-01-2017 11:58pm

Ghost Train wrote: »

Bit high pitched... hurts the ears a bit

Plug yer ears and just use your eyes ;-)

Clarebelly · 13-01-2017 12:00am

I nearly fucked my remote at the telly when Darcy walked out.
More RTE interview incest.
Why don't ye just stick a camera up in the canteen and be done with it you wasters.

sligojoek · 13-01-2017 12:01am

Why couldn't Tommy have asked Ray about his children or something. We know all about his radio show.

PeterTheNinth · 13-01-2017 12:02am

I wonder what was in it for D'Arcy... Cos none of these RTE Fortune 500 "stars" every do an interview unless they are bribed or a gun is put to their heads. I mean remember the non interview that Marion Finucane gave a few years ago.

Atlantic Dawn · 13-01-2017 12:02am

Clarebelly wrote: »

I nearly fucked my remote at the telly when Darcy walked out.
More RTE interview incest.
Why don't ye just stick a camera up in the canteen and be done with it you wasters.

Having this, LLS and RDS on each week can only result in brutal guests, whoever is in charge of scheduling should be sent straight on the dole.

Atlantic Dawn · 13-01-2017 12:03am

I pray that Tommy gets Joe Duffy on one of the weeks.

Atlantic Dawn · 13-01-2017 12:04am

I've still never seen Avatar.

Utopia Parkway · 13-01-2017 12:07am

The Iron Giant is brilliant in fairness.

Atlantic Dawn · 13-01-2017 12:09am

He might as well have a blocklayer, plumber or carpenter on.

learn_more · 13-01-2017 12:11am

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

I've still never seen Avatar.

I walked out of the cinema about half way though. Only did that twice in my life.

It was popular because it was the first big budget 3D movie. That part was fun but the movie itself was c**p.

nomdeboardie · 13-01-2017 12:14am

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

He might as well have a blocklayer, plumber or carpenter on.

Because of the way he talks, or because he's someone who actuslly does something, for a change

the whole year inn · 13-01-2017 12:14am

Had a good laugh, he's doing well, he should take over Dark or Tubs he's far better.

Utopia Parkway · 13-01-2017 12:15am

Tommy didn't seem very interested in the animator fella. Guess hard to make the technical aspects of animation sound interesting.

learn_more · 13-01-2017 12:15am

I do not want a pair of pink shoes. EVER.

ixus · 13-01-2017 12:19am

furiousox wrote: »

Watched the first 6 or 7 minutes but it was just Tommy Tiernan shouting a story at the audience so I gave up on it.

Better than one of Brendan O'Connor's monologues Shirley?

ixus · 13-01-2017 12:27am

My dislike of Darcy probably over ruled thoughts on interview. Got nothing from it.

The blonde's, meh.

I enjoyed listening to Richie the animator. A true success story.

Shows seems to be Irish star, dolly bird, international level of success.

Would have to be a bit more interesting/funny to get me watching weekly.

cd07 · 13-01-2017 12:33am

StaticNoise wrote:

Was it really a shock that it was him? We saw the Aslan drum kit from the very start of the show.

Hugh Mungus wrote:

Tiernan is scraping the bottom of the barrel bad comedian. Poor observations, shouty ranty absolutely pointless rambling you'll ever see.

Hugh Mungus wrote:

Only morons find him funny and to be fair the country is full of em.

Hugh Mungus wrote:

Tiernan is scraping the bottom of the barrel bad comedian. Poor observations, shouty ranty absolutely pointless rambling you'll ever see.

Hugh Mungus wrote:

A guy absolutely stealing his living.

Get a life will ya...Tommy is an absolute legend. And so what if he offends minorities etc its only comedy....bar taking the mick out people with downs syndrome (who he is a huge supporter of by the way) who does he not just speak the truth about??? Hes only saying what the vast majority of the population are thinking and havin a bit of craic with it...

Rothko · 13-01-2017 12:37am

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

He might as well have a blocklayer, plumber or carpenter on.

Who cares as long as the interview is good?

