@@thomsboys77 Set on an Irish island with Irish actors and written by… an Irishman. Think it might have a little more to do with Ireland than the UK as a whole.
“I hear you’re a racist now father’ is one of the best jokes in all sitcoms in my opinion. We used to watch this on school with the projector until we got yelled at (catholic school) so we switched to always sunny
The Eurovision episode is based on reality! The Eurovision rules are that if you enter the contest and win, you agree to host it the following year. In the 90s, Ireland won Eurovision 3 times in a row and RTE told the EBU, who run Eurovision, that if they won again in 1995, they wouldn't host it. This episode was broadcast at around that time, and was based on the fictional story that Ireland deliberately put a bad song into Eurovision so they wouldn't win it. In 2020, the Will Farrell movie 'Eurovision' used the same premise on the basis that Iceland, fresh from the banking crisis, couldn't afford to host the show, so they picked a group they thought would lose. Back in the real world, the rest of Europe felt pity on Ireland in 1995 and voted for Norway instead. The following year, in Oslo, Ireland won again, so despite a 1 year break, Ireland hosted it again in 1997
I still find it fucking wild that we had so many wins early on. Granted we don't have as much of that historic animosity that affects vote numbers n stuff so that probably helps.
Until a few years ago i legit thought "my lovely horse" had been a real entry. Being what eurovision is like i dont judge myself too harshly for my mistake
@@MortanAMrk Definitely still going _strong._ Daði Freyr - Think About Things would have been Iceland's submission 3 years ago if it hadn't been cancelled because of the pandemic... ruclips.net/video/VFZNvj-HfBU/видео.html
The explanation of how Irish humour can get pretty dark probably explains a lot about why Ireland is the only country where every Tom Waits album has been a Top Twenty seller.
It's quite far from being true, but quite funny nonetheless. Only the last 4 albums were top sellers, in the top 10. But 11 of the first 13 weren't even ranked, Heartattack and Vine is 81st and his debut, his most conventional record is 29th.
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@@andrasszabo1570 it's still absolutely true that the Irish really seem to love Tom Waits!
@@jc-16. it honestly wouldn't surprise me if, on a citizenship test for emigration to Ireland, a person has to rank their appreciation for Tom Waits on a 1 - 10 scale, and anything below a 5 gets a person automatically deported! 😅 He's practically an honorary Patron Saint of the island. St. Tom of the Swordfish Trombone.
Ireland is a prime example of how extremely persistently aggressive liberal media can gang up to utterly transform society in a generation or two. As much as it needed to be done, it didn't need to be done by equally extreme, domineering antinational globalists. Ireland, like England, will be a foreign country soon.. LIBS WENT TOO FAR... There is no catharsis for those that don't like be 'greatly replaced'.
Country starts with an I... oppressed by the British, but won independence during the 20th century... flag with green, white and orange stripes. It can't be coincidence.
To me the real genius of Father Ted (at least in part) is that most of the time you can see the gag coming a mile away yet its STILL hilarious on delivery. I dont believe you can teach performers that type of skill, its pure talent that you either have it (EVERY person that ever appeared in Father Ted IMO) or you dont.
I never thought I'd see the day when Father Ted featured on a RUclips commentary video! I LOVED that show; I had all the boxed sets. I'm American, but lived in England in the late 80's, so I kind of understand that humor. When this was showing on PBS back here in the State, my family and I lapped it up. I tried getting my husband to watch it (American, but Irish heritage), and he asked me when does it start getting funny? I couldn't believe it. This show is pure gold!
It would seem humour is more of a Nurture thing than Nature thing. Despite his Irish Nature, him being born and raised so far away made the humour just not click with him. At least in Britain, the dry humour over there is so closely related to what is traditional in Ireland, you can appreciate such an iconic show.
I went to Ireland with my family many years ago. My brother, father and I still talk about how we discovered Father Ted during that holiday. It was the episode Kicking Bishop Brennan Up the Arse.
This actually aired in the Netherlands as well so I was lucky enough to enjoy it when I was a kid. But I did have a similar experience once when visiting Germany where me and my family discovered "Bernd das Brot" and spent much of our vacation watching the same dead air filler over and over again and laughing our butts off.
Please tell me you went to the potato chip theme park? I was set to go may 2020 but the lockdowns prevented me from the ultimate burn against the irish.
Everything here is extremely accurate, but I feel like there's a missing explanation of how in Irish culture being Catholic isn't so much about religion, but also about ethnicity and politics. So this intertwinement is one of the reasons the church had so much power over society for so long
I'm an American and I always found it weird that many people in Europe (especially Scandinavia) identify as Christian or to a church but don't necessarily believe in God or the bible, in America if someone says they're Christian it means they believe in God and the Bible to some sort of degree no atheists or agnostic people would call themselves Christian on a census
As an Irishman I am so proud to see Father Ted being covered like this. So much of my childhood was laughing all night with my family watching it and there are so many iconic episodes. There is nothing like it, for me who understands Irish humour so well as its in my everyday life, it is the funniest sitcom I have ever seen!
Identifying as Catholic without being particularly religious is more than about the schools - for many its also to do with your identity as Catholicism is more associated with nationalism / being "native" irish, as opposed to the protestant anglo-irish or planter descendants. I think it was Dara Ó Briain who summed this type of modern irish catholic well : "don't go to mass, still hate Rangers"
I remember my parents telling me about a new Irish comedy about priests and I thought it sounded like the worst idea ever. After the first episode I fell in love and still consider it one of the best comedy shows ever. A class act that never grows old and knows exactly what it’s doing. I consider this universal comedy that anyone can enjoy. Whilst I was incredibly sad when Dermot died far too early this is the best legacy you could ever leave behind you.
