Brendan Gleeson has said he won’t take back calling Taoiseach Micheál Martin a ‘moron’ almost 20 years ago, but the actor ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Gleeson’s case, the monologue also offered him the opportunity to show off his musical gifts. The celebrated actor had a mandolin brought out during his opening speech, and he played and sang ...

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 ...