Cheap and facile...because it involves a stereotype....Uh huh....as cheap and facile as assuming that someone who laughs at this post thinks all Irish are drunks?...what reductionist thinking. It's cheap and puerile if you ask me. It saves someone the "hard work" of considering context. You should read Brave New World sometime. I never thought the citizenry would pursue such a society until recently.

I happen to feel that humor is the best lense through which to present stereotypes, because it acknowledges their absurdity.
Would you find Blazing Saddles cheap and facile because it incorporated stereotypes about black people? That movie was written by Richard Pryor. He understood the power of humor.

Also, Ulysses is rife with humor about all sorts of things..including stereotypes. How can you assert it's an intelligent work? Shouldn't you be advocating for its censorship or, if nothing else, condemning it, here?