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Comedian Tommy Tiernan is the top comedian in Ireland breaking all Irish box office records over and over again with sold-out shows across the country including a staggering current record of 150 dates in Dublin's one thousand-seat Vicar Street Theatre. And with sold-out shows from London to New York to Melbourne, Tommy is considered one of the top ten stand-up comedians in the English-speaking world.From his beginnings in Galway's GPO and Dublin's Comedy Cellar to an early win of the "So You Think You're Funny" UK Best Newcomer Award, Tommy's stage work quickly led to a "Perrier Award" win in Edinburgh, a "British Comedy Award" for "Best Stand Up" and a "Nokia Best Of The Fest Award" on his return to Edinburgh.

His commitment to live stand-up has led him on an extraordinary journey, including twice being accused of blasphemy in the Irish Senate and one tour even finished with a 6 week 650 mile walk across Ireland, performing shows in small regional theatres for an Irish TV show called "Supertramp". Even his DVD's overtake each other to go straight in at Number 1 in the 1st week of release.

In 2006, Tommy focused his energy on performances in America and Canada. In the last 18 months Tommy has completed a blinding debut performance on "The Late Show with David Letterman", a 3 week run of his show, "Loose", at UCLA's MacGowan Little Theater, a 6 week run of his show, "Cracked", at The Village Theater in New York, a 6 week tour of Canada, 2 Gala performances... [MORE]

Comedian Tommy Tiernan is the top comedian in Ireland breaking all Irish box office records over and over again with sold-out shows across the country including a staggering current record of 150 dates in Dublin's one thousand-seat Vicar Street Theatre. And with sold-out shows from London to New York to Melbourne, Tommy is considered one of the top ten stand-up comedians in the English-speaking world.From his beginnings in Galway's GPO and Dublin's Comedy Cellar to an early win of the "So You Think You're Funny" UK Best Newcomer Award, Tommy's stage work quickly led to a "Perrier Award" win in Edinburgh, a "British Comedy Award" for "Best Stand Up" and a "Nokia Best Of The Fest Award" on his return to Edinburgh.

His commitment to live stand-up has led him on an extraordinary journey, including twice being accused of blasphemy in the Irish Senate and one tour even finished with a 6 week 650 mile walk across Ireland, performing shows in small regional theatres for an Irish TV show called "Supertramp". Even his DVD's overtake each other to go straight in at Number 1 in the 1st week of release.

In 2006, Tommy focused his energy on performances in America and Canada. In the last 18 months Tommy has completed a blinding debut performance on "The Late Show with David Letterman", a 3 week run of his show, "Loose", at UCLA's MacGowan Little Theater, a 6 week run of his show, "Cracked", at The Village Theater in New York, a 6 week tour of Canada, 2 Gala performances at the Montreal International Comedy Festival: Just for Laughs and numerous American club dates including performances in Philadelphia, Washington DC, Omaha and Texas. In 2007, Tommy won The People Of The Year "Funniest Living Irish Person" award and co-wrote the ménage-a-Tiernan play "Help" which ran at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He also filmed both his IFTA nominated documentary "Jokerman - Tommy Tiernan takes on America" and his brand new DVD "OK Baby", which was released November 23rd. And he completed the Dublin Marathon.

Tommy ran his show, "Bovinity", at the Vicar Street Theatre in Dublin in 2008 and all 40,000 tickets sold out. [LESS]