Tommy Tiernan on Letterman Show

[@xmantidx]

Tommy Tiernan is freakin' awesome! He's gotta be the first Irish comedian I've ever heard and I loved hearing his perspective come through in his humour.

[@md-ps2hx]

This has aged very well. His humourous style even toned down, is still very funny. Listening in July 2021.

[@dabodunne]

Just saw this. Crazy how slowly he is speaking...wonder how much effort that took, along with not swearing.

[@anetchi]

Man! I just found this guy, I looovvee him!!! Wish he'd come back to Amerikey so I could catch a live show!! Tommy, you are brilliant!

[@MsCody14]

I love Tommy Tiernan. He is a comic genius

[@IsMiseTerri]

I can only imagine the amount of Americans that went home and had heart attacks after searching him on KZbin.

[@patrickambrose5372]

lol,lol

[@Fonzleberry]

If they could understand him. I know welsh people who have to have the subtitles on when I put his dvds in the player.

[@stacyblue1980]

um...no. Loved this fella before he was well known here. Asshole.

[@OatyReading]

I was djing in a bar in Cork and the fire alarm went off, all present looked at me and gestured to turn up the music to drown it out.

[@clodaodonoghue6601]

It's amazing watching him trying to censor himself

[@travistoor6360]

Hes Irish so it's really hard lol

[@md-ps2hx]

@@travistoor6360 An underrated Viagra pun there...

[@loser33user]

It's cute how he has to simplify his jokes so the Americans will understand them

[@RaptorRoll]

I feel embarrassed for my country. I noticed the simplification with jimmy carr as well, and it's like damn, why??

[@claudec2588]

I think in this case he had to simplify his jokes because of time restraints. But he didn't look comfortable either. I think it may have been because he had to sensor himself for American TV. Tommy is famous enough that he doesn't need America.

[@marcol.3162]

Claude C Everyone needs America, ask U2, without America they would be nothing. Tommy is famous where? In a country of 5 million ppl...lol America is 300 million ppl audience is much bigger.

[@jamesflange]

Marco L. Love the way you say EVERYONE needs America then you mention U2....great example. I'm convinced ☝

[@feboober]

+Claude C Aye, sure he even rolled his eyes at the very end. You could clearly see he wasn't arsed doing it. He wasn't comfortable because that's American comedy.

[@Bumblybee256]

I had never thought about the fire alarm thing but it's actually so true

[@ComedyJesus]

What a BRILLIANT comic!!! Genius!

[@irishelk3]

That horse was trained up the road from me in Swords.

[@Yourballix]

Amazing. Have you reached out to CNN for an interview

[@irishelk3]

@@Yourballix You wouldn't last two seconds in Ireland buddy, we don't take shit like that over here. Alright?, sitting in your smelly little room hahaha.

[@Yourballix]

@@irishelk3 you’re an absolute mad man. A KZbin tough guy. The most feared of tough guys 😂😂 the fact you’re talking like a little boy suggests you still live with mummy 😂😂😂

[@slimblu1]

Watching this proves my point that certain men age really well!! Never gave Letterman a second glance years ago... but now he's rocking the Old Father Time look😍

[@wyo9ct2]

It must've been so hard for him not to swear!! lol best comedian ever!

[@emmcatherine1460]

Watching again in 2020 February why, because so so funny. Well done Tommy you are doing grand.

[@emilywicks]

hes such a legend! gwan tommy!!!

[@3fourtime]

Excellent video !

[@JylmuRaouls]

Bit late, but I'd be nervous too if I had to concentrate all my effort into not saying 'fuck'

[@WILDERNESS2006]

Brilliant job! What a first impression

[@fToo]

"back her into me PJ" ;)

[@hotgrandma]

I love the whole "yanks" bashing thing...you'd think laughing would be a compliment. it's the letterman show, they laugh so the show stays exciting. in the US, if the audience isn't laughing, then you're probably a gerry and should just get offstage. take it for what it is, a compliment to your countryman..it's not easy to go to a foreign country and get laughs like that... either way, cursing or no cursing, toned down or not toned down, the guy is great

[@frankmcnultycuas]

Excellent

[@LeighLeighAdelaide]

No other comedy compares to the quality in Irish comedy and I'm from England! Love this guy! American comedy is a catastrophic fail!

