misses brown boys WTF

tommytee

jesus H, this is pure utter Sh1te, a national embarrassment to our airwaves,
are the audience stoned oh no wait its off a sound deck.
pure tripe. Wouldnt expect anything more from BOC or RTE for that matter
thanks for reading
T

Liam Byrne

Who's missing them, and why are they brown ?

A Disgrace

tommytee wrote: »

jesus H, this is pure utter Sh1te, a national embarrassment to our airwaves,
are the audience stoned oh no wait its off a sound deck.
pure tripe. Wouldnt expect anything more from BOC or RTE for that matter
thanks for reading
T

So eloquently put... But BOC, being the 'largest supplier of industrial gases and related equipment in Ireland' might have issues with your comments.. As might the BBC, who are totally behind it..

tommytee

BBC should have an issue with my comments, (among many many others no doubt)
There is something tragic about how bad it actually is, maybe the Brits love it as its not about them,
i.e. Do Irish contestants on the Irish Apprentice annoy me more than the UK version? yes, why? becasue they are Irish and seems to activate a built in cringe factor in me, am i alone thinking like this, I doubt it.....
anyways, my sky dish is offline and the rabbit ears tuned into RTE so i just endured 30 mins of the rubbish.

BOC is not Bank of China, Bank or Canada nor is it British Oxygen Company, I am of course referrring to brendan O'carroll

brian_t

Mrs Brown's Boys was nominated for a Bafta this year in the Situation comedy category losing out to Rev. Somebody out there must like it.

Sir Gallagher

What a seriously troubled human being

Minstrel27

tommytee wrote: »

jesus H, this is pure utter Sh1te, a national embarrassment to our airwaves,
are the audience stoned oh no wait its off a sound deck.
pure tripe. Wouldnt expect anything more from BOC or RTE for that matter
thanks for reading
T

The national embarrassment co-made in Glasgow by the BBC and RTÉ? It does actually have an audience.

meditraitor

Its not bad, i will admit to watching it on RTE player only yesterday, had a bit of a giggle

The scene were mammy comes out of the loo at the hen night is only great......

blondie7

Mrs Browns Boys is brilliant, went to see it in the Olympia earlier this year and never stopped laughing the whole way through. Its pure Old Irish humour.

ziedth

I remember I went to see the orginal Mrs Browne play and it was actually brilliant. A real mix of humor and drama. It had a very commitments vibe too it. The TV shows are shocking though.

Miguel_Sanchez

The head of comedy in Channel 4 had this to say about it:

"Mrs Brown’s Boys is for people who've been in prison since the Seventies" - Shane Allen

Ally Dick

I thought the first episode I saw had some good gags in it. The other night though it was a laugh free zone. The jokes were as bad as something you'd hear at Maureen Potter's Gaels Of Laughter

donfers

it's not intellectual or clever humour, there are no knowing references of layers or irony and the comedy snobs were never going to like a show like this, but it is what it is, a rather coarse one-tone sitcom.....but you know what I laughed, many times, fair enough it's not clever but I found it funny at times, in the same way I fancy myself as a musical conaisseur but like the occassional pop song, I regard this show as a guilty pleasure, I like the simplicity of it, get to the obvious joke as quickly as possible and ham it up no matter how crude - i didn't think i'd like it but the truth is i do

tommytee

Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »

The head of comedy in Channel 4 had this to say about it:

"Mrs Brown’s Boys is for people who've been in prison since the Seventies" - Shane Allen

finally someone here is talking sense :cool:

Badgermonkey

donfers wrote: »

I regard this show as a guilty pleasure, I like the simplicity of it, get to the obvious joke as quickly as possible and ham it up no matter how crude

If you were saying this about Sid James, Kenneth Williams and Hattie Jacques, I'd agree. The Carry On movies were all of the above.

Subjective I know but I simply cannot find a single redeeming feature to Mrs. Browns Boys. Poorly scripted, acted and directed, O'Carrolls sensibility is plainly more suited to cruise ship / Butlins summer-season light entertainment.

There is a place for broad, innuendo-laden, saucy and low-brow output but this charmless guff is anti-comedy and an altogether execrable endeavour.

Me no like.

youngblood

I myself cant stand the programme but.....

The BBC commissioned another series before it had even finished airing in Ireland, thats how much they were impressed with it

It hits an older different demographic than normal comedy shows

The poor script/acting is incorporated into the show ie when people break or come in the wrong time or give the wrong name, the camera keeps rolling and is not edited out, something which is kinda unusual in a comedy

As far as I know it is filmed in front of a studio audience and is practically a Brendan O Carroll family event ie his wife/sons etc all play themselves

Its pretty innocent and harks back to old time humour-no irony-sarcasm etc but ank anyone in the 40-80 age bracket what they think and you'll prob be very surprised

As I said I dont get it at all but I am enjoying watching the older generations getting a great kick out of it!