If you can make sense of the title of this post you probably watched Father Ted, an old British sitcom. It ran for only three seasons before Dermot Morgan, who played Father Ted, died of a massive heart attack. It was juvenile and irreverent and I loved it. It's back in the news.Two islands off the Irish coast are at loggerheads, competing for a dubious prize - the right to compare themselves to Craggy Island; a bleak spot which is the TV home to three wayward priests and a sizeable Chinese community, and surrounded by a sea awash with nuclear waste.The feud has broken out between two of the Aran Islands, off County Galway, over who has the better claim to be the setting for the enormously popular Channel 4 comedy.
This is an Irish sitcom. In fact you couldn't get more Irish than this! I'm surprised non-Irish even get the humour but its great you do because its a bit of a comedic institution here. Even years after it sadly ended people still drop Fr Ted quotes randomly into converstaions! Definately not British.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I should have said British production (Hat Trick Productions).
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