[@ianclarke3627]

Haha I've always joked about having a dirty and clean Olympics, the six pint triple jump and poll vault

[@sarahoreilly4563]

Legend

[@sanfranchick]

you can tell he's trying to think of what buildings the pub is between!!! but he' still funny as hell!!!

[@Smellindamix]

hahaha i love the way he changes it for America's

[@classactsexpertiseandinspi4815]

Billy Connolly said Tommy Tiernan is one of his top 3 stand up comedians of all time. Thats good enough for me because Billy is my all time No.1.

[@PSexton7]

Class, wer dya find it?

[@mcsachsenhausen]

why is tommy tiernan not cursing..........and why did he say gasoline......ITS PETROL

[@someoneelse101]

Irish girl In Spain Because it's live TV and the Americans call petrol gasoline

[@maureenwagg5305]

He isn't cursing because it's American TV.

[@seanglendon4813]

@@LeMerch Americas think gasoline shortened is petrol or diesel

[@LDeezy223]

He's one of the more hit and miss comedians I've ever watched but at the same time...when this guy is on WOOOOW is he on

[@MikeF0024]

went to see him last month

[@disler342]

Go on Tommy!!

[@twilight112]

@SpecterReflector Robert Boyle, considered to the “The Father of Chemistry”; George Boole also known as The Father of Computer Science; William Thomson; Ernest Walton... I can go on but I think you get my point, ALL IRISH. Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, Sinead O’Connor, U2, Brendan Gleeson to name a few more. In the 20th century alone , Ireland produced four winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature: George Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats, Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney.

[@krissyheartyou]

hes so nervous! awe i love him!!!!!!!!

[@Tracymmo]

Some Americans are silly about this, yes, but I spent 3 years in Europe having to explain why I had an Italian name not an "American" one. That got old. My childhood friends asked each other "what are you?" because we spoke different languages at home, ate "weird" foods, went to churches with gold onion domes, etc. Polish, Irish, etc. meant roots, not nationality. Now Chinese, African, Iranian and Eastern European immigrants are having Irish children, and it's Ireland's turn to see how it works.

[@madjack18]

As Tommy walked off one member of the audience probably turned to their friend and said "Man, that Scottish guy was funny!"

[@Tracymmo]

In the US, a quiet audience means a comic is bombing, so clapping and cheering means Tiernan did well. It's a back-and-forth with the comedian which is often even stronger with black audiences. (Check out Katt Williams or Dave Chappelle videos.) Comedians work these responses for maximum effect. I imagine it throw performers from other countries who are used to different pacing and quieter audiences, and who don't know how to basically manage the crowd.

[@Tinymoezzy]

haha if you didnt see the fire it didnt fucking exist.... this man is great i want to see him live..... he is so fuckin funny!

[@Scoob505]

Brilliant

[@angngam21]

awesome!

[@johnkollor]

Was dat my phone? LMFAO!

[@frankmacs9379]

The bit about us irish not moving from our bar seat during a fire alarm is so true. It just ain't gonna happen lol

[@irishpatriotv2575]

not just bar seat, any seat "Sure its probably nothing"

[@hughwhitla7930]

This is so bloody true.

[@CunnyFunt42]

Soft day. Never boil your cabbage twice.

[@CRTH09]

its true i was in a night club and fire alarm went off and everyone was like why the fuck did the music stop

[@Hellwyck]

I knew a pub where they thought the fire alarm was techno and started dancing.

[@esprit15d]

i'm from the US, and i like self-deprecating humor. I'm also black, adn that's pretty much teh backbone of black humor. You only hope the audience is sophisticated enough to realize that it's a joke and not a documentary

[@leprechaun9150]

Timmy wat a man

[@manusk40]

tommy

[@breffnipark]

He is good !!

