Saturday Night Live tries to take the piss out of the Irish and fails miserably

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  1. In short, the joke is that the Irish talk funny and like a drink. Even the Brits would be embarrassed to put out such turgid, cliched shite.

  7. SNL is genuinely one of the most unfunny things I have ever witnessed in American comedy, how can you actually make something so unfunny, it goes past being so unfunny it’s funny, it’s just plain shite unfunny

  13. Zombie comedy, kept alive long, long after its natural span. I honestly hope it dies off with Lorne Michaels.

    People think the constant corpsing is hilarious but it only ever wasn’t infuriating when it was Hader and Mulany doing Stefon.

  14. It’s not OFFENSIVE it’s just SHIT.

    Remember Steve Coogan doing the Irish republican song: magnificent work, spot-on, totally convincing, and very, very funny.

    It’s about comedic competence.

  16. Even aside from Irish stereotyping ,or whatever that was, SNL is painfully unfunny. Have tried to watch if there was someone I like on it but couldn’t even sit through it. Sooo bad

  18. It would have been a funnier skit if Farrell and Gleeson were in character and Gleeson refused to talk to Farrell, just grabs the award, goes off screen and a finger fly’s back and hit Farrell in the face.

  19. Awful. They sound like someone pretending to speak Swedish.

    The premise of the joke is “foreigner with strong accent can’t understand them” Honestly that’s some sort of throwback to the 70s.

    Imagine the same sketch but it’s Mexicans. And they have some offensive Mexican accent. They would never consider that.

    That’s all there is to it. It’s half baked as a concept to begin with.

  22. Not funny but also I don’t think that Irish people are the intended audience. I imagine there are American’s that would need sub-titles for Banshees. They would prob furiously slap their knee at this. Also not surprising that this kind of generalisation is still common in the US when the must well-known recent film is one that reaffirms all 19th century stereotypes about Irish people for an audience, the majority of which, have never met an actual Irish person.

  26. We give the Brits a lot of stick here but at least their comedy is halfway decent compared to this.
    Like it’s too unfunny to be even offensive.. I feel bad for the people who find this funny.

  29. I live in the states and it’s peak silly season over here now with “Patty’s day”. I’m not easily offended but the paddy whackery gets very old.

    The things that have been said to me would be considered racist to any other immigrant.

    For example, had a lad in doing a fence in the garden. First thing he says to me is “you guys can drink, flight and have kids. That’s all I know about you Irish.”

    What do you even say to that? “Yeah man, we are a nation of violent, Catholic alcoholics lol” ? This shit on SNL is just more of the same. The perception of “Irish” over here is a characture. Leprechauns and pots of gold

    Another good one. My kid came home from school last year with a hat with a four leafed clover (not a shamrock) with “mc” put in front of her name. Her surname is Irish and begins with an “o”.

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