Write it down? The old Hal Roach line has given way to YouTube and many other ways for Irish comics in America to be funny and reach their audience. Mike Farragher talks to the new breed of Irish ...

Another Irish American comedy, The Kids Are Alright, is being released this fall. Will it fall short again, like these US Irish sitcoms always seem to? Word came out of Hollywood this week that ABC ...

Imagine encountering a couple of young Irish guys, maybe on vacation in Dublin or, say, at the Olympics in Brazil. In the best possible scenario, what would those Irish guys be like? How would they ...

Humor is where you find it, usually right next to dumb. In 2023 we had the quantum physics of funny, that is, funny and not funny at the same time; alive and dead as the Schrödinger's cat — only ...

1. What kind of spells do leprechauns use? Lucky Charms. 2. Why did the leprechaun go outside? To sit on his paddy-o. 3. What did the leprechaun say when the video game ended? Game clover! 4. What do ...

Judging from the script, "The Lieutenant of Inishmore" wouldn't seem to be the easiest play to produce. Irish accents are called for. There's lots of graphic violence. At least two cats, one of them ...

I have a phrase I use with my husband, "Irish funny." It refers to things that are so preposterously bad that they flip around and almost become funny. It's my nod to the dark humor of the Irish, ...