[@LeighLeighAdelaide]

Imagine the American's hearing the uncensored version of this ha! I have to say Irish humour is the best in the world. American comedy is bland and lifeless, it's actually painful!

[@darraghfarrell5427]

Yup yup too true!?! It’s actually almost painful to hear him be so clean!?! Without the Irish manner of the bad language coming out!?! It’s actually quite irritating to hear him be so fake!?!

[@joey8067]

hes a genius

[@Kieran84ire]

It's a bit odd the way the whole crowd keeps clapping, it's not quite like that in front of an Irish crowd.

[@musefan12345]

ha. i literally just said the same thing further up. im sure its also very off putting for a comedian as it breaks their stride

[@Stechino]

Personally I prefer Dylan Moran but Tommy Tiernan has some great moments! God bless em both!

[@zimzumzimzum]

Great comedian. No english comedian even comes close

[@Hellwyck]

Eddie Izzard.

[@Daveypeanuts2]

zimzum55 zimzum55 He's Irish

[@susandonaghy1971]

zimzum55 zimzum55. he is irish

[@kiesesoza]

Thats a bold claim buddy! And absolutely rubbish too :-(

[@johnc3403]

Ricky Gervais.

[@glowpunk]

Live tommy owns, Laughter is canned on these shows. An excellent performance. I think it would be interesting to see dylan moran chat on the show, i think an interview with dylan moran is due on leno or letterman

[@Paulocks2k9]

haha you can se how nervous he is

[@greglyons2526]

Yes

[@aidanmags06]

Yea can kinda tell he's dieing to start cursin, its killin him inside!!! lol funny guy

[@Lynnch1]

@DanielLeahy95 Im only messing. Hes from Navan.

[@twilight112]

@SpecterReflector We are world renown for our horses, sense of humour, strong culture and rich history, all of this from a small island of less than 4 million people might I add. Ireland is said to be the country of “A Hundred Thousand Welcomes” and they are greeted with warmth from every country.

[@Brendan9244]

Tommy you make us proud to be Irish, best comedian in the world :-)

[@stinkerbell8326]

I totally feckin' agree with you! People with life and street smarts have had some of the most hysterical comedy... bill engvill (sp?), Robin Williams, etc. I think tommy tiernan is a riot.. i love anything irish but i like an irish guy who can be funny and make sense at the same time lol

[@disturbedcarrot]

A good set, not the easiest either, the audience are not there to see him, probably most don't know of him. His material was most likely checked so he had to change his delivery! That's the trade off to get to whatever million viewers!

[@Tracymmo]

@911shorty: Hey there. One great-grandmother was from Swinford. She was a tough old broad who smoked unitl ~age 90, and she scared me when I was little. Makes sense considering that she would throw rocks at the priests as a kid. Don't have the info on the other great-grandmother off-hand. I just remember that she was the "lace curtain" one. ;)

[@richardcondon3797]

Why it's Gerry of Derry.

[@MrNosurprises]

@SpecterReflector Whys that?

[@lkdub]

christ we really are a nation of begrudgers.i say fair play to him-always loved the guy!

[@flipperpolo]

haha thats the way he always looks

[@ianhusband1488]

It's the timing for the punchline because the audience laugh to early for to long

[@Back2Goodtimes]

Gasoline in the USA Making it easier to understand, Yankees don't understand certain accents.. Scottish, Irish etc

[@yokhanan]

I'd rephrase that to some American's. I'm an American and love the Irish. Guys like Tommy Tiernan are friggen hilarious. Give him 10 seconds, and he can make you piss yourself laughing, lol. I'll still agree with you on the twat part though, seems like we're overrun with 'em here. :p

[@DrSlug]

I agree he looks a bit like "i don't know how they'll react...oh shit..." still he is cool

[@niallro]

you are so true!

