Mrs Brown Xmas special

Hootanany

Watched both and I tried to Larf but very poor indeed.
Brendan you must try harder.

Min

I thought the Christmas show was much better than the Christmas Eve show.

Max Power

The Royle Family Christmas Special FTW. Brilliant!!

spookwoman

Wasn't impressed with last nights too soppy. Tonights was very funny except for the singing at the end.

movingsucks

Angel Buster saved it for me
Loved when he was just hanging from the thing unconcious

jenniferalan

Im looking forward to the new series! I didnt think last night or tonights were that funny either

MadYaker

Mrs Browne was never funny.

Miaireland

Christmas Day was better than Christmas Eve. Still they made us laugh!

Choochtown

FionnMcCool87 wrote: »

The Royle Family Christmas Special FTW. Brilliant!!

... and with a special appearance from Giovanni Trappatoni. Quality!

Mr E

This show is crap. Thread locked.













Wish I could.....

movingsucks

FionnMcCool87 wrote: »

The Royle Family Christmas Special FTW. Brilliant!!

I thought it was awful. I can't believe it took them 2 years to come out with that tripe. But then I just don't like the character of Joe that much.

Al Capwned

Buster....

:pac:

pontia

about as funny as cancer,pile of cack,painful muck

roanoke

Tonight was my first time being exposed to this tripe.

It was like a show created by someone who'd seen a few eps of Father Ted and Extras and thought it'd be a good idea to make a mishmash rip-off of both without actually understanding the underlying humour of either. Throw in a few f-bombs to paper over the cracks and away you go.

uberalles

I was speaking to a few Australians and they love the crudity of it. There is a world wide audience for this BS it seems.

murpho999

FionnMcCool87 wrote: »

The Royle Family Christmas Special FTW. Brilliant!!

Are you serious?

The Royle Family was awful.

Not a patch on what that show used to be. Should be put to bed.

mobby

murpho999 wrote: »

Are you serious?

The Royle Family was awful.

Not a patch on what that show used to be. Should be put to bed.

Have to agree, very very poor stuff, as for Mrs brown boys even more woefull. the guy makes money but i really dont know how?

areyawell

Brilliant series, There making a games show out of it this year as well. Can't wait. If ye don't like it why do ye continue to watch it and make threads about it and feel how you think you need to comment on every episode and how "crap it is".

JonathanAnon

I thought both shows were disappointing as well.. There certainly good jokes in there but a LOT of lazy, cliché jokes, the northern woman is horrifically wooden, the storylines are extremely simplistic like they are written for kid's TV... Seems like the public will lap up anything they put on at the moment, but they could actually make it a good