I’ve barely left the flat today. I would like to say I consider this a success. The weather outside is, I would say, unhappy. It’s not terrible and angry and full of rain and bluster and thunder. It’s just grey, drizzly and generally not keen to be out of bed on a Sunday and so […]
TAGGED WITH: lazy, sick, tiernan douieb, waste, weather CATEGORISED BY:Blog cheese on toast Cold Comedy day off effort News Broken Winging It September 5th, 2017 by Tiernan DouiebI’m not sure when as a kid I got my first inkling that grown ups didn’t know everything. I’ve got a feeling it was when we were on a family trip to the US about 1992ish. Yes that’s a bit vague but my parents would save up each year, for a few years in a […]
TAGGED WITH: grown up, nuclear, tiernan douieb, USA, Wendy's, winging it CATEGORISED BY:Adult Blog Brexit Comedy News Mind Fringes August 31st, 2017 by Tiernan DouiebI’ve now been home from the Edinburgh Fringe for 3 days, and I’m still in the usual need for recovery. Yesterday I accidentally napped for 3 hours without meaning to. Does that still fit into nap criteria? 3 hours doesn’t feel long enough for a sleep but it’s definitely way more than a nap. Is […]
TAGGED WITH: naps, neeps, reviews, Robin Ince, small dogs, stand up comedy, The Defenders, tiernan douieb, vegetarian CATEGORISED BY:Adrenaline Blog cabin fever Comedy diabetes diabetic edfringe Edinburgh Edinburgh Fringe News 14 Years A Clown August 29th, 2017 by Tiernan DouiebIt occurred to me while tucking into some toast off the A1 near Berwick on Tweed, that I’ve been doing stand-up comedy for 14 years this year. Not sure why it hit me at that moment but it was probably a combination of me feeling relief that I was finally on my way home from […]
TAGGED WITH: juice shot, Partly Political Broadcast, podcast, Robin Ince, stand up comedy, tiernan douieb, toast CATEGORISED BY:14 years Berwick Upon Tweed Blog budget Comedy edfringe News Regular Breaks November 22nd, 2016 by Tiernan DouiebRobin Ince had a bit in his stand-set recently about giving up reading newspapers and instead reading a book or looking at your favourite bit of art for a while. I’ve thought about this a lot, as the news has swept everyone up in its hysteria over the past year more so than ever before. […]
TAGGED WITH: Kathryn Williams, Robin Ince, The Lemon Twigs, The Rock, tiernan douieb CATEGORISED BY:A Tribe Called Quest BBC News 24 Bec Hill Blog Chilly Gonzales Fin Taylor News Partly Big Society Update March 31st, 2016 by Tiernan DouiebA couple of weeks ago I posted this: https://www.tiernandouieb.co.uk/2016/03/partly-big-society/ A few people read it and said they liked it. Mark Thomas very kindly sent it out to his followers on Twitter too which gave it about 400 views and the podcast where I talked about it had over 1200 listens. Which is all great. And as […]
TAGGED WITH: Partly Big Society, Partly Political Broadcast, podcast, Politics, tiernan douieb, Tom Waits CATEGORISED BY:Blog bubblewrap Comedy News January Doom January 26th, 2016 by Tiernan DouiebI’m having one of those times of year where I panic unnecessarily. I think it’s the sort of panic you only get with self employment, the sort that only comes after you plough through your diary for the foreseeable future and notice a distinct lack of work. Well, that’s not true. There is a lot […]
TAGGED WITH: January, self employment, tiernan douieb CATEGORISED BY:Blog Charity Comedian Comedy earnings News President Trump December 8th, 2015 by Tiernan DouiebPresident Trump flicked idly through an Encyclopedia Britannica. He couldn’t pronounce the title, but he liked all the pictures and without this book that he found on the shelves of the White House, he would’ve known about so many other terrible things that existed in the world. As a result it was the only book he […]
TAGGED WITH: Guns, muslims, President, Presidential Campaign, satire, tiernan douieb CATEGORISED BY:Aardvarks Abacus America bananas Ben Carson Blog cats Comedy Donald Trump News Knowing Everything About Nothing October 20th, 2015 by Tiernan DouiebToday I had the pleasure of being that expert on the news that has no idea what they’re talking about. You know the one? They’re asked all sorts of serious questions and they squirm slightly over a video link, and repeat themselves fifteen times while trying not to sweat profusely? Well, I played the role […]
TAGGED WITH: knowledge, Politics, satire, Star Wars, the news, tiernan douieb CATEGORISED BY:Blog Canada China Comedy News ‘We’re safer with Nuclear Weapons’ September 27th, 2015 by Tiernan DouiebNine days ago I was standing in line at the Hiroshima Memorial Park Museum, looking at the remnants of a tricycle of a small three year boy who’d been outside when the atomic bomb was dropped on August 5th at 8.15am. His father found the barely alive child clutching the handlebars and trapped under the rubble […]
TAGGED WITH: Hiroshima, Jeremy Corbyn, Little Boy, nuclear weapons, Politics, Shinzo Abe, tiernan douieb, Trident CATEGORISED BY:A Bomb Dome atom bomb Blog News