Tommy Tiernan
Tommy Tiernan

Tommy Tiernan

  • 54 years old
  • Irish
  • Stand-up comedian

Press clippings

Rarely asked questions: Tommy Tiernan

Tommy Tiernan is one of the finest, most original comedians working today.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 13th February 2024

Tommy Tiernan bans mobile phones from audience at stand-up gigs

People will no longer be able to film the comedian at his stand-up shows.

Shauna Bannon Ward & Cathal Ryan, The Irish Mirror, 13th February 2023

Stand-up specials coming to ITVX

ITV has signed agreements with Just for Laughs and NextUp to publish a large number of stand-up specials on ITVX, its new streaming platform.

British Comedy Guide, 7th December 2022

Brit comics join Just For Laugh's 40th anniversary festival

James Acaster, Tom Allen, Fern Brady, Nish Kumar, Phil Wang and Sindhu Vee will be representing the UK at this year's Just For Laughs festival in Montreal.

Chortle, 25th May 2022

Tommy Tiernan on missing Derry Girls, Irish unity, and comedy's right to offend

How did a stand-up best described as the missing link between Eddie Izzard and Roy 'Chubby' Brown become TV's go-to Irish dad?

Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 18th May 2022

The Derry Girls finale review

Sublime television - poignant, political and properly funny.

Adrian Lobb, The Big Issue, 18th May 2022

Derry Girls Series 3 review

Lisa McGee's electric depiction of adolescent monomania is back for one last time.

Nick Hilton, The Independent, 12th April 2022

Derry Girls review: Channel 4's pride and joy

The show's final series is hilariously written and brilliantly acted, with a top-class celebrity cameo thrown in for good measure.

Anita Singh, The Telegraph, 12th April 2022

Comedians film stand-up sets for Sky's The Deirdre O'Kane Show

Tom Allen, Ardal O'Hanlon and Reginald D Hunter are among the comedians appearing on Sky's new stand-up showcase, The Deirdre O'Kane Show.

British Comedy Guide, 8th September 2021

Tommy Tiernan company saw record profits before Covid

New accounts for Tiernan's Mabinog Ltd show that it enjoyed a bumper year in 2019 before the pandemic last year decimated the Co Meath's man's stand-up income revenues, which was the mainstay of his business.

Gordon Deegan, The Independent (Ireland), 27th April 2021