OK, so as an Irishman, I don't have NBC across the Atlantic, so my only exposure to SNL is through their YouTube clips. The sketches are fairly hit and miss overall. Some work, some don't, you know how it is.
However, the Aer Lingus sketch in this particular episode was the laziest, most desperate attempt at a 'sketch' ever. Featuring the guest host, our very own Saoirse Ronan, paired with Cecily Strong as two Aer Lingus flight attendants, they proceed to deliver the most clichéd Irish stereotypical performance I've ever seen. I've never cringed so hard in my life.
Oh yeah, potatoes, good one, haven't heard that a million times. Damn, what a side-splitter bringing up that Aer Lingus sounds like 'cunnilingus'. And the SNL cast putting on Irish accents? Good God, give me strength. They were worse than Tom Cruise in Far and Away, or even that pathetic attempt in 2 Broke Girls. I keep asking myself "Why did Saoirse agree to this?" Also, what was the deal with all the dogs? Is there something I'm missing, having lived in Ireland for 24 years, grown up here and am more Irish than these clueless American writers, presumably priding themselves on their 1/64th Irish heritage, that apparently a hilarious Irish stereotype is that we have packs of dogs everywhere? That didn't make any sense in the slightest. Did the writers just come to Ireland for a few days, meet a lot of dogs and just presume that was a stereotype?
Extremely lazy writing, terrible jokes, not necessarily as offensive as some people are making it out to be; just painfully unfunny. The one piece of advice I would give is if you're making a satire of another nationality, maybe do a bit of f**king research, or maybe get some feedback or improvement from Saoirse? There was controversy a year or two ago about a British newsreader claiming Saoirse Ronan as 'one of our own' during her Oscar campaign, and after this abomination of a sketch and frankly sickening overexposure of her these days, playing up the gimmick that Irish names are difficult to pronounce (they're not), that I reached the point where the Brits can bloody have her at this point.
I'm done.
However, the Aer Lingus sketch in this particular episode was the laziest, most desperate attempt at a 'sketch' ever. Featuring the guest host, our very own Saoirse Ronan, paired with Cecily Strong as two Aer Lingus flight attendants, they proceed to deliver the most clichéd Irish stereotypical performance I've ever seen. I've never cringed so hard in my life.
Oh yeah, potatoes, good one, haven't heard that a million times. Damn, what a side-splitter bringing up that Aer Lingus sounds like 'cunnilingus'. And the SNL cast putting on Irish accents? Good God, give me strength. They were worse than Tom Cruise in Far and Away, or even that pathetic attempt in 2 Broke Girls. I keep asking myself "Why did Saoirse agree to this?" Also, what was the deal with all the dogs? Is there something I'm missing, having lived in Ireland for 24 years, grown up here and am more Irish than these clueless American writers, presumably priding themselves on their 1/64th Irish heritage, that apparently a hilarious Irish stereotype is that we have packs of dogs everywhere? That didn't make any sense in the slightest. Did the writers just come to Ireland for a few days, meet a lot of dogs and just presume that was a stereotype?
Extremely lazy writing, terrible jokes, not necessarily as offensive as some people are making it out to be; just painfully unfunny. The one piece of advice I would give is if you're making a satire of another nationality, maybe do a bit of f**king research, or maybe get some feedback or improvement from Saoirse? There was controversy a year or two ago about a British newsreader claiming Saoirse Ronan as 'one of our own' during her Oscar campaign, and after this abomination of a sketch and frankly sickening overexposure of her these days, playing up the gimmick that Irish names are difficult to pronounce (they're not), that I reached the point where the Brits can bloody have her at this point.
I'm done.
