Father Ted, sex, girls & Catholicism: ‘Doesn’t Mary have a lovely bottom?’

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Dermot Morgan as Father Trendy, a character that preceded his role as Father Ted. Aware of his anti-clerical reputation, he said of Father Ted’s writers: “the guys always say disingenuously if you ask me that [Father Ted]’s just a happy show about priests […]But anything so deranged has to have a subversive element […]for all their protestations of innocence, the fact that they’d hire me at all shows their true intent. It’s like saying, ‘We’re setting up a general practice. Let’s get Dr Mengele in’46’.”

Mon Jun 06 2016 - 10:04

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