#the tommy tiernan show

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I'm entering 2024 calling Patrick Kielty«?» Tommy Tiernan and I am unashamed

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rather than who you would like to see on the next taskmaster series, who do you think will be on it? like just your predictions or any inklings you may have!

anon if you're still around then you'll know i really took my time with this hahaha so sorry! i hope anyone reading this takes it as just a bit of fun and nbd, who knows who we'll get or who alex & the network have in mind! i'm answering thoughtfully (bc i always feel guilty not to 😩 so sorry this is long lol) but it's really just fun!!

i will say, of the more recent-ish series, i did get a few right!!! krishnan guru-murthy, nicola coughlan, alan davies, judi love, sue perkins, john robins, and joanne mcnally were people i just knew would eventually be on if the show could get their schedules right, and i was also certain sarah millican and dara ó briain would be asked — though not necessarily that they'd actually agree. when you have a level of seniority and esteem, the "it's such a great opportunity" aspect of the show isn't such a draw 😅 for some reason i feel SO PROUD about guessing nicola! i was just WAITING and wish sooooo much she had done a full series 😭😭😭 (how fun would saoirse-monica jackson be too!)

anyways, as for people who haven't been on yet — and this isn't to say i want them all to be, just that i think it's likeliest they have been asked or will be asked; i talked about who i want to see a little while ago here — it's important to consider the casting 'roles' the network has in mind when working with the producers to form a series, so i will keep that in mind too!

established comedian, typically a straight white man over 40: bill bailey, vic reeves, harry hill, geoff norcott, kevin bridges, adam buxton, ade edmondson, paul whitehouse (tommy tiernan? god i feel bad for not saying ed byrne but why do i feel like he's not gonna make it in the next few series? i'm on the fence with nick helm — unless he's friends with alex, then his chances go up significantly imo — and tom allen for some reason, and i feel like john bishop is almost too much of an ask?)

fresh talent comedian, typically a man under 40: rhys james, huge davies, ahir shah, darren harriott would be my top guesses but tbh any of the semi-recent edinburgh comedy award finalists are good bets as a majority of the winners from the last ~10 years have been on the series + throwing out tom rosenthal (i know he's not fresh fresh and also mostly an actor)...and, like, jazz emu?...just because if taskmaster know how much its audience adores weird little white twinks then they'll cast them

female or non-binary comedian: 100% sarah keyworth + harriet kemsley, maisie adam, jess fostekew, suzi ruffell. i've shifted away from betting on cariad lloyd and catherine bohart for some reason... (joanne was my no.1 lady bet for the last like 4 series hahaha)

non-comedian: this is very, very hard to predict because between comedy actors, non-comedy actors, tv presenters, news people, reality & social media stars... the potential predictions are just so endless! logically, the most likely is an established actor with a lot of comedy connections (think sally phillips, lolly adefope, liza tarbuck, sian gibson, daisy may cooper, susan wokoma; this category is where tm gets quite a few of its female contestants): matt holness, kevin eldon, amanda abbington, tom davis, sharon horgan, kathy burke, georgia tennant (also friends w alex?), su pollard, tom basden, apparently anyone from the cast of ghosts, and so on and so on and so on... + i'll also throw out maggie aderin-pocock as a serious contender + i really feel like one of the spice girls will be on new years treat

friend of alex: john robins was the prediction for the past few series, so just worth keeping in mind other people in this circle include elis james, matthew crosby, tom neenan, and so on

freebie answers because alex/greg have mentioned them before: jack dee, lorraine kelly, joanna lumley (i want jennifer saunders SO BAD give us an epic series w both ade and jen pleaseeee tm gods!!!!)

complete wild card bets that are either my instincts kicking in or my bias taking over: limmy, adam buxton, paddy mcguinness, diane morgan, daniel sloss, joel dommett, jess hynes, spencer jones??, alasdair beckett-king or josh pugh + if suzy izzard wasn't doing a big nyc show i'd say that's a good guess if only bc you know greg & alex grew up big fans

did i mention too many people?? if i had to put my money behind a single person it would be either ahir shah or sarah keyworth

these are almost all of my fr big heavy hitters when it comes to placing bets! but there are of course so many people i didn't name who i could totally see on either a main series or the ny treat — so many people just make sense and that's the beauty of taskmaster!!

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given up on writing for the night, now just watching old dylan moran stand-up shows and wondering which of these impeccable quotes I can use in future fics. that particular turn of phrase of dylan moran and tommy tiernan which is just so compelling. eating it up word by word.

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My superpower is identifying famous people only by their roles in shows I've watched.

Examples include:

Chevy Chase in Community

Bruce Willis in Friends season 7

Lin Manuel Miranda in Brooklyn 99

Brad Pitt in a Friends thanksgiving episode

Tommy Tiernan in Derry Girls

Danny Devito in It's Always Sunny

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Conversations with Friends has received 7 nominations at this year's Irish Film and Television Awards, including:

BEST DRAMA “Bad Sisters” “Conversations with Friends” “Derry Girls: The Agreement (Extended Special)” “Smother” “The Dry” “Vikings: Valhalla”

DIRECTOR - DRAMA “Bad Sisters” – Dearbhla Walsh “Conversations with Friends” – Lenny Abrahamson “Maxine” – Laura Way “Severance” – Aoife McArdle “Smother” – Dathaí Keane “The Dry” – Paddy Breathnach

