Tommy Tiernan has admitted that negative comments about his set can deeply affect him.
The comedian revealed that his jokes often get a negative reaction, which bothers him ‘for years’.
“When I’ve got in trouble for stuff I’ve said on stage and it’s been misinterpreted as cruel or interpreted as cruel, I bear the brunt of that longer than anybody else does because I get filled with self-loathing for having said it,” he said on the RTE documentary Meetings With Ivor.
“Not in the moment, but afterwards. For years sometimes.”
“Both but mainly my own awareness that there was harm in it, there was cruelty in it.”
The Navan man added that it can be hard to find a balance between being controversial and not making anyone feel bad.
“Part of it as well is thinking that you wouldn’t want anybody who comes to the show to walk away feeling hurt.
“Them specifically, if there was something odd about them or peculiar. But at the same time you have time, to say whatever comes into your head. You have to.
“And it can be shocking and it can be rude and violent and you know, uncareful, but that’s where the genius that you’re trying to get in contact with lives.”
Tommy added that his main aim is to make people happy.
“Sometimes when I’m on stage, when I exhale, you’re trying to fill the room with your love, you’re trying to send it out as a mist, that lifts everybody up in it.”
