'SNL': Brendan Gleeson's monologue was a rousing tribute to Irish folk music — with an assist from surprise guest Colin Farrell.
appearance as host. “And if you don’t recognize the face, I’m that fellow that you’ve seen in that thing that you’ve seen that you can’t remember but you think you kinda liked.”
With slicked back hair and an air of nonchalance, Gleeson’s was the rare monologue that could’ve gone on a segment longer. “You’ve probably seen me in,” he said to a thrum of applause. “You definitely have not seen me in Joel Cohn’s black-and-whiteGleeson cut short his own rambling 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.
“Speaking of weird and wonderful,” Gleeson said, he brought out surprise guest Colin Farrell, who was wearing a cartoonishly large mustache. Farrell needled Gleeson for compliments about working with him — the pair previously worked together onGleeson and Farrell reunited for Martin McDonagh’s buzzy new film— Farrell already won a Best Actor award for it at the Venice International Film Festival. The film arrives in theaters October 21.
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