--- title: Will Smith Celebrates St. Patrick's Day with Hilarious Post description: Will Smith reminded us that no one enjoys celebrating St. Patrick's Day more than with a hilarious throwback post canonical: https://time.com/5553522/will-smith-st-patricks-day-instagram/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-03-18T14:51:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:09.137Z og:title: Will Smith Celebrates St. Patrick's Day with Hilarious Insta og:description: Doing the most og:url: https://time.com/5553522/will-smith-st-patricks-day-instagram/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Will Smith Celebrates St. Patrick's Day with Hilarious Insta twitter:description: Doing the most twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # A Reminder That No One Enjoys St. Patrick's Day More Than Will Smith > Sponsored content. 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Here’s How the Three-Leaf Clover Became a Symbol of All Things Irish [Watch (HLS stream): Shamrocks Are Everywhere on St. Patrick’s Day. Here’s How the Three-Leaf Clover Became a Symbol of All Things Irish](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/IBkHouuL.m3u8) (1:07)  _Published 2019-03-15. St. Patrick's Day has no shortage of iconography, but for those who celebrate on March 17, one symbol stands above the rest: the shamrock._  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 18, 2019 2:51 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 18, 2019 2:51 PM UTC Lest you forget, [Will Smith](http://time.com/4868415/enums/) thoughtfully reminded his nearly 30 million Instagram followers on Sunday that no one enjoys [St. Patrick’s Day](http://time.com/5550579/shamrock-history/) quite the way that he does. The actor and [Instagram enthusiast](http://time.com/5137241/will-smith-jadn-icon-music-video-parody-instagram/) shared a throwback video of himself wearing a green plaid kilt and matching hat with knee-high green socks along with a freestyle rap about the aftermath of a day of celebration because of St. Patrick’s Day. The post, which prominently features a bunch of St. Patrick’s Day balloons, ended with Smith proudly showing off his dance moves. While Smith initially shared the original video in honor of St. Patrick’s Day festivities last year in 2018, he decided to bless our timelines with his enthusiasm for this holiday this year, noting in his caption: “I just saw my post from last year… smh… My Bad.” See Will Smith do the most for St. Patrick’s Day in the post below. ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5553522/will-smith-st-patricks-day-instagram/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5553522/will-smith-st-patricks-day-instagram/"},"headline":"A Reminder That No One Enjoys St. Patrick's Day More Than Will Smith","datePublished":"2019-03-18T14:51:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:47:09.137Z","description":"Doing the most","url":"https://time.com/5553522/will-smith-st-patricks-day-instagram/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5553522/will-smith-st-patricks-day-instagram/","name":"A Reminder That No One Enjoys St. Patrick's Day More Than Will Smith"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Shamrocks Are Everywhere on St. Patrick’s Day. 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