Here's a list of all the shows Tiernan has done to date...
The Adventurers' Club
Adventurers!
Think cold snap’s a card game? Think polar bears look cuddly?
Giggle about Arctic wind?
Then join Expedition Officer (award winning comedian and explorer)
Tim Fitzhigham and Skivvy Tiernan Douieb (Haringey Poetry Competition
winner aged 8, Comedy Club 4 Kids, and soon to be seen on CBBC’s The
Slammer!) in their haphazard journey to the coldest place on Earth!
Classic tales of great explorers, jokes, trepidation, danger and silly hats.
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Tiernan Douieb vs The World
Ignorance is bliss right? So if you don't read this blurb and never know what this show is about you'll feel generally happier in life? Wrongness times ten cowboy/cowgirl.
In his 3rd Edinburgh Festival solo show Tiernan says apathy schmapathy.
The world's a mess and he's got his marigolds on, ready to tackle all. After years of being politically ignorant to the point where he thought a capitalist was someone who only used lower case letters, Douieb's found himself gigging to protestors at the TUC demonstration, to UCL students occupying their university against tuition fees and nearly ended up on Question Time.
Lucky he didn't or he'd have shouted at David Starkey a lot.
Tiernan's had it up to here with the wrongs around the globe and he's only 5.5" so no one is really sure just how angry that makes him. Contains jokes, actual political views but not in a clever way, and occasional dancing.*
* no dancing. Click here for more info.
Littlest Things - 2010
The most personal thing I've ever written that was sadly performed every night at the Fringe in a very smelly, hot and dank cave resulting in a man putting his hand up during one show halfway through the run.
When I asked what was wrong he very politely said ' I am really really enjoying your show, but its so hot in here and after this I'm going to Silent Disco and need to smell fragrant for the ladies.' I very willingly let him go.
The recording of this show (like the previous one) is missing one call back that still grates me. The line is 'Of all the days I didn't eat an apple and I meet that Doctor.' You place that where you think it goes.
This show also contains the word 'tiger' almost purely because the last show did. The next one will too. Tigers are great.
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28 Years Later - 2009
My first ever hour show, which is obvious in the way its all my old material structured loosely around a heavily tenuous zombie theme.
I watched lots of zombie films and books in the lead up to this show and as a result have both all the knowledge needed to secure my home from a zombie hoard, but at the same time have reoccurring nightmares about it going wrong and having my brains eaten.
The recording of this show contains (or rather doesn't contain) a missing callback line but I can't remember what it is so just pretend one bit is funnier than it is.
It got mostly lovely and nice things said about it, apart from someone on a website who said it was so boring they fell asleep. Due to the lighting I saw the whole crowd every day and the only person who ever fell asleep was an extremely elderly old lady.
I like to think in her spare time she's a nasty internet troll.
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Tiernan Douieb & Sean Grant - 2008
Before doing an hour show I decided it would be wise to try doing 30 minutes every night for the slog that is the Edinburgh festival, changing it every few nights.
I was offered a double up with the very funny and very lovely Sean Grant who had won Scottish Comedian of the Year in 2007 and now writes for radio and tellybox.
He is very dry humoured and me being more hyper active and irritating I would open the show every eve and him close. What this meant was that some people really liked him and not me and sometimes vice versa.
Case in point the List and the Three Weeks reviews of the same night where they both disliked and liked the complete opposite things. Sigh. Mostly it was fun. Apart from 'Shitty Saturday' which was horrible and gives me more nightmares than zombies.
Tea & Cake II - In The Gateaux - 2008
The final outing for the Tea and Cake gang.
Adding the talents of Mat Wandless and Sam Bern to our troupe it contained more barmy and some dark sketches but sadly was mostly hated.
It didn't help that we were on in the early afternoon and our audiences tended to consist of blue rinse brigade who thought we would give them the aforementioned refreshments.
Instead we gave them sketches about a bear who steal babies and a woman who prefers her husband now he's dead. Oops.
Tea & Cake - 2007
After two years of turning up to Edinburgh, sleeping on my agent's floor for a week and generally being drunk, my first actual full month at the Edinburgh Fringe festival was spent doing a deceivingly titled sketch show with actress and comedienne Lauren Shearing.We had both worked together on a TV show for Homechoice TV (which means only 3 people ever saw it) some years before and it took those some years to actually get it together to do an actually show together.
Despite my stand-up being friendly, working with Lauren unleashed my dark side and we compiled together an hour of really warped but cheeky stuff.
Still immensely proud of this show and gaining a comparison to Chris Morris in one of our reviews will never be beaten.
Saying that, doing a dance in specially bought tiny red/Superman/green with tennis balls yfronts will never be lived down. Swings and roundabouts. You can download the script, as a PDF, here.
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