It's 21 years since Dermot Morgan passed away. Last year Tony_Cuddihy spoke to his son Rob about his father, and the legacy he left
Rob also shares for the first time some images from that era that have never been seen before.
We weren’t reared on a strict diet of slapstick or family friendly. We were always given the exposure to the slightly grittier, slightly more edgy comedy.Completely. I’ll be honest with you – I hate Mrs. Brown’s Boys. I think it’s one of the worst things ever done on TV.And I feel that way because I don’t see any edge to it, I don’t see any darkness to it. It’s just this ‘Music Hall,’ ‘willy jokes,’ complete lack of depth. It’s lower than the lowest common denominator.
That’s not to say he was more passionate about one than the other, but it was different. You could see that one was a gig, a job, for however long and the other was him striving to find a sustainable vehicle for himself.We were always aware of that, growing up.
It’s an obvious shame that in the same way that Ted doesn’t go on to greater success, Dermot didn’t get to go on and have the greater success.Do you think, had he lived, they would have brought Ted back?Dermot was very clear he wasn’t going to do a fourth series and I don’t imagine that a fourth series would have been in the best interests of the show at that stage.
Yeah, exactly. And even, I hate to say it, I loved Monty Python growing up – Dermot got us into that – but I looked at some of the footage from the reunion last year and I just thought, “lads, this is as blatantly milking it as you can possibly get.”