Anyway, I enjoyed it but again the sketch in the middle was really bad.

learn_more · 13-01-2017 12:39am

Ten Pin wrote: »

Tommy's no Graham Norton, but I'd watch this ahead of LLS, RDS and Cutting Edge. Brendan's good but his "guests" are the same commentators we see / hear all the time.

It's a refreshing formula alright.

I'd watch Cutting Edge because I do enjoy the issues being debated, but not necessarily because of the ppl that are debating it.

I'd rarely watch the Graham Norton show myself. I am not particularly interested in actor celebrities. Sometimes I am if they are real icons but not the likes of Ryan Reynolds or ppl of that ilk.

The LLS might have one segment that is worth watching.

Atlantic Dawn · 13-01-2017 12:40am

Suas11 wrote: »

Who cares as long as the interview is good?

Anyway, I enjoyed it but again the sketch in the middle was really bad.

Well that's what I'm saying, some interviews with ordinary folk would go down great.

learn_more · 13-01-2017 12:44am

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Well that's what I'm saying, some interviews with ordinary folk would go down great.

I thought the interview with the animation expert was great. it's refreshing to have a non-celebrity on.

Rothko · 13-01-2017 1:07am

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Well that's what I'm saying, some interviews with ordinary folk would go down great.

Oh ok, I thought you were saying the opposite. Sorry.

sReq | uTeK · 13-01-2017 1:47am

I was in the audience for tonights show. A lot edited out. The sketch in the middle on the night was actually all about STDs and was the best part of the show minus the song at the end. The skit they changed it too and the dog was atrocious.

As for Tiernan.... He's got no interviewing nuance. You have Richard BANEHAM. An Oscar winning visual affects director and pioneer in his field who rubs shoulders with some of the biggest stars in the world. He threw Tommy a bone and said I worked with Jim on that.

I was in the audience thinking okay he's on first name basis with James Cameron, Tommy will go into Holywood and all its intrigues......no the next question was about fifa...****ING FIFA. And having a slag at his accent

YOU don't see it tonight as it's edited out but he asked about 5 more fifa related questions and Richard cut him off saying "look Tommy I don't really know much about games let's change the subject. It was embarrassing.

Few cheap laughs but worse than I remember sitting in the audience

learn_more · 13-01-2017 3:30am

sReq | uTeK wrote: »

I was in the audience for tonights show. A lot edited out. The sketch in the middle on the night was actually all about STDs and was the best part of the show minus the song at the end. The skit they changed it too and the dog was atrocious.

As for Tiernan.... He's got no interviewing nuance. You have Richard BANEHAM. An Oscar winning visual affects director and pioneer in his field who rubs shoulders with some of the biggest stars in the world. He threw Tommy a bone and said I worked with Jim on that.

I was in the audience thinking okay he's on first name basis with James Cameron, Tommy will go into Holywood and all its intrigues......no the next question was about fifa...****ING FIFA. And having a slag at his accent

YOU don't see it tonight as it's edited out but he asked about 5 more fifa related questions and Richard cut him off saying "look Tommy I don't really know much about games let's change the subject. It was embarrassing.

Few cheap laughs but worse than I remember sitting in the audience

Is it not the case that that he can't prepare his questions in advance ?

The last thing I would ever want to do is interview someone on camera when I haven't a clue or have no interest in the subjects background.

I think he did quite well when you look at it from that angle.

Maybe it would be a good idea to allow the audience to ask a question.

I do agree that asking FiFA questions would bore me to death.

Utopia Parkway · 13-01-2017 4:27am

sReq | uTeK wrote: »

I was in the audience for tonights show. A lot edited out. The sketch in the middle on the night was actually all about STDs and was the best part of the show minus the song at the end. The skit they changed it too and the dog was atrocious.

As for Tiernan.... He's got no interviewing nuance. You have Richard BANEHAM. An Oscar winning visual affects director and pioneer in his field who rubs shoulders with some of the biggest stars in the world. He threw Tommy a bone and said I worked with Jim on that.

