Tommy Tiernan
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 12:28 pm
I see Tommy has outdone himself with his new material. I saw him a few weeks ago rehearsing this stuff in Galway and even before the Offaly stuff, it was muck. He's got to a stage in this country where he could fart for an hour and people would find it hilarious. From y'day's Independent.
Clowning around Tiernan brings Big Top down
Monday July 30 2007
RINGMASTER Tommy Tiernan brought the Big Top down as he played to a sell-out audience at one of the biggest comedy festivals of the year.
Tiernan displayed his trademark exuberance as the permanently foul-mouthed comedian let rip into Bono, Downs Syndrome children and Offaly on the final day of the Bud Light Revue in Dublin's Iveagh Gardens yesterday.
Mindful of the wash-out Irish summer, organisers had pitched four marquees around the city centre park. Although, for once, the massive crowds had to tear themselves away from glorious sunshine to take their seats under canvas.
"This is the opposite of Mass - whatever f***ing happens, happens," he told the crowd who had crammed into the circus tent to see his first Dublin gig in two years.
"We gather in the darkness to say what cannot be said in the daylight. Nothing said in the next hour can be used in the real world," he added.
From Downs Syndrome kids asking him if he was Mickey Joe Harte to the ancient Greek battle between Sparta and Centra, the Co Meath comedian had the audience in stitches throughout.
Funny
Although any Offaly natives may not have seen the funny side. "If you don't want immigrants to come to this country then the first place you should send them to is Offaly . . . there is nothing, nothing for human beings in Offaly. You can do suicide for the Leaving Cert," he ranted.
Tiernan was joined by over 50 of his fellow stand-up comics, including Des Bishop, Jason Byrne and Australian Steve Hughes, who was a big hit at last year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Emo Philips, considered to be the world's greatest joke writer, also played a number of shows.
Over 14,000 comedy fans attended more than 40 shows over the course of the weekend. Described as a "modern comedy carnival" it also featured performance artists, clowns, jugglers and stiltwalkers.
Festival director Bren Barry said: "We've tried to create something new here by combining all of the best elements we've seen at the top comedy festivals around the world.
"The comedians have all loved it and the feedback from the audiences has been fantastic." BREDA HEFFERNAN
Clowning around Tiernan brings Big Top down
Monday July 30 2007
RINGMASTER Tommy Tiernan brought the Big Top down as he played to a sell-out audience at one of the biggest comedy festivals of the year.
Tiernan displayed his trademark exuberance as the permanently foul-mouthed comedian let rip into Bono, Downs Syndrome children and Offaly on the final day of the Bud Light Revue in Dublin's Iveagh Gardens yesterday.
Mindful of the wash-out Irish summer, organisers had pitched four marquees around the city centre park. Although, for once, the massive crowds had to tear themselves away from glorious sunshine to take their seats under canvas.
"This is the opposite of Mass - whatever f***ing happens, happens," he told the crowd who had crammed into the circus tent to see his first Dublin gig in two years.
"We gather in the darkness to say what cannot be said in the daylight. Nothing said in the next hour can be used in the real world," he added.
From Downs Syndrome kids asking him if he was Mickey Joe Harte to the ancient Greek battle between Sparta and Centra, the Co Meath comedian had the audience in stitches throughout.
Funny
Although any Offaly natives may not have seen the funny side. "If you don't want immigrants to come to this country then the first place you should send them to is Offaly . . . there is nothing, nothing for human beings in Offaly. You can do suicide for the Leaving Cert," he ranted.
Tiernan was joined by over 50 of his fellow stand-up comics, including Des Bishop, Jason Byrne and Australian Steve Hughes, who was a big hit at last year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Emo Philips, considered to be the world's greatest joke writer, also played a number of shows.
Over 14,000 comedy fans attended more than 40 shows over the course of the weekend. Described as a "modern comedy carnival" it also featured performance artists, clowns, jugglers and stiltwalkers.
Festival director Bren Barry said: "We've tried to create something new here by combining all of the best elements we've seen at the top comedy festivals around the world.
"The comedians have all loved it and the feedback from the audiences has been fantastic." BREDA HEFFERNAN