The joke:

A dad buys a robot that slaps you when you lie and decides to try it out on his son. The dad says, "What did you do this afternoon?"

The son goes, "Just some homework" and the robot slaps him. "Okay, okay. I was watching porn."

The dad says, "What? I didn't even know what porn was at your age" and gets a slap.

The man's wife sighs and says, "He's definitely your son." The robot slaps her.

About the jokester:

Sarah Bolger is a butcher's daughter from a land called Rathfarnham who grew up to become a princess. As the Irish actress says, "I'm a livin', breathin' fairy tale. And my mother is a fantastic baker—but if you say candlestick maker, I'm going to beat you with my umbrella." An interesting weapon of choice. "I have actually done a lot of fencing work for my job, so I guess I could use it as a saber, potentially." Oh? "I'm giving myself probably way too much credit." Myth dispelled, then. Next up for the 23-year-old who starred as Princess Mary on The Tudors and Sleeping Beauty on ABC's Once Upon a Time: playing a lowly student in the high-brow horror film The Lazarus Effect (out February 27). The movie is about a group of scientists who attempt to revive a human—with disastrous success. "Lazarus is pretty much the opposite to playing a princess, because all I wear is leather," Bolger says. Anything else we should know? "I can beat your ass in poker." Now that is a fantasy.

—Nate Hopper

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Chris McPherson Esquire

Chris McPherson Esquire

Chris McPherson Esquire

PHOTOGRAPH BY CHRIS MCPHERSON

Published in the March 2015 issue.

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