Why there are jokes about Irish people?

Question

Everybody knows at least one Irish joke. People in the UK probably. I wonder why? What's about Irish nation? Why they've got jokes about them?

:)) its not because we dont do anything stupid. :)) I've got some stories too. In real. There was a dog which attacked me last year. Anyway there was a guy petting it. My friend asked him if the dog was his, "is this your dog" and he said "no I am Irish" what did he mean by that?

A joke for example:

Irish guy catchs his son sniffin cocain and he says "if i see you doing this again, i am gonna f*cking rub your nose in it"

Answer 1

ok, I'm Welsh, and there are lots of jokes about us too, but Irish people are just funny (no offence to any Irish now) - for example, i've got a good mate who's Irish and he's dull as a brush, says the stupidest things u could imagine (worse than being blonde i'm tellin u!!). But they've got a great sense of humour too and don't mind people havin a bit of fun at their expense! But in UK, most people take the mick out of "neighbouring" countries (mainly Irish and English for us!) Hope that kinda answers your question...

Answer 2

My mother says it's coz they're just jealous coz the irish are so much smarter than the english. (Yeah, ok mum. Whatever. If you're so bloody smart how come the irish all starved coz you can only cook potatoes?)

God she'd kill me if she knew I'd said that.

T'other day my aunt told me that her mother (my crazy religious zealot grandmother) told her once that all those children who were abused by irish Catholic priests only had themselves to blame because: "They flaunted themselves in front of them and led them on."

Seriously, I'm not making this up.

Irish people are so easy to wind up as well. You should see my mother having an inward stroke every time her sister brags about her children, or her best friend puts another extension on her house. They're such snobs! It's the constant oneupmanship that keeps me going through these long winter nights.

How do you confuse an irishman? Put him in a barrel and tell him to piss in the corner.

And another thing - the irish all know the jokes as well. Only when they tell them they're called Kerryman jokes; people from Kerry being deemed an inferior subset of the irish race. *shrug* Must be the equivalent of Geordies or sumthin', I dunno.

Answer 3

Haven't heard too many Irish jokes here in the states. Tell me one...

Answer 4

i guess because we don't do anything stupid.