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Dermot Morgan’s son issues emotional response to calls to cancel Father Ted

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appealed to critics of the show to stop calling for it to be removed from air.The much-loved show has been an Irish institution since it aired the 1990s is regularly re-run here and in the UK but has fallen foul of the Black Lives Matter movement with some asking for the show to be pulled.The episode which has caused the controversy is the Are You Right There Fr.

Ted? episode which sees the priest don a lampshade to resemble a coolie hat while doing an offensive impression of an Asian person.As the episode progresses Ted unwittingly gets himself into trouble again thanks to a perfectly square piece of dirt on a windowpane following repeated attempts to prove that he’s not a racist.Let’s get nuanced about Fr Ted here.

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