Conan delivers... lines as gaeilge
Us tv host films cameo on Ros na Run
US TV host Conan O’brien is to appear on an episode of TG4’S Ros na Run later this month.
The comedian, 60, visited Ireland in January to record an instalment of his HBO Max travel show Conan O’brien Must Go.
It saw the Massachusettsborn-star make pit stops in Galway, Dublin and Limerick.
The late night presenter’s main aim was to trace his family roots back to the village of Galbally in Limerick, the
ROLE PLAY Conan O’brien native home of his great grandfather Daniel O’brien.
O’brien recorded a brief guest appearance on the long-running Irish language series during his visit, with his episode due to air next Tuesday at 8.30pm.
In the upcoming scene, Ros na Run’s village rogue and publican, Tadhg O Direain is faced with a feisty delivery man, played
by O’brien, who’s having none of his nonsense. O’brien said: “Getting to work with the cast and crew of Ros na Run was a delightful highlight of my trip to Ireland.
“And I apologise in advance for inadvertently butchering my mother tongue.”
The funnyman filmed his cameo on January 9 during a visit to the set in An Spideal in the Connemara Gaeltacht.
He also met the cast and crew and spent time with linguistics coach Kevin Hussey who helped him learn his lines as Gaeilge.
Series producer Marion Ni Loingsigh said: “It was thrilling to get the request from Conan O’brien that he wanted to have a cameo appearance in Season 28.
“It was fun to create and film and audiences will see a perfect delivery of Gaeilge by HBO’S Conan O’brien in what is an abrupt but entertaining exchange with Tadhg.”
O’brien is added to Ros na Run’s celebrity cameo hall of fame which includes actor Stephen Fry, singers Daniel O’donnell and Nathan Carter, Francis Brennan and Virgin Media’s Alan Hughes.
■ Conan O’brien Must Go will be released on HBO Max tomorrow.