Tommy Tiernan has confirmed his much-loved chat show is set to return to RTE this winter.
The comedian’s self-named show ‘The Tommy Tiernan Show’ - first aired in 2017 - went out with a bang in March, with the Meath man causing a stir on social media with his interview with WWE superstar Becky Lynch and welcoming singing legend Dolores Keane on for a heartfelt chat about loneliness and alcoholism.
Doug Allan also joined the show, which was closed out by a musical performance from The Murder Capital.
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Speaking to Aifric O’Connell, standing in for Jennifer Zamparelli on 2FM this morning, Tommy confirmed: “We are due to come back in Winter.”
Tommy, who has established himself as such a captivating interviewer, also revealed that he has never watched his show.
He said: “I’ve never watched the show and I’m just now becoming aware of the size of the experience.
"The experience of sitting with all those people and having those intense conversations with them and such open chats, and funny but very revealing and honest.
"That, and the success of the show, the way people have responded to it and are coming up to me going ‘I love the show,” that’s only hitting me now.
“You have to be kind of single minded and go, ok, next. And you keep going,” he said, adding that it only hit him this morning while he was in RTE that he “talked to all those people and they said amazing things to me.
“There were amazing moments in those conversations,” he said.
Speaking about his career, Tommy also admitted that he appreciates that he may be in a “time of bounty” in his career, and that it hasn’t always been that way.
He also said he feels "tremendously at home" while on stage and admitted he is not really sure what to expect for his upcoming show ‘Tomfoolery’ at Cork’s Live at the Marquee on Thursday, June 8 and Thursday, June 15.
“See, there would be no point in doing it if we all knew what to expect,” he said, adding he “will be there anyway.”
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