I'm from Johannesburg and I grew up watching Father Ted. Some of my best memories as a child with classic and unforgettable moments. I recently rewatched all the episodes and it's still absolute gold.
Father Ted is one of the funniest shows I've ever seen, and I'm so happy it's still held in such high regard all these years later. Speed 3 remains utterly iconic.
I’m Irish, and I used to watch the show as a kid/teenager. I love how relatable the jokes are to our actual day to day lives, as there aren’t many Irish shows like this.
I'm from Canada and somehow stumbled onto this show a few years back. It's really a great piece of comedy that transcends its Irish appeal. It's just well written and funny with loveable actors.
I always associate Father Ted with Red Green in my mind. I guess partly because I discovered them around the same time in my younger days. And as an American, they're both foreign shows to me, and the humor has a lot to do with their countries' cultures. So it was a bit different from the American shows around at the time, but not so different that the jokes were lost on me. More of a "different in a really refreshing way" kind of thing.
As an English man, Father Ted is my favourite sitcom of all time and one of my favourite things. The reason? There are still some little bits of it that I just don't quite get.
ah cmon, the content of the humour in Father Ted-the absurdism, slapstick quality, its darkness, cringe and observational embarrassment-are all the comedic features you’d just as easily find in Monty Python or Mr Bean. the setting and specificity of the humour here is undeniably Irish, but its comedic quality is just as British as Irish. we don’t have to get our jingoistic backs up at the mere suggestion that our culture and humour are inextricably intertwined. as anyone who has watched comedy in other parts of Europe-or that dreadfully more feigned classic American style-the British sense of humour is almost exactly the same as our own. the people who presumably most intuitively grasp this are the British themselves, judging by the immense success Irish comedians have in the UK.
One unsung stroke of genius was the gradual draining of colour out of the image during the priest's bus trip while listening to Radiohead. I loved this show from first seeing the trailer on C4 all those years ago. "Down with this sort of thing", "Careful now" is still quoted in our house now.
@@nicosmind3 "Im a very careful man" "Except when it comes to taking precautions in the bedroom!" "You wouldn't be recommending artificial contraception now would you father?" "Feck off!"
I loved the episode where he was accused of being a racist, and sent a crate of Jamison’s to his neighbour. But instead he sent father Jack in full SS attire in the now empty crate.
3:05 "...if they want their children to go to a good school" ..for most of the country it was actually necessary to get baptised to go to their local school.
i'm polish but i still would laugh so hard when i was watching it. the catholicism, even if discussed abt how it is in ireland, rlly reminds me of the status of the religion in poland. that's why it hits home so much for me, and i can't help but love the show. a lot.
This is all very interesting, but you don't need to understand anything before watching Father Ted. I'm from the Netherlands, and I literally had tears streaming down my face from laughing when I watched Father Ted.
I'm an American, and I own the complete series of Father Ted on DVD 😝 I love how Graham Norton described the show, "To the British, it's a sitcom, but to the Irish, it's a documentary."
Discovered this show for the first time several months back and it's easily one of my top five sitcoms of all time. And it only gets better with each and every rewatch!
I'll never forget the first time I watched Fr. Ted when I was about ten. I could literally feel it tattooing itself onto my sense of humour. Irish people still love it, despite Graham Linehan becoming largely scorned by the Irish population.
I don't get a sense that Graham Linehan is largely scorned by the Irish population. Obviously a lot of people do because of his stance but I imagine he gets some support and most people probably don't have particularly strong feelings about his position
I've always loved Father Ted. I think the brilliance of it is that it highlights issues that are a core part of many cultures (in my case, English) but with an unfamiliar context. As an English person I recognise the underlaying hypocrisy of society, the sham of organised religion, the endless concern gossiping, the inability to be frank and open about our feelings, etc etc. And its all done masterfully and without any malice.
I grew up in Texas and did not have cable, so I can thank public television for introducing me to Father Ted and being a formative part of my personality.
It's a pretty much perfect sitcom, where every element works and the jokes operate on so many levels that I think you'd have to totally lack a sense of humour to not crack a smile at least once. It's had a huge cultural impact here in the UK as well. I still hear people sarcastically respond to moral guardians with a cry of "Down with this sort of thing!"
'Father Ted' was actually made by the UK's Channel 4. There is a longstanding myth that Ireland's national broadcaster RTE turned 'Father Ted' down fearing a backlash from the Catholic Church. But in reality it wasn't pitched to them. I can remember seeing it when it was first broadcast, and trying to tell colleagues about it "It's a sitcom about three Priests banished to this island in Western Ireland. Ted, who misappropriated cash from a charity, Jack and alcoholic letch and Dougal a village idiot in the guise of a priest..." everyone looked at me blankly. A couple of years later I actually moved to Ireland, and while not the place it once was, there've been plenty of 'Ted Moment's'.
Yes Hat Trick did a lot of work for Channel 4, so the idea that it was pitched to RTE is clearly nonsense. It was always intended to be a Channel 4 show. Graham Linehan, although Irish, had been working in London for years because that is where the work was for comedians and comedy. Before Father Ted, and after, all his writing was for UK comedy shows.
it was massive in the uk too, a lot of the lines making it into the public lexicon, if someone dont want the cup of tea you offered a bad mrs doyle impression maybe appears
this show is huge in Scotland too. so much of it resonated with us, especially highlanders. We too had a very powerful clergy in the 90s. its hard for people nowadays to understand how much power the church wielded then, that's not to say it was all bad there were comforting aspects and the church can be a real focal point for the community. there was always a lot more fire and brimstone in scottish and irish preaching though, and they did take themselves more seriously than the CofE.
The mental control it had over the older generations was insane. People genuinely thought they would go to hell and be ostracised from their society if they had sex outside marriage, got a divorce or heaven forbid, stop attending church.
