Who Is Tiernan Douieb?
Tiernan is a writer, comedian, podcaster, actor and very tired dad.
Currently Tiernan is mostly writing for children’s animation on series such as Hey Duggee, Wonderblocks, Stan & Gran and many more. He also writes and co-hosts the award winning children’s podcast Bust or Trust: A Kids’ Mystery Podcast alongside comedian Athena Kugblenu.
He co-runs Comedy Club 4 Kids, which received the Edinburgh Comedy Victoria Wood award at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2025. Tiernan also hosts many of the CC4K shows, shouting jokes at other people’s children mainly because his own daughter is a much tougher audience. He writes and hosts the weekly CC4K podcast too called ‘Radio Nonsense’, which has a global listenership of children who often write in with questions such as ‘What Am Jellyfish?’ or ‘What is the opposite of peanut butter?’
Tiernan was professional stand-up comedian for over twenty years, performing at comedy clubs, theatres and festivals all over the world but then he sort of stopped that as he found it hard to stay up past 10pm anymore. He has also written for several well known comedians too, for TV and tour shows including several jokes on S2 of Frankie Boyle’s New World Order for BBC2.
Up until February 2023 he was the regular host, writer and everything for the Partly Political Broadcast, a comedy politics podcast that was one of the Observer’s Top Ten Political podcasts of 2018. They haven’t done a chart since so I think it still counts. The podcast finished after its 300th episode and because Tiernan had run out of ways to say ‘they’re really awful corrupt ******’ in yet another funny way.
He has also done some of that acting, including in C4’s Fresh Meat and a beer commercial for beer that he’s never actually enjoyed.
Once he saw a squirrel eating a cornetto like a human would and that’s probably up there in his top 5 life moments.
AWARDS TIERNAN HASN’T WON BUT PROJECTS HE’S INVOLVED WITH HAVE:
Comedy Club 4 Kids – Edinburgh Comedy Victoria Wood Award, 2025
Hey Duggee, Season 5 – Best Animated Series at Kidscreen Awards 2025
Bust or Trust: A Kids’ Mystery Podcast – Nominated for Best Children’s Podcast at British Podcast Awards 2024
Bust or Trust: A Kids’ Mystery Podcast – Best Children’s Podcast at Independent Podcast Awards, 2023
Hey Duggee, Season 4 – Best Pre-School Animation at the British Academy Children’s Awards, 2022
AWARDS TIERNAN ACTUALLY GOT NOMINATED FOR:
Manchester Animation Festival Industry Excellence Awards 2022 – For the Hey Duggee script ‘The Accessory Badge’
More stuff about this guy:
- Tiernan’s CV on the Kitson Press Kids + Family page.
- Tiernan’s page on Foxy Tongue Voices VO agency page.
- Tiernan’s Spotlight page.
Some actual things people have said about him:
- ‘…gets the juxtaposition between heavy context and winning punchlines right when it is most needed‘ – Festmag
- ‘Opinionated yet likeable’ – The Guardian
- ‘Very funny but fiercely political’ – Time Out
- ‘With this fresh style and material he blows so many other Fringe comedians out of the water.‘ Three Weeks
- ‘Douieb has more than enough energy to go round, and he’s a hugely engaging onstage presence.‘ – British Comedy Guide
- ‘…a perennial contender for the title of most affable person in comedy‘ – The Scotsman
- ‘A leftie commie asshole just like Hitler‘ – An NRA member on Twitter
- ‘Your one of the most unfunniest comedians’ – Someone on Twitter with a picture of Winston Churchill as his avatar and a name consisting mostly of numbers.
- ‘Laddish’ – Brian Logan, Guardian