Tommy Tiernan

On 5 January 2017, Tiernan presented the first episode of The Tommy Tiernan Show on RTÉ One.

In 2013, Tiernan performed in Vicar St, Dublin, for his 200th show, in front of an audience of 1,000 people.

In 2009, Tiernan set the Guinness World Record for the longest stand-up comedy show by an individual, achieving 36 hours and 15 minutes at Nuns Island in Galway (12 April 2009). Later in 2009 that record was broken by Australian comedian Lindsay Webb. The new record now stands at 40 hours, and was set on 23 September 2010 by the American comedian Bob Marley.

In September 2009, while attending a pre-performance public question and answer session at Electric Picnic in County Laois, Tiernan responded to a question concerning antisemitism by making remarks about the Holocaust and comments about Jews and the death of Christ while he was interviewed by Olaf Tyaransen. He was responding to an audience member who asked if he had ever been accused of antisemitism.

Olaf Tyaransen wrote that neither he nor Tommy Tiernan had anticipated the subsequent response to unreserved comments made by the comedian during an afternoon interview hosted by Hot Press magazine at the Electric Picnic, an end-of-season arts and music festival. Tyaransen said the last question asked from the floor about a dogged charge of anti-Semitism led to the comments at issue, and part of Tiernan's response recounted criticism of his routine by a Jewish couple after a show in New York City. Olaf Tyaransen claimed Tiernan's subsequent ideas had been taken out of context, though he personally held the comedian's monologue as 'very funny' and said as much on Marian Finucane's RTÉ Radio 1 show on 26 September 2009.

Tiernan married Yvonne McMahon, his partner and manager, on 9 August 2009 in County Monaghan; they had been together since December 2002.

In 2008, Tiernan and Hector Ó hEochagáin formed as a radio duo on The Tommy and Hector Show on i102-104FM after hinting at a desire to be on the radio, months before on The Late Late Show. Speaking about his role, Tiernan said, "I've always wanted to have loads of craic on the radio. What better way to have a mountain of devilment than to do a show with my best friend." Following the success of their show on iRadio Northwest, the show moved to the nationwide slot of Saturday 10am-12pm on 2FM.

An appearance on The Late Late Show in 2008 led to complaints about his jokes involving a methadone user, eastern European immigrant accents, buying a motorbike from an injured biker, and a film idea about gay Traveller spacemen seeking a cure for gayness, eight of which were upheld by the Broadcasting Complaints Commission. Previous routines which went largely without remark included a comic reference to disproportionate American reaction to 9/11 and a long comic repetition on the indifferent Israeli attitude to foreign criticism of Israeli occupations of surrounding land.

In 2007, some families of people with Down syndrome complained about a routine in his act about people with the condition. It had caused some surprise to some of the families as Tiernan has run a marathon in support of Down Syndrome Ireland.

In the 1999 Channel 4 sitcom Small Potatoes, Tiernan took the lead role of Ed Blewitt, an underachiever who works in an east London video rental shop. It ran for 13 episodes over 2 seasons, ending in 2001.

In 1996, Tiernan won the Channel 4 "So You Think You're Funny" award. Two years later he was awarded the Perrier Comedy Award at the 1998 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and won the Best Stand-Up Award at the British Comedy Awards. In 2003, he won the Nokia Best of the Fest Award and the Orange People Choice Award at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival. In 2006, he won Ireland's Funniest Living Person Award at the People of the Year Awards.

Tommy Tiernan (/ˈ t ɪər n ə n / ; born 16 June 1969) is an Irish comedian, actor, writer and presenter. He and Hector Ó hEochagáin presented The Tommy and Hector Show on i102-104FM. Tiernan also featured in the last episode of the sitcom Father Ted as suicidal priest Father Kevin.