The Tommy Tiernan Show Thread - Mod warning, see OP

My that's a rubbish whatever it's supposed to be. Certainly not music I can tell you.

I absolutely loved that Doug (the animal expert) pulled Tommy up on being a miserable melancholic git. With one line - at the end.

'I thought you were a comedian!?'

Yeah, it's sad to think of her living a lonely life and obviously not very mobile. Someone who probably has no idea how many people admire her.

I doubt she'd be one for board or twitter 😅 but I hope someone lets her know the reaction she got.

Becky headlined WrestleMania and won (WrestleMania being wrestling's Superbowl)

She has shared segments with The Rock and John Cena etc., she is one of the most over superstar wrestlers ever

He immediately put Becky on the defensive as a guest. I'm sure she thrilled to go through the whole it's fake and the people who watch are stupid stuff.

Becky is funny and if he immediately didn't go down that route she could have had the craic with him. Instead she had to defend her job.

Tommy talked about wrestling being fake and people responding to something not real and could not get his head around it.

Yeah Tommy I'm sure you lie or make stuff up in your comedy and people respond to it. It's no different.

She a performer, actor... She even introduced herself with her stage name. That shite sells in the US, its all about the performance.... Sport is seen in a different way in this country. Fair play to her she seems to have done well for herself. Tommy was alluding to the attention side of what she does when he was asking about her childhood and lonelyness.

Not really, he's just inquisitive.

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?????? Wrong thread.

Lazy excuse of show which doesn't put in research.

Then sells that as a novelty.

TV equivalent of giving someone a Lucky Bag as an Xmas gift.

You could say that but then with him not knowing who he will be interviewing untill he meets them means he has to but more effort into it. Kind of like going on a date. If the person you are meeting wants to know everything about you and not tell you anything about them it's not going to go very far. It has to work both ways some give and take.

You see someone like Ryan Tubridy on the Late Late Show who seemingly has done research on people he interviews and yet he still makes it so dreary, boring and scripted.

I missed the start of the first interview with Becky, while I was vaguely aware of her I have no interest in wrestling so wasn't aware how successful she is, I think she actually came across very well. I didn't think Tommy was being dismissive of her (Maybe I missed that part), just thought he was being inquisitive about how wrestling works with the predetermined outcomes and the US crowds lapping it up. I thought the interview with the nature camera man was great, he certainly has had an interesting life. And Dolores interview was exceptional, but hard to watch too, as she came across as someone who's very lonely and depressed with life

Yeah it did come across as somewhat disrespectful but she dealt with it well. I liked Becky. Great achievement (that seems to have gone unheralded) for an Irish person.

I think the odd questions are now a feature from Tommy. I mean where did he arrive at "were you lonely as child" from what she talked about and presented to him up to that point. I wonder is there projection going on at times.

Becky, I could take or leave.

Camera man, great interview.

Dolores, interview of the series.

Can't wait for the next series.

Yeah I'd be a fan of Becky's and I felt the interview was more or less what you'd expect from Tommy. He doesn't know anything about wrestling and was skeptical about it which is fine. The childhood questions came a bit out of nowhere but he can be like that anyway. I got the sense he was warming up to her by the end and his interest was piqued a little bit. She is very successful in her field and is quite well known outside of Ireland. She's had a few roles in TV shows in the US outside of WWE.

I'd love a film biopic of Dolores Keane

I was thinking there what Tommy badly needs on his show is a co-host. Someone to balance him out a bit and reel him back into the conversation when he 'strays' or goes AWOL.

There are aspects of the co-host idea which I like, but the show would lose too much of its intimate character.

I don't really watch current wrestling, but last time I looked, there were at least 3 Irish wrestlers high on the card in WWE. Those being Becky, Finn Balor (AKA Prince Devitt) and Sheamus. A cursory google tells me there are at least a couple more in NXT.

Pro wrestling may not be as big as it used to be, but it's still great to see a few Irish sitting at the pinnacle of it. We big up the actors and sportspeople we have who make it big over in the states. Wrestlers should get a bit of that treatment, given that they're kind of both at the same time.

A a longer version of the story.

Seems like he's not in the best of health.

Is there a new series starting this Saturday or has the person who's sole job it is in RTÉ to update the tv guide information off on 2 weeks to sunny Benidorm? The RTÉ listings seems to suggest a brand new series kicking off...

EDIT - The Saorview TV guide lists it with an R so I guess a repeat.

Roy Keane and now orgasms, why am I watching this with parents here 😳

It's good to see him a bit stumped. In fairness to her she's very relaxed and handled it well