I was in the audience thinking okay he's on first name basis with James Cameron, Tommy will go into Holywood and all its intrigues......no the next question was about fifa...****ING FIFA. And having a slag at his accent

YOU don't see it tonight as it's edited out but he asked about 5 more fifa related questions and Richard cut him off saying "look Tommy I don't really know much about games let's change the subject. It was embarrassing.

Few cheap laughs but worse than I remember sitting in the audience

In fairness no easy task to interview someone and you have absolutely no idea who they are. Even though Tommy seemed to think movie animation and game design were all basically the same thing.

itac · 13-01-2017 9:13am

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

In fairness no easy task to interview someone and you have absolutely no idea who they are. Even though Tommy seemed to think movie animation and game design were all basically the same thing.

I think if he sticks to the most basic journalistic/interviewer ideas (you want your audience to know the who/what/where/why) he could do a lot better. I assume the guests know that Tommy knows nothing about them and would try and work with him, as it's in their interests to look good too; but if that's not the case, a question along the lines of "what do you think your best work is/what would people most know you for"? should give him a reply with enough info for an interesting/funny follow-up question.

It's a really interesting idea, and i'd love to see it succeed, but it might need a bit more teasing out.

Clarebelly · 13-01-2017 11:22am

itac wrote: »

It's a really interesting idea, and i'd love to see it succeed, but it might need a bit more teasing out.

Not surprisingly RTE stroked the idea off the BBC........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KqcI5FJHpo

It's a wonder Russel did not bring it up last week.

KKkitty · 13-01-2017 12:45pm

Missed part one but I really liked it I have to say. It's a good premise for a chat show. All the rest are rehearsed to the last so it's good to see spontaneity with an interview. I had no idea who the last guest was at all. The triplets came across very well. I'll give it another watch next week.

donkeykong5 · 13-01-2017 3:31pm

sReq | uTeK wrote: »

I was in the audience for tonights show. A lot edited out. The sketch in the middle on the night was actually all about STDs and was the best part of the show minus the song at the end. The skit they changed it too and the dog was atrocious.

As for Tiernan.... He's got no interviewing nuance. You have Richard BANEHAM. An Oscar winning visual affects director and pioneer in his field who rubs shoulders with some of the biggest stars in the world. He threw Tommy a bone and said I worked with Jim on that.

I was in the audience thinking okay he's on first name basis with James Cameron, Tommy will go into Holywood and all its intrigues......no the next question was about fifa...****ING FIFA. And having a slag at his accent

YOU don't see it tonight as it's edited out but he asked about 5 more fifa related questions and Richard cut him off saying "look Tommy I don't really know much about games let's change the subject. It was embarrassing.

Few cheap laughs but worse than I remember sitting in the audience

How long ago was it recorded?

NIMAN · 13-01-2017 8:58pm

learn_more wrote: »

I thought the interview with the animation expert was great. it's refreshing to have a non-celebrity on.

To be honest you'd be hard pressed to call TT guests so far, celebrities.

lertsnim · 13-01-2017 9:58pm

Clarebelly wrote: »

Not surprisingly RTE stroked the idea off the BBC........

They're not even close to being the same thing.

jimmycrackcorm · 13-01-2017 11:20pm

KKkitty wrote:

. The triplets came across very well. I'll give it another watch next week.

Tiernans WTF facial expressions at these coming on was the highlight for me.

KKkitty · 14-01-2017 12:31am

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

Tiernans WTF facial expressions at these coming on was the highlight for me.

Eyes on stalks comes to mind. In all fairness it seems like a good show. If you don't like it don't watch it. This isn't directed at you jimmycrackcorm just so you know.

learn_more · 14-01-2017 12:37am

NIMAN wrote: »

To be honest you'd be hard pressed to call TT guests so far, celebrities.

True, which is why I called them non-celebrities !

Lady Chatterton · 19-01-2017 11:23pm

Tommy - to Paddy Moloney & John Sheahan.

'Ye came out of the crypt for the evening'

Kerrydude1981 · 19-01-2017 11:34pm

Gas characters Paddy Moloney and John Sheahan

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