I don’t like Tommy, I don’t think the joke was funny.
I think that emer one is a gobshite and looking for ger 15 mins of fame.
But I can see why the taxi firm would do this.
Fuck RTE
I wasn’t there, I didn’t hear the joke or it’s phrasing. Just what she paraphrased herself.
I also don’t buy tickets to see Tommy Tiernan in vicar street and expect pg13 jokes for my grandmother or children to enjoy.
This complete rando/nobody with a twitter has every right to be offended by a joke. But trying to manufacture public outrage from her personal feelings is embarrassing. Jokes are made at the expense of someone, always.
One could argue they have met many a fat, smelly, and unpleasant taxi man that is unmistakably white and Irish and still liken them to animals from the African plains. The argument can be twisted to fit whatever outrage narrative you deem suitable for your 15mins of fame.
I would suggest she just not attend stand up comedy again, for all our sakes.
Yet RTE air Brendon O Carroll doing racist impressions. Nobody pulls that fellas sponsorship.
Anyways, this lady saw an opportunity to snatch some attention and went for it and its working out well for her so far.
The funny thing being they’re the biggest cunts
So…does this mean the household charge is definitely happening then?
It seems these days you will have a small minority of people who will attend comedy gigs only to want to go online thereafter and generate some faux outrage that makes them the centre of attention. This lady obviously knew that feigning some racial ‘offence’ at a joke performed during Tommy Tiernan’s set would have the Irish media rallying behind her as some kind of victim. Are all comedians now supposed to offer a personal apology to any audience member who claims to be ‘offended’ at a particular joke? No wonder so much stand up is dead.
Fuck free now they’re robbing cunts themselves
I thought the point of the joke was the “See, its not racist if ye are laughing” punchline at the end.
He was getting the audience to admit to their own prejudices and stereotypes.
Got tickets to Tommy Tiernan last year in UL as a Christmas present, too be honest he was shite. Lots of long winded meandering stories with no punchlines and every now and again he’d stop to ponder how great he was, genuinely. And he’s still doing the traveller impressions, trying to anyway.
The only mistake Tommy made was to apologise
I will take out a crippling loan to buy a lamborghini if for one (1) single fella who goes “ah yeah I thought it was funny but fair enough it was a bit racist” instead of the absolute piss-baby “IT”S aa jOOke EveryOnE is sO SenSITIve” tripe.
Like are you ye not bored of yourselves beyond anything else lads?
Win win for Free Now. All the free publicity they get from pulling the sponsorship is more than what they were getting as part of the deal.
Been to a few Tommy gigs, if you go there you can easily find something to offend you. He’s that type of comedian, seriously the whole thing is going too far with comedians. People desperate to be offended
The nuns aren’t offended at all
Free Now is a very cynical corporation who have no interest in making Irish society better.
Well now that taxi firm can get fucked now can’t they….
The fucker called us wolves. Cancel him. I’m not a wolf
Things getting out of hand at this stage
If Free Now didn’t like it it has my full support – worst robbing thieves of a company ever
Tiernan must be relived at Free Now taking all the heat off of him.
I’m waiting for the news report that Free Now are struggling a bit.
Remember this all came from one person taking offence (at a comedy show – something that happens), and then blasting it out for thousands more people to hear, also take offence by, and then feel sad. Ridiculousness.
Go onto that Emer girls instagram. She apparently accepted his apology but it surely doesn’t look that way from her stories. Milking the fuck out of it and the virture signalers eating it up.
Interesting day they chose to drop that news, a cynic might say to divert media attention from the fact Free Now are now as of yesterday charging you another €1 to reserve a taxi at a time slot, on top of €2 pickup fee and €1 technology fee.
I still don’t know the joke he made yet I’ve seen about 10 articles and discussions about this
Emer recalled how she wasn’t thinking anything “negatively” when Tiernan told the audience about his daughter’s advice, thinking maybe she meant not to tell the joke simply because she thought it was bad and not a funny joke.
“He starts the joke, and he starts talking about penguins looking like nuns with the rosary beads and I thought ‘nice one’ and I’m laughing.
“Then he talks about the wolves and their fierceness or their strength (reminding him of the Irish) – this is all paraphrasing because this just happened – and then he goes ‘then I went to the ‘African Savannah’ and my heart sank a little bit as soon as I heard the word ‘Africa’.
“I just thought ‘please don’t do this to me. I’m literally one of the only people of colour sitting here full of a room of white people’.
Free Now? Complete scam artists!
This story needs to end. There’s money in being “outraged”, then getting interviewed over it and then everyone reading and discussing it. Journalists think short term that it’s great for clicks but it needlessly divides society.
I think once you apologise you are fucked cos the apology is never enough.
Kinda sad when nobody has a sense of humour anymore, comedians should always be able to skirt that line and b4 I’m abused, I don’t care Tommy is fuckin hilarious live seen him many times
So I hear you’re a racist now father?
Good, more business for Bolt
What a load of non sense let Tommy be
Personally I didn’t find the joke funny but come on, that’s all it is, a joke. I don’t really support the “comedy is dying because of people being over offended” but maybe just grow some thicker skin
I understand that the joke might not have been sensitive, but I don’t know if it had any hatefulness in it? As a gay guy if that was a joke about lots of hairdressers happening to be gay I wouldn’t have walked out or felt under attack?
Maybe it was the fact that people laughed that made her feel bad more than just the joke on it own. I don’t know if I fully understand or not
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I don’t like Tommy, I don’t think the joke was funny.
