Ardal O'Hanlon

Tonight's main guest is Irish comic Ardal O'Hanlon, at whom it's still difficult to look without seeing Dougal, the simple-minded priest from Father Ted with trouble distinguishing between "small" and "far away". Jolly bemusement remains a crucial element of O'Hanlon's act, but he regularly subverts expectations with his smart and faintly surreal asides - for example, the assertion that Ryanair have now become so crafty that they're charging for emotional baggage.

Ardal O'Hanlon Doesn't See Funny Side Of Lembit Opik

Father Ted comedian Ardal O'Hanlon has slammed former MP Lembit Opik's foray into stand-up comedy as "disrespectful".

The Top 5 Sitcoms of the 1990s

The 1990s produced some very important comedy, seeing some of today's comedy veterans - like Steve Coogan, Steve Pemberton, Rik Mayall, Ardal O'Hanlon - experiencing their juiciest tastes of success. Here's the five best '90s sitcoms, in reverse order.

Ardal: actors queued up to replace Ted

Comedian Ardal O'Hanlon has revealed that there were actors lining up to become Father Ted in the aftermath of Dermot Morgan's sudden death.

Guesting this week on the cheap-but-effective comedy discussion show are the reliable Mark Watson and the refreshingly unreliable Ardal O'Hanlon. Topics include the semi-serious ("Barak Obama can only disappoint us") and the deadly serious ("Doctor Who is rubbish")

No Heroics is a sitcom about superheroes, set mainly in a bar where they all sit around drinking too much, talking about sex, and revealing their deep personal inadequacies. It is quite a nice idea, certainly a much better idea than My Hero, the one with Ardal O'Hanlon as Thermoman, but so far Drew Pearce's script is too ready to fall back on the drink and the sex every time it needs a laugh. It needs a good script editor to sort it out.