The Tommy Tiernan Show Thread - Mod warning, see OP

Can you give us an example of any other television network or country where this happens?

So in other words you can't provide one. There is one BET ( Black entertainment television) in the US. I haven't seen too many too many white people on that network!

We are all the same why do you want to separate musicians based on the color of there skin? Seems a bit racist to me.

That lowest rung on the show business ladder is bent and worn out with all the hopefuls holding on for dear life.

People get out there and strut their stuff, sing their song or whatever.

They won't all make it big but that's life.

Give them a break and if you have a steady job yourself be grateful.

So no response to my argument instead you focus on a typo.

Interesting.

You are right, deciding who should or shouldn't be on a show should be decided on by outward characteristics like colour.

And that is also the only way we should count diversity, we wouldn't need a program on say Eastern European experience, despite the large numbers here.

100 percent behind this idea, and look forward to the viewing figures

That’s called discrimination

Qwest TV, station run by Quincy Jones, the channel has shown some amazing reggae and hip hop festival sets, blues and soul too as well as some cool electronica to boot.

Is Callan more successful than Rosenstock? Mario has been around for a lot longer.

I don’t buy that satirist not an impressionist bit, at all. They are both impressionists and both are better on radio than on television. That’s where most impressionists fall down, especially the Facebook/Instagram ones slapping on swim hats or gurning to do De Niro.

There’s nothing wrong with enjoying impressionists but when you try to differentiate between two, when there is no real difference, it comes across like the grownups buying the Harry Potter books with the plain covers so as not to be seen reading a children’s book or the lads who call long comic books “graphic novels”.

Fine Gael Spokesperson on Arts, Culture & Media, Ciaran Cannon:

Tweet since deleted but dug a deeper hole when apologising with another dig.

Very interesting first guest. That first 20 minutes flew by. Skipped Rosenstock - interviews with the RTE lifers just aren't what I watch the TTS for. Dabiri was alright, but it seems like at least once a series in latter series of the show, we get a guest whose thing is talking about their experience of being black in Ireland. It's a worthwhile subject, but I don't know how many more angles you can come at it from.

They're a bit like the girl who walked out of his show...no bother when other politicians are getting it but when it's their own...outrage.

It is worth considering how poorly crafted Tommy’s “joke” is. It has the traditional three part structure but it is completely humourless from start to finish.

The first part has him in the Zoo looking at penguins and telling us they look like nuns. Wow! that never occurred to us, Tommy! Still, it sets up a joke about religion, right? Wrong.

He then goes to the wolf enclosure and says the wolves are like the Irish because they’re fierce. Well, OK Tommy, if you say so. (Interestingly, a wolf enclosure has recently opened in Dublin Zoo - a real comedian might have used that as an intro, but not Tommy).

But here comes the payoff - the third part punchline. He goes to the Savannah area and says the animals are all taxi drivers! Oh no, that would be just nonsense. None of those animals resemble taxi drivers in any way (do taxis have zebra stripes? Do giraffes pick up passengers). So Tommy says “African Savannah” and now it’s supposed to be funny. Not because any African animal in the Zoo resembles a taxi driver. No, he said “African” only because he thinks we will be amused to imagine all Africans in Ireland drive taxis.

So yes, this is racist. And it is a crime, a crime against comedy. No wonder his daughter warned him against it. Not only is he blind to the racism, he is deaf to comedy. Did Tommy ever have a good joke, the kind of joke that a professional comedian might tell?

Incidentally, Roy Keane gave Tommy a masterclass in deadpan comedy in their recent interview (about his first date with his future wife). Wasting his breath on Tommy but there is a career in comedy for Roy if he is sick of the oil money in football