[@Tracymmo]

Actually, many Irish Americans know which counties their families are from. Mine were from Mayo. But I only just learned where exactly my English and Scottish great-grandparents came from and still don't know about the Slovak ones. I only knew about the ones from Mayo and Sicily. We tend to say we're Irish, Italian, etc. if our families came over in the last 100 years because some of the culture remains, though less with each generation. I do agree with Xozona re Irish heritage being overplayed.

[@Doylerization]

A small child of beer haha

[@darraghgregory1269]

Woo, I'm Irish hope yous Americans find his just as good as us in Ireland

[@harvesterofsorrow111]

Very clean for Tommy Tiernan, the Americans don't like the swear words. Here in IReland every second word he says is a curse hahaha

[@olliespike2]

Sorry I was wrong.. that was really good.

[@barrackbuster]

people that knock him ...feck off he did america...proud of ya tom

[@danielgallen95]

@SpecterReflector Seriously, just calm down. If you don't like the videos, there should be a little red "X" in the corner of your screen and ,if you click it, they will go away.

[@kraeman1]

I like the other bit about the olympics later on.... ah wellll

[@niallnigeynige]

this was showen on rte awile back about tommy tryin 2 crack the states. he had so much material it was really hard 4 him 2 cut it all down 2 fit precisely in2 the letterman time slot, so i think it might have partially taken away from some of the jokes fluidity.

[@mjdedge3440]

I prefer it when they don't swear all the time. It's like they rely of swearing for the humor rather than being actually funny. He's a great comedian when he's not cursing all the time

[@DaveRelph001]

Americans being obsessed with health, that's the best joke of this bit

[@irishprice]

no he's not. he had 2 change the words from a remand center for young delinquents to something more american. Also there were several curses in this bit when he does it in Ireland or live

[@MrMR9991]

tommy tiernan came to ur school last week..soooo funny

[@T8UFI]

what a man.go irish people

[@ballickmoyler]

thats right

[@QtommyQ]

It's called 'playing for your audience'.

[@michaelwincott]

It really is. He’s brilliant at pitching it to the unique audience.

[@exclusionx]

was that my phone :L

[@jonano12]

yeah i know man you could see the exprestion on tommy's face that he was pissed off every time they clapped

[@MrWellboi]

@jakepatrix obviously, its in his act, hes in america

[@internetpaper1]

uhhh i didn't mean to put aspiring i meant to put inspiring but that you for the negativity

[@Tracymmo]

That's one of the silliest "critiques" I've ever read. Those laugh signs are to get the audience to be louder so they come across nice and strong for home viewers, not because people don't know when to laugh.

[@troumer]

The constant clapping only happens on talk shows--not in clubs. I'm not sure about Letterman, but some shows either 1) dub in laughter/applause before broadcast or 2) turn an "Applause" sign on and off during the routine. Often the network--rather than the host--is behind this crap. It usually has to do with paid advertising (i.e., a show that doesn't produce laughter won't be able to get as much for commercial spots). This speaks to the intelligence of executives; not Americans in general.

[@androschizo]

the audience act like it's a kid making joke. come on, it's TOMMY!

[@tiredhoneybadgert3001]

Welp my name is Terinan

[@jepesuzette]

they cut him off at the end see how pissed off he looks

[@sunandsound]

"a small child of beer" ..dylan moran had a piece of material the same as this word for word ..someone ripped someone off!!! !

[@Tracymmo]

Just on TV! Though it would be nice if things were loser, especially since the Letterman Show is on at 11:30 at night. But the live shows or cable TV shows are a whole different fucking story. :)

[@disler342]

STOP IT!!!!!!!!!!! Why on earth are you all bickering. Once you comment/fight on KZbin it renders you common. A common commoner of the commonest commontary.

[@jerryfitzgerald4493]

I love coke tommy

[@anthonywhelan5419]

Commentary - just thought I'd complete your alliterative rant with the correct spelling. You're welcome.,😇

[@Annie2220]

You're commentary is commonly correct.. Lol