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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 Daily Express, 2nd July 2010The 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.
Ralph Jones, Suite 101, 25th June 2010Ardal: 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.
Lynne Kelleher, The Independent (Ireland), 24th May 2010Guesting 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")
Radio Times, 30th March 2009No 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.
Robert Hanks, The Independent, 19th September 2008