Being from Tipperary is their main selling point. Nothing screams real Ireland quite like Tipperary and that’s the reality.
No one would give a fuck if they were from Carlow or Longford.
Limerick tried it with the rubberbandits and it never worked.
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Ah lovely. You’ll have @thelimericks circling in no time 
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The fella with the beard/smig is stealing a living the other lad is as funny as fuck, he’s surfing off him.
They were funny until bb started talking outside of the act. An absolute gobshite. 2 johnnies are good lads tbf
Its just the reality.
People get the 2 Johnnies. They never got the Rubberbandits. They never got the Young Offenders.
Wherever you are or wherever you go in life, if you stick your chest out and say you are from Tipperary, there is a total and utter respect there and that’s what the 2 Johnnies have built their brand on.
It works.
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When I Play For The County, Could Have Been County and Junior B All Star will all settle in the Top 50 Irish songs of All Time in due course
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Ah lovely
Absolutely
Very funny
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My life partner informed me earlier this week that she’s purchased tickets for us to attend The 2 Johnnies Show in St Anne’s Park, Dublin 3/5, in the summer. 
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She hates you mate.
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She can move to affluent Ringsend all she likes, but shes still a roaster.
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What do these lads do during a show? A few fart noises and GAA gags? The few times I’ve heard them there’s one of them genuinely funny and clued in… The other fella is a bit of a Phil Neal.
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Explainer: why the Two Johnnies may be right to quit RTÉ
With a hit podcast, the two Tipperary comedians can make more money, and control their creative output more, outside RTÉ than in the world of strict rules for legacy broadcasters
Adrian Weckler
Today at 16:38
The 2 Johnnies are leaving radioland and heading back to the podcast world.
On one level, it’s a surprise – Johnnies ‘B’ O’Brien and ‘Smack’ McMahon had the biggest audience on 2FM (151,000) through their afternoon show.
On another level, it makes sense. Podcasts give them far more creative and commercial freedom than the more regulated, financially shrinking world of legacy radio broadcasting.
There are no registers of interest. There are no rules being watched by anyone looking to catch them out. There’s a lot less for Coimisiún na Meán to go poking around in.
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On the business side, in particular, there is potentially a lot more upside in leaving the world of regulated radio. Recent industry research, especially from Red C/IAB, suggests that the gap between radio and podcast listenership has narrowed a lot.
But legacy radio advertising cash still dwarfs podcast sponsorship in Ireland by as much as ten to one.
This could very well narrow imminently. The big winners will probably be the most listened-to podcasts.
In this context, The 2 Johnnies have a formidable, loyal audience in the podcast world that has led to stage shows and a whole panoply of new commercial opportunity.
It also led to an RTÉ gig. But the content and themes were bawdier than a more straitened, mainstream RTÉ structure would naturally allow.
This is the norm. A look at Ireland’s top 10 most listened-to podcasts shows a line-up that is very different from what RTÉ, Bauer Media, or anyone else in the legacy broadcasting world might feel they could put out and not fall foul of umpteen rules, from commercial interests to “taste and decency”.
Internationally, it’s the same: there is no way any mainstream European broadcaster could stream The Joe Rogan Experience.
The 2 Johnnies aren’t alone. Doireann Garrihy is also leaving 2FM, having presented a breakfast show. Like The 2 Johnnies, she’s a popular podcaster who is regularly in the top 10.
She has arguably more commercial power for endorsements and partnerships than almost any other Irish podcaster, something that may be stifled by a future presenting an RTÉ radio show.
Ironically, the same straitjackets may not prevent The 2 Johnnies or Garrihy from being asked to present on RTÉ TV, as Garrihy has done for Dancing with the Stars.
While big local podcasts like The 2 Johnnies aren’t to the taste of everyone, their authenticity is undeniable. That makes them a compelling listen to a sizeable number of people.
For a podcast with the reach and following that The 2 Johnnies has, it may be smart to move on.
The defeat in Thurles was the final straw
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One of them is genuinely funny he’s carrying the other lad on his back
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They are D’Unbelievables for the TikTok generation
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