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Irish Suffering and Bad Irish Last Names

from #206 - Turn Yourselves In | The Tim Dillon Show · #206

4 min

Tim jokes that the Irish are the most persecuted people in history, riffing through a list of unfortunate Irish surnames like O'Carroll and Cavanaugh and their supposed doomed fates.

In this bit6 moments
  • Tim claims the Irish suffered more than any group in the country and are a damned race.
  • Irish surnames like McCarthy carry an expectation that the bearer will be a loser.
  • Having the last name O'Sullivan is almost as bad as having been asleep.
  • Tim reads through a list of Irish last names and predicts failure for each one, starting with Patty Doyle.
  • His friend Bobby O'Carroll's wife set him on fire while he slept because a banshee told her to.
  • Brett Kavanaugh won't succeed because of his Irish surname, despite being on the Supreme Court.
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