Tommy Tiernan (born 16 June 1969) is an Irish stand-up comedian, writer and… Read Full Bio ↴Tommy Tiernan (born 16 June 1969) is an Irish stand-up comedian, writer and occasional actor. His humour has been referred to as controversial though he describes his style as "based on instinct."

Born in Cork, Ireland and raised in Donegal, Zambia, London and Meath, Tiernan began performing in 1992 around small-circuit comedy clubs. In 1998, he appeared in the final episode of Channel 4 series Father Ted and has occasionally acted since. He has released seven live DVDs since 2002: Live, Loose, Bovinity, Jokerman: Tommy Tiernan in America, OK Baby, Cracked: Live at Vicar Street and Crooked Man.

Tiernan once held the Guinness World Record for the longest stand-up routine at thirty-six hours and fifteen minutes from 2009 to 2011. He also holds the record of the highest selling DVD sales in Ireland. Cracked and Loose both debuted at number 1 upon their release and reached four times Platinum and eight times Platinum, respectively. Jokerman: Tommy Tiernan in America reached four time Platinum status. Tiernan also holds the second highest ticket sales in Ireland, next to only U2.

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Gaming 2018

It's actually the other way around!

Mixed children left Jamaica in the 1700s and went to Cork, Limerick and Dublin. Jamaica had different African tribes.

The words in the Jamaican patois is heavily a mix of two major African countries.

If you travel to West Africa you will hear the accent too!
My grandmother is primarily from an area where 80% of Irish lived in Jamaica and she didn't have a Cork accent.

Especially most at that time lived in a region way up North in Jamaica where the temperatures are lower; almost cold!

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MrSociophobia

3y↑40

When you hear the Cork accent you can really hear the influence it had on the Jamaican accent.

Owen Hankey

2y↑1

Yeah, you definitely can.

Jack Farr

7y↑951

I'm actually from Cork, and more importantly I'm from Cork

michaelleacy

Or to give it its full title "Cork, boy"

Asethetic_Bear🐻

Yesssss Irish gang

Metrakina

Yep

Truly cash

My dad my grandad great grandad you get the jist

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O'Dwyer

9y↑362

I am Dutch living in Cork, I think it's the most beautiful accent in the world!

Metrakina

2y↑1

I'm from cork, and I used to live in the Netherlands!

Biind

@FreedomFromTyranny I am not reading all that

Ci gh

4y↑4

@Christian Koncz Cork and Kerry accents are closer to Irish than other Irish accents (along with the Mayo and Donegal ones), because Irish existed (and still exists) in those counties up to a more recent point than other counties.

And Irish spoken by a native speaker does have sounds similar to those in Arabic/Dutch as you say.

Pat Cronin

@Morgasm172 if only there was a prize for stupid replies on youtube, you'll do well to qualify

Pat Cronin

5y↑5

@Christian Koncz What kind of answer is that?

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irishcowboy42

10y↑260

Amazing how some people take offense.. I'm from Cork and while he hasn't got it nailed, he's not far from the lilt… you either find it funny or not… Tommy can be very funny at his best

SWEngle Production

It sounds like hes attempting a jamaican accent but doesn't Jamaican accent come from a Cork accent because irish were sent they're. Please don't hurry me if I'm wrong. I'm but a wee boy

Ann Eva

3y↑2

☘️ class

Josh Allen

5y↑2

Hahahaha good one 😂😂

cpohagan

9y↑8

@Treena Trampalamp some people get up in the morning to be offended.

Treena Trampalamp

9y↑8

Yeah, some people take offence over anything!

Bronwyn Macmillan

6y↑64

I grew up in English so I have an English accent, but my family are from Cork so at family reunions listening to them is the funniest thing. Ireland has the best and funniest accents in the world with Dublin and Limerick to hahah

Janet Schwartz

2y↑5

I think we should all be so proud of all the accents we have and when ever I hear any one speaking in an irish accent or even a Liverpudlian accent it makes me feel like I'm being soothed with a big warm blanket being wrapped around me.

Spud Ryan

5y↑27

I'm a Dub, but one of my favorite accents ever is the Cork accent, so musical, i love it, i love Cork. Even when they're giving out to each other its a song, ''My dear man'' -- they're so animated.