@@cattysplat my parents separated in the late 90s my mum initiated it and the church we went to got involved. My dad read 9 year old me anti divorce passages from the bible. Gladly those times are gone for most of us.
American, here. I had never heard of this show. I grew up without organized religion, even though I had a painting of an angel in my room for a while, under the guise of "watching over me", despite me not knowing the first thing about Christianity and having gone to church once, maybe twice in my life. With this background in mind, and the limited exposure I've had to Father Ted, that being the videos where scenes from Father Ted were edited to be Elder Scrolls themed, I've found the parts of the show I've seen to be hilarious.
I was born in Bray county Wicklow where I still live. We’d say morning Father and when he couldn’t hear us we’d be accusing him of sleeping with all the women in the town and stealing jewellery from dead people😂🇮🇪
Mrs. Doyle is the most underrated in the show. I remember finding this show about 2007 and being a little confused as an American, but now it’s in my top five favorite shows. Also part of being a lapsed catholic translates across cultures maybe.
I'm an American who got to accidentally enjoy Father Ted in the late 90's via BBC (and has never stopped shouting about it.) Thanks for such a concise and comprehensive video. I hope more and more people can discover this gem of a show.
I'm from the USA, but this is one of my favorite sitcoms ever. I grew up Catholic and still consider myself one even though I'm not a regular churchgoer. Anyone raised in the Church can appreciate the religious humor in the show. The Lent episode was especially relateable to my own experiences.
I live in the US, but in the 2001 a friend in college introduced me to this show because she had taped a bunch of episodes while living abroad. Such a hilarious show
Being an American of Irish extraction, I am well aware of the comedic mileage people have got from stereotypes we have about the Irish. One thing I love about this program is that we get a chance to see how much humor the Irish can wring from stereotypes about themselves……
Entirely engrained in Irish and British culture. The following phrases are used frequently in the uk: - Go ahhhn, go ahhhn, etc - trying to persuade someone to eat or drink (or just do) something - The word feck is an acceptable (non-offensive) alternative to the f word - Down with this sort of thing / careful now! - I've had my fun and that's all the matters (used ironically, of course) And probably plenty more examples if I gave it more thought!
not it is not maybe the language,but everything else is irish.Its no more ingrained in british culture than the vicar of dibley.Mrs browns boys would be more like that
Speaking of humor, I remember the RUclips video a Scottish father posted when he was telling his four year old daughter that when she grows up she'll become a nun and dedicate her life to God. And the wee lass said no she wasn't, she was going to have a boyfriend! Judging from the father's big grin he clearly enjoyed teasing his little daughter. I loved how the daughter had her arms crossed and looked so defiant. ☺️
I'm not Irish, but as a Maltese this video really hits home. Catholicism has really kept the country from developing (for comparison, divorce was legalised in 2012) and it's only in the past 7 years that the country is finally finding its place in the EU as something other than the nation equivalent of Fr Dougal 🤣
I feel the Eurovision joke should have the context explained. Like the man says, Ireland has won 7 times and had a load of top 5 runners up. In the early 90s, the country won several times in a row, and one year, the Irish entry was two men (one no piano, one on guitar) singing "Rock and Roll kids". This was suspected as being a deliberate attempt to lose, due to the cost of hosting the contest (it lacked the theatrics of other entries, and guitar ballads tend not to do well in the Eurovision). However the song won by a large margin.
So I grew up (and currently reside) up on the North West Coast of Northern Ireland, coleraine to be exact. I watched father Ted religiously as a kid with my family, the Christmas episode was a tradition in our house for years but I missed so much of this context, thanks for this video dude
Actually one of the most influential TV shows of all time. So much so that the reformers of the Shamrock Awakening are known as the Father Ted generation, it literally changed the country,
I’m an American just discovering this show. (I’ve heard about but hadn’t seen it until last night, when I watched the first three episodes on the streaming service Peacock.) I will say some of the humor did go over my head, but the more slapstick elements did actually make me laugh. But I’m glad this video is here to help me understand the humor a little better.
"Derry Girls" and "Bridget and Eamon" are two of the funniest sitcoms ever- both Irish and recent. The former is set in the mid 1990s while the latter is set in the 1980s.
I was 15-17 when these came out was at school we would all be having a laugh at school the day after it was on😀😀 all the way from New zealand😀 can't beat old school Britt comedy 😀😀😀 are ya right there dougle 😀
My grandfather was from Ireland but I never met the man and my family is far removed from any Irish roots. Strangely enough though we love gossip, obsess over being a gracious host and a humble guest, and I personally ended up falling in love with Father Ted and a british show called the Young Ones thanks to BBC dvds.
my dad is as irish as you can come, and i was born in dundrum, but my parents moved to new zealand before i turned 1 and raised me and my brother tiernan there. i am a kiwi (new zealander), through and through, and i'm proud to be, but with a name like caoimhe i always felt connected to my irish-ness as i would explain how to say my name to teachers at school, have to explain the fact my dad was irish and explain that, no, despite looking (sort of) like the name, niamh, my name wasn't actually the same at all... growing up i picked up on a lot of my dad's traits and habits and sayings that were irish, and this year we finally sat down as a family and binged father ted from my dad's dvd box set. i didn't realise that so many classic sayings my parent's said were from father ted! (ah go on, go on, go onnn, the money was just resting in my account, down with that sort of thing), etc etc. father ted made me feel so happy to be irish, and i really need to learn more about where i come from. we are hoping to take our third ever trip back to ireland since 2005 together as a family early next year, fingers crossed!! awesome video, so glad to have found your channel :)
I noticed one of the Steam profile backgrounds was a control panel with a big red button and I couldn't resist using it and changing my profile pic to Dougal's conflicted trance as the big red "don't press" button stares him in the face...
