Graham Linehan

Is this the funniest TV series ever made? That would be an ecumenical question - but the scripts are every bit as head-spinningly funny as the shows themselves.
Includes dialogue cut from the actual broadcasts, and brief but entertaining commentaries from the writers. I particularly liked their observation that you could add the word 'priest' to any adjective (or other descriptor) and get a new character: thus 'the dancing priest', 'the monkey priest', 'the laughing priest' and so on (all of these actually appeared in the series, too...)… (mer)

A brilliant comic series, although admittedly an acquired taste; like olives, you have to try it two or three times before you really start to enjoy it.

In particular, I appreciate the series for the "tea-riffic" Mrs Doyle. She has become my patron saint of Japanese tea ceremony due to her many wise utterances on the topic of tea: "Tea for everyone!" ... "I love the whole tea-making thing!" ... and especially (as she snarled, when presented with an automated tea machine touted as "taking the misery out of making tea"): "Maybe I like the misery!" Spoken like a true student of the Way of Tea.… (mer)

Howlingly funny scripts from the Channel Four cult comedy series. To quote Amazon.com, "Exiled to remote Craggy Island, Father Ted Crilly shares a house with the breathtakingly stupid Father Dougal and the constantly inebriated Father Jack, who has a small vocabulary and a taste for furniture polish. Their housekeeper, Mrs. Doyle, takes care of them with a never-ending supply of tea and sandwiches." Tragically, the series star (Dermott Morgan) died shortly after the third series concluded filming. But what a comic legacy.… (mer)