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Real life people Fr Ted characters were based on.

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  • #102
    trashcan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,085 ✭✭✭trashcan


    saabsaab wrote: »
    Would be great if they did a short spin off series or a special for Christmas?


    You could have Fr Dougal becoming Bishop (clerical error of course) and say Dylan Moran becoming the new (not religious) parish priest. Mrs Doyle would be replaced by her daughter and the the Foil Arms and Hog trio would place other priests.

    Eh, no.


  • #103
    saabsaab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,248 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    trashcan wrote: »
    Eh, no.


    Ah go on!


  • #104
    trashcan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,085 ✭✭✭trashcan


    saabsaab wrote: »
    Ah go on!

    :D. You will you will you will you will.


  • #105
    fryup
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    Hulk Hands wrote: »
    Loved the bit about the priest with Larry Duff held up because he was running guns for the IRA

    no that was Fr Williams, and he was based on Fr Paddy Ryan who ran for election back in the late 80's on the anti extradition ticket

    also, Mattie Hislop was based on Matt Talbot and Father Barty Dunne the laughing priest i think was based on Fr Brian Darcy


  • #106
    Immortal Starlight
    Registered Users Posts: 2,150 ✭✭✭Immortal Starlight


    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Wonder if Jon Kenny's Eurovision presenter was based on someone in RTE, the chap who offscreen talks drunken gibberish but once onscreen is slick and articulate?

    Gerry Ryan I’d say


  • #107
    George White
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,325 ✭✭✭George White


    Well, yes, considering if he was of his head on coke while in the studio.


  • #108
    Real Donald Trump
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭Real Donald Trump


    Fr Fintan Fay is based on Micheal Martin


  • #109
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Father Brian Eno was based on a guy they used to see cycling around Kilburn.

    He only did it so his fee would go to charity.


  • #110
    Lewis_Benson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,152 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    George White wrote: »
    Well, yes, considering if he was of his head on coke while in the studio.

    Off.


  • #111
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Lewis_Benson wrote: »
    Off.

    I hear you're a Grammar Nazi now

    Down with that sort of thing.


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  • #112
    Lewis_Benson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,152 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    I hear you're a Grammar Nazi now

    Down with that sort of thing.

    Careful now.


  • #113
    larko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 162 ✭✭larko


    I remember hearing Brendan Grace being interviewed about the Finta Stack character. He said he was given the script and the type of guy Finta Stack was. He went into the interview and that voice came out of him. He said it just happened but it was one of his old teachers in CBS. That's exactly how he spoke and he was pure evil. It wasnt planned. And the producers loved it.


  • #114
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    yes and he also said iirc, that others at the audition were doing Fr Stack as a mad loud wild thug, but he went the opposite for the more sinister conniving type


  • #115
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    some random drunk wrote: »
    Bit more of an obscure one, but the (unseen)character of Matty Hislop from "Cigarettes and Alcohol and Rollerblading" is based on Matt Talbot, who has a street and bridge named after him in Dublin.

    "Who?" "Matty Hislop. He was a notorious drunkard who found God and then decided to punish himself for his sins. Oh, he used to do all kinds of things. Like he had this terrible allergic reaction to cats. So instead of avoiding them, he used to carry a kitten in his pocket. He'd sniff it from time to time. His head just inflated like a balloon."

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Talbot

    *I say unseen but there is actually a painting in the background of him sticking his hand in a toaster :D

    https://youtu.be/PIY9WCRAVZE

    Obscure? I thought that was a glaringly obvious reference.


  • #116
    PhilOssophy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,114 ✭✭✭PhilOssophy


    larko wrote: »
    I remember hearing Brendan Grace being interviewed about the Finta Stack character. He said he was given the script and the type of guy Finta Stack was. He went into the interview and that voice came out of him. He said it just happened but it was one of his old teachers in CBS. That's exactly how he spoke and he was pure evil. It wasnt planned. And the producers loved it.

    Ted I can see up your trousers.


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