University College Dublin in Ireland has just awarded comic actor Will Ferrell the ‘James Joyce Award.’ 

The ”Saturday Night Live” alum took the stage to accept the award and said to the 1,000 university students: 

“As I perused my leather-bound volumes of ‘Ulysses,’ ‘Finnegans Wake,’ ‘Dubliners,’ ‘Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,’ standing in my mahogany library, a lot of feelings ran across my mind. Like: ‘Damn, I should have read these books.’”

Will Ferrell, co-owner of FunnyOrDie.com website was joined in Ireland by his brother and father who have been traveling all over Ireland in an attempt to trace their family heritage.  Wearing a very tight fitting rugby shirt, shorts and a cap, Ferrell announced:

“I’m so committed to my Irish roots that I intend to continue wearing this outfit upon my return to the United States.  I will also continue to drive on the left-hand side of the road. Will it be dangerous? Yes. Is it illegal? Highly. But that’s just how committed I am…. I love the taste of Guinness on the back of your throat, when it repeats on you the next morning.  I love sitting in a cozy pub talking with a local, whose accent is so thick it sounds like he’s gargling phlegm.”

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