Should RTE stop airing Father Ted?

First of all ... you do not have the right to tell anyone to stop posting ... secondly it does not matter what he wrote or didn't ... looked it up briefly and saw the other fella that wrote Ted wrote Val Falvey ... I am not very interested in these people outside of what they originally were famous for and do not put them up on a pedestal ... indeed my very point is these guys are not that important and should stick to writing their comedies ... I watch Father Ted on occasion and it is quite good but I do not want to hear the writers' political and social opinions ... simple as ...

Nobody watches Fr Ted because of any like / love of Graham Linehan…. Nobody will even think of the man from the first scene till last of an episode..

They watch it because they find it funny and enjoy it….nobody even thinks of Linehan sitting down to watch it, nobody thinks about his views on trans people. Nobody really cares about him…he said some stuff….. you can agree with him, disagree with him, be non plussed, be angry, be offended or not give two shîts and not care at all….

it’s not harassment…. Harassment is something in the eyes of the law that is targeted and repeated…. Abuse ? Hate mongering ? You can’t harass a whole cohort of people. I can’t harass Liverpool fans, civil servants, Primark employees, gay people by virtue of a comment or two I’d make… cohorts of the above people may be disappointed, angry, offended by the comments but harassment it ain’t.

Look at Steptoe and Son…. A harmless old bawdy sit-com… replayed on Gold, BBC….well written, brilliantly acted and obviously very funny..

yet…

in the 37 years since the series ended, it was never cancelled, I don’t recall ever a petition claiming it should be..

yet, a whole sitcom Fr Ted is being advocated to get cancelled as one of the writers said controversial stuff.

another sitcom and it’s main star was a pedophile, but nobody bats an eyelid…. 👀 still on Gold, they have a huge section on their website bigging it up….guess what, so does the BBC… no outrage or mass distain….

Read the thread for lots of examples 🖕

A quick Google indicates that there's no campaign to remove Fr Ted from TV....

What on earth on you about? Who said harassment can only have a legal definition. There are plenty of examples of his behaviour of harassment, abuse and hatemongering. He has harassed many individuals. He has made many many hateful transphobic comments. Your suggestion about only or two comments is frankly absurd.

“ what on earth on you about ? “ errrff

I think you need to have a nice cuppa, a Jaffa cake or three and relax.

This I know, but if Linehan gets canceled, I was using Ted as an example

No. Everyone wasn't going around harassing and abusing trans people until 8 years ago. Everyone wasn't ranting about trans people being evil and gromers and paedophiles until 8 years ago.

Linehan has become a far more ridiculous figure in real life than any fictional character in Father Ted.

He has become a composite of the worst traits of many characters.

He has the self regard of that priest who wanted the two parachutes, the ego of Niamh Connolly, the hypocrisy of Bishop Brennan, the charm of Dick Byrne, the reasonableness of Fintan Stack, the honesty of Father Damo Lennon, the stability of Henry Sellers, and the believability of Ted spinning that yarn about the whistle.

At the end of it all he's about as interesting as Father Stone.

And his followers are a shower of Cyril McDuffs.

Yeah you I don't know where you get this but that is a distraction. Linehan doesn't think that. That is not where this controversary came from. . Linehan has said very clearly he doesnt think that.

🤣🤣🤣

Lots of examples in the thread posted by me and others.