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H Mac Carthy - 08/10/2010
A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Comedy fan - 03/05/2009
If Tommy Nicholson is as poor as the reviewer and indeed the last person to comment suggest. How come he's done 5 or 6 Kilkenny Cat Laughs, worked with Daniel Kitson, Ardal O'Hanlon, Tommy Tiernan, Jason Byrne, and the list goes on and on! It's true his comedy is mostly funnier than it is clever, but it certainly has some very bright ideas too. His pieces about 'if the Irish mastered time travel' and his take on when we all get drunk our brains go into a mobile phone mode is totally top notch!
Northside Dub - 28/04/2009
I've seen Tommy Nicholson support Des Bishop in Dublin twice, and he did this same "Navan Set" both times (which means he's been doing it for what, six years now?). The reviewer is spot on; it was dire the first time, and even worse the second time.
H. Mac Carthy - 14/07/2008
The reviewer said it all in his first sentence. 'Its a sign of a good joke if, its funny but you don't understand the reference', he clearly didn't understand any of the references. Everyone else clearly did. Isn't it up to the audience to decide and not some scaldy baastard who just didn't get it?
Derek - 05/03/2008
Tommy is a living proof of the naked joy to be found in performing comedy. A class act all round.
Phil - 12/04/2006
I am from Navan and I have seen Tommy perform. If indeed you can call it performing. Tommy is not what I consider a comedian. Unsophisticated is how I would describe Tommy
Patrick McGarry - 19/06/2005
This review is obviously written by an English critic, who is trying to tell irish people what to laugh at, and what is funny. If a comic makes his audience laugh, then he has accomplished what he set out to do.
John Travis - 16/09/2004
Lets get something straight here. The point of a stand up comic is to make an audience laugh and entertain them. Tommy Nicholson does this well. This review says it's not delivered with any charm....does it matter?
Keeffe - 14/07/2003
A gig is all about how much the audience enjoys it. Whoever reviwed this would be what Tommy would call a lantern jawed gobshite
Neil - 26/06/2003
I have never heard him refer to women as bitches. He may refer to a specific woman as a bitch but not in the misogynistic all-encompassing way lazily suggested by the reviewer.
Tommy also never uses the word "who'er" to refer to a woman. That term is referred for the male gender. It's not a term of abuse in Ireland either. As for all of this being charmlessly done I couldn't disagree more.
Bob Hennigan - 19/06/2003
Tommy Nicholson is a comedy legend in Ireland. His material may not appeal to Englanders, but we love him so leave him alone.
Brian Ormonde - 07/06/2003
This is a poor review. It takes the patronising line of dismissing both the performer and the audience for being too "local". Yes this comedian's set does rely largely on jokes about his home-town, but people laugh because Navan is seen as the dead-centre of middle-Ireland, with a host of specific sociological and cultural quirks understood by people who live in this country. An Irish comedian doing this isn't the same as, say, a comedian from Glasgow doing a whole set about Glasgow.
N Nicholson - 30/11/-0001
Tommy is the best comic in Ireland.
Shea - 30/11/-0001
If it goes down well with the audience does that not tell you something? It's funny. No it's crap.. trust me Sinead 17.06.03