RIP Dermot Morgan

Plug

Rip. Dead 15 years today.


Legend

eyescreamcone

Did the Pope want to bow out on the same date as Fr. Ted???

Guill

I thought he had died again or something.

deandean

Aye, it's a very very very very very very dark blue day for Irish comedy.

mike65

Wadafu?

sparkthatbled

Guill wrote: »

I thought he had died again or something.

Maybe he was just resting in his account :cool:

Ravenid

15 years already?! Damn.

I was only just thinking him and Scrap Saturday would have had a field day with the Banks and co.

srm23

ayyyyyyyyyeee don't believe it!

dan1895

Can't believe he is dead 15 years. Had the pleasure of meeting him randomly on Shelbourne Road when i was a kid not long before he died.

kneemos

That's mad.

Teyla Emmagan

I was in Australia on a year out when he died, can't believe it's so long ago. This is back when you went to Australia for the laugh, not because you were being forced to emigrate due to lack of jobs kids. Sigh...

Rabies

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

I was in Australia on a year out when he died, can't believe it's so long ago. This is back when you went to Australia for the laugh, not because you were being forced to emigrate due to lack of jobs kids. Sigh...

Take your recession sh!te talk out of this thread. It ruins enough of threads as it is.
Go back to double dipping your tea bags.

Anyone

Hard to believe its 15 years....

Riddle101

Rabies wrote: »

Take your recession sh!te talk out of this thread. It ruins enough of threads as it is.
Go back to double dipping your tea bags.

Careful Now.

RIP Dermott Morgan

smash

Guill wrote: »

I thought he had died again or something.

He's not dead, he's just very far away!

:pac:

wolfpawnat

I remember watching a programme on Father Ted not too long ago. One of the last scenes he did was the dance one with Tommy Tiernan. According to Tiernan he was mentioning he was a little sore and tired. Scary to think he was only a few hours away from passing. Tiernan got a shock when he flew back to Ireland the next day and heard Dermot was dead.

RIP and thanks for the great hours of laughter!

Aglomerado

I was only listening to "Thank you very much Mr Eastwood" last night, still makes me laugh. Scrap Saturday was excellent too, I invested in the CD boxset a few years ago, brings back great memories. He will never be forgotten.

soggy biscuit

Ya, was watching a documentary of Youtube there a while ago on it (very good actually) where ardal o hanlan explained how his father was at the studios as a medic or something like that for the filming and he had noted how sick and tired dermot had being looking.

Any way, a genius of a man was Dermot, imagine what he could have achieved after Father Ted, but as is the way when anyone dies before there time, he is actually remembered more and his work more appreciated.

Teyla Emmagan

Rabies wrote: »

Take your recession sh!te talk out of this thread. It ruins enough of threads as it is.
Go back to double dipping your tea bags.

It was supposed to be a lighthearted comment. Thanks for jumping down my neck though.

La_Gordy

15 years and Irish comedy has gone from strength to strength with its reception abroad, very much aided by the platform Fr.Ted created.

Such a talent.

intellectual dosser

Either that or it was a powerful amount of toilet duck.

sideswipe

eyescreamcone wrote: »

Did the Pope want to bow out on the same date as Fr. Ted???

That would be an ecumenical matter.

smash

La_Gordy wrote: »

15 years and Irish comedy has gone from strength to strength with its reception abroad, very much aided by the platform Fr.Ted created.

Such a talent.

Yea.... it's just a shame that the quality dropped immensely. I mean, Mrs. Browne's boys.... Jesus.

gjc

wolfpawnat wrote: »

I remember watching a programme on Father Ted not too long ago. One of the last scenes he did was the dance one with Tommy Tiernan. According to Tiernan he was mentioning he was a little sore and tired. Scary to think he was only a few hours away from passing. Tiernan got a shock when he flew back to Ireland the next day and heard Dermot was dead.

RIP and thanks for the great hours of laughter!

That scene that you talk of had to be reshot 20-30 times ....
Tommy Tiernan said in an interview once, Ardal O Hanlon digged him (Tommy) in the waist at Morgans funeral and whispered "You killed Fr Ted...."

admiralofthefleet

intellectual dosser wrote: »

Either that or it was a powerful amount of toilet duck.

youll be seeing those pink elephants again

La_Gordy

smash wrote: »

Yea.... it's just a shame that the quality dropped immensely. I mean, Mrs. Browne's boys.... Jesus.