"So... Ye' still got that big old hairy arse"? I'm not Irish, I'm a Brit from Northumberland who moved to Scotland at 16 with my parents. Me & my mates used to watch the shit out of Father Ted... Bloody brilliant.!
I've always found it a bit ironic That Dermot Morgan died of a heart attack. Like god was saying "That's enough of that business, now!". I seriously think it was a shame that he died so darn young and I'm an atheist who LOVES the show ("Small... far away"), but, it seems like it was a Father Ted sort of way to go...
I grew up with Father Ted. I come from Irish Catholic ancestry, both my grandparents were Irish, and my parents lived in Ireland for a while too, so I understood a lot of the culture and humour. The show still has me in stitches
@@mankytoes I remember randomly channel surfing to BBC Newsnight one time and being very confused when I saw Graham Linehan sat there talking about trans stuff. What we've seen in Linehan's case is the real-time radicalisation of someone via social media, and it's disturbing to see someone get 'reprogrammed' like that. He's lost most of his old life because he just couldn't drop the argument - he'll probably never get another TV series commissioned again and he's lost his family. To compound matters, Twitter's relaxation of their rules has once again allowed him access to the thing that brought him down the rabbit hole in the first place.
I’m not Irish but Father Ted is hands down my favorite comedy of all time…. closely followed by Black Books. We have to admit it, the Irish are hilarious !
I'm American but I absolutely love the show. It's hysterical and so ridiculous and the cast just sells it so well. I had my husband watch it and he also fell in love with it. Lol Top tier tv.
Father Ted was subjectively Irish, but with all the funding, production values and reach of a major UK Studio. If it had been totally Irish, I think it would have been too parochial to sell outside of Ireland or the UK. There would have been cultural restrictions on production and writing if FT had been made as an entirely Irish production, especially at that time. I mean, you might not go to Mass every week, but you don't openly mock the Church like that, amirite Ted?
Father Ted was massive in UK too, and still much loved by many. It was devastating when Dermot Morgan died so young.
Poor old dermot, he wouldn’t like that at all
Father Ted is a British show, made for Channel 4. Soooooo yeah
@@thomsboys77 Hush, you.
@@thomsboys77 Graham Lineham's Irish. One of the lead actors in "The IT Crowd" is Irish.
@@thomsboys77 Set on an Irish island with Irish actors and written by… an Irishman. Think it might have a little more to do with Ireland than the UK as a whole.
“I hear you’re a racist now father’ is one of the best jokes in all sitcoms in my opinion. We used to watch this on school with the projector until we got yelled at (catholic school) so we switched to always sunny
“I’m a bit busy with the farm. I could probably devote some time to the old racism at the weekend.”
@@jameswhittingham8027 "I dont care who he's after as long as I can get a go at the greeks.... they invented gayness" One of the best
im crying with laughter even thinking about it!
HoW IS IASUNNY BETTER??
@@emmahealy4863 Yeah but these ones are closer. Those are far away.
The Eurovision episode is based on reality! The Eurovision rules are that if you enter the contest and win, you agree to host it the following year. In the 90s, Ireland won Eurovision 3 times in a row and RTE told the EBU, who run Eurovision, that if they won again in 1995, they wouldn't host it. This episode was broadcast at around that time, and was based on the fictional story that Ireland deliberately put a bad song into Eurovision so they wouldn't win it. In 2020, the Will Farrell movie 'Eurovision' used the same premise on the basis that Iceland, fresh from the banking crisis, couldn't afford to host the show, so they picked a group they thought would lose. Back in the real world, the rest of Europe felt pity on Ireland in 1995 and voted for Norway instead. The following year, in Oslo, Ireland won again, so despite a 1 year break, Ireland hosted it again in 1997
I still find it fucking wild that we had so many wins early on. Granted we don't have as much of that historic animosity that affects vote numbers n stuff so that probably helps.
Early on???
Was it not all in the 80s and 90s
Until a few years ago i legit thought "my lovely horse" had been a real entry. Being what eurovision is like i dont judge myself too harshly for my mistake
@@MortanAMrk Definitely still going _strong._ Daði Freyr - Think About Things would have been Iceland's submission 3 years ago if it hadn't been cancelled because of the pandemic... ruclips.net/video/VFZNvj-HfBU/видео.html
And yet Spain wants to win more than anything else because they haven't won since 1967
Being Irish, I can proudly say... this show is accurate to our daily lifes
@@Happeninlad alcohol :)
@@unknownentitee everything else
And always remember..."These are small..but the ones out THERE...ARE FAR. AWAY."
Definitely
Bollox.
The explanation of how Irish humour can get pretty dark probably explains a lot about why Ireland is the only country where every Tom Waits album has been a Top Twenty seller.
It's quite far from being true, but quite funny nonetheless.
Only the last 4 albums were top sellers, in the top 10.
But 11 of the first 13 weren't even ranked, Heartattack and Vine is 81st and his debut, his most conventional record is 29th.
@@andrasszabo1570 it's still absolutely true that the Irish really seem to love Tom Waits!
@ I do hope so, I quite enjoy his music and his persona, too.
I bleeding love tom waits.
@@jc-16. it honestly wouldn't surprise me if, on a citizenship test for emigration to Ireland, a person has to rank their appreciation for Tom Waits on a 1 - 10 scale, and anything below a 5 gets a person automatically deported! 😅
He's practically an honorary Patron Saint of the island. St. Tom of the Swordfish Trombone.
"What could be more Irish than turning your trauma into a cathartic joke"
Congratulations on summing up Irish culture in one sentence.
See, I'm not weird for making dark jokes about my trauma, I'm just Irish lol
@@noth1ng5id Tbh, it's a lot of ethnic groups that do that.
