YES, ''FATHER TED'' THE PROGRAMME IS , WHAT YOU SAID. TED AND HIS DIMWIT OPPO HAS BEEN SENT TO THIS TINY IRISH ISLAND, BECAUSE THEY CAN DO LESS TROUBLE THERE. MADE IN THE 1990'S, THE BRILLIANT SCRIPT WRITER'S ARE NOW 'BLACKBALLED' FROM MAKING ANY MORE COMEDY, BECAUSE OF THE WOKE LUNACY DOESN'T ALLOW TRUE COMEDY ANYMORE. COMEDY IS DEAD--AND SO IS TED.
People need to lighten up, people put ginger wigs on and try and talk-in a Scottish accent, people put on flat caps and put on a Yorkshire accent, two examples it’s funny.
season 3 was always the last season. There was never any plans for a 4th. What always gets me though is that in the very first episode Ted got 3 death cards from the psychic and he literally died less than 24 hours after filming the last episode
Oh dear, you said "The Father's having a heart attack". Literally, that's what the actor, Dermot Morgan, died of, just after filming the last episode. 😢
Father Ted is probably the best sitcom of all time and this episode is the best of them all. The whole series is hilarious. Watch from the beginning to get to know the characters and why they are there. Same writer as The IT Crowd which is just as good in a different way.
There are a couple of misses, but its overall utterly brilliant. Sadly we don't get this kind of show nowdays as some crybully will get offended and have it cancelled.
There are so many irish cultural references in that small clip alone. The show is basically satire, commentating on life in Ireland in the 90's. And is a show that still has a special place in irish culture today.
Sadly the actor who played Father Ted, Dermot Morgan, before location filming on the third and final series of Father Ted, Morgan underwent a mandatory medical examination in which he was found to have high blood pressure, and was prescribed medication. On 28 February 1998, one day after recording the series' final episode, Morgan suffered a heart attack while hosting a dinner party at his home in London's Hounslow area, at which the Scottish musician Jim Diamond was present. He was rushed to hospital, but died soon afterward. He was 45 years old.
It always amazed me that he was only 45. Dude looked MUCH older. Its the grey hair probably. I am only coming up on the same age myself and no way I look as old as he did. Still, a legend all the same.
You need to watch the full episode of this.. Watch all of them!!! You will grow to love it!! Oh, & I can't forget Father Jack, who's famous for telling everybody to, "Feck Off"... Enjoy!!
Father Ted is a brilliant series, and a lot of the humour comes from satirising the stranglehold the Catholic Church had on all aspects of Irish life in the mid-20th Century, to the extent that divorce wasn't legalised there until 1995, and abortion not until 2018. That's why Colm asks if racism is now the church's official line. Co-written by Graham Linehan, who also created the I.T. Crowd (which I see you've also watched), but do also seek out series by his writing partner on Father Ted, Arthur Mathews, who's the more surreal of the two. He wrote the hilarious sketch show Big Train and the sitcom Toast of London.
I live in Ireland now and Father Ted is describing Irish people so well. I swear they are all just having a crack..They call having fun having a crack - those people are not serious-ever.
All this, although hilarious, is a set-up for the big payoff at the end involving the Chinese family being invited round to the rectory for Ted to explain himself and prove he's not a racist, but it all backfires spectacularly, it's a must-watch!
You MUST watch the whole episode (series 3, episode 1) which unfortunately is not available on YT in the UK. If you do you will eventually binge on all 3 series! I guarantee!
Loved father Ted. One of my favourite episodes was when they had clean up the very sweary and unkempt father Jack before the bishop visited for inspection. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Well done for finding Father Ted. Every episode is fantastically written and well acted. Every character a real laugh. Father Ted is the same one. Father Dougal is very thick. Father Jack just says feck, arse, girls. Favourite episode was when Father Dougal becomes a milkman. You might wet yourself kaughing. Full episodes are best. Watch 1:40 in your video, there is a rectangular black mark on the window. The punchline of the joke features that window smudge. You have not seen the funniest bit of this episode !
Father Ted , Irish humour of the finest calibre, there were only 3 series made, absolutely brilliant, doesn't matter how many times you watch it, it's hilarious every time 😂, definitely recommend
When Father Ted first came out on TV I didn’t watch it but I turned over mid episode once and saw a clip that I couldn’t stop laughing at. Every time I tried to tell someone about it I would crack up laughing again. It was so stupid, but that’s how I became a fan.
The thing about the greeks is that they really did invent it as a way to try to keep their spartan genetics in their warriors from landing in the hands of the enemy countries, if they make thier soldiers like men, they dont "nail" the women allowing spartans to be born to potentially invade them.
