Tommy Tiernan and Pat Shortt appeared on The Late Late Show on RTÉ One on Friday where they spoke about the moments their kids realised they were famous.
The actors, who are appearing alongside one another in Ian Fitzgibbon's pitch-black comedy Dark Lies the Island, joked that their children had similar experiences of being unimpressed with them.
Tiernan shared: "There comes a moment when they realise you're well known, and it usually happens when they're about six. And you come into the kitchen of a morning and they go 'well here's Tommy Tiernan'.
"I think there's a phase then as well when...a lot of my earlier stuff was filth, dirty filth, muck, and it was great to be doing it, but I had no awareness at the time that I'd have a teenage daughter who might come across it on YouTube.
"That's not really what you want to see your dad doing. So I have a bit of awareness now of stuff that I'm doing on stage [I think] 'Will I want the kids to be watching this when they're a little bit older?'"
Pat added with a laugh: "I remember one morning getting up and hearing 'Jesus Christ dad what have you done!'
"They were getting ready for school and they were listening to Spin South West and they just announced 'Pat Shortt's new video has gone viral on YouTube.'"
Tiernan also spoke about doing a 10 day silent retreat for his 50th birthday earlier this year.
"The mission was to be a nicer person to live with, the routine was 5 o'clock you get up, you say nothing to nobody, you go to the meditation hall and you stare at the floor and at 10 o'clock that evening you go to bed... For 10 days."
"I think I'm more difficult now," he laughed. "I'm to be found around the house staring at the floor.
"I did it two years ago and it definitely worked and now I got a weekend out of it and i was back to myself. That was the ambition I went in with which was foolish perhaps."