Ireland is a prime example of how extremely persistently aggressive liberal media can gang up to utterly transform society in a generation or two. As much as it needed to be done, it didn't need to be done by equally extreme, domineering antinational globalists. Ireland, like England, will be a foreign country soon.. LIBS WENT TOO FAR... There is no catharsis for those that don't like be 'greatly replaced'.
Down with this sort of thing!
Careful now
Careful now
Oh I'm late
@@Chrisey96. that would be an ecumenical matter.
That fecking Ejit!! Farher Jack throws bottle at tv !! Classic comedy
@@LonleyCopy ahem
*telly
I'm an Indian born and brought up in India yet after seeing Father Ted whenever i offer someone tea i do it in Mrs Doyle's accent 😂
Will you have a cup of tea, father? .... Ah go on ... go on, go on, go on, go on ...
Country starts with an I... oppressed by the British, but won independence during the 20th century... flag with green, white and orange stripes. It can't be coincidence.
Brilliant. I'd pay to see that!
Ahhh gowan gowan gowannnn
Nice, im also Indian. I love British comedy. From Dad’s army, ofah to upstart crow. I love them all!
To me the real genius of Father Ted (at least in part) is that most of the time you can see the gag coming a mile away yet its STILL hilarious on delivery. I dont believe you can teach performers that type of skill, its pure talent that you either have it (EVERY person that ever appeared in Father Ted IMO) or you dont.
*Spiderbaby! It's half spider and half baby. They keep it in a pram!*
(New Zealanders get this humor too. Father Ted and Black Books are beloved here)
Father Ted and Black Books taught me that there is no problem that cannot be solved by alcohol. And by solved, I mean avoided. Also, I8AlUrBs.
The voice over at the end of the first episode is my favourite.
I never thought I'd see the day when Father Ted featured on a RUclips commentary video! I LOVED that show; I had all the boxed sets. I'm American, but lived in England in the late 80's, so I kind of understand that humor. When this was showing on PBS back here in the State, my family and I lapped it up. I tried getting my husband to watch it (American, but Irish heritage), and he asked me when does it start getting funny? I couldn't believe it. This show is pure gold!
My brother didn’t think it was funny either. And he lived in Ireland for two years in the late 80s. I don’t get it. It’s absolute comedy gold.
I never thought I’d see the day either… I don’t believe it…
Your family isn’t really Irish then
Divorce
It would seem humour is more of a Nurture thing than Nature thing. Despite his Irish Nature, him being born and raised so far away made the humour just not click with him. At least in Britain, the dry humour over there is so closely related to what is traditional in Ireland, you can appreciate such an iconic show.
RIP Dermot Morgan and Frank Kelly. The best sitcom there was, along with Black Books.
Black Books - so good! that along with Blackadder, Green Wing and Only Fools and Horses.. british comedy was awesome back then
The IT Crowd was hilarious and at times surreal
I8LUrBs
If you like those two, you should see The IT Crowd
Black Books = 🖤
I went to Ireland with my family many years ago. My brother, father and I still talk about how we discovered Father Ted during that holiday. It was the episode Kicking Bishop Brennan Up the Arse.
Amazing episode!
My favourite episode
This actually aired in the Netherlands as well so I was lucky enough to enjoy it when I was a kid. But I did have a similar experience once when visiting Germany where me and my family discovered "Bernd das Brot" and spent much of our vacation watching the same dead air filler over and over again and laughing our butts off.
Please tell me you went to the potato chip theme park? I was set to go may 2020 but the lockdowns prevented me from the ultimate burn against the irish.
With escaping from woman's underwear department a close second.
For some reason my brother and i watched this as kids in america with no irish background, and we still find the show hilarious to this day.
Everything here is extremely accurate, but I feel like there's a missing explanation of how in Irish culture being Catholic isn't so much about religion, but also about ethnicity and politics. So this intertwinement is one of the reasons the church had so much power over society for so long
I'm an American and I always found it weird that many people in Europe (especially Scandinavia) identify as Christian or to a church but don't necessarily believe in God or the bible, in America if someone says they're Christian it means they believe in God and the Bible to some sort of degree no atheists or agnostic people would call themselves Christian on a census
I'm from a Scottish Catholic family and we've always loved this series. Thank you for this insightful and enjoyable video about it
As an Irishman I am so proud to see Father Ted being covered like this. So much of my childhood was laughing all night with my family watching it and there are so many iconic episodes. There is nothing like it, for me who understands Irish humour so well as its in my everyday life, it is the funniest sitcom I have ever seen!
Identifying as Catholic without being particularly religious is more than about the schools - for many its also to do with your identity as Catholicism is more associated with nationalism / being "native" irish, as opposed to the protestant anglo-irish or planter descendants. I think it was Dara Ó Briain who summed this type of modern irish catholic well : "don't go to mass, still hate Rangers"
Catholicism is deeply rooted in Irish culture.
The way you talked about this show made me feel so proud to be Irish even though I’m Chinese
There's a Chinatown on Craggy Island?
Funniest thing I've read today. It's not the Greeks he's after it's the Chinese
A perfectly square bit of black dirt on the window
"A great bunch o' lads!"
I remember my parents telling me about a new Irish comedy about priests and I thought it sounded like the worst idea ever. After the first episode I fell in love and still consider it one of the best comedy shows ever. A class act that never grows old and knows exactly what it’s doing. I consider this universal comedy that anyone can enjoy.
Whilst I was incredibly sad when Dermot died far too early this is the best legacy you could ever leave behind you.
I'm from Johannesburg and I grew up watching Father Ted. Some of my best memories as a child with classic and unforgettable moments. I recently rewatched all the episodes and it's still absolute gold.
Father Ted is one of the funniest shows I've ever seen, and I'm so happy it's still held in such high regard all these years later.
Speed 3 remains utterly iconic.
I’m Irish, and I used to watch the show as a kid/teenager. I love how relatable the jokes are to our actual day to day lives, as there aren’t many Irish shows like this.