You could try a series called The IT crowd by the same writer Graham Linehan who could do with a boost as the wokists are after him like Father ted is after the Chinese.
Nice to see FT making it's way across the pond :) The interesting thing is that Brits aren't funnier than any other nation, it's just the humour pervades every aspect of our culture. Most things can be made fun of and wit is valued.
The whole episode is truly something to behold and way more outrageous than even this clip! The guy standing at the wall is called Colm, a common Irish name.
This series is set on a remote Irish island where every single person is white. There are no non-white characters until that moment. Then Father Dougal says "They've moved into that old Chinatown area." lol
Father Ted is one of the funniest series ever written. The actors in the character roles are perfect. Unfortunately there were only three series made because Dermot Morgan passed away. Definitely watch all the episodes and in order. You won’t be disappointed.
Sadly, Frank Kelly passed too, and Pauline McLynn probably wouldn't have come back as she felt she'd be known ONLY for Mrs Doyle (probably rightly) and refused to even be part of a retrospective show ("Small, Far Away").. Its the rare show that finished exactly when it should have rather than go on season after season getting less and less funny. Fawlty Towers was the perfect length too, but others like Black Books went on a bit too long (and without Lynneham as the main writer) and it got pretty bad as do most US sitcoms.
Even if he hadn't, I'm pretty sure that Graham Linehan had done everything that he wanted to with the show. The last episode was really designed as an ending to the whole series.
@@zybchfrom what I’ve heard, the whole ‘refusing to be a part of the documentary’ is not true at all. Pauline was simply doing another project at the time but journalists and certain others twisted that to create controversy. It’s true that she wanted to branch into other things and not JUST be known for Mrs Doyle, but she has openly admitted that she loved her time on the show and doesn’t regret it at all
I agree; one of my fave memories with my family was all of us watching Father Ted & collectively losing it in fits of giggles- I bought every season & when I’m struggling with my health or mental health I re-watch & it never gets old! Fun fact one of my school friends was one of the “Chinese” in the pub scene- my dad still loses it with the perfectly square piece of dirt on the window🤣😂😜🤭 Feckin giggles guaranteed 💯💯!
Craggy Island is a place where Priests who have been a bit of a thorn in the side of the Church are sent to - to keep them out of harms way. This sitcom is one of the funniest ever written, but to get the full benefit, you really have to watch whole episodes to follow the madness !! You wont be disappointed, I promise you.
Tears running down my face watching this. As an Irish, ex Catholic, atheist, who grew up in rural Ireland, you wouldn't believe how funny we find Father Ted. I have every episode on CD. Actually the Chinese man is an old friend of mine from 1960s Liverpool. His name is Austin Yu & was in a famous band called The Hideaways.
@@gvigary1 Thats Cool, im gonna check his old band and that film u mentioned, I do wonder why we hardly see Chinese in our TV n film etc when the Chinese have been here more than a century longer than Arabs and Africans have been here.
iam a English ex Catholic who was taught by Irish Nuns and our church had lots irish priests,I can remember. Father Jack priests abd father Ted and Dougal types and lots of mrs Doyle types working in the prestusby lol love Father Tef
Laughed til I cried ! 🤣🤣🤣 And also, growing up in the countryside , I know rumors spreads faster than lightning , which is so perfectly parodied here !!! 😁🤣🤣
This clip is cut from the longer full episode, S3 Ep1. This entire episode is one of the funniest things I have every seen. You should see the entire episode.
In the show later on in the episode the Chinese are coming back to receive an apology, now through the episode Ted has been complaining about a speck of dirt on the window that was missed when they were washed and is standing at the window ranting cut to the Chinese outside and from their point of view the speck of dirt looks like a Hitler moustache on father Ted who is still ranting throwing his arms about
As I explained to two Nigerians reacting to the same scene, the idea of Craggy Island having a China Town area is funny because the little islands off the west coast of Ireland have few Irish people living on them let alone enough foreigners to make up a community. I don't think there's a China Town in the capital, Dublin. Ireland is not a very cosmopolitan country. The premise for Father Ted is 3 misfit priests who are an embarrassment to the church are exiled to a small, barren, remote island. The word craggy is an anglicised word from the Irish meaning 'rocky' or 'stoney'.
Most people in Ireland, especially the older generation, may not have seen a non white person in real life until this century. I live in the Scottish Highlands and it's similar here.
Dublin is ridiculously cosmopolitan. If it wasn't for the riots after that foreigner tried killing those kids a few months back I'd have thought it a lost cause.
