@@stevebaker6149 Nah. Doesn't matter how you feel about trans people, obsessing over them and going out of your way to attack them at any opportunity the way Linehan has actually does make you a shit person. His wife actually left him over it.
I attended a Catholic Mass about 10 years ago, held by an old Irish priest. The second he opened his mouth, Father Ted popped into my head. I giggled uncontrollably for the next hour. The more I tried to suppress it, the worse it got. The missus was mad as hell with me............
I heard a German friend describing his catholic priest having a known & long standing (should I put it that way?) affair with a local prostitute. Anyway, it was so blatant & hypocritical it became a 'final straw' & enough to break away from his faith. When I presented him with a boxed set of Father Ted he thought it wonderful, his wife's favourite character was Dougal & their favourite episode was about the priest hiding war criminals. 🙂
Our local Funeral Director's firm is Hackett's - founded in 1922 by John Hackett (known as Jack). I bet they loved it when Father Ted first appeared on telly...
That’s a satire about how Irish people must never ever show the world that something is wrong. They always pretend in front of the priests. I thought this was just a joke until I married into the Irish and saw it with my own eyes. Unless it’s just my in laws. Like, my Father in Law had a heart attack and refused to call an ambulance because the neighbours would know somethings wrong level kind of stuff.
Best moment of Father ted was when Ted said "I'll just give him a call" and it cuts to the car, and while he's fumbling for the phone (which is in the footwell), graham linehan drives off a huge cliff and is impaled on a fifty-foot tall granite phallus.
Do not believe that some of these comedy scenes never happen in real life in Ireland, because they do ! I was driving back from Connemara to the Dublin ferry, after a great weeks fishing one May. It was the early hours of the morning but just daylight and in Galway a car past me going the other way and there was a totally naked man spreadeagled across the bonnet ! In one of the small towns on route there was a Garda car parked with two Gards in, so I stopped to report it. One of them told me not to worry, he’d just roll off when he’d had enough 🤣🤣
Okay, so here it is 1:30 a.m. and I'm trying desperately to smother my guffaws but any minute Security will pound on my door...these are Wonderful, so therapeutic 😁
The priests house is actually not on an island it's in the Burren National Park. The owners have a charity swear tin by the gate for visitors who may have a sudden urge to say FECK or ARSE. It's quite a bleak place.
Omg! This is some of the funniest stuff I've ever seen. The drunk priest with his hair on fire and the one screaming nuns! nuns! Did they show these on PBS in the U.S? Cause I feel like I've seen these or something similar to Father Ted years ago on PBS in Chicago. So funny.
A bit 'arsh in your judgement there , but it was well mean ,I'm shoor...the show could be a bit moronic but it had good bits , the housekeeper had her moments...so did the 2 main characters , the drunken one a bore...I only saw bits of it at odd times ...the first 2 times they showed two priests capering about in their drawers...couldn't see the point they were making...in short , a bore
Imagine what would have happened if there'd been a comedy series about an island with imams behaving in strange ways. There would have been a lot of dead people in the entertainment business.