I'm from Canada and somehow stumbled onto this show a few years back. It's really a great piece of comedy that transcends its Irish appeal. It's just well written and funny with loveable actors.
I always associate Father Ted with Red Green in my mind. I guess partly because I discovered them around the same time in my younger days. And as an American, they're both foreign shows to me, and the humor has a lot to do with their countries' cultures. So it was a bit different from the American shows around at the time, but not so different that the jokes were lost on me. More of a "different in a really refreshing way" kind of thing.
@@frigginjerk That's funny you mention Red Green, we Canadians pretty much grow up with that and Trailer Park Boys.
As an English man, Father Ted is my favourite sitcom of all time and one of my favourite things. The reason? There are still some little bits of it that I just don't quite get.
My knowledge of Father Ted as a Swede was a life saver in Dublin😄
One of the greatest comedy shows ever made! Encompasses a lot of Irish and British humour
It’s just Irish humor
Yep, just Irish humour.
@@dunktopper9697 Just the Southern part.
@@dunktopper9697 Wouldn't be surprised if Irish humor influenced British humor through immigration.
ah cmon, the content of the humour in Father Ted-the absurdism, slapstick quality, its darkness, cringe and observational embarrassment-are all the comedic features you’d just as easily find in Monty Python or Mr Bean. the setting and specificity of the humour here is undeniably Irish, but its comedic quality is just as British as Irish. we don’t have to get our jingoistic backs up at the mere suggestion that our culture and humour are inextricably intertwined. as anyone who has watched comedy in other parts of Europe-or that dreadfully more feigned classic American style-the British sense of humour is almost exactly the same as our own. the people who presumably most intuitively grasp this are the British themselves, judging by the immense success Irish comedians have in the UK.
One unsung stroke of genius was the gradual draining of colour out of the image during the priest's bus trip while listening to Radiohead.
I loved this show from first seeing the trailer on C4 all those years ago. "Down with this sort of thing", "Careful now" is still quoted in our house now.
Total genius. Every episode a winner. Some, like "Speed3" or "The Passion of St Tibulus" off the charts good. RIP Pat Mustard.
All those women were in the nip!!!
@@nicosmind3 "Im a very careful man" "Except when it comes to taking precautions in the bedroom!" "You wouldn't be recommending artificial contraception now would you father?" "Feck off!"
@@richardclarke376 You've seen the damage the bomb can do it'll blown ye face into the side of a tree!
The polaroids of the various babies with ginger moustaches...man oh man that cracks me up!
@@davidlean1060 those babies were very hairy.... and sloppy
I don’t have a dvd player anymore, but I refuse to trade in this boxset. It is monumentally good and I’m delighted to see this commentary on it! 😁😁
I loved the episode where he was accused of being a racist, and sent a crate of Jamison’s to his neighbour. But instead he sent father Jack in full SS attire in the now empty crate.
3:05 "...if they want their children to go to a good school" ..for most of the country it was actually necessary to get baptised to go to their local school.
Love hearing your subtle chuckles at even reciting the jokes, shows the impact this show has, and how hilarious it is
i'm polish but i still would laugh so hard when i was watching it. the catholicism, even if discussed abt how it is in ireland, rlly reminds me of the status of the religion in poland. that's why it hits home so much for me, and i can't help but love the show. a lot.
This is all very interesting, but you don't need to understand anything before watching Father Ted. I'm from the Netherlands, and I literally had tears streaming down my face from laughing when I watched Father Ted.
My wife and I laugh our heads off and revisit it every year. Greetings from Chile.
I'm an American, and I own the complete series of Father Ted on DVD 😝 I love how Graham Norton described the show, "To the British, it's a sitcom, but to the Irish, it's a documentary."
I recommend Black Books. Same writer as Father Ted and The I.T. Crowd.
The square bit of dirt that Mrs Doyle couldn't clean is one of the best payoffs in a comedy ever.
Father Ted and The IT Crowd are my all time Fav comedies.
Discovered this show for the first time several months back and it's easily one of my top five sitcoms of all time. And it only gets better with each and every rewatch!
Best TV comedy ever written - truly timeless.
We were discussing at work and I was shocked that there were people who had never seen it!
spot on
I'll never forget the first time I watched Fr. Ted when I was about ten. I could literally feel it tattooing itself onto my sense of humour.
Irish people still love it, despite Graham Linehan becoming largely scorned by the Irish population.
So the great majority of the Irish population is pro trans?
scorned by the Irish media, not the Irish people
I don't get a sense that Graham Linehan is largely scorned by the Irish population. Obviously a lot of people do because of his stance but I imagine he gets some support and most people probably don't have particularly strong feelings about his position
I've always loved Father Ted. I think the brilliance of it is that it highlights issues that are a core part of many cultures (in my case, English) but with an unfamiliar context. As an English person I recognise the underlaying hypocrisy of society, the sham of organised religion, the endless concern gossiping, the inability to be frank and open about our feelings, etc etc. And its all done masterfully and without any malice.
Thanks for explaining the background. Father Ted is pure gold and I've been an addict since it was shown on Swedish state television in the 90s.
The Spinmaster playing the “Irish Nation Anthem”, genius series.
I grew up in Texas and did not have cable, so I can thank public television for introducing me to Father Ted and being a formative part of my personality.
It's a pretty much perfect sitcom, where every element works and the jokes operate on so many levels that I think you'd have to totally lack a sense of humour to not crack a smile at least once. It's had a huge cultural impact here in the UK as well. I still hear people sarcastically respond to moral guardians with a cry of "Down with this sort of thing!"
A wild Jago appears!
'Father Ted' was actually made by the UK's Channel 4. There is a longstanding myth that Ireland's national broadcaster RTE turned 'Father Ted' down fearing a backlash from the Catholic Church. But in reality it wasn't pitched to them.
