Tommy Tiernan has told Aifric O'Connell on RTÉ 2FM that he has "never watched" his hit RTÉ One talk show and is "just now becoming aware of the size of the experience".
O'Connell, who was hosting the Jennifer Zamparelli Show on Friday, asked the comedian, presenter and actor what he had learned about human nature from his RTÉ One interviews over the course of the series.
"Are you better at reading people, do you think, or getting a better first impression?" she said.
"I've forgotten - I'm not really listening to them anyway!" joked Tiernan. "I've a little feed in me ear going, 'Ask him about the divorce'."
"I've never watched the show," Tiernan continued.
"And I'm just now becoming aware of the size of the experience. And I don't mean...
"I think what I mean is the experience of sitting with all those people and having such intense conversations with them and such open chats and funny but very revealing and honest. That and the success of the show - the way people have responded to it and are coming up to me going, 'Love the show' and it's important and all this type [of thing] - that's only getting to me now.
"When you're doing it, you have to be kind of fortified in order to keep doing it. You kind of have to be slightly single-minded and just go, 'Ok - next. Next - ok. Alright'. And you keep going.
"It's funny, it was only this morning, I was sitting waiting to come in here and I saw all the kind of RTÉ logo stuff around and I was thinking, 'I talked to all those people, and they said amazing things to me, and there were amazing moments in those conversations'. So that's only landing with me now."
Looking forward to the next series, he added: "We're due to come back in the winter."
