Graham Linehan, 49, grew up in Dublin. With Arthur Mathews, he wrote sketches for programmes such as “The Fast Show”, for which they created the characters Ted and Ralph. Linehan followed his and Mathews’s sitcom “Father Ted” (1995-98) with projects including “Black Books”, “The IT Crowd” and “Motherland”, written with his wife, Helen, and Sharon Horgan.
Being naughty by eating jam out of the jar, while at some sort of nursery in someone’s home. I gave that moment to Father Ted’s Eoin McLove and Father Dougal eventually. “Don’t eat jam out of the jar!”
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