Father Ted Crilly
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Father Ted Crilly is the central character in the Channel 4 situation comedy series Father Ted, played by the late Dermot Morgan.
Father Ted Crilly is one of three priests who have been exiled to the remote Craggy Island, by the corrupt and dictatorial Bishop Len Brennan. Father Ted's exile was for appropriating a substantial quantity of church funds which he claimed were "merely resting" in his account.
Ted is a fairly normal priest, albeit with a significant financial impropriety in his past, who reflects in an unthinking manner the prejudices and hypocracies of his social and religious position. Ted dreams of being on television or of leaving the island and becoming priest in a parish in Las Vegas, living it up in a casino somewhere. However, Ted's failings just make him more human, and, indeed, he is a somewhat sympathetic character and hard put upon by the other two priests, Father Jack Hackett, a senile drunk, and Father Dougal McGuire, who gives interesting new tones to the concept of imbecility. He also had moments of selfless heroism, on a plane about to crash, in solving the mystery of the Craggy Island beast, leading a troop of lost priests in Ireland's largest lingerie department and stopping a fellow priest from committing suicide. His most notable achievement was, of course, the "Golden Cleric" award which he was presented with in recognition of his quick thinking in the aforementioned lingerie incident. The award resembled an Oscar statuette albeit one of a priest.
Ted is successful at the Craggy Island version of "Stars in their Eyes", where he has appeared as Elvis and, more regularly, Mother Theresa. Dougal goes so far as to say "there's only one Mother Theresa Ted, and that's you."