SCRIPT - DRAMA “Bad Sisters” – Sharon Horgan “Conversations with Friends” – Mark O’Halloran “Derry Girls: The Agreement (Extended Special)” – Lisa McGee “Smother” – Kate O’Riordan “The Dry” – Nancy Harris “Top Boy” – Ronan Bennett

LEAD ACTRESS - DRAMA Alison Oliver – “Conversations with Friends” Caitriona Balfe – “Outlander” Dervla Kirwan – “Smother” Roisin Gallagher – “The Dry” Sharon Horgan – “Bad Sisters” Siobhan McSweeney – “Holding”

SUPPORTING ACTOR - DRAMA Brian Gleeson – “Bad Sisters” Ciarán Hinds – “The Dry” Daryl McCormack – “Bad Sisters” Michael Smiley – “Bad Sisters” Moe Dunford – “The Dry” Tommy Tiernan – “Conversations with Friends”

CINEMATOGRAPHY “Conversations with Friends”  –  Suzie Lavelle “How To Tell A Secret”  –  Eleanor Bowman “It Is In Us All”   –  Piers McGrail “The Dry” – Cathal Watters  “Vikings: Valhalla” –  Peter Robertson

SOUND “Aisha”   “The Banshees of Inisherin” “Conversations with Friends” “The Sparrow” “The Wonder”

The show takes place May 7 in Dublin

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Sinéad O'Connor aka Shuhada’ Sadaqat on The Tommy Tiernan Show 2020/02/01

I have NEVER related to someone so much in my entire life. Tommy Tiernan gave her the real way to talk about mental illness. This was an excellent interview. Love him and love her so much. This brought me to my knees. It’s SO FUCKING HARD TO REACH OUT. 

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🔥 The Reunion

(I’ll throw in one of my own- personally I rlly enjoyed seeing what the moms were like as teens, but randomly giving Deirdre a never-before-mentioned male foreign cousin just for the sake of having a “James” in the group seemed a bit forced + unnecessary. I think it would’ve been a much more interesting + natural story if Gerry or Kathy had been in the flashback instead.)

oh i love hearing your thoughts on it too, anon! i have mostly just some raggedy, not at all concise, way too long thoughts about the reunion so i put them below a cut.

at the time it aired, i didn't love where it fell in the course of the season, but that's mostly because it felt like time was running out; it makes sense to me now that it falls where it does because it helps to break that momentum and refocus the show after the james/erin kiss. overall, season 3 had a lot more of the older generation which was always, always lovely and really helped to situate the show more fully in the contemporary political moment and history of northern ireland, but i found myself toward the end feeling like i, as a viewer, hadn't had enough time with the girls themselves; honestly, i still feel like that about season 3. but i think this all lines up with something lisa mcgee said in an interview: that she started out derry girls feeling like one of the girls and ended it feeling like one of the mammies. i see this reflected a lot in season 3. to me, there are about as many good things about it as there are things i didn't like about it. at this point i guess i feel pretty neutral; i wonder (and even long for) what could have been for so many things and think that some of the shifts in tone and writing and editing and direction and even acting weren't always in service of the best product, but i also so highly value what we did get. i wouldn't be here if i didn't.

did i cry at the end of the reunion? is one of my favorite scenes in season 3 the dancing montage which moves between the mammies' teen and adult selves? did i immediately want to go watch it all over again with my mom? a resounding yes to all three.

i hear you on deidre's never-before-mentioned foreign cousin! my only caveat - and it's a big one - is that he gave us the warmest, sweetest, most enthusiastic conversation with clare's parents about how she's not yet a "fully qualified" gay. to me, this overcomes all clunkiness in including the character. he serves a good purpose even though his inclusion is not in overall service to the story being told.

i would have loved to see kathy included and wonder why she wasn't. maybe she was too young to attend? if james and michelle are born around the same time, and deidre has to have niall first, then kathy could have been way too young to attend. gerry, similarly, would have been a delight, though it does seem from small crumbs throughout the entirety of the show that mary and gerry met after mary graduates. joe refers to him as a "slack southern shite" which makes it seem to me like he's not from derry originally. tommy tiernan's accent doesn't seem like it's trying to be especially derry-ish to me either? but i might be totally off on that one or reading way too much into all of it.

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Ardal O’Hanlon, Patrick Kielty and Tommy Tiernan are all meeting Pope Francis next week https://www.thejournal.ie/ardal-ohanlon-tommy-tiernan-patrick-kielty-among-prominent-comedians-to-meet-pope-francis-next-week-6402418-Jun2024/

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TOMMY TIERNAN ANNOUNCESNORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES FOR HIS NEW SHOW

Following a sold-out U.S. theatre tour last year, legendary comedian, Tommy Tiernan, announces North American theater tour dates for his new show, Tommy Tiernan: tommedian, visiting 13 cities from coast to coast in October and November.  . Tommy Tiernan: tommedian is a fun-fueled trip through the comic imagination of one of the best comedians in the world.  This is a wild, uninhibited and…

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Róisín Murphy - Can't Replicate - live on The Tommy Tiernan Show

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They said at the Dublin show that they will be released because they said it was going to be some edit for Tommy Tiernan's 😂😂

Tick tock, it's dream meal o'clock!

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Junior Brother perform This is my Body | The Tommy Tiernan Show | RTÉ

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i love to watch Tommy Tiernan's comedy because in the same show not even 10 minutes apart, you can hear these two sentences: "there's no end to the shame of being a human being, is there?" and "there's something cuntish about crows."

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