Ireland’s remarkable achievements in film help put the tired drunken stereotypes to bed
The 'Saturday Night Live' sketch of Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson played up to tired and cheap Irish stereotypes
Hollywood needs to update its Irish stereotypes. Last weekend, US TV mainstay Saturday Night Live depicted Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as unintelligible with the punchline: “Wow, and they haven’t even started drinking yet!”
Academy Awards host Jimmy Kimmel was also going heavy on the malarkey in his weak opening monologue. “We have five nominees from every corner of Dublin. Five Irish actors are nominated tonight, which means the chances of a fight just went way up.”
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