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muriel_volestrangler

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2. I've loved 'Father Ted', 'The IT Crowd' and 'Motherland'

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Reply #1)

Thu Sep 4, 2025, 03:36 PM

Sep 4

He was one of 2 co-writers for the first, writer and director for the second, and one of 4 writers for the third, for its first series (another being his then wife - I think his exit from the 2nd series was a sign that he'd gone moronic, and she and the others couldn't work with him). I hadn't liked 'Count Arthur Strong' on the radio, and never tried it on TV - had no idea he was part of the TV show.

Oh, and 'Black Books' - he was a writer for that too.

Yes, he used to be funny. Then he lost his mind, his dignity and his empathy for the human race, and became a wanker.

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Sadly all of his shows I am a big fan of Eliot Rosewater Sep 4 #1

I've loved 'Father Ted', 'The IT Crowd' and 'Motherland' muriel_volestrangler Sep 4 #2

Yes of course "black books" with Dylan Moran and father Ted Eliot Rosewater Sep 4 #4

People like Harry Potter, too. Iggo Sep 4 #3