Post Indie rock

7y↑17

I am an American. I love Ireland and I have been multiple times. County cork is especially amazing and the people are brilliant but dear lord, I could not understand them!

Cam Era

Probably couldn't understand you either tbf 😂

thegrrrlnextdoor

11y↑8

My grandfather was from Cork, and a majority of the family still lives there, so I definitely grew up thinking that everyone from Ireland talked like that. Imagine my surprise...

Lucia☆Sofia

6y↑5

I was in a taxi to hospital today and I was doing both of these jokes with the driver. His 'If Neil Armstrong Was From Cork' was better. We just recited Cracked back and forth I adorrrrred him!

Quirke9

12y↑42

"Most importantly, I'm from Cork" - What a legend

W4MPS

6y↑2

Hysterical. A lot of us here in the US don't hear the accents, I absolutely do (Cork family). Wish I could imitate it.

Micheal O Thailtigh

11y↑25

''Just join in whenever you recognise a word''. Fecking brilliant!

Matte Andrews

8y↑23

his cork accent is on the money for me!! so good

A Beast

6y↑21

I'm from Cork and I find this hilarious

Daniel Connolly

4y↑20

i’m from cork and met him in the english market ..... tommy loves cork and packs em in down here ... great sketch all the same. sound fella . great tv show on rté

Alf Torp

8y↑83

It sounds like people from my area in Norway trying to speak english. Love it!

Johnny Murf

I tried to watch Troll Hunter but had to turn it off because it sounded like Cork people speaking gibberish

Alf Torp

4y↑2

@Dr. Bright Det blir kanskje en tur neste år for meg. Håper det. Må ta en pubrunde der igjen.

Dr. Bright

4y↑2

Skål, skal til cork i september

letni

7y↑6

Alf Torp I met a couple from Cork in Spain and I did actually think they were Norwegian untill they actually said they were from Cork later in the conversation.
The accent does sound more scandinavian than Irish to me.

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Lambert Lambert

5y↑4

I've lived for 2 years and a half in Cork and I never heard a caricatural thing like the accent in this video. There is not only one accent in Cork. You have the travellers one, the country-side one, the regular one, ect

Eamon Bohan

11y↑25

''We didn't want anywhere too hot, otherwise we'd be Mexican''. Haha how delightful, I'm an Irish-Mexican!

Eamon Bohan

3y↑1

@Freedomneedsmaintainance get out of here

Frazer Spence. Pure Blood.

4y↑4

He's dead right about the variation in such a small island. Even in the North the Belfast accent is very different to Ballymena.

sinead hickey

8y↑54

I'm from cork I don't talk like that but people do! I love cork accents!his is hilarious

Oscarspoem

6y↑7

My family are from Cork. I do love the accent and always makes me laugh, in a nice way. I love when i visit. Cork is the best!

HighFlyingBird82

What a hero 😂😂😂😂😂❣🇮🇪

Sancho O'Dell

2y↑1

The Cork accent is the best accent in Ireland!

Niamh Elliott

12y↑1

I absolutely love this..

Lorraine Brown

He’s so funny!

tiqvahone

6y↑2

He really mailed the Johnathan Rees Meyer / Graham Norton / Cillian Murphy accent alright fair play.

Keri Manning

9y↑69

Least amount of effort and most amount of craic 😂

Bob C

I’ve got family from on the Cork and Kerry border. It’s amazing how different the accents are among the family depending where they live. My uncle has a thick beard and I can’t understand a word he says, I can’t lip read or see if he’s smiling or not. Lovely fellow though and a beautiful part of the world

Tim Oneill

5y↑9

From limerick and proud of I am..but I love cork people.warm and sincere folk.

Gazdatronik

2y↑5

I'm an American, and my boss grew up on a farm in Cork. 30 years of watching BBC television and I can only understand him 3 out of 10 tries, God bless him.

Gub Gub

@Seán *British

Diananou

2y↑1

No wonder you're struggling 😂
BBC= British Broadcasting Corporation!
It might help, sort of, ish, but not really, if your boss was from Northern Ireland but Cork is in the ROI and as South as you can go!

