Was Father Ted the best ever Irish Comedy Show?

Fighting Irish

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Riddle101

Fr Stack: What are we watching?
Priest 1(can't remember his name): We're watching the sports day
Fr Stack: Lot's of young fellas running around in shorts. That's the type of thing you like watching, and I bet you like that too(nods at priest 2). Course you're proberly imagining what they're like without shorts. You're sitting there, imagining that with a big smile on your face.......... Ya dirty feck*rs
Fr Ted: Fr Stack if you're trying to get to us, you're not doing it
Fr Stack: Yes I am
Priest 1: Well I have to say you're a really rude man
fr Stack: If you ever say that to me again, i'll put your head through the wall
Priest 2: Well eh, we really should be off now
Fr Stack: Bye girls, pair of w*nkers

Venom

Paths to Freedom was the best ever Irish Comedy Show closely followed by Sarah and Steve. Father Ted was one of the best Channel 4 shows and easily in the top 5 best British comedy shows.

Marie ridgeway

No the best irish comedy ever was Hot milk and Pepper.

take everything

gamgsam wrote: »

Yes. Next.

I think that's all the questions he has.

hiscan

Paparazzo wrote: »

I think Father Ted was funny when it was out first but has aged terribly. The most over rated comedy of all time

Fupp off :mad:

arid

It's definitely an Irish show. If you're being pedantic Irish/British. But seriously, Irish writers, directors, cast and all the location shots filmed in Ireland... the British contribution was only the technical stuff, the studio and the money. :P Not to mention so many of the little Irish in-jokes and references that make it so much better.

In answer to the question, yes, yes it was.

McChubbin

Where are you going with yor fetlocks blowing in the... wind!

Son Of A Vidic

Yes OP. "No Dougal, those cows are far away."

Underground

FFS,of course it's an irish show.
Just because it had English producers does not make it any less Irish.
Thats like sayin Robbie Keane is an English footballer because Tottenham pay his wages.

df1985

The lovely girls competition when the girls were walking around the mini traffic cones has me in stitches every single time.

Truley

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Sitec

Henry Cellars is my hero

joannaman

What's the competition to Father Ted? Upwardly fcuking mobile? Some ****e starring twink? Of course it's the best Irish show ever and of course it was not made by rte, the shower of cnuts.

Greyfox

Father Ted is by a mile the greatest TV programme of all time imo

love this bit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gID6DpICZ8

arid

joannaman wrote: »

What's the competition to Father Ted? Upwardly fcuking mobile? Some ****e starring twink? Of course it's the best Irish show ever and of course it was not made by rte, the shower of cnuts.

Paths to Freedom was good. :pac:

Other than that I agree entirely. When it comes to comedy, RTÉ are like the anti-Midas - everything they touch turns to sh1t.

JerryHandbag

df1985 wrote: »

The lovely girls competition when the girls were walking around the mini traffic cones has me in stitches every single time.

ALL the girls have lovely bottoms

OPENROAD

Underground wrote: »

FFS,of course it's an irish show.
Just because it had English producers does not make it any less Irish.
Thats like sayin Robbie Keane is an English footballer because Tottenham pay his wages.

or Mick McCarthy, oh :P

OPENROAD

Sitec wrote: »

Henry Cellars is my hero

+1

Sack me !! sack me !! I made the BBC

Agonist

Paths to Freedom was fantastic. Genuinely funny without resorting to slapstick (much).

pickarooney

Stained Class wrote: »

Nah, seriously FT dealt with British eccentricities & hangups in the same way that Fr Ted did with the Irish.

Abbreviation Fail.

papajimsmooth

Thought Black Books was way better than Fr. Ted. Its as Irish as Fr. ted anyway.

Padgeman

I can't believe we're this far into the thread, and no-one has mentioned the hilarious Fade Street :rolleyes:

Funky G

Bishop Brennan in the bath while on the phone to Ted....

"If you ever try to bull**** me again, i will rip off yer arms!"

Then a sexy babe goes into the bath with him as he hangs up the phone!

Classic

Don't forget Father Dougal's "Spiderbaby"!

"it has the body of a spider but is acutually a baby"

Classic

JerryHandbag

Padgeman wrote: »

I can't believe we're this far into the thread, and no-one has mentioned the hilarious Fade Street :rolleyes:

The hilarious what now?

yesno1234

19th of July? Would that be the day the Ice Age ended Ted?

msg11

Fairground S1EP1

Father Dougal : Ah come on Ted we should go, last year I had a go at the horse riding.

Father Ted : I didn't know you could ride horses?

Father Dougal : Ah well Ted it was not a real horse; it was this owl fella with a saddle on him. God he must have been about 80, of course he couldn't go very fast. I was lashing him with the whip and all that. Not much of a response from him..

Father Ted : And how long were you up on him ?

Father Dougal : Say it was about ehhh an hour..

