Why people laugh , when someone say "I am an Irish"?

@dandan07 (1906)
China
September 11, 2011 5:36am CST
Today, I look the Joe Wang's talk show on the net. And find that many people laugh when he say "I am an Irish". As a Chinese, I can not find anything interesting in the sentence. Does that sentence have some special meanings? Or there are some stories for it, how does it come from? Can you tell me?
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maximax8
@maximax8 (31042)
• United Kingdom
13 Sep 11
When I was at university in Wales there were many Irish students and English students There were not any Scottish students. The ones from Northern Ireland got the course free and a grant. The ones from the Republic of Ireland didn't get their education paid for. I thought Americans really like the Irish and to them these people are lovely. In England the people have some jokes about the Irish but I have some Irish friends. On the Joe Wang show the people laugh because they are happy to see an Irish person perhaps.
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huilichan8
@huilichan8 (1378)
• Singapore
12 Sep 11
I have no idea...sorry...hv a gd wk!:)
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petersum
@petersum (4522)
• United States
11 Sep 11
Who is Joe Wang? The phrase is bad English - the an is not required. Perhaps some Chinese think this is funny? It isn't funny in the West.
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