Seán

2y↑3

But BBC is English TV 🤔

Ashton Butler

Most of my family was from Kilkenny, and I can imagine how hard it would’ve been to understand them.

Cork for Two

8y↑205

We don't say "you know", we usually say "like" instead, like?!?!

no hunty😫

Yea like-

Dean Power

4y↑1

Ja no wha mean liiiiiike

Niamh Perret

Like truu

spiderthing

5y↑2

thats what its like down south xd

Andrew Harman

8y↑1

bollox mate

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ruth

4y↑1

I’m from Cork and this is dead funny 😭 omfg

Mimi Seton

What kind of accent does Tommy have naturally? My Granny was from Cork and I'm reading stories including about living in Ireland for 4 years ... and want to do the accent properly. Oh, did I say my people were from Cark? It bears repeating.

Patkawasaki

3y↑1

Tommy Tiernan. Fair play charging people for this.
A great example of someone with an accent presenting as a comedian.

Rivka Joan

6y↑8

The least amount of effort and the most amount of crack 😂

Katharina

*craic

Caomhán

cRaCk

Dylan Harvey Official

4y↑1

I’m also from cork and he’s not wrong

Kathy Frawley

9y↑35

He almost sounds like Bobcat Goldwaithe.

Ciara

8y↑1

😂

Wholesome Mutt

3y↑6

In opinion cork accent is the most beautiful 😍

Collibri Lovex

Northern Irish for me 😊

Richard Hall

Have you ever heard someone from Cork say "Fuck Off"? It's like they're singing a question. Beautiful.

Lewis Edwards

9y↑14

I'm American and my great great grandfather on my fathers side immigrated to America from Cork. I always wondered what the accent would sound like.lol

Mod Mutha

Lewis Edwards how come Americans always know where their ancestors are fon? Us brits never know , or care that much

Dixieboy 568

I can only imagine what a thug from the hood sounds like with a Cork accent ??

MICKY BRENNAN

4y↑1

Does it really matter, where you're from as long as your Irish .

S.L. S.L.

4y↑4

Im an american but my ancestry is. In Cork. .so I came here to see what i might have sounded like 😍

Rosiebuds

12y

Hhaahahahahha i LOVE the cork accent!!!!

The Letter K

This is literally almost every single elderly man here

Anoni Mouse

3y↑3

My grand mother's parents were from cork I didn't know this

Ross 1994

I'm from cork myself tbh he have it in one 😂 up the rebels 🚩🚩🚩

Helen mullane

its a great Cork accent,i think,another one is Cork/Polish!!!!!!

Adrian Moran

7y↑5

Thinkers trying to speak French...unreal!!!

Jungleland33

6y↑3

Adrian Moran there's a huuuuuge difference between "thinkers" and "tinkers". ;-)

Lynsey17

You'll do the same thing Canada did when we had Jean Chretien - just embrace the linguistic chaos.

Katelyn Galvin

6y↑1

I'm from cork and more importantly this is cork

Dec Hannigan

4y↑1

We have a goblin as a president that speaks with a high pitched squeak, why would we be embarrassed by a Cork accent

John O Riordan

3y↑1

They would be all talking with English accents only for Cork men

Steven Mcguire

5y↑2

He’s my neighbour hahah

TheUnholyTrinityQBS

12y

Haha I know he's soo funny tbh ;D

Mike CCO

3y↑1

I visited Cork and busked their. They seemed to understand my Music.

Naomi Loves Unicorns

12y

I'd luv 2 c him do a limerick accent

salima Shelton

13y↑2

Great great man! :D

Eric Last

My next store neighbors growing up from from cork couldn't understand the mother for shit my gran was from not far mayo had no prob understanding her

Mr Rothskin

I knew fellas from cork who tried to laugh at the Kerry accent

Daniel Carroll

Is it true if people with Cork accents don't say bai at the end of every sentence they will die?

7jonny77

Irish by birth. Cork by the grace of God

raleighburner15

5y↑5

Best city in Ireland he actually lived there in the 90s

Nate Stox

12y

I'm going to Cork now

Queen Aries

11y↑22

now I know where the Jamaicans get their accent from. I think its because of the Irish slavery that was in the Caribbean

Gaming 2018

Cillian Murphy is from Cork, very unique features. Also many regions outside of Dublin and in Dublin have black hair or brown hair.

