Here's a hot UL that's floating around the irish web right now --
In a British program about Samuel L Jackson and Colin Farrell's lastest movie SWAT presented by British presenter, Kate Thornton, the following exchange occured:
Thornton: What was it like working with Colin (Farrell), cos he is just so hot in the U.K. right now?
Jackson: He's pretty hot in the U.S. too.
Thornton: Yeah, but he is one of our own.
Jackson: Isn't he from Ireland?
Thornton: Yeah, but we can claim him cos Ireland is beside us.
Jackson: You see that's your problem right there. You British keep claiming people that don't belong to you. We had that problem here in America too, it was called slavery.
... yeah, right. ;)
(Update: Actually, believe it or not, that's more or less how it really went. Here's the transcript.)
Some commentary at
TheReggaeBoyz.com (quote: 'I NEARLY DEAD TO RASS!!!!') and
Kuro5hin.
It looks like the TV programme does exist; no scripts online, unfortunately, so we'll never figure out if this one really happened, I think.
IMO, it's made up for sure. That last line is just a little too harsh for a primetime schmooze-a-gram, at the very least. Plus, it's the kind of thing only an Irishman would give a shit about -- the perpetual adoption of Irish celebs and worthies by the UK media is a continual source of irritation for the Irish -- as Dervala puts it:
'No, Oscar Wilde was ours. You put him in jail, though. And Shaw was ours. And Yeats. And Johnny Rotten.'