The figure of the clumsy Irish maid was one of the most recognisable Irish stereotypes in Anglo-American print culture, contributing to a shared repository of comic Irish tropes. This chapter begins with an overview of the jokes told about Irish servants on both sides of the Atlantic, summarising their most common themes. It then considers the print industry trends that allowed jokes to travel so extensively. The next section situates Irish servant jokes within an expanding culture of Victorian respectability, arguing that laughter about domestics functioned as a release valve for the pressures associated with the maintenance of bourgeois status. Finally, the chapter discusses the fading of the comic ‘Bridget’ stereotype from the early twentieth century.