“Prejudice of any kind towards taxi drivers is unacceptable. We decided to conclude our sponsorship of the show last week but will continue to work with RTÉ on other projects going forward.”
“He starts the joke, and he starts talking about penguins looking like nuns with the rosary beads and I thought ‘nice one’ and I’m laughing,” she said. She added: “I just thought ‘please don’t do this to me’. I’m literally one of the only people of colour sitting here full of a room of white people’. And then came the savannah and taxi drivers.”The mother of two said the comedian later emailed and spoke with her over the phone to apologise for the joke, acknowledging it was offensive.
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Won’t be using Free now anymore boycottFreenow
Fair play to EmerONeill14 for calling out unconsciousbias on the TommyTiernanShow standup at Vicar_Street . FairPlay to tommytiernan for withdrawing the bad taste joke. When is EmerOneill be invited to his TV show? History in the making. NotoRacism
I pulled my sponsorship from Free Now and deleted their app from my phone, rather walk or get a bus if that is their stupid response.
Who
The show is free, now
So ridiculous,
Time to cancel Free Now
I won't be using free now ever again. If we don't act and only tweet nothing will change. boycottFREEnow
NO sympathy,,go woke,go broke,,,apologise🤔 ,my god Tommy you must owe us catholics many 😅
If FreeNow_IE cared about their drivers so much, perhaps they would reduce their commission charge, remove the hospitality charge to drivers for picking up at hotels, drop their €5 cancel fee which is driving people to Bolt. Virtual signalling.
Absolute farcical nonsense 🙄 FreeNow_IE jumping on the Woke bandwagon.A story, about an upstart, attention seeking Luvvie, few had heard of or even cared about, is offended, gets an apology & essentially wants to increase her profile 🙄 Tommy was the bigger fool, apologising
I did not know Free Now sponsored anything. Indeed I did not know anyrhing about Free Now. I do now! Free publicity for Free Now, better publicity perhaps. For free (Now).
I heard him on the radio the other day talking about the death of his mother. He really does seem like a nice guy. If he made a mistake and apologised should we not forgive and move on?
That's what happens when you apologise to the ultra Wokies
will you all stop giving the attention seeker your time and go to Tommys page and show him we are on HIS side, her ratings have tanked, join the dots
bycottfreenow
how do these African people have the money to get a taxi plate anyway.
Does anyone know what the joke was exactly?
I suppose Kerryman jokes are off the agenda.
BoycottFreeNow
He shouldn’t have apologised.
I don't pay for my TV licence anymore, instead I give the monthly price of a TV licence stamp to the Right people, the National Party, Irish Freedom Party, Ireland First Party, who are highlighting what's happening in Ireland, instead of the irish fake news media,were on a roll🇮🇪
Maby free now should Spencer Dublin Zoo instead.
Taxi for Tommy …
Boycott that company in return. TT should not have apologised & SHAME on her for playing the race card. Reprehensible
Time for people to uninstall that app…
So maybe people with sense should avoid free now FreeNow_IE taxis. Because if we allow this crap to continue. There will be no more comedy.
So all the people on this thread are just refusing to listen to what Tommy Tiernan is saying. If he considers it worthy of apology..then listen to what he's saying. You might learn something and fair play to Tommy to be able to say ...fuckit I was wrong.
Pathetic and absurd, so next time he offends disabled people, or obese people, or homosexual people of trans people does he have to apologise too. The left are soft as fuck and offended by everything that they disagree with.
Free Now are a bigger joke then. Let them off. There will be plenty of sponsors. Being played by a very cunning player.
Safe home
Who gives a shit if this journalist was offended?
So a person willingly of their own free will go to a comedy show and gets offended. Tommy pokes fun at all facits of Irish life and some of us just laugh along, because we understand 1. Comedy and 2. The irony of comedy that makes us think about our own attitudes to social issues
Never apologise.
His biggest mistake was not the joke but apologising for it .
deleted my FreeNow_IE app
Any forgiveness in society anymore or always the guillotine ?
It was weak humour in the style of Jock and Paddy jokes.
Wow, white people hate themselves so much now they can't even laugh at a joke. Black comedians joke about white people all the time. What's wrong with all u weirdos? This isn't America, which is in cultural decline because they don't even know who they are anymore.
2 wrongs don't make a right, imagine the racist taxi drivers are having a laugh at the irony of Tommy's bad joke?
A complete joke. Playing right into the cards of an attention seeking snowflake
Good opportunity for bolt 👍🇮🇪
So is it statistically incorrect that many Africans work as taxi drivers?. I'm lost here.
Mire likey FreeNow_IE took the opportunity to cut costs from its struggling business and tried to spun it as a moral bictory for them instead.
For the slow learners about these parts, racism does not magically become okay just because an audience pays to listen to it.
He made a racist joke. He took the time to talk through why it was problematic. He apologised. Is there no room for forgiveness or learning FreeNow_IE ? Surely people can be encouraged to learn from a single mistake & not entirely cancelled?
americanised political correctness is slowly ruining this country, should never have apologised
Sad that someone would go to a comedy gig to seek offence. They must be fun at parties.
Can not understand this Seems from comments on here on twitter that the joke was about Zoo Irish like wolves there Nuns like penguins African part taxi drivers But she laughed at nuns part of the same joke Didn't take offensive to irish like wolves But did to taxi drivers ?
Ever notice how everything gets worse for these people the moment they apologise?
Time to delete the FreeNow_IE app. Cancel culture works both ways!
How can you make people laugh ig your not allowed to make joke about someone or something Humour gone forever
Time for another sorry Tommy.
Prejudice against taxi drivers 😂😂😂
He is comedian , leave him alone
Comedy is dead, too many snowflakes. They are jokes get over it. He may as well retire now
Isn't she sort of inferring herself that there's something wrong with being a taxi driver?
Coward, Joan Rivers is turning in her grave.
Pity free now aren't as concerned about paying their drivers on time as what they are about tommy tiernan.
Society is screwed ..
He shouldn't have apologised
He never should have apologised. If anyone is 'racist', it is her for making such an assumption which is 'racist' it itself. She has only done harm. Comedy is comedy where we can have a laugh at ourselves. She is a fool.
He was some fool to apologise
Is it just me or does most people think he’s always been a bit of a prick? I rarely find his humour funny🤷
What was the joke exactly?
tommytiernanforpresident
Comedy should be offensive, should make funny the culture and facts of the time. Now we have the comedy police vetting jokes.....and as usual, it seems fine to joke about nuns and Christianity.....but mention 'Africa' and your out of line.
It was a fucking joke... when did people become so irritatingly sensitive about absolutely fucking everything!! Tommedian don't let these poxy snowflakes influence your art!!
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