I can remember seeing it when it was first broadcast, and trying to tell colleagues about it "It's a sitcom about three Priests banished to this island in Western Ireland. Ted, who misappropriated cash from a charity, Jack and alcoholic letch and Dougal a village idiot in the guise of a priest..." everyone looked at me blankly. A couple of years later I actually moved to Ireland, and while not the place it once was, there've been plenty of 'Ted Moment's'.
Yes Hat Trick did a lot of work for Channel 4, so the idea that it was pitched to RTE is clearly nonsense. It was always intended to be a Channel 4 show. Graham Linehan, although Irish, had been working in London for years because that is where the work was for comedians and comedy. Before Father Ted, and after, all his writing was for UK comedy shows.
it was massive in the uk too, a lot of the lines making it into the public lexicon, if someone dont want the cup of tea you offered a bad mrs doyle impression maybe appears
this show is huge in Scotland too. so much of it resonated with us, especially highlanders. We too had a very powerful clergy in the 90s. its hard for people nowadays to understand how much power the church wielded then, that's not to say it was all bad there were comforting aspects and the church can be a real focal point for the community. there was always a lot more fire and brimstone in scottish and irish preaching though, and they did take themselves more seriously than the CofE.
The mental control it had over the older generations was insane. People genuinely thought they would go to hell and be ostracised from their society if they had sex outside marriage, got a divorce or heaven forbid, stop attending church.
@@cattysplat my parents separated in the late 90s my mum initiated it and the church we went to got involved. My dad read 9 year old me anti divorce passages from the bible. Gladly those times are gone for most of us.
Spider baby... It has the body of a spider and the mind of a baby.
They keep it in a pram! ^^
I'm not Irish, but I love Father Ted!
American, here.
I had never heard of this show. I grew up without organized religion, even though I had a painting of an angel in my room for a while, under the guise of "watching over me", despite me not knowing the first thing about Christianity and having gone to church once, maybe twice in my life.
With this background in mind, and the limited exposure I've had to Father Ted, that being the videos where scenes from Father Ted were edited to be Elder Scrolls themed, I've found the parts of the show I've seen to be hilarious.
Grew up with this, such a grand show, pure gold
“It’s no use Ted, you’ll never get it absolutely right.”
He’s not wrong 😂
I was born in Bray county Wicklow where I still live. We’d say morning Father and when he couldn’t hear us we’d be accusing him of sleeping with all the women in the town and stealing jewellery from dead people😂🇮🇪
Mrs. Doyle is the most underrated in the show. I remember finding this show about 2007 and being a little confused as an American, but now it’s in my top five favorite shows. Also part of being a lapsed catholic translates across cultures maybe.
Sorry, in a nursinghome and weak, stylus is spasming 🤷🏽♀️🙃
VERY grateful for your video, insightful insights and clever clips👍🏽👏🏾✌🏾🤟🏽😆❣️😘
I'm an American who got to accidentally enjoy Father Ted in the late 90's via BBC (and has never stopped shouting about it.) Thanks for such a concise and comprehensive video. I hope more and more people can discover this gem of a show.
One of the best comedies of all time; it is a work of genius ❤
I'm from the USA, but this is one of my favorite sitcoms ever. I grew up Catholic and still consider myself one even though I'm not a regular churchgoer. Anyone raised in the Church can appreciate the religious humor in the show. The Lent episode was especially relateable to my own experiences.
Totally agree.
I live in the US, but in the 2001 a friend in college introduced me to this show because she had taped a bunch of episodes while living abroad. Such a hilarious show
Being an American of Irish extraction, I am well aware of the comedic mileage people have got from stereotypes we have about the Irish. One thing I love about this program is that we get a chance to see how much humor the Irish can wring from stereotypes about themselves……
Entirely engrained in Irish and British culture. The following phrases are used frequently in the uk:
- Go ahhhn, go ahhhn, etc - trying to persuade someone to eat or drink (or just do) something
- The word feck is an acceptable (non-offensive) alternative to the f word
- Down with this sort of thing / careful now!
- I've had my fun and that's all the matters (used ironically, of course)
And probably plenty more examples if I gave it more thought!
not it is not maybe the language,but everything else is irish.Its no more ingrained in british culture than the vicar of dibley.Mrs browns boys would be more like that
Scottish but with Irish family. This show had me literally dying even when I was wee
Your a fecking hero for covering this best sitcom of all time PERIOD 🤣🤣🤣🤣
'What was that picture in your advent calender, ruud gullit sitting on a shed'
It was a good team effort from Ireland and Britain! Ireland wrote it and Britain produced it
Speaking of humor,
I remember the RUclips
video a Scottish father posted
when he was telling his four year old daughter that when she grows up she'll become a nun and dedicate her life to God. And the wee lass said no she wasn't, she was going to have a boyfriend! Judging from the father's big grin he clearly enjoyed teasing his little daughter. I loved how the daughter had her arms crossed
and looked so defiant. ☺️
I'm not Irish, but as a Maltese this video really hits home. Catholicism has really kept the country from developing (for comparison, divorce was legalised in 2012) and it's only in the past 7 years that the country is finally finding its place in the EU as something other than the nation equivalent of Fr Dougal 🤣
I feel the Eurovision joke should have the context explained. Like the man says, Ireland has won 7 times and had a load of top 5 runners up. In the early 90s, the country won several times in a row, and one year, the Irish entry was two men (one no piano, one on guitar) singing "Rock and Roll kids". This was suspected as being a deliberate attempt to lose, due to the cost of hosting the contest (it lacked the theatrics of other entries, and guitar ballads tend not to do well in the Eurovision). However the song won by a large margin.
I loved Father Ted I still quote it. I watched on BBC America in the time the channel played UK shows.
So I grew up (and currently reside) up on the North West Coast of Northern Ireland, coleraine to be exact. I watched father Ted religiously as a kid with my family, the Christmas episode was a tradition in our house for years but I missed so much of this context, thanks for this video dude
Just found your channel and loving it, especially this video.
All the best from Cork 👍
And the whole of Father Ted is free to watch officially on RUclips! It’s the best show ANYONE can watch!
Actually one of the most influential TV shows of all time. So much so that the reformers of the Shamrock Awakening are known as the Father Ted generation, it literally changed the country,
I’m an American just discovering this show. (I’ve heard about but hadn’t seen it until last night, when I watched the first three episodes on the streaming service Peacock.) I will say some of the humor did go over my head, but the more slapstick elements did actually make me laugh. But I’m glad this video is here to help me understand the humor a little better.
Seen this show so many times. Never stops being funny, not many shows that cheer me up instantly.
"Derry Girls" and "Bridget and Eamon" are two of the funniest sitcoms ever- both Irish and recent. The former is set in the mid 1990s while the latter is set in the 1980s.
Father Ted is legendary. I still bust out the box set every so often. 😂👌🏻
The framed picture of Jesus with the apple is also funny, as every grandmother had that hanging up
I was 15-17 when these came out was at school we would all be having a laugh at school the day after it was on😀😀 all the way from New zealand😀 can't beat old school Britt comedy 😀😀😀 are ya right there dougle 😀
Irish comedy 👍🏻
My grandfather was from Ireland but I never met the man and my family is far removed from any Irish roots. Strangely enough though we love gossip, obsess over being a gracious host and a humble guest, and I personally ended up falling in love with Father Ted and a british show called the Young Ones thanks to BBC dvds.
my dad is as irish as you can come, and i was born in dundrum, but my parents moved to new zealand before i turned 1 and raised me and my brother tiernan there. i am a kiwi (new zealander), through and through, and i'm proud to be, but with a name like caoimhe i always felt connected to my irish-ness as i would explain how to say my name to teachers at school, have to explain the fact my dad was irish and explain that, no, despite looking (sort of) like the name, niamh, my name wasn't actually the same at all...
growing up i picked up on a lot of my dad's traits and habits and sayings that were irish, and this year we finally sat down as a family and binged father ted from my dad's dvd box set. i didn't realise that so many classic sayings my parent's said were from father ted! (ah go on, go on, go onnn, the money was just resting in my account, down with that sort of thing), etc etc. father ted made me feel so happy to be irish, and i really need to learn more about where i come from. we are hoping to take our third ever trip back to ireland since 2005 together as a family early next year, fingers crossed!! awesome video, so glad to have found your channel :)
I noticed one of the Steam profile backgrounds was a control panel with a big red button and I couldn't resist using it and changing my profile pic to Dougal's conflicted trance as the big red "don't press" button stares him in the face...
favorite show of all time!!! Pure gold!
Father Ted should really be the world's favorite sitcom. It's that good.
Would love a video about Hardy Bucks, most underrated Irish comedy in my opinion
"So... Ye' still got that big old hairy arse"?
I'm not Irish, I'm a Brit from Northumberland who moved to Scotland at 16 with my parents.
Me & my mates used to watch the shit out of Father Ted... Bloody brilliant.!
I've always found it a bit ironic That Dermot Morgan died of a heart attack. Like god was saying "That's enough of that business, now!".
I seriously think it was a shame that he died so darn young and I'm an atheist who LOVES the show ("Small... far away"), but, it seems like it was a Father Ted sort of way to go...
Great analysis. Nice and clearly laid out!
I grew up with Father Ted.
I come from Irish Catholic ancestry, both my grandparents were Irish, and my parents lived in Ireland for a while too, so I understood a lot of the culture and humour. The show still has me in stitches
I’m Scottish and I love Father Ted. You should do a video about Scotlands “Still Game” it’s brilliant
The Brilliant Graham Linehan. This and Black Books are the best sitcoms ever made.
He was an incredible writer. I genuinely think he's gone a bit mad these days.
@@mankytoes hes not all there is he lol
It's a shame he's been outright disliked by many for basically standing up for women and children. The guy's a comedic legend.
@@adrianmeyer2157 I get that plenty of people dislike a minority group, and we have to live with that, but he's made it his whole personality.
@@mankytoes I remember randomly channel surfing to BBC Newsnight one time and being very confused when I saw Graham Linehan sat there talking about trans stuff. What we've seen in Linehan's case is the real-time radicalisation of someone via social media, and it's disturbing to see someone get 'reprogrammed' like that.
He's lost most of his old life because he just couldn't drop the argument - he'll probably never get another TV series commissioned again and he's lost his family. To compound matters, Twitter's relaxation of their rules has once again allowed him access to the thing that brought him down the rabbit hole in the first place.
I’m not Irish but Father Ted is hands down my favorite comedy of all time…. closely followed by Black Books. We have to admit it, the Irish are hilarious !
A brilliant analysis, thank you! I'm off to All4 to rewatch it 😁
I'm American but I absolutely love the show. It's hysterical and so ridiculous and the cast just sells it so well. I had my husband watch it and he also fell in love with it. Lol Top tier tv.
I first saw Father Ted about 20 years here in the US and LOVED IT! Everything about it was perfection.
Father Ted was subjectively Irish, but with all the funding, production values and reach of a major UK Studio. If it had been totally Irish, I think it would have been too parochial to sell outside of Ireland or the UK. There would have been cultural restrictions on production and writing if FT had been made as an entirely Irish production, especially at that time. I mean, you might not go to Mass every week, but you don't openly mock the Church like that, amirite Ted?
Father Ted should be required viewing for anyone outside of Ireland with Irish ancestry