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Was Father Ted the best ever Irish Comedy Show?

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  • #52
    jimmycrackcorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,345 ✭✭✭✭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
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,080 ✭✭✭Gunsfortoys


    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
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    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
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    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: 1,711 ✭✭✭Hrududu


    Will ya do the fandango?


  • #57
    Xavi6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,899 ✭✭✭✭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
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    Got to be honest. I don't find Fawlty Towers very funny.




    /runs


  • #60
    Paparazzo
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    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
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭Einhard


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




    /runs

    :eek:

    /runs after brummytom. with a stick.


  • #62
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
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    it's pretty pathetic the amount of irish people who'll fall over themselves trying to claim a british tv show as an irish sensation.


  • #63
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,228 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    I do struggle to think of a sit-com better than it.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #64
    Gunsfortoys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,080 ✭✭✭Gunsfortoys


    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    it's pretty pathetic the amount of irish people who'll fall over themselves trying to claim a british tv show as an irish sensation.


    It IS an Irish show. Jesus christ everything about it is Irish, just because it was on channel 4 doesn't make it any less Irish.

    Sure didn't the writers go to RTE first with it and they told them to feck off(see what I did there, mega lolz).


  • #65
    karlog
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    THE WORLD IS F*CKED!!!!


  • #66
    Gunsfortoys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,080 ✭✭✭Gunsfortoys


    karlog wrote: »
    THE WORLD IS F*CKED!!!!


    I believe the word you are looking for, is fecked.


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  • #67
    karlog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭karlog


    Gunsfortoys wrote: »
    I believe the word you are looking for, is fecked.

    No it's F*ucked


  • #68
    Super-Rush
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    Frances Swift Penalty wrote: »
    Obviously you have all forgotten the brilliance of "Upwardly Mobile"

    That was that show about a couple who had won the lotto right? Joe Savino was in it?


  • #69
    Gunsfortoys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,080 ✭✭✭Gunsfortoys


    karlog wrote: »
    No it's F*ucked

    Flucked??:confused:


  • #70
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    he has lost the trust of his sheep,which is piunishment enough for a man who deals primarily...with sheep


  • #71
    epgc3fyqirnbsx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    super-rush wrote: »
    That was that show about a couple who had won the lotto right? Joe Savino was in it?

    "Butlers after winning two million quid, now he's off to Belvedere"
    Quality, pure quality.

    Actually, if they're on dvd I've figured out my secret santa


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  • #72
    Celly Smunt
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    themandan6611 wrote: »
    Was Father Ted the best ever Irish Comedy Show

    no twas the fianna fail ard fheis

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH..HA


  • #73
    thomond2006
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    Careful now.


  • #74
    markesmith
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    Ah yeah, it was definitely the best Irish comedy show ever. Best British comedy you could argue Monthy Python, Only Fools, Fawlty Towers, Blackadder, Peep Show, Fast Show...

    Father Ted is the best Irish comedy show by a county mile


  • #75
    Super-Rush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    Frances Swift Penalty wrote: »
    "Butlers after winning two million quid, now he's off to Belvedere"
    Quality, pure quality.

    Actually, if they're on dvd I've figured out my secret santa

    There was a programme on before it and i used to love it but the name escapes me. I remember watching them both on Friday evenings. What was the name of that programme?


  • #76
    epgc3fyqirnbsx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    super-rush wrote: »
    There was a programme on before it and i used to love it but the name escapes me. I remember watching them both on Friday evenings. What was the name of that programme?

    Details...


  • #77
    Super-Rush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    Frances Swift Penalty wrote: »
    Details...

    Racking my brain here but can't think what it was about. Although i want to say it was set in a school.


  • #78
    epgc3fyqirnbsx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    super-rush wrote: »
    Racking my brain here but can't think what it was about. Although i want to say it was set in a school.

    Billy Connolly used to have some sitcom where he was a school teacher?


  • #79
    ascanbe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭ascanbe


    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    I do struggle to think of a sit-com better than it.

    Fawlty Towers, The Phil Silvers show, Blackadder goes Forth, Cheers, The Larry Sanders show, Curb your enthusiasm, The Office...struggling after that.


  • #80
    Super-Rush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    Frances Swift Penalty wrote: »
    Billy Connolly used to have some sitcom where he was a school teacher?

    It was an Irish show aimed at teenagers. Don't think he was in it.


  • #81
    ascanbe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭ascanbe


    Frances Swift Penalty wrote: »
    Billy Connolly used to have some sitcom where he was a school teacher?

    Head of the class.


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  • #82
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,190 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    And what do you say to a cup?

    FECK OFF CUP!


  • #83
    ascanbe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭ascanbe


    super-rush wrote: »
    It was an Irish show aimed at teenagers. Don't think he was in it.

    Finbarr's class or something like that?


  • #84
    epgc3fyqirnbsx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    super-rush wrote: »
    It was an Irish show aimed at teenagers. Don't think he was in it.

    I'm racking my brains, was it 2phat with zig and zag?
    ascanbe wrote: »
    Head of the class.

    Yeah, what happened that? Was it crap? Too young to remember :cool:


  • #85
    jill_valentine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    Deutschlandfürimmer7 wrote: »
    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

    The "DOWN WITH THIS SORT OF THING!" "CAREFUL NOW!" combo is a mainstay at protests, there's always one or two. I think poor Graham Linehan's head is probably wrecked with people sending him photos of them.

    That said, I was well impressed at the IMF march today, somebody went one further and broke out "IS THERE ANYTHING TO BE SAID FOR ANOTHER MASS?!?!"


  • #86
    Super-Rush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    ascanbe wrote: »
    Finbarr's class or something like that?

    We have a weiner.


  • #87
    epgc3fyqirnbsx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    super-rush wrote: »
    We have a weiner.

