Brendan Gleeson

He joined the night's host, Brendan Gleeson, for the opening monologue. Gleeson had just finished explaining the premise of his new film The Banshees of ...

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Brendan Gleeson had a special guest on his 'SNL' opening monologue -- Colin Farrell!

[Harry Potter films](https://hollywoodlife.com/feature/harry-potter-tv-show-4602417/) has played in his life — admitting that he’s not recognized as much due to the unique look of his character. Alastar Moody is known in the Wizarding World as a “pure blood wizard” — meaning both parents are also of magical blood. “I’m that fella you think you saw me in that thing that you can’t remember that you think you kinda liked,” he said to the audience.

“Speaking of weird and wonderful,” Gleeson said, he brought out surprise guest Colin Farrell, who was wearing a cartoonishly large mustache. Farrell needled ...

Gleeson cut short his own rambling (“I’m not really used to telling jokes”) and asked for a mandolin to serenade Studio 8-H with the first song he ever learned — a tune by tenor banjo musician Barney McKenna of the Irish folk band, the Dubliners. “You’ve probably seen me in Braveheart,” he continued. “You’ve possibly seen me in Harry Potter,” he said to a thrum of applause.

On Oct. 8, “Saturday Night Live” featured award-winning Irish actor and director Brendan Gleeson, and Hollywood royalty WILLOW of ”Whip My Hair” fame.

8, “Saturday Night Live” featured award-winning Irish actor and director Brendan Gleeson, and Hollywood royalty WILLOW of ”Whip My Hair” fame. Click the video embeds below to watch some of the highlights from Saturday night’s show. It kicked off with first-time host Gleeson playing some tunes on his mandolin.

Brendan Gleeson SNL Sketches Ranked: Colin Farrell Crashes, Try Guys Cry, New Cast Shines · "Saturday Night Live" takes shots at everything from Biden's mental ...

By the end of the piece, she had the audience in the palm of her hands, too, which is a testament to her character work. This was a brilliant takedown of the fact that the Try Guys scandal actually made it into the mainstream media, by taking it all the way to "Breaking News" status on CNN. Normally, we look at someone who was an all-around asset to the broadcast, which means its a combination of volume and quality appearances. Chloe Fineman continues to be rock solid in holding down the fort, while Mikey Day remains the rock of many sketches (even though he did crack tonight) and Kenan just does what Kenan does best. She's trying to get head of the inevitable scandals coming her way, like the fact that she's pro-Sea World, and supported the war in Iraq because she wanted revenge for 9/11, and she was responsible for the BP oil spill. The ending of the sketch was a colossal disappointment, but we definitely enjoyed the ladies trashing them through the negative mail and Chloe-as-Marilyn's responses to that. Historically, each "SNL" cast has an identity of its own, a sense of humor and a style that is unique to their time and to the makeup of the cast. The snap reactions weren't all that great, but we both loved and were deeply saddened by all the truth in this segment. At the beginning, we kind of liked the idea of Brendan Gleeson as a grandfather "discovered" by a photographer accidentally when his grandson, Michael Longfellow, shows up for his headshots. We wrap up with a look at the cast-member who had the strongest week. [Cecily Strong](http://toofab.com/tags/cecilystrong) remains absent from the episodes and opening credits, but she is still part of the show and will return. The premiere was definitely rocky at times, but it feels like this new group makeup is starting to find its identity.

He joined the night's host, Brendan Gleeson, for the opening monologue. Gleeson had just finished explaining the premise of his new film The Banshees of ...

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Hosted by Irish character actor Brendan Gleeson, the second episode of SNL's new season felt like a vast improvement from the premiere before descending ...

It was sort of refreshing for a show that once was a conversation starter for the country. It feels like this category will likely bounce between Kennan Thompson and Bowen Yang for most of the season (at least until Cecily Strong returns). Whatever side you take, it is the first time, in a long time, that a sketch on SNL felt provocative, even a little dangerous. In the end, it was the sense of societal collapse contained in the game show format that created comedic tension. Most divisive sketch of the night [SNL](https://www.avclub.com/tv/reviews/saturday-night-live)’s new season felt like a vast improvement from the premiere before descending into a collection of feeble and forgettable sketches.

The Banshees of Inishirin co-stars crop up on this week's show along with spoofs of Netflix's Blonde, The Try Guys and The Little Mermaid.

Their end of year celebration is ruined when the fourth member of their clique, Porkchop (Gleeson), reveals that he’s actually “a 67 year old Irishman”. Not a fan.” It’s one joke repeated a half a dozen times with no twist or payoff, and Fineman’s Monroe is indistinguishable from the majority of her high-pitched celebrity impressions. The visual of the cast (particularly Yang) dressed up as the three doofuses gets a big laugh, but this is a prime example of SNL picking at the scraps of a story after social media has already moved on from. While tuning up a mandolin, he runs through a series of anecdotes so gentle and low key that for a brief moment it seems like we’ve wound up in an episode of Prairie Home Companion. The great Irish actor is an inspired but unexpected choice, something he seems aware of, telling the audience “if you don’t recognize the face, I’m that fella you’ve seen in that thing you can’t remember but you think you kind of liked”. That’s not to say the show shouldn’t lampoon former guests when they make the news, but in both of their cases, SNL ceded them its platform when they were already at peak insufferability.