The Tommy Tiernan Show Thread - Mod warning, see OP

I can take or leave his stand up tbh. But I wouldn't regard the Keane interview of being representative of his interviews on the show.

Usually, first of all, the guests are there to talk about something or themselves. I'm kinda wondering today why Keane bothered to go on the show, he didn't seem particularly interested in being expansive or willing to show a different side of himself. It made for a terse, tense,interview at times. If the guests are willing to get into things and go with Tommy - which they typically are - it can make, at its best, for compelling TV.

I also think there was a personality clash. Tommy's more left-field questions seemed to not be to Keane's liking and Tommy was often left struggling to find a way to get Keane to talk. Tommy can ask some woolly questions at times, but, like I said, the guest will usually play ball and the conversation can end up going to unexpected places.

I don't know Tommy is a world class interviewer, but compared to what you see on other chat shows it's pretty refreshing to watch a conversation that feels unpredictable and unscripted. Compare that to every Tubridy LLS interview, which are totally rigid, emotionally tone-deaf and ruined by Ryan's deep abiding fear of anything unexpected or off-script: the guy is, quite frankly, a shyte interviewer. That's who Tommy is most directly being compared to 90% of the time, he's obviously going to look good. Ryan gets a lot of stick here there and everywhere for all sorts of stuff, some of it a bit unfair, but he's a stunningly bad interviewer in a chat show format IMO.

The interview was compelling because Keane is compelling and there was a sense of tension running through it the whole time, but I don't think it was a success really. I'd blame Tommy to an extent - he couldn't find the right approach to get Keane to open up a bit - but I also think Keane gave him very little to work with.

Very mixed views on here but for me the interview with Keane wasn't great, in fairness he's not an easy guest to interview but thought Tommy could have done a lot better. Also didn't think the second interview was that good either, would have liked him to find out a bit more about her background, how she got involved in it etc. Didn't like his new look and the monkey hat suits him better IMO.

I never heard that Haaland allegedly played international football a few days after the tackle,is that true?

I was wondering that too. I never heard that reported, and Roy took full responsibility and even pride in injuring him in his book.

Nah, it was a fine interview. You can’t get blood from a stone. The only interesting thing is that Roy always gets interviewed by middle aged men. It would be interesting to change the dynamic and put an attractive young woman in front of him and see if he changes

I was also left wondering why Keane agreed to do the interview. He can be engaging and even funny when doing sports stuff, and well able to chat away. Clearly he’s not comfortable discussing more personal stuff, which is perfectly fine, no reason why he should have to be, but then why do the interview ?

Tommy's new look made him look about 80.

It has surfaced before. It may not have been mentioned in the first keane book but it must have been mentioned in the second. I’m almost sure that the knee surgeries Haaland had before retiring were on the knee that keane didn’t hit.

Emer O Neill doesn't seem to happy with Tommy at the moment!

It’s exceptionally good money and Roy is insecure about money judging by passages in his second book

Who?

He should have stuck to jokes about straight white men. Can't crack jokes about anyone else.

Missed the Keane interview thank God.

correct me if I’m wrong but TT compared blacks to monkeys? If that’s correct well It doesn’t offend me but I wouldn’t blame any black person for being offended…..c’mon lads like…you can’t say black people remind you of monkeys

So basically a nobody in between jobs.