HA!! I've been living away for the last few years and saw that pish for the first time at Christmas. I sat there stoney faced, the fcuk is that? It's just like fair city wi a tranny.

I meant more the stand up comedians and Rubberbandits, not Mrs Browne's Balls.

Duggy747

He was quite good at impersonations, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U25UGwUNDV0

soggy biscuit

La_Gordy wrote: »

HA!! I've been living away for the last few years and saw that pish for the first time at Christmas. I sat there stoney faced, the fcuk is that? It's just like fair city wi a tranny.

I meant more the stand up comedians and Rubberbandits, not Mrs Browne's Balls.

You surely can't be comparing that ****e Rubberbandits to father ted?? I would class that stuff in with Mrs. Brownes to be honest

dvcireland

I wonder what Dermot Morgan would of made of the situation at his beloved Chelsea:

DoneDL

I was sitting in traffic in Camden when I heard it on the news, right opposite here.

TheBunk1

Plug wrote: »

Rip. Dead 15 years today.


Legend

He won't like that now!

Aglomerado

TheBunk1 wrote: »

He won't like that now!

He should have been Pope! But them Jesuits, they have it all sewn up!

dvcireland

looking for this sketch for years:

syklops

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

I was in Australia on a year out when he died, can't believe it's so long ago. This is back when you went to Australia for the laugh, not because you were being forced to emigrate due to lack of jobs kids. Sigh...

FFS 10 posts and the recession gets mentioned.

<unpopular opinion> what recession?

CroatoanCat

Was the "clapped out" bloke in that clip off Bosco? I think he was!

Jesus, 15 years since Dermot Morgan died. I was in my early 20s then and thought "dead at 46", that's not very old really. Now I realise just how shockingly young it really was. <old fart>

Fr. Ted and Mrs. Brown's Boys should never even be mentioned in the same thread.

i never forgave him for giving the name stab city to limerick

gjc

god i loved scrap saturday....rip dermot

gjc

CroatoanCat wrote: »

I was in my early 20s then and thought "dead at 46", that's not very old really. Now I realise just how shockingly young it really was. <old fart>

the reality is had he of lived 61 is not old either..

CroatoanCat

gjc wrote: »

the reality is had he of lived 61 is not old either..

True indeed .

syklops

I rarely buy DVDs nowadays but I think I'll invest in the scrap saturday boxset.

Great interview with him here on the late late, back when the late late was decent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UctfYwCpqMM

syklops

After watching that interview I wiki'ed Glenamaddy. Anyone else think the Glenamaddy section on wikipedia is maybe less than impartial?

Glenamaddy is the most important town in the northeastern corner of County Galway. It became the musical capital of Connacht during the 1960s when the Showband craze swept the country. To the east of the town lies Loch Lurgeen, a raised bog. The origins of the Parish (which was originally called Boyounagh) lie in the village of Boyounagh which lies to the North West of Glenamaddy Town.

GAA: Glenamaddy has amazing facilities. Many clubs can only dream of facilities like these. GAA has huge GAA heritage and there is an old story that Cú Chulainn played for Glenamaddy. Today Glenamaddy are still going strong with Patrick Conneally a driving force behind the scenes.

Did you write this Patrick Connealy?

gjc

Thanks for that laugh today syklops..i needed it. Dermot really was a funny and talented guy.

Awesomeness

Reading this from China. He was right - they are a great bunch of lads

elefant

They told him to cut it down to 8 hours a day...

rozeboosje

Dermot is dead. The Pope is just going home by helicopter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW5M5xljdCI

Lando Griffin

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

I was in Australia on a year out when he died, can't believe it's so long ago. This is back when you went to Australia for the laugh, not because you were being forced to emigrate due to lack of jobs kids. Sigh...

Jobs aplenty in Ireland just not the high paid low skill jobs in the boom; if your prepared to work in McDonalds Aldi etc then no problem.

Teyla Emmagan

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Jobs aplenty in Ireland just not the high paid low skill jobs in the boom; if your prepared to work in McDonalds Aldi etc then no problem.

I DIDN'T MEAN to mention the poxy recession!!!

kingtiger

damn

read it quickly and thought it was Piers Morgan

gjc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IspZeveLMw0

wolfpawnat

gjc wrote: »

Tommy Tiernan said in an interview once, Ardal O Hanlon digged him (Tommy) in the waist at Morgans funeral and whispered "You killed Fr Ted...."

Oh Dear Jesus, that is both hilarious and extremely terrible. I have to stop laughing!!!!

Antisocialiser

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