I think that emer one is a gobshite and looking for ger 15 mins of fame.
But I can see why the taxi firm would do this.
Fuck RTE
I wasn’t there, I didn’t hear the joke or it’s phrasing. Just what she paraphrased herself.
I also don’t buy tickets to see Tommy Tiernan in vicar street and expect pg13 jokes for my grandmother or children to enjoy.
This complete rando/nobody with a twitter has every right to be offended by a joke. But trying to manufacture public outrage from her personal feelings is embarrassing. Jokes are made at the expense of someone, always.
One could argue they have met many a fat, smelly, and unpleasant taxi man that is unmistakably white and Irish and still liken them to animals from the African plains. The argument can be twisted to fit whatever outrage narrative you deem suitable for your 15mins of fame.
I would suggest she just not attend stand up comedy again, for all our sakes.
Yet RTE air Brendon O Carroll doing racist impressions. Nobody pulls that fellas sponsorship.
Anyways, this lady saw an opportunity to snatch some attention and went for it and its working out well for her so far.
The funny thing being they’re the biggest cunts
So…does this mean the household charge is definitely happening then?
It seems these days you will have a small minority of people who will attend comedy gigs only to want to go online thereafter and generate some faux outrage that makes them the centre of attention. This lady obviously knew that feigning some racial ‘offence’ at a joke performed during Tommy Tiernan’s set would have the Irish media rallying behind her as some kind of victim. Are all comedians now supposed to offer a personal apology to any audience member who claims to be ‘offended’ at a particular joke? No wonder so much stand up is dead.
Fuck free now they’re robbing cunts themselves
I thought the point of the joke was the “See, its not racist if ye are laughing” punchline at the end.
He was getting the audience to admit to their own prejudices and stereotypes.
Got tickets to Tommy Tiernan last year in UL as a Christmas present, too be honest he was shite. Lots of long winded meandering stories with no punchlines and every now and again he’d stop to ponder how great he was, genuinely. And he’s still doing the traveller impressions, trying to anyway.
The only mistake Tommy made was to apologise
I will take out a crippling loan to buy a lamborghini if for one (1) single fella who goes “ah yeah I thought it was funny but fair enough it was a bit racist” instead of the absolute piss-baby “IT”S aa jOOke EveryOnE is sO SenSITIve” tripe.
Like are you ye not bored of yourselves beyond anything else lads?
Win win for Free Now. All the free publicity they get from pulling the sponsorship is more than what they were getting as part of the deal.
Been to a few Tommy gigs, if you go there you can easily find something to offend you. He’s that type of comedian, seriously the whole thing is going too far with comedians. People desperate to be offended
The nuns aren’t offended at all
Free Now is a very cynical corporation who have no interest in making Irish society better.
Well now that taxi firm can get fucked now can’t they….
The fucker called us wolves. Cancel him. I’m not a wolf
Things getting out of hand at this stage
If Free Now didn’t like it it has my full support – worst robbing thieves of a company ever
Tiernan must be relived at Free Now taking all the heat off of him.
I’m waiting for the news report that Free Now are struggling a bit.
Remember this all came from one person taking offence (at a comedy show – something that happens), and then blasting it out for thousands more people to hear, also take offence by, and then feel sad. Ridiculousness.
Go onto that Emer girls instagram. She apparently accepted his apology but it surely doesn’t look that way from her stories. Milking the fuck out of it and the virture signalers eating it up.
Interesting day they chose to drop that news, a cynic might say to divert media attention from the fact Free Now are now as of yesterday charging you another €1 to reserve a taxi at a time slot, on top of €2 pickup fee and €1 technology fee.
I still don’t know the joke he made yet I’ve seen about 10 articles and discussions about this
This is the paraphrase of what Tommy said:
Source https://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/timer-6am-tommy-tiernan-controversial-28904866?recirculation_test=true
Emer recalled how she wasn’t thinking anything “negatively” when Tiernan told the audience about his daughter’s advice, thinking maybe she meant not to tell the joke simply because she thought it was bad and not a funny joke.
“He starts the joke, and he starts talking about penguins looking like nuns with the rosary beads and I thought ‘nice one’ and I’m laughing.
“Then he talks about the wolves and their fierceness or their strength (reminding him of the Irish) – this is all paraphrasing because this just happened – and then he goes ‘then I went to the ‘African Savannah’ and my heart sank a little bit as soon as I heard the word ‘Africa’.
“I just thought ‘please don’t do this to me. I’m literally one of the only people of colour sitting here full of a room of white people’.
Free Now? Complete scam artists!
This story needs to end. There’s money in being “outraged”, then getting interviewed over it and then everyone reading and discussing it. Journalists think short term that it’s great for clicks but it needlessly divides society.
I think once you apologise you are fucked cos the apology is never enough.
Kinda sad when nobody has a sense of humour anymore, comedians should always be able to skirt that line and b4 I’m abused, I don’t care Tommy is fuckin hilarious live seen him many times
So I hear you’re a racist now father?
Good, more business for Bolt
What a load of non sense let Tommy be
Personally I didn’t find the joke funny but come on, that’s all it is, a joke. I don’t really support the “comedy is dying because of people being over offended” but maybe just grow some thicker skin
I understand that the joke might not have been sensitive, but I don’t know if it had any hatefulness in it? As a gay guy if that was a joke about lots of hairdressers happening to be gay I wouldn’t have walked out or felt under attack?
Maybe it was the fact that people laughed that made her feel bad more than just the joke on it own. I don’t know if I fully understand or not