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Father Ted Crilly is the title character of the Channel 4 sitcom ''Father Ted''. Created by Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews, Ted was portrayed by comedian Dermot Morgan for the programme's three series. The character is a morally dubious Roman Catholic priest exiled to Craggy Island, a small island off the coast of Galway. The character was originally created by Mathews for a short-lived stand-up routine in the late 1980s. In 1994, Linehan and Mathews cast Morgan in the role for the television series, developing the character to match his abilities. Morgan's performance was acclaimed; after his death in 1998, he was awarded a posthumous BAFTA for his work in the third series. ==Concept and creation== In the late 1980s, Arthur Mathews, Paul Woodfull and Kieran Woodfull formed The Joshua Trio, a U2 tribute band. Graham Linehan joined in a non-musical capacity, helping to write U2-related sketches for them to perform during gigs. Before the band played, Mathews occasionally performed stand-up as Father Ted Crilly, a generic priest character. He sometimes read from a book, ''Notes from Africa'', purportedly written by Father Dougal McGuire, a missionary who described his experiences of being attacked and chased by natives. In 1989, Ted (played by Mathews) performed with The Joshua Trio in an episode of the Irish music anthology series ''Nighthawks''; this marks the first televised appearance of the character.〔 In 1990, Linehan and Mathews began writing ''Irish Lives'', a six-part comedy television series. The show would have taken the form of a mockumentary, with each episode focusing on interviewing a different character; one of the six characters was Father Ted Crilly. The script, delivered in 1990, described Ted as "a perpetually jolly and rather sad man who, through some terrible accident of faith, has found himself in the priesthood." The story involved Ted returning to his seminary to catch up with his old friends, including Father Jack, whom he fails to realise has recently died. Producer Geoffrey Perkins asked Linehan and Mathews to discard the mockumentary format and expand the Father Ted episode to a traditional sitcom.〔 Linehan found the character of Ted easier to write if he imagined Mathews's version delivering the lines. "Every time I wrote Ted in the early days, I'd hear Arthur's voice... Ted was this very bland character who'd never curse except for saying a very quiet 'feck' to himself. That panic and turmoil under the surface defined Ted before we even started writing him. Years later, when we did, it was just like pressing 'play' on a tape recorder."〔 One of the writers' key influences was Charles Grodin's character in the 1972 film ''The Heartbreak Kid''.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Father Ted Crilly」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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