I was recently reminded in conversation that most American Catholics have never watched the TV show “Father Ted”. To be fair, it’s a rather bizarre TV show, with a distinctly quirky sense of humour. However, it’s well worth a watch.
So, in honour of England’s recent victory over Columbia in the World Cup, here’s the episode where Fr. Ted coaches the All-Priests Over 75 Five-A-Side Football Challenge Match…
If you’d like to be introduced to more wonderful British TV, I’d recommend looking at my Best of British series, where I talk about some of my favourite TV shows from home.
Yesterday I began talking about some of the British comedy shows I enjoyed growing up.
It would be almost impossible to mention all of the shows that I loved; there are simply too many! When I first wrote out a list of my favourite British comedy shows I noticed that a large number of the comedians had careers which spanned several successful shows.
For example Ronnie Barker played both a prison inmate in Porridge and a miserly shop keeper in Open All Hours. Geoffrey Palmer stared in both Butterflies, as well as opposite Judi Dench in the wonderful As Time Goes By. Penelope Keith is another great example, being cast in both The Good Life and To The Manor Born. Lenny Henry has starred in many shows but I wanted to take this opportunity to highlight his role as the perfectionist/evil chief in Chef!, a show that I think fairly few people have seen, even though it was, in my opinion, some of his best work.
A lot of people know Rowan Atkinson from Mr. Bean, but not so many have seen his other shows such as The Thin Blue Line. Probably my favourite series of his was Blackadder. That show was genius. It ran for four seasons, with each season being set in a different historical period: The Middle Ages, Elizabethan England, the Regency and the First World War. For those of you who only know Hugh Laurie as the broody Dr. House, you really need to also see him play the idiot Prince George:
More “suggestions” on Saturday (all suggestions are mandatory)…
“When I hear someone pray with a British accent, they sound like it’s coming out of their mouth in cursive…”
– John Acuff
Having an English accent in America is something of a blessing and a curse.
It’s constantly assumed that I’m from Australia. I’m regularly asked to repeat myself while on the phone because people can’t understand what I’ve said. I’m often asked if I know so-and-so who lives in London. I regularly have to explain the difference between England, the UK and Great Britain.
On the plus side, people assume that I’m more intelligent than I actually am… 🙂
I was recently reminded in conversation that most American Catholics have never watched the TV show “Father Ted”. To be fair, it’s a rather bizarre TV show, with a distinctly quirky sense of humour. However, it’s well worth a watch.
Yesterday I began talking about some of the British comedy shows I enjoyed growing up.
While we’re on the subject of