    It's not on youtube and I can't remember it. But I'm sure it was deadly. Nice one ascanbe


  • #88
    ascanbe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭ascanbe


    Frances Swift Penalty wrote: »
    I'm racking my brains, was it 2phat with zig and zag?



    Yeah, what happened that? Was it crap? Too young to remember :cool:

    I remember quite liking it when i was young; was canelled, i suppose.
    Probably because it was crap.
    Robin Givens was in it; Mike Tyson's wife, for a short while.


  • #89
    ascanbe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭ascanbe


    super-rush wrote: »
    We have a weiner.

    Bizarrely, unless i've lost my mind, i think there was some controversy related to that show. I think there was some nudity shown at some point; in an art class or something.
    Seem to remember it causing a bit of a stir.


  • #90
    Super-Rush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    ascanbe wrote: »
    Bizarrely, unless i've lost my mind, i think there was some controversy related to that show. I think there was some nudity shown at some point; in an art class or something.
    Seem to remember it causing a bit of a stir.

    I can't remember tbh. I know i never missed it but thats about it.


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  • #91
    KeithAFC
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    Best comedy ever imo.


  • #92
    yesno1234
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,338 ✭✭✭yesno1234


    Xavi6 wrote: »
    "It's only a bleedin' whistle"

    I have had that whistle for 40 years. It saved my grandfather so it did. Did it really? It did. He was being executed by the British. They had him up against a wall and they shot him and the bullets hit the whistle in his pocket and bounced off him. God Almighty! So he survived?
    No, no. They just reloaded, shot him again.


  • #93
    livinginkorea
    Registered Users Posts: 5,438 ✭✭✭livinginkorea


    Whether is is Irish or not, still it was the best show by miles at the time. Used to be on after poxy Friends I think on a Monday night? When I came to Korea the mammy sent me the DVD Box set. Might break that out again now.

    Some quotes:

    Father Clippit says a good long mass. Four hours he does. Since his stroke

    You'd better get going, because milk gets sour. Unless it's UHT milk, but there's no demand for that. Because it's ****e.

    Dougal: Watch this, Ted. (rubs letters off blackboard) You see? You can rub off the letters.
    Ted: But, Dougal, you can do that with any blackboard.
    Dougal: What?

    Dougal: Can I stay up tonight to watch the scary film?
    Ted: Ah, no no no. The last time you stayed up to watch a scary film you ended up having to sleep in my bed. I wouldn't mind, but it wasn't even a scary film.
    Dougal: Come on, Ted. A Volkswagen with a mind of its own. If that isn't scary, I don't know what is.

    Sheep, like all wool-bearing animals, instinctively travel north, where it's colder, and they won't be so stuffy.

    Ted: Maybe he's agoraphobic.
    Dougal: Jack? Scared of fighting? I don't think so, Ted!

    Ted: What was it [Jack] used to say about the needy? He had a term for them.
    Dougal: A shower of bastards.

    So there he is. Risen from the dead. Like that feller.... E.T.

    Put your clothes back on, Carol, I can't concentrate.

    Dougal: What's going on?
    Priest: I think Ted has a plan
    Dougal: No. I mean in general

    Of course... they all have lovely bottoms!

    Dougal: (trying to pray) Hail Mary who art in heaven.......
    Ted: Hallowed.
    Dougal: Oh yeah. Hallowed Be....
    Ted: Thy Name...
    Dougal: Papa Don't Preach........
    Ted: Dougal, you know you can praise the lord with sleep.
    Dougal: Really Ted? You can praise him in lots of ways, like that time you said that I could praise him just by leaving the room.
    Ted: Yes, that was a good one !

    Jack: Where are the other two?

    "Attention please, a child has been lost in the tunnel of goats."

    "I won't be happy until the last rabbit round here is the one inside your head, working the controls!"

    Ted: Dougal, you can't sit around here watching television all day - chewing gum for the eyes!
    Dougal: Oh no thanks Ted, I've got these crisps, here.

    Dougal: Well, who cares anyway? They come in, they strip down the wallpaper, they fumigate the place and they're gone. What's so bad about that?
    Ted: Dougal, they're bishops!
    (pause)
    Dougal: ...Oh right, yes.

    Old priest: I really shouldn't be here.

    From http://www.feck.net/splange/ftquote.html


  • #94
    STIG83
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    Aldebaran wrote: »
    When it yawns it sounds like Liam Neeson chasing a load of hens around inside a barrel.
    And instead of a mouth its got four arses!!


  • #95
    del88
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    Probably was the best.....loved Fergus's Wedding..


  • #96
    dxhound2005
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    Father Ted definitely the best Irish sitcom. Among all the Fawlty Towers, Only Fools etc Joking Apart if anyone remembers it never gets a mention, funniest sitcom ever in my opinion.

    http://www.jokingapart.co.uk/main.htm


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  • #97
    Asphyxia
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    To me it will always be Irish no matter who produced it. It was a deadly programme, I still find myself watching it from time to time when I see it on. Loved it :D Father Jack is legendary.


  • #98
    yesno1234
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,338 ✭✭✭yesno1234


    del88 wrote: »
    Probably was the best.....loved Fergus's Wedding..

    Liked that too. Bachelor's walk was brilliant aswell but still none of them even near father ted.


  • #99
    Agricola
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    Without doubt the best. Any show that has so many catchphrases which enter into the national vocabulary as to be up there. I think what made it great was the combination of Irish writers and actors who knew all the quirks of Irish society inside out, backed up by the British ability to mercilessly rip the piss out of a subject and take no prisoners with people's sensibilities.


  • #100
    Motley Crue
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    Yes, yes it is...or was...


  • #101
    iamstop
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    http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=119019324807388

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