Dermot Morgan - Father Trendy!

r3nu4l

Long before Father Ted came Father Trendy, anyone remember him?

It was Dermot Morgans first attempt at playing an earnest but misguided priest, I sometimes feel he modelled the character on Dublins Father Brian D'arcy who used to appear in the Sunday World and on the Late Late Show for a while in the eighties.

I still have the book of Trendy Sermons produced by Morgan at that time. Great stuff and very funny. Morgan is sadly missed.

Ruu_Old

I saw a clip of it somewhere (perhaps on the Father Ted dvds?) I dont know. What regular tv show was it on? Indeed sadly missed.

mike65

Fr Brian D'Arcy modeled himself on Fr Trendy I suspect!

Mike.

youthacademy

haven't heard of father trendy in awhile, dont suppose its in an archive somewhere that ye know about??

Blub2k4

Did Father Trendy not come out of "Scrap Saturday"?

r3nu4l

The character could very well have come from Scrap Saturday, not sure! :shrugs:

Although I know he used to do a Fr. Trendy routine during his stand-up days so perhaps it was something he brought to Scrap Saturday with him and it just got recognition there?

I think he also did a bit of it on a Late Late Show appearence. I imagine that went down well at the time

Wishbone Ash

Blub2k4 wrote:

Did Father Trendy not come out of "Scrap Saturday"?

No - Father trendy was out years before Scrap Saturday.

Rovi

Wishbone Ash wrote:

No - Father trendy was out years before Scrap Saturday.

I'm pretty sure Fr. Trendy made his first television appearance on the Mike Murphy Show back in the '80s.

zAbbo

Running around with a hurley, is that him ?

Rovi

zabbo wrote:

Running around with a hurley, is that him ?

No, that was another of his (Dermot Morgan's) characters, who's name I can't recall. IIRC, he was an enthusiastic proponent of rabidly conservative views on current events of the day: politics, sex, contraception, religion, 'foreign' games, etc.

Mrs. MacGyver

Yes he did originate on the Mike Murphy show.

Ruu_Old

Rovi wrote:

I'm pretty sure Fr. Trendy made his first television appearance on the Mike Murphy Show back in the '80s.

Aye, I remember now. Thats where I saw that clip. It must have been on remembering the 80s or one of those type of shows on RTE.

nollaig

No, that was another of his (Dermot Morgan's) characters, who's name I can't recall. IIRC, he was an enthusiastic proponent of rabidly conservative views on current events of the day: politics, sex, contraception, religion, 'foreign' games, etc.

That was a deadly character, Loved it the time on the Mike Murphy show?? when he caled Charlie Haughey 'the almighty himself ' and proceeded to beat the crap out of the set with a hurley. That was pure comedy!

GAA widow

mike65 wrote:

Fr Brian D'Arcy modeled himself on Fr Trendy I suspect!

Mike.

There was a documentary on about Dermot Morgan a couple of years ago, apparently it's the other way around!

My favourite Fr. Trendy quote: "We are all fishing for something in our lives, and what is it we are all fishing for? That's right, SOLE..."

JohnnySideburns

nollaig wrote:

That was a deadly character, Loved it the time on the Mike Murphy show?? when he caled Charlie Haughey 'the almighty himself ' and proceeded to beat the crap out of the set with a hurley. That was pure comedy!

In Shay Healy's 2003 documentary on Dermot Morgan, Mike Murphy stated that smashing up the set wasn’t in the script. “Dermot would get so caught up in the moment that he’d start smashing things that he really shouldn’t be smashing”.

mike65

Ah, I miss Demot Morgan.

Mike.

Greenman

mike65 wrote:

Ah, I miss Demot Morgan.

Mike.

Me too, I think of him nearly everyday. He was great.

DublinWriter

zabbo wrote:

Running around with a hurley, is that him ?

Daz Reight. Dermot sometimes used to tape his lines on the back of the hurley.

mulner92

dermot was the first to have a go at the catholic church in the 1980s but it was frowned upon then. Anybody know where i can find the rte documentary on dermot from 2003. Dermot R.I.P

the purple tin

Linehan and Matthews are making a documentary about Father Ted at the moment.

mrsdewinter

the purple tin wrote: »

Linehan and Matthews are making a documentary about Father Ted at the moment.

Really? That's interesting. Wonder if they approached him for Ted on the back of his Fr Trendy work...

cml387

I remember also from "The Live Mike" when Demot did a send up of "A Nation Once Again"

I seem to recall it was about a dog who died for Ireland.

I believe that some sections of the community weren't amused.

the purple tin

mrsdewinter wrote: »

Really? That's interesting. Wonder if they approached him for Ted on the back of his Fr Trendy work...

Graham Linehan said he didn't really want Dermot to begin with but once he saw him and Ardal together he knew he would be perfect for Ted.

Aglomerado

cml387 wrote: »

I remember also from "The Live Mike" when Demot did a send up of "A Nation Once Again"

I seem to recall it was about a dog who died for Ireland.

I believe that some sections of the community weren't amused.

An Alsatian once again!

JKC

I remember reading the book before Fr. Ted , it was the simple passages like KGB – Keeping God Bored that helped me turn my life to Jayus, if only I could recover the copy
I lent to Fr. Mark Chivers!

Yours in Jayus,

Fr. Sony!
:)

Bearhunter

I had that book, I loved it. Especially remember the one about cars when he asked "Do you go to parties and go around like a Volkswagen? ONe clutch after another? Are you a JCB? A Jesus Christ Believer? Or does your religion needsa BMW? A bit more work?"

7sr2z3fely84g5

He had just broken down the doors he wanted to open before he passed away,i doubt many would known he did voice work in this cartoon in 1998-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mOlzF08llc

Kenny live did a tribute years ago,never seen it since,or does anyone remember the moment he did a rendition of song "big john" in a tribunal way on the late late show,had the audience/piano man frank in horrors laughing.

darkdubh

Brendan O Connor completley ripped off Fr Trendy with that "who's in the house?" song he did.