Saturday Night Live: Hair slicked back, red-grey beard neatly trimmed, Brendan Gleeson is a fish out of water as he delivers his first SNL opening monologue. Photograph: Rosalind OConnor/NBC via Getty ...

The back and forth between Chloe Fineman as Marilyn Monroe and Brendan Gleeson as a woman (with the beard and no explanation for it, which we loved) was everything to this sketch.

Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson and I have been talking for about an hour — more accurately, they’ve been talking, I’ve been listening — when Gleeson asks me if I thought there was a ...

Brendan Gleeson’s Charms Can’t Save a Listless Saturday Night Live. ... while Gleeson, his glorious beard as undisguised as it is unremarked-upon, just looks a bit sheepish. ...

And we did get one more sketch in that vein, with Farrell cameoing as himself, and Gleeson as a grandpa who catches the attention of a headshot photographer (Andrew Dismukes), to the dismay of ...

Colin Farrell, left, and Brendan Gleeson in “The Banshees of Inisherin.” (AP) In the years since it came out, “In Bruges” has become a beloved cult film.