Yes, we know. Bit of a cryptic title. What could we be writing about this time?

Of course, if you’ve been paying even a drunkard’s amount of attention to us, you’ll know that we are James Bond fanatics, almost to the point where we’d argue that we should be the first American actor to play Bond (problem is, we have no acting abilities or the ability to not ham it up if we were to get the role.)

Anyway, back onto our point, today marks the 66th birthday of the fifth and only Irish actor to play 007, Pierce Brosnan. Fans are divided on Brosnan’s tenure as Bond and many argue that this is due to him getting the role ten years after he should have donned the tux during his run as Remington Steele in the mid-80s. If you don’t know the story, ol’ Pierce got the call that Steele was being renewed as he was LITERALLY walking out the door to the press junket that would’ve announced him to the world as the next James Bond. Talk about bad timing. The part then went to Welsh actor Timothy Dalton and two forgettable movies later, the franchise was finally Brosnan’s.

Now, we’re fans of Goldeneye and The World Is Not Enough in particular, mostly due to the Nintendo 64 games we played for hours on end as teenagers. The other two are better left unspoken, sort of the Voldemorts of the bond franchise.

So to wish the man happy birthday and show that some men absolutely get better with age, we’re happy to present some of the modern Bond’s best looks, many of which show some of us younger chaps how to do the Silver Fox look the right way





























. Enjoy.