"Hello there Colm". Colm (alternative spelling of Columb) is a common first name here in Ireland. A bit like "Patrick" - Saint Columb was one of 3 patron Saints of Ireland. They were Patrick, Columb and Brigid. And that reaction was great haha i hope you watch the show from the start
Father Ted is easily one of the best comedies to come out of the British Isles - Irish writers and actors under British production. Whether you react to them or not, the series is well worth a viewing.
Ireland is not part of the British Isles Ireland is solo, is France part of Britain, its close to Britain as well?... Father Ted Irish, nothing to do with Britain.
@@relentless1989 Didn't do well in geography I take it? Look up the meaning of the 'British Isles' (which Ireland is very much a part of- you're confusing it with Britain.) Father Ted was made by a British production company (Hat Trick productions, HQ in London, with British and Irish executives) Sorry kid, Father Ted was an Anglo-Irish production.
yep was a hat trick production but only because it was deemed too risky by Irish production companies (rte were also reluctant to put it on air), It''s a stretch to call it an anglo-irish production @@cerisambrook7692
@@cerisambrook7692 Nobody in Ireland gives a bollocks what the British, in their typical arrogance, decided to name these islands, as if they ever should have been collectively named in the first place. Pick up a history book and educate yourself. You should have learned that lesson a hundred years ago.
@@rachelmoran2205 I don't know if you are trolling or really that stupid. The British isles were named by the Romans "Brittanicae Insulae", derived from an earlier Greek name. British Isles is just the old English translation of that VERY SAME name. It seems that I read better history books than you. I don't think 100 years will give you enough time to reflect on the depth of your ignorance, but at least you made me laugh, so that's something.
I remember in the 90's when this was on tv, I would record the episodes and watch them over and over again. The charactes are totally off the wall but so hilarious.
Shows plotline - The Catholic Church had moved the three priests in this series to "out of the way" Craggy Island to stop them becoming an thorn in the side of the church visible to a wider public on the mainland (Ireland) Fr Ted for his embezzlement of church funds. Fr Maguire the dopey Man child & everyone's favourite Fr Hackett the drunken lecherous old priest. This is is one of the funniest comedies ever' "touched by the moon" as they say - silly surreal and when 1st shown back in the 90' s dangerously subversive to the Church's authority in Ireland. well worth watching full episodes = clips in isolation don't do this show justice "Feck! Drink! Arse! Girls! (wise words from Fr Hackett!)
Oy yes!! Youre going to love this series!! Mwahahahaaa. Im evil laughing because i know what a guilty pleasure this is going ro be for you!! F',ing hilarious!! Ill be back to see how you like it 😁😎😀
Channel 4 (the producers of the series) have made the full episodes publicly available on their website. 25 years old now but it’s still the funniest Irish comedy that’s ever been made.😂
Father Ted was one of the best television series ever written. Absolutely brilliant…. In my opinion. The guy who played Father Ted passed a few years ago. Such a shame.
The Greeks, in their mythology, had gay and lesbian gods. The island of Lesbos in the Northern Aegean Sea, close to Turkey, is where we get the word "lesbian" from
I hope you enjoy Father Ted, you can pick almost any episode there's no bad ones, but I always thought what was interesting watching the first episode was that the characters were so fully formed and "themselves". Most shows take a bit to get into themselves and find the characters, but the characters and sets of Father Ted were there from episode 1.
You need to see the Priests stuck in the Women's Lingerie Section episode. dude.. you'll bust a rib laughing, 🇬🇧. The Father Jack character is gold too: "drink fek girls arss" his catchphrase lol
Father Ted was three series of the best humour we ever saw here in the UK. Brilliantly written, brilliantly acted. To get the full impact of this one short clip, you'd have to watch the whole episode, it's hysterical. Ted's problems just keep getting worse the more he tries to make amends. Absolutely classic British/Irish humour. 🙋♂ Sadly Dermot Morgan (Father Ted) passed away at a fairly young age, so they only managed to make the three series, each one comedy GOLD.
Irish humour* my friend, not British. Technically Father Ted was a British TV show as it was produced by Channel 4, but the humour was pure Irish. I agree with everything else you said though. The show really was a genius collaboration between Ireland and England and will never be replaced
I think Fawlty Towers was just as good, in the sense of consistently being brilliiant. And I will never forget the brilliant Leonard Rossiter playing Rigsby.
You really must watch the whole 3 series - it’s about 3 priests who’ve been exiled to an island in the west of Ireland for various failings, Fr Ted Crilly, whose bank account was found to contain money collected to send a young girl on a pilgrimage to Lourdes, just before he had a trip to Vegas (“it was just resting in my account!”), Fr Dougal Maguire, who’s a bit simple and has only a vague grasp of the Church’s theology, and Fr Jack Hackett, who’s permanently drunk, or asleep.
