Is That Racist, Tommy Tiernan? | TOMMY TIERNAN

You have to be careful what you say on stage nowadays people misunderstand you, you know? Sometimes I have intentionally gotten in trouble many times for things I said on stage and I was just joking. I tell many stories. About the travelers from Ireland, I like them and I'm afraid of them, most of my stories have been okay, you know? But there was a story I told on The Late Late Show on Irish television and Looking Back Now, oh, those are the benefits of hindsight. I can safely say I was

racist

now. I didn't realize it at the time you see, at the time I thought it was just a big crack, but no, there's a fine line between racism and having crack, but it's a line you only discover after you cross it. and that story led me to one of the most profound encounters of my adult life at the Galway hospital where I live in the west of Ireland.

I was walking down the stairs of Saint Catherine's Ward and I passed these two young travelers who recognize me then let me walk a few meters and then they called me again eh hey tight here you're tired here says Titan don't even try to donate I'm not afraid of anyone I'm not fear I always swore If I sing face to face, I know that if I call you Nigerian races, that's what you are, don't even try to deny it. No, this is the time. I've been waiting for a moment to turn to the people who are traveling and say, guys.

I'm glad you called me out there because I'm ashamed of that joke and I wish I had never told it to us and I humbly ask for your forgiveness because I like you and your forgiveness is important to me. I could have said how foreign I have it. what a scare I wasn't ready I did the first thing that came to mind I turned around and responded with their accent who can turn and said who are you Carl and Roses were as surprised as I was shocked a part of me was looking at me going is this happening to me that you should go all in Nebraska, okay, so I just went fresh, a notebook, call me a break, I said, I'm here and leaving me, father's mother, in the hospital, there's no reason for me to be right, Poor mother, she's upstairs, she gave him her name, children, and she's going to heaven tomorrow morning, and daddy's going to fall into the grave right after, and I love you so much, I'm just going to cross the hamburger.

King, let him get some chicken sauces. I'll be back in a minute. Foreigner, you probably know my mother and you wouldn't even know my mother in the hospital. Why would she be here? You come and rest and in my dreams, they might be raised. whatever your mother my mother in your face what it took them a minute but they recover you can't talk to oatmeal like that I said like what they said like the way we're talking to you and I said ah so it's okay for you to talk to me like that, but I can't talk to you like that, that's

racist

.

Then an Indian doctor came out and said what is happening here. Before I knew what was happening, I turned around and said, "Absolutely wait for me." You can't talk to me like that I said I like what he said because of the way I'm talking to you and I said oh so it's okay for you to talk to me like that but I can't talk to you like that I'm one of the travelers who was getting the vibe he said yeah there is where it says, then a Nigerian taxi driver came out the window and said December, well the doctor winked at me as if to say I have this one. time, okay, I didn't want to make a new one, he went, no one ordered the doctor, then a Chinese guy and he said and then he said um foreigner full of lunatics.