Hollywood actor Will Ferrell jetted into Ireland to pick up a prestigious award, but couldn’t resist turning the honour into a laughing matter. The comic’s antics was met with frenzied laughter when he turned up in a full Irish rugby kit to address the University College Dublin’s Literary and Historical Society. The star had been chosen by the esteemed debating society to receive the prestigious James Joyce Award for his tremendous contribution to comedy and entertainment. “As I perused my leatherbound 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’,” Ferrell deadpanned in front of more than 1,000 University College Dublin students Wednesday night.

[Source: Associated Press]

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