Father Ted : So you were up on top of an 80 year old man riding him around for 60 minutes ? You do realise that imagine will stay with me for the rest of my life.

Father Dougal : Yeah it was great

Pricelesss..

scudzilla

I think the current Irish Government are giving it a good run for it's money

SuperInfinity

Yes, by far.

shuvly

papajimsmooth wrote: »

Thought Black Books was way better than Fr. Ted. Its as Irish as Fr. ted anyway.

I have series one black book on dvd..welcome 2 the dark side!

SuperInfinity

yesno1234 wrote: »

19th of July? Would that be the day the Ice Age ended Ted?

"No Dougal, they can't be that specific about things like that."

I think then Dougal shows him something saying that it actually was the 19th of July. :rolleyes:

Then they say: oh god, is it time for father jack's bath??? :eek:

And then they calm down and say no, remember, he just had his bath.... a few months ago...

kumate_champ07

Frances Swift Penalty wrote: »

"Butlers after winning two million quid, now he's off to Belvedere"
Quality, pure quality.

Actually, if they're on dvd I've figured out my secret santa

toby with the squeaky voice in the cycling shorts! and the other posh guy was a sock designer, actor that played him was in the eurovision episode of father ted.
anto was in ballykissangel, think the wife moved to carrigstown. it wasnt bad but Its been a long time since Ive seen it, not sure how it would have aged.

'paths to freedom' was great

Sgt Hartman

Fr.Ted: "Would you like me to turn on some music for you Paul?"

Fr Stone: "........No I'm fine.


(silence)


Fr. Ted: "Or maybe you'd like me to turn on the telly?"

Fr. Stone: ".........No thanks, I'm fine."


(more silence)


Fr. Ted: "Have you seen Fr Shorthall lately?"

Fr. Stone: "...........No!"

Fr. Ted : "God, he must be about eighty now"

Fr. Stone: ....................I suppose so.


(even more silence)




That was one of my favourite episodes:D

IvyTheTerrible

yesno1234 wrote: »

19th of July? Would that be the day the Ice Age ended Ted?

Galway was invaded by indians.

General Zod

Children!


Leave it to Mrs. O'Brien.

phill106

Heard this bit from tommy tiernan last week on the radio


Tiernan spoke of the part he played in the death of fellow comic Dermot Morgan in a 2009 documentary shown on TV3 Ireland. Tiernan played a priest in an episode of Father Ted in which Morgan played the title character. The episode, which was the last filmed and the last broadcast in 1998, featured a scene where Tiernan's character, Fr. Kevin, was depressed and sitting at a table while Ted was jumping around and dancing. The producers said Tiernan's face was not quite right and they had to do the scene again and again. Morgan was said to be exhausted but persuaded to give it one more go. Then filming wrapped and Tiernan went to London the next day. That evening a taxi driver informed him that Morgan had unexpectedly and suddenly died. At the funeral Ardal O'Hanlon, who played Father Dougal McGuire, turned to Tiernan and whispered in his ear "you killed Father Ted!"

Cunning Stunt

Deffo the best Irish comedy show ever.
There are sooo many good episodes, it's hard to choose, but my favourite episodes are the p*ss take of the Eurovision song contest, the ''flight into terror' one where their plane is going down and the holidays episode where Graham Norton guest starred as the leader of a youth group. Oh and the one where 'funland' comes to craggy island - " A child has become lodged in the tunnel of goats"

Tallaght Saint

In fairness, it hasn't had much competition

SuperInfinity

phill106 wrote: »

Heard this bit from tommy tiernan last week on the radio


Tiernan spoke of the part he played in the death of fellow comic Dermot Morgan in a 2009 documentary shown on TV3 Ireland. Tiernan played a priest in an episode of Father Ted in which Morgan played the title character. The episode, which was the last filmed and the last broadcast in 1998, featured a scene where Tiernan's character, Fr. Kevin, was depressed and sitting at a table while Ted was jumping around and dancing. The producers said Tiernan's face was not quite right and they had to do the scene again and again. Morgan was said to be exhausted but persuaded to give it one more go. Then filming wrapped and Tiernan went to London the next day. That evening a taxi driver informed him that Morgan had unexpectedly and suddenly died. At the funeral Ardal O'Hanlon, who played Father Dougal McGuire, turned to Tiernan and whispered in his ear "you killed Father Ted!"

Is this true? What an insensitive and horrible thing to say...

General Zod

SuperInfinity wrote: »

Is this true? What an insensitive and horrible thing to say...

I dunno, Dermot Morgan probably would have found it funny.

phill106

SuperInfinity wrote: »

Is this true? What an insensitive and horrible thing to say...

General Zod wrote: »

I dunno, Dermot Morgan probably would have found it funny.

Well i definitely heard tommy himself say it on the radio. I found it hilarious, and like General zod, I think dermot also would have found it funny.
Other then the fact that he was dead of course.

Muff_Daddy

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