This didn't come from the Spanish!

Gaming 2018

Daniélín NicG

+Hashem yea sugar fields brought by cromwell no money to get home again, look up monstrat ppl

Hashem

There were Irish slaves in the Caribbean?

Odhrán O'Shea

6y↑2

Assyrian-Aramean Apostolic That's exactly the reason behind it

Shey - LA HIJA DE CONIN

Jajajjaja I'll go to cork next year for improve my English skills but I'm a littler afraid to heard everyone's comments about cork accent O_o is super hard for me understand any word when he talk like "cork people" :(

Shey - LA HIJA DE CONIN

RockyCrazy100 thank you :D !!!!

Ciara O’ Keeffe

7y↑2

Shey - LA HIJA DE CONIN The cork accent isn't really like this, his version is over exaggerated. You'll be well able to understand

Emmanuel Vbk

11y

Youtube doesn't offer subtitles for that one lol

Niamh Kehoe

Cork people are lovely

Colm O’Sullivan

12y

To be fair, Dublin probably wonder why Cork hate them so much!

Loud

His cork accent sounds like a scouse impression

Conor O'Neill

4y↑4

Sounds like he found a really special charactor drinking from a brown paper bag under bush to base his Cork accent on. His own private school snooty meath come D4 accent is far funnier.

Cloudy

3y↑1

Ireland: cork
Cork: cark

Aisling

3y↑1

& more importantly im from cork😌

Spud Ryan

3y↑1

There was an astronaut, get this, called Michael Collins.

ciar67

11y

go on go for the hattrick

Hello, Kitty Says

9y↑3

I am from American and I have no problem understanding what he says in the Cork accent.

Cordestian

5y↑3

My whole life I've said I've loved the Irish accent... Met a few ppl from cork and turns out I actually only love the cork accent. The rest are garbage lol

Jake Barrett

2y↑1

My 3rd great-grandfather was born in Cork in 1848!

Morgan Noonan

11y

Oh Jeez haha this is where my ancestors are from. Not sure if I feel right admitting this

loser33user

11y

He also lived in Zambia for a while. What's your point? Whenever he's asked where he's from he says Navan, not Donegal.

RemoteAbductionArm

Do people in metropolitan areas really speak like that, though?

huy

3y↑1

i closed my eyes, and all i could hear was graham norton.

Joanna Louise

12y↑3

tinkers tryin to speak french hahahahahahahahaahahahaha

GoodKop BadKop

5y↑1

When did Roy Keane become a stand-up comedian?

TheUnholyTrinityQBS

12y

I'm from Cork... but i don't sound like that now lads

Lady Hetfield

7y↑18

My Dad's ancestors fled Cork during the Potato Famine. So when my Irish expat husband took me there to see where my Paternal accent (and my maiden name originates), we could not understand anyone! :-O And he is from Ireland...the north, but he has an accent! It was great though! I bought everything I could with my Coat of Arms. Was nice to touch base with the irish side with roots.

Wexicanful

12y

Well....., it's not Cork ! hahaha

Ali Cat

10y

"..and the most amount of crack", am i hearing that right? Is that just an irish saying for having a good time? or are we talking hard drugs?

Ali Cat

10y↑1

i thought so

fack yeah dude

10y↑2

craic* and yes its having the banter or the laugh

Sallyheartsbeauty

10y↑9

probably one of the worst cork accents i've heard, i'm from cork..

DMC

9y↑4

Ha ha Tommy not bad for a guy who came out of a cow shed in Meath...)

Paul Foley

3y↑1

Neil Armstrong from Cork ; one full steep for bois.

jppanaresmusic

Lie he is not from cork

aprc1977a

11y

Do a google search for the black Irish of montserrat, a carribean island. I think you will be fascinated

Wexicanful

11y

That's it.

Gillian White

9y↑1

thats the way we speak ladss

Ian Ó Ceallaigh

I only came here to say that I'm from Cork

BloodAndGutsTV

11y

Aww that's cute. :)

Dan Hall

I'm sure Neil Armstrongs nan was from Cork

ciar67

11y

I was gonna say you're a bollox... but then i agreed with you :)

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