Orange is the New Black Stars try their hand at Irish slang, fail spectacularly

What's the crock?

Orange is the New Black Stars try their hand at Irish slang, fail spectacularly

The new season of Netflix's hugely successful Orange is the New Black is here, and to promote it, stars Taylor Schilling (Piper Chapman) and Uzo Aduba (Suzanne 'Crazy Eyes' Warren) decided to record some Irish slang.

Kind of.

The script that was slowly rolling on the teleprompter said: "Hello Ireland. What's the craic?" before telling us OITNB is available. "So take a seat and I'll go wet the tea."

Which they almost get right. Almost. Then, deciding that "wet the tea" obviously must be a typo...

Look, we get it. You have to record a promo for every territory Netflix releases in, which is a long afternoon of reading things. But you can do better than giving up and descending into giggles.

What a crock. I mean croike. I mean croyke…

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