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Arthur Mathews
Castletown Kilpatrick, Navan, Co Meath, Ireland
Mathews has contributed to many sketch shows, including Harry Enfield and Chums, The All New Alexei Sayle Show and the Ted & Ralph segments of The Fast Show. However, it was with…
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Mathews has contributed to many sketch shows, including Harry Enfield and Chums, The All New Alexei Sayle Show and the Ted & Ralph segments of The Fast Show. However, it was with Father Ted (three series, 1995–1998) that he and Graham Linehan made their biggest impression. It debuted on Channel 4.[1][2][3] The writing partnership had previously co-written the comedy Paris[4] (one series, 1994), also for Channel 4. Both Linehan and Mathews worked on the first series of sketch show Big Train, but Linehan dropped out for the second series. Mathews has also contributed to other British comedies such as Brass Eye, Jam, Black Books and later Toast of London. He later contributed sketches for Kevin Eldon, including the Amish Sex Pistols.[5] In 1999, Linehan and Mathews created the sixties-set sitcom Hippies, but the six-part series (which starred Simon Pegg and Sally Phillips) was written by Mathews alone.[6] In late 2003, the two men were named one of the 50 funniest acts to work in television by The Observer.[7]
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2022
Toast of Tinseltown
TV show Writer
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2019
The Road to Brexit
Movie Writer
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2013
Toast of London
TV show Writer
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2011
Small, Far Away: The World of Father Ted
Movie Self
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2009
Val Falvey, TD
TV show Creator
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2009
Wide Open Spaces
Movie Writer
- 2008
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2007
Comedy Showcase
TV show Writer
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2007
TedFest 2007: Two Tribes Go to War
Movie Fr. Tim Shuttlewoode (Voice)
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2004
I Am Not an Animal
TV show Niall the Rabbit (voice)
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2004
The Catherine Tate Show
TV show Writer
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2000
Black Books
TV show Writer
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2000
Jam
TV show Writer
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1999
Hippies
TV show Irish Folk Singer
- 1999
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1999
The Fast Show: You Ain’t Seen These, Right?
Movie Writer
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1998
Big Train
TV show Writer
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1997
I'm Alan Partridge
TV show Paul Tool
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1997
Brass Eye
TV show Additional Writing
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1996
Never Mind the Horrocks
Movie Writer
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1995
Coogan's Run
TV show Writer
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1995
Father Ted
TV show Father Billy Kerrigan
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1994
Harry Enfield and Chums
TV show Additional Writing
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1994
The Fast Show
TV show Writer
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1994
The Day Today
TV show Additional Writing
