'Im calling from Ahasgrah!!' Can anyone remember this TV prog??

MissDucky · 28-04-2010 12:07AM #1

Hey guys.. Got talking to someone from ahasgrah recently and this TV programme came into my head from years back and anyone iv asked since cant remember it but I think its highly unlikely I would just imagine it! Anyway here goes as far as I can remember at the end of the programme a map of the world type thing came up on screen and the voice of an old lady came on and she said something like 'im calling from ahasgrah' and was ringing somewhere like Australia??

Any ideas?? Please dont tell me im imagining this as iv asked so many people I really dont want to think im gone cracked altogether!!:cool:

boomerang · 28-04-2010 12:10AM

It was called "The End"

Hosted by Barry Murphy on Friday nights and Sean Moncrieff on Saturday nights - think it was Sean used to do the "Ahascragh" gag.

bob50 · 28-04-2010 12:12AM

MissDucky wrote: »

Hey guys.. Got talking to someone from ahasgrah recently and this TV programme came into my head from years back and anyone iv asked since cant remember it but I think its highly unlikely I would just imagine it! Anyway here goes as far as I can remember at the end of the programme a map of the world type thing came up on screen and the voice of an old lady came on and she said something like 'im calling from ahasgrah' and was ringing somewhere like Australia??

Any ideas?? Please dont tell me im imagining this as iv asked so many people I really dont want to think im gone cracked altogether!!:cool:

Yeah it was on rte Sean Moncrieff used to talk about about it on this programme cant remember the name tho

OpenYourEyes · 28-04-2010 12:13AM

"Dont feed the gondolas" was the name of it if my memory serves me correctly

Johnnyq79 · 28-04-2010 12:13AM

Was it "don't feed the gondolas"?

MajorThom · 28-04-2010 12:16AM

Yip its 'Dont feed the Gondolas'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Feed_the_Gondolas

pickarooney · 28-04-2010 12:18AM

Monica Looley, wasn't it, from the commitEE?

MissDucky · 28-04-2010 12:18AM

Dont feed the gondalas!!!
Ah ye guys are so good iv just text 4 people with that just to inform them im not for the birds yet thank you so much gosh I knew I couldnt just imagine that!!!:D:D

MissDucky · 28-04-2010 12:22AM

Thats brilliant I shall be sending this link to all my mates!! I knew Dara o Briain came in somewhere too thought he hosted it ah i was only a wee one then the ole memory isnt too bad!!!

MissDucky · 28-04-2010 12:28AM

Looking it up on youtube now.. The memories are flooding back!!:P
Classic stuff!!!
Thanks so much to everyone that replied!

Shane10 · 28-04-2010 10:03AM

DFTG was brilliant. the best bit was when dara used to get up and do a bit with a flipchart. eh...eh..eh. complete nonsense but extremely funny. i used to love that show.

ziedth · 28-04-2010 10:43AM

It was actually very funny, Monday nights right?

I remember a great one monica looley rang Liverpool FC because their supports club confirmed they had been looking at a player who was actually on the sky 1 show dream team. Baptise or something and she rand to say there was a guy in the village by that name and to save face they should say they were after him.

Very funny iirc.

kraggy · 28-04-2010 01:09PM

Monica Looley ringing the White House was my favourite.

The balls on Moncrieff. The CIA have killed for less.

aidan_walsh · 28-04-2010 01:46PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T9fF7VOq-Q

anotherlostie · 28-04-2010 06:02PM

I think Moncrieff is from Ahascragh. At the time it aired, I didn't realise there was such a place until I was down the Wesht some weekend and saw a signpost for it.

kraggy · 29-04-2010 12:12AM

Yeah, he is, pretty much.

Born and lived in London til he was 10 then the family moved back to Ireland to Ahascragh. It's just outside Ballinasloe.

icdg · 02-05-2010 01:12PM

anotherlostie wrote: »

I think Moncrieff is from Ahascragh. At the time it aired, I didn't realise there was such a place until I was down the Wesht some weekend and saw a signpost for it.

That was part of the joke. So many people thought Ahascragh was a made up place and couldn't possibly exist.

However, another running joke on DFTG involved the penultimate round of the quiz, where Patrick McDonnell was sent on location to ask random people stupid questions. They'd have three answers - a right answer, a wrong answer, and a stupidly ridiculous answer!!! Anyway in one episode they started this round and McDonnell announced "We're here in a little village in the west of Ireland called Ahascragh!" To which I recall the studio audience cheered!

DFTG was a favourite of mine, although it was at its best with the classic Moncrieff-O'Briain-O'Connor line up. The final series with O'Connor, Des Bishop, and Kevin McAleer is best forgotten and at that stage The Panel had really become the spiritual successor of DFTG.

me_right_one · 02-05-2010 01:14PM

Dont feed the gondolas

'Im calling from Ahasgrah!!' Can anyone remember this TV prog??

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