Father Ted - Irish or British?

mike65 · 13-03-2010 02:48PM

****ing hell its not often something so trivial should need a sticky but I'd make an exception for this pressing matter. :rolleyes:

ejmaztec · 13-03-2010 02:50PM

Schism wrote: »

Why does it even matter if it's Irish or English? From what I can see the vast majority of your threads are designed to stir ****.

Is this something to do with the Irish writers and cast being occupied by the British, then each programme being partitioned for an ad break?:eek:

barongreen · 13-03-2010 02:51PM

an irish comedy made by the brits is'nt it?. btw it would not have been as good if rte had made it........

Hank_Jones · 13-03-2010 02:56PM

barongreen wrote: »

an irish comedy made by the brits is'nt it?. btw it would not have been as good if rte had made it........

Exactly.

Val Falvey anyone?

brummytom · 13-03-2010 03:11PM

As much as I'd like to say British, I'd class it as Irish - Irish cast, Irish writers, Irish humour. The British imput is quite scarce

df1985 · 13-03-2010 03:20PM

''ride me sideways was another one!''

i got a picture outside the parochial house that its set in. its down the back arse of clare, hard to find but was cool seeing it in the flesh.

whether rte were offered it or not im glad c4 had it. if it was an rte comedy there would have been uproar from the older generations, even when network2 showed it my parents thought it was disgraceful.they had no problems when it was on c4!

RayM · 13-03-2010 03:20PM

Hank_Jones wrote: »

Exactly.

Val Falvey anyone?

Ah, Val Falvey... The show that Father Ted could have been.

Duggy747 · 13-03-2010 03:22PM

Irish produced show sold to the Brits.

End of story!

Who cares who it belongs to, it being still funny is a more interesting thing!

ejmaztec · 13-03-2010 03:25PM

I remember listening to Griff Rhys-Jones when he spoke about lending a London flat to Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews when they were writing scripts. He said that they hardly left the place and lived on pizza deliveries. Each time a lightbulb blew over their workspace, they would nick one from another light-socket until they were almost all used up. When he visited the place after they moved out, he found that all of the cupboards were full of empty pizza boxes.

Kotek Besar · 13-03-2010 03:34PM

dlofnep wrote: »

BrIrish?

Interesting word. Now, would the first "i" in this word be pronounced like the first "i" in the word "Irish", or would it be pronounced like the first "i" in the word "British"?

In the case of the former, the word "Brirish" would sound more closely to the word "Irish", which might upset some Unionists. Otherwise, it would sound more like the word "British". This, naturally, might upset some Nationalists.

Perhaps we should adopt both pronunciations, using each alternately and equally in conversation..

dlofnep · 13-03-2010 03:48PM

Kotek Besar wrote: »

Interesting word. Now, would the first "i" in this word be pronounced like the first "i" in the word "Irish", or would it be pronounced like the first "i" in the word "British"?

In the case of the former, the word "Brirish" would sound more closely to the word "Irish", which might upset some Unionists. Otherwise, it would sound more like the word "British". This, naturally, might upset some Nationalists.

Perhaps we should adopt both pronunciations, using each alternately and equally in conversation..

You're a gas man!

Father Ted - Irish or British?

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