Father Ted

Check out JOE’s interviews with the creators and stars of the hilarious comedy. The hilarious Northern Irish sitcom Funboys, which we’ve previously described as a mix of Father Ted and Hardy Bucks, returns to screens tonight (Monday, 15 June) with its second season. Airing on the BBC, the comedy show follows the “soft-bellied boys of […]

1 month ago

“You’ve a face like a pair of tits”

5 years ago

One of the best Christmas specials ever made. So much happened in ‘A Christmassy Ted’, including the brilliant lingerie section scene, where Ted and his gang of priests inadvertently become stuck in the lingerie section of a department store. Not just any lingerie section, but “Ireland’s biggest lingerie section”, we understand. So much happens in […]

6 years ago

Happy birthday Father Ted. April the 21st. Any idea why April the 21st should be so important? No, it’s not the day the ice age ended, Marathon became Snickers or Galway was liberated from the Indians, it’s even more important than that. On this day in 1995, the first ever episode of Father Ted, Good […]

6 years ago

If you can get more than 10 without the aid of Google, then you can count yourself as a true Father Ted fan. Even though it’s more than 20 years old and you’ve probably seen it one hundred times already, the Father Ted Christmas special remains a must-watch piece of television over the festive period. […]

8 years ago

This could be incredible. Endlessly quotable and brimming with fantastic characters, 20 years since the final episode of Father Ted aired, there’s one thing that’s often overlooked in Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan’s iconic show; the satire. There’s a school of thought which suggests that Father Ted had a seismic impact on eradicating the theocracy of […]

8 years ago