Saoirse Ronan Appearance on Saturday Night Live

Fred Swanson

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marieholmfan

Very funny stuff. She is a role model.

Wheety

30 Rock is great. Tina Fey is head writer on a show like Saturday Night Live, just like she was head writer on SNL in real life.

Anyway, even in that the sketches are awful. Purposely bad. I think they know they're bad in SNL but when they say something smugly they seem to think that overrides the awfulness.

Ri_Nollaig

Odhinn wrote: »

Nope.

what was that joke referring to then?

For Forks Sake

Ri_Nollaig wrote: »

God that was bad.

Simpsons and Family guy had actual funny Irish piss-take sketches.
Especially the "Ireland before the invention of alcohol joke"

I honestly don't get the reference to Dogs..?
Is it meant to be a reference to the signs "No Dogs, No Blacks and No Irish" ?

and one for AL..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cvv237khg8

riffmongous

Irish krusty is a favourite of mine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emkfhF1nMfg

For Forks Sake

4 minutes of fantastic satire (including the lesser-spotted blowing up of an English chipper 2:09)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT1jPfD67n4

wakka12

I don't get the dogs bit. What link does ireland have to dogs?

For Forks Sake

wakka12 wrote: »

I don't get the dogs bit. What link does ireland have to dogs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH64dlgyydM

Ri_Nollaig

For Forks Sake wrote: »

4 minutes of fantastic satire (including the lesser-spotted blowing up of an English chipper 2:09)

Like I said, actually funny sketches

also, that English pub blowing up was always edited out when that episode was aired on Sky... wonder why.

For Forks Sake

Ri_Nollaig wrote: »

Like I said, actually funny sketches

also, that English pub blowing up was always edited out when that episode was aired on Sky... wonder why.

Yep. I feel I was deprived as a child. Also, don't know how I never noticed the sign over Homers head before....

Odhinn

Ri_Nollaig wrote: »

what was that joke referring to then?

Nobody seems to have a clue. I thought it might be some irish american stereotype I'd never heard of but could find nothing.

Berserker

That was painful. I'd rather watch Alison Spittle. Never thought I'd think or say those words.

Ralf and Florian

The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »

The Irish and all their dogs thing is such a cliché it isnt in the slightest bit funny anymore.

Ronan is a very talented actress but her Irish accent was brutal in those clips.

She is a plain child, but I think that with her talent, that stands to her compared to many of the hollywood beauties. Her face is a such a blank canvas, she can use it to express so much more than many of her peers, on screen more for the eye candy effect than their acting skills.

What cliche about the Irish and all their dogs? Drinking, beating each other with shilleaghs and planting bombs yes but this idea that we're stereotyped as obsessed with dogs is one that I missed.

iomusicdublin

She should have refused to do the opening Saor sha segment and the Aer lingus skit. It was just stupid.

hatrickpatrick

I don't get what's to be offended about? Irish stereotypes are hilarious to be fair and there's usually a hint of truth about them. The only thing I didn't get was the whole business with the dogs, but it was funny like. It just didn't make a whole pile of sense.

The Aer Lingus -> Cunnilingus thing is definitely a new one though. If there's ever an airline based in Connaught or Connemara, there's a branding opportunity...

hatrickpatrick

On the name pronunciation, I reckon it's just too familiar to us to be funny - think how alien Irish names must look to non-Irish English speakers though. Particularly ones with a lot of dh and bh sounds in them - Meadhbh is one which I imagine a lot of Americans would scratch their heads over

Grayditch

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

- Meadhbh is one which I imagine a lot of Americans would scratch their heads over

That's entry level compared to Caoimhe.

Vela

I don't mind her and I didn't think it was that bad. The name thing is getting old, but I've seen worse.

CatFromHue

Grayditch wrote: »

That's entry level compared to Caoimhe.

Wait til Sugru makes it big and Jane Ní Dhulchaointigh starts doing interviews :pac:

_Dara_

Ralf and Florian wrote: »

What cliche about the Irish and all their dogs? Drinking, beating each other with shilleaghs and planting bombs yes but this idea that we're stereotyped as obsessed with dogs is one that I missed.

I don’t get it either. The British are known as a dog-obsessed nation but us?

It's got nothing to do with her and how it was written by the SNL writers. She actually did a great job with the what she was given.

Also she's even pronouncing it wrong. It's not Saoirse like inertia.

darkdubh

_Dara_ wrote: »

I don’t get it either. The British are known as a dog-obsessed nation but us?

We're certainly not a nation of dog lovers. More likely to abandon dogs or let them wander off to their own devices than to take any responsibility for them.

The Aer Lingus sketch was absolutely awful, but, again, she's doing the best with the **** she was given.

razorblunt

We really shouldn't be surprised they have difficulty with "Saoirse" the fúckers make a hames of St Patrick's Day too!

murpho999

_Dara_ wrote: »

I don’t get it either. The British are known as a dog-obsessed nation but us?

It's the British themselves who promote the idea of being a nation of pet lovers not just dogs.

I don't think people outside the UK think this of them.

Also, most modern western countries in the Northen Hemisphere love pets.

darkdubh wrote: »

We're certainly not a nation of dog lovers. More likely to abandon dogs or let them wander off to their own devices than to take any responsibility for them.

It does happen but the majority of dog lovers look after them.

I don't think that is what the sketch was implying though.

Laois_Man

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

On the name pronunciation, I reckon it's just too familiar to us to be funny - think how alien Irish names must look to non-Irish English speakers though. Particularly ones with a lot of dh and bh sounds in them - Meadhbh is one which I imagine a lot of Americans would scratch their heads over

Any American who has watched Ronan's appearances on American chat shows would be painfully familiar with it too. They're all the same as the SNL script virtually word for word

mad muffin

Top o the mornin to ya. My name is Shursha and I’m Oirish…

Dr Crayfish

She seems really lovely, but does she realise that she's the only person in Ireland that says an focail saoirse in her very odd way?

nullzero

razorblunt wrote: »

We really shouldn't be surprised they have difficulty with "Saoirse" the fúckers make a hames of St Patrick's Day too!

They have the best Patty's day parades though.