IRISH comic Tommy Tiernan had the Kendal audience hanging on his every word as his Crooked Man tour arrived in Cumbria.

Tiernan took the packed-out auditorium through a whirlwind tour of his experiences, with anecdotes touching on trips to Stamford Bridge with his daughter to cheer on Liverpool, appearing on the front page of the Jerusalem Times and discussing mathematicians trying to make a formula for every aspect of daily life.

But the one thing that ticked him off more than mathematicians, was for Tiernan, Lord Alan Sugar, who he described as a “materialistic Cockney spiv.”

Renowned in Ireland as a star, Tiernan has been much publicised as a controversial figure in comedy.

And his performance could have been taken the wrong way by some in the crowd as he touched on drug-taking outside the Dalai Lama, Hitler’s reign in Germany and contraception.

However, he was received well by the crowd who offered a rapturous applause at the end.

Tiernan’s quick-witted tales of different countries he has passed through over the years had me in fits of laughter as he turned his comedic eye toward intimate venues having mastered the arena scene over a long-spanning 20 year career.