{"id":584606,"date":"2026-08-06T03:56:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T03:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/584606\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T03:56:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T03:56:20","slug":"watch-classic-chris-odowd-clip-leaves-graham-norton-in-stitches-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/584606\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Classic Chris O&#8217;Dowd clip leaves Graham Norton in stitches &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">One of County Roscommon\u2019s most famous sons, Chris O\u2019Dowd, is many things, a renowned actor, writer, director, and even noted Gaelic footballer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">However, his babysitting pedigree has been hilariously called into serious question.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">While on the Graham Norton Show, the Boyle man was left stunned as his past came back to haunt him. Red chair occupant John recounted a disastrous time Chris was left in charge. But it was all in good fun. The classic clip, from 2015, has experienced a renaissance recently and has been widely shared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Chris, who made his debut at Dublin\u2019s Gate Theatre in recent weeks in the sold out Irish premiere of Conor McPherson\u2019s new play The Brightening Air, praised his hometown\u2019s arts festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIt\u2019s a fantastic and prestigious festival in a relatively small town,&#8221; he told the Herald. &#8220;I think it does give you the impression that anything is possible. If you\u2019ve got all these wonderful artists from around the world, why can\u2019t you be one of them?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of County Roscommon\u2019s most famous sons, Chris O\u2019Dowd, is many things, a renowned actor, writer, director, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-584606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}