Dermot Morgan died 20 years ago today

Welsh Megaman · 28-02-2018 05:28PM #1

Wow...where does the time go?

Mad, Ted.

I’ll always remember listening to 2fm that Sunday afternoon (it was either Aidan Leonard or Michael Cahill dj-ing) when they broke the news - so shocking.

Temptamperu · 28-02-2018 05:30PM

Now I feel old.

El Weirdo · 28-02-2018 05:30PM

Are we sure he didn't just drink an entire bottle of Dreamy Sleepy Nighty Snoozy Snooze?

eyerer · 28-02-2018 05:32PM

I loved that show when I was a kid. I was sad when he died.. just after finishing the last show too.

elperello · 28-02-2018 05:33PM

He left behind a great body of work and some very happy memories.

What would he have had to say in the last 20 years?

Heres Johnny · 28-02-2018 05:34PM

Yep remember where I was too. In my dad's car on way back from playing malahide in a rugby match. Shocked he was such an institution at the time. At least we won the match.

I watch father Ted religiously if it's on tv, pardon the pun.

valoren · 28-02-2018 05:36PM

Apt it snows on his anniversary..

"It's beginning to snow again. The flakes, silver and dark, are falling obliquely against the lamplight. It's probably falling all over the island; on the central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the graveyards, upon the crosses and headstones, upon all the living and the dead..."

El Weirdo · 28-02-2018 05:38PM

valoren wrote: »

Apt it snows on his anniversary..

"It's beginning to snow again. The flakes, silver and dark, are falling obliquely against the lamplight. It's probably falling all over the island; on the central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the graveyards, upon the crosses and headstones, upon all the living and the dead..."

I hear they've taken the roads in.

Four Phucs Ache · 28-02-2018 05:39PM

Me and my brother would have a whole pack of custard creams to dip for the first half , tell mrs doyle (our ma)to make another cup of tea during the break and have a whole pack of chocolate creams for the second half.Good times.

razorblunt · 28-02-2018 05:43PM

I'd only known him for Fr Ted, but I remember seeing him on the Late Late just before his death and he was hilarious!

RikkFlair · 28-02-2018 06:01PM

That very last scene of the last episode where the light goes off in the parochial house and Dougal says "Night Ted" always makes me a bit

A cow called Daisy · 28-02-2018 06:06PM

valoren wrote: »

Apt it snows on his anniversary..

"It's beginning to snow again. The flakes, silver and dark, are falling obliquely against the lamplight. It's probably falling all over the island; on the central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the graveyards, upon the crosses and headstones, upon all the living and the dead..."

"SHUT TO FECK UP"

Postgrad10 · 28-02-2018 06:07PM

What !! Unbelievable. How old am I? Right time for a cup of tea and a few episodes of Ted.

diomed · 28-02-2018 06:08PM

It is difficult to believe it is twenty years.
One day when driving to work at 7am I saw him walking in Donnybrook. He was wearing sunglasses but that was no disguise.
My sister was related to him, and he was at a family funeral.
When with my sister I met his mother a few times and she was lovely, very amusing and intelligent.
He was one of the best Irishmen ever imo.

_Dara_ · 28-02-2018 06:09PM

elperello wrote: »

He left behind a great body of work and some very happy memories.

What would he have had to say in the last 20 years?

Aaaaah, there's other reasons for living, ya know?

_Dara_ · 28-02-2018 06:10PM

valoren wrote: »

Apt it snows on his anniversary..

"It's beginning to snow again. The flakes, silver and dark, are falling obliquely against the lamplight. It's probably falling all over the island; on the central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the graveyards, upon the crosses and headstones, upon all the living and the dead..."

One of my favourite moments in Ted, strangely moving.

KERSPLAT! · 28-02-2018 06:14PM

You'd miss him alright

What a fantastic show, absolutely loved it and would watch it over and over.

barney shamrock · 28-02-2018 06:17PM

FT was great then and is still great now. It's aged well unlike a lot of sitcoms.
I was living in the UK when it first came out and remember English lads asking if people really said 'feck' instead of "the bad f word" in Ireland. ðŸ˜ They thought it was made up for the show.

Lorelli! · 28-02-2018 06:21PM

Fr. Ted use to be on on a Monday night as far as I can remember around 1996/7? The next day you'd go into school and everyone would be talking about it. We use to be in stitches reliving the jokes.

Sephiroth_dude · 28-02-2018 06:25PM

One of the great Irish comedians.

valoren · 28-02-2018 06:29PM

A cow called Daisy wrote: »

"SHUT TO FECK UP"

There's no need for that! :mad: You'll be hearing from my solicitors, Corless Corless and Sweeney!

28-02-2018 06:35PM

I hear you're a racist now Fadder

Time sure does fly. I was in my mid teens when Father Ted first aired. I had a little portable television in my room and that's where I would watch it. Along with a cheese samitch God love me

I remember there was a thing called Central Park West on after it. It was about a newspaper and all the carrying on of it's staff I think.

28-02-2018 06:38PM

Mrs Browne's Boys is funnier than Fr Ted

Not really tho

KERSPLAT! · 28-02-2018 06:42PM

Omackeral wrote: »

Mrs Browne's Boys is funnier than Fr Ted

Not really tho

Jaysus no. No, no, no. Jaysus. No.

Philipx · 28-02-2018 07:13PM

And before that...

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

Speedsie · 28-02-2018 07:29PM

_Dara_ wrote: »

One of my favourite moments in Ted, strangely moving.

Very moving indeed, and an apt Joycean quotation. It's the last paragraph in 'The Dead'.

Loved Scrap Saturday, listened to it religiously!

Clickbait · 28-02-2018 07:34PM

Father Jack died on the same day as well.

BBDBB · 28-02-2018 07:41PM

Its not been the same since they moved it to that Caribbean island and started solving unlikely crimes

A cow called Daisy · 01-03-2018 12:13AM

valoren wrote: »

There's no need for that! :mad: You'll be hearing from my solicitors, Corless Corless and Sweeney!

If they're your solicitors then I'm Boy George

Donald Trump · 01-03-2018 12:20AM

eyerer wrote: »

I loved that show when I was a kid. I was sad when he died.. just after finishing the last show too.

Well, in fairness, it's kinda by definition that the last show was just finished before he died

If he had died in the middle of series one he'd have died just after finishing the "last show"

One_Of_Shanks · 01-03-2018 12:25AM

Donald Trump wrote: »

Well, in fairness, it's kinda by definition that the last show was just finished before he died

If he had died in the middle of series one he'd have died just after finishing the "last show"

What?

Dermot Morgan died 20 years ago today

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