Irish brothers Gary and Paul O'Donovan may have won the silver Olympic medal for rowing at Rio this year, but more importantly, they've won at life.
In a world full of boring and egotistical sports interviews, these two are a breath of fresh air, as you can see...
Credit: BBC / The Graham Norton Show
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From Skibbereen in County Cork, the brothers' accent is thick. Like, really thick. And the way they speak is lyrical, old fashioned and well...hilarious. They don't take their amazing success too seriously and take the piss out of themselves.
It's like watching Father Ted, but with young Olympic medallists.
On The Graham Norton Show, the two were fire with their banter - being laidback as ever about winning Ireland's first Olympic medal for rowing.
"It's a fairly simple sport, like," explained Gary. "There is a start line and a finish line. Yer man says go at the start and there is a hooter at the finish."
"People try to complicate it," said Paul.
"Is it hard to get back in the boat?" asked Graham, who clearly thought that the pressure might be getting to them.
"No, it's the same, you just put the boat down and get in it," said Paul, deadpan.
Paul is the genius who coined the term and soon-to-be inspirational quote, "Close your eyes and pull like a dog" which means row really hard. I think. Pull Like a Dog is also the name of the documentary about the brothers' sporting success - not their nightclub antics.
The brothers' rambling monologues are already legendary.
After winning silver at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Paul was interviewed on Ireland's news channel, RTE and asked how he was feeling. A standard question for a sportsman - but Paul didn't give a standard answer. He went full stream of consciousness:
"The legs are like jelly, we did a bit of celebrating and we did the podium thing and saw the mother and the father and then I had to go and do this doping control thing so I was trying to pee into a cup for hours. Had about 10 litres of water so I'm a bit full up now. It's been great craic."
What lads.
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Words by Laura Hamilton
Featured Image Credit: BBC / The Graham Norton ShowTopics: olympics