Comic genius. The idea of priests acting like teenagers is just so funny. (The thought of how they even to into the priesthood in the first place cracks me up)
A friend of mines a priest., and he’s as bloke as you can get. Loves football and fifa, in fact loves his Xbox, likes a bet on the weekends, can have his pick of any of the wives in his parish, likes a drink (though he doesn’t get wankered) and you’ll see him in the local pub screaming at the telly whenever Celtic play. He loves his life and wouldn’t change it
Well, the US has its own version as well - Chuckie or Billy the Bad Boy. How would like to be a teacher, and have a jerk or 5 like that in each class and your career based on how well you can kiss their arse to get them to pass???? Most of my career was based on that!
father Ted is the best Irish comedy of all time. utterly surreal in places. it's send up of Irish priestly parish life is spot on. from the copious amounts tae and sandwiches. to the pompous archbishop in the big hat. it's not a satire. in any way. it is loaded with movie references. linehan and Matthews were film reviewers. in their native Dublin. for an Irish magazine called hot press.
+Mark Daly to me it's like the irish version of the simpsons an enclosed location with it's own rules and geography some episodes its's small but look how far they drive to the dancing priests house and they have a chinatown and sometimes take the roads in it's also modern showing ireland in a light never seen before.
+Aurelien Herve A British channel produced the show because the Irish one wouldn't. However, the guys wrote the show, and nearly every actor in it is Irish. Plus, the outdoor scenes were shot in Ireland. So, I prefer to say that the show was produced in England, but essentially is an Irish comedy, not British.
it is not true that rte declined father ted. they were never offered it in the first place. Graham Linehan and arthur matthews the co creators have rubbished the idea that rte were offered. its an urban myth.
I met Father Damo at Electric Picnic last year. He was with his wife and kids. I was a little drunk and I said to him as I shook his hand, "Blur or Oasis"? He just smiled, looking a little confused. Probably caught him off guard. Or maybe he's sick of hearing it. :)
Actors do their shows on the night and then (especially if they're booked frequently) soon after forget about them, so that fans and viewers end up knowing the scripts far better than they ever did. I suspect Mr Rooney had long since ceased to remember the "Blur or Oasis" reference (the same way you have likely forgotten you made the above post nine years ago).
One time during mass, we had a priest ranting about young priests and seminarians obsessed with video games even sneaking off at night to play at a computer shop. He wondered why they even wanted to become priests when all they did was play computer games, lol!
Ted: Anyway, where did you go off to? Dougal: Oh, eh, I went off with father Damo Lennon. He's over with Frosty. Ted: Who? Dougal: Ehm, Father Frost Ted: Oh yes: FATHER Frost. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😅
Literally my cousins, one was a goody goody and one was a little gobshite. It was my gran going "oh your a good boy Gerry, yer ma's so proud....oh jaysus Jamie...get DOWN off that table...wait til yer da hears about this"
