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Was Father Ted the best ever Irish Comedy Show?

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  • #32
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,250 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    chin_grin wrote: »
    No Irish comedy shows are funny. The UK shows are far superior.

    Fawlty Towers, Boosh, Peep Show, Mitchell and Webb Look, Stewart Lee, Black Books, Spaced, Monty Python, Brasseye, Look Around You, Time Trumpet, Garth Merenghis Dark Place, Nathan Barley, etc, etc.

    *goes into kitchen for can opener for the can of worms that chin_grin is going to open*


  • #33
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,250 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Did you get that dougal?
    I'm just going to turn it up ted, at this volume you could a pin dro*&^***^^£"!(**&


  • #34
    themandan6611
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,631 ✭✭✭themandan6611


    Was Father Ted the best ever Irish Comedy Show

    no twas the fianna fail ard fheis


  • #35
    W.Shakes-Beer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭W.Shakes-Beer


    Crilly, if you ever bullshít me like that again, I will rip off your arms.


  • #36
    fonecrusher1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,984 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    Change the title of this thread to loads n loads of lines from Father Ted.

    something something something ted.....


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  • #37
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    :D:D:D


    I'm not a fascist, I'm a priest. Fascists dress in black and go around telling people what to do, whereas...priests... More drink!


  • #38
    epgc3fyqirnbsx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    Obviously you have all forgotten the brilliance of "Upwardly Mobile"


  • #39
    cml387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,423 ✭✭✭cml387


    Frances Swift Penalty wrote: »
    Obviously you have all forgotten the brilliance of "Upwardly Mobile"

    At last the voice of reason.


  • #40
    FouxDaFaFa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,850 ✭✭✭FouxDaFaFa


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beN7FftWNCM

    Possibly my favourite tv moment ever.

    "What's going on?"
    "I think Ted has a plan"
    "No...I mean, in general?"


  • #41
    Aldebaran
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,053 ✭✭✭Aldebaran


    Fcukin' hell


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  • #42
    W.Shakes-Beer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭W.Shakes-Beer


    Wooooo....Bye Girls!........Pair of ****.


  • #43
    ascanbe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭ascanbe


    Definitely the best ever Irish sit-com.
    But, as i heard someone else say about something else, that's like being exalted for being the tallest dwarf.
    Genuinely great show, though.


  • #44
    EverEvolving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭EverEvolving


    Are you sure you won't try some cake father?? It's got cocaine in it.

    What Cocaine????

    Ooh no, not cocaine ... whats that ya call them ... oh yes raisins.

    _________________________________________________


    Dougal - I'm not good at judging the size of crowds, but I'd say there's about 17 Million of them out there.


  • #45
    Aldebaran
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,053 ✭✭✭Aldebaran


    When it yawns it sounds like Liam Neeson chasing a load of hens around inside a barrel.


  • #46
    bronte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,331 ✭✭✭✭bronte


    They lie in wait like wolves. The smell of blood in their nostrils. Waiting. Interminably waiting. And then...


  • #47
    FoxT
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,204 ✭✭✭FoxT


    Father Ted was as Irish as Yorkshire Pudding. I think the best Irish comedy show ever in the whole world was.....

    TV - Halls Pictorial Weekly

    Radio - Scrap Saturday (OK not TV, but it was better than TV, and it was Irish:D)


  • #48
    ascanbe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭ascanbe


    Stained Class wrote: »
    Yeah, most likely the best comedy show of all time.

    I remember when it first came out there was a bit of a furore about it being made by a British company & how the Brits would be laughing at us etc..

    Still, can anybody name a better comedy show?

    Way better than Faulty Towers but Only Fools & Horses gives it a run though...

    In no way is it 'way better' than Fawlty Towers.


  • #49
    yesno1234
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,338 ✭✭✭yesno1234


    They say it's as big as four cats, and it's got a retractable leg so as it can leap up at you better and you know what Ted, it lights up at night, and it's got four ears. Two of them are for listening and the other two are kind of back-up ears, and it's claws are as big as cups and for some reason it's got a tremendous fear of stamps and Mrs. Doyle was tellin' me that it's got magnets on it's tail so's if you're made out of metal it can attach itself to you, and instead of a mouth it's got four arses


  • #50
    baldbear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,665 ✭✭✭baldbear


    "JUST PLAY THE ***ING NOTE", Brill episode.

    I wish Dermot Morgan was alive! He'd have a field day with our crooked politicians.


  • #51
    Ardennes1944
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,234 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    at the recent student protest in dublin there was obviously many signs but about a third of them were two people holding separate signs saying....down with this sort of thing....careful now:D


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  • #52
    jimmycrackcorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,372 ✭✭✭✭jimmycrackcorm


    feelingstressed wrote: »
    True but the producers own the show

    And Hattrick Productions is a UK independent production company
    And then Channel 4 acquired rights for it

    So would it be Welsh then maybe?


  • #53
    Gunsfortoys
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    themandan6611 wrote: »
    Was Father Ted the best ever Irish Comedy Show

    no twas the fianna fail ard fheis

    FFS. Can't escape it can you.


  • #54
    JerryHandbag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭JerryHandbag


    Apparently you can have tea in the actual parochial house in Co. Clare now, saw it advertised in a pub in Ennistymon. I think theres money to be made around that area, Fr. Ted tours!! The very very very dark caves are only up the road too. I'm not too sure where St. Clabbarts is though :p


  • #55
    Kiwi_knock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,484 ✭✭✭Kiwi_knock


    May have been produced by a British company but its writers were Irish and it was based on Irish priests and Irish life of that time so it should be classified as an Irish show. Certainly the best Irish comedy show of all time.

    May as well add a quote:

    Mrs Doyle: Are you looking forward to your lunch tomorrow, Father?
    Ted: Hmmm? I suppose so.
    Mrs Doyle: You do like pheasant, don't you Father?
    Ted: Pheasant? I love pheasant.
    Mrs Doyle: Well there's a little clue. The thing you'll be eating likes pheasant as well.


  • #56
    Hrududu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,712 ✭✭✭Hrududu


    Will ya do the fandango?


  • #57
    Xavi6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,159 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Take the word 'Irish' out of the thread title and it'd be more accurate.

    Best ever bar none.

    "It's only a bleedin' whistle"


  • #58
    Dman001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,534 ✭✭✭Dman001


    Stained Class wrote: »
    Yeah, most likely the best comedy show of all time.

    I remember when it first came out there was a bit of a furore about it being made by a British company & how the Brits would be laughing at us etc..

    Still, can anybody name a better comedy show?

    Way better than Faulty Towers but Only Fools & Horses gives it a run though...

    Careful now!


  • #59
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Got to be honest. I don't find Fawlty Towers very funny.




    /runs


  • #60
    Paparazzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,395 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    I think Father Ted was funny when it was out first but has aged terribly. The most over rated comedy of all time


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  • #61
    Einhard
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    brummytom wrote: »
    Got to be honest. I don't find Fawlty Towers very funny.




    /runs

    :eek:

    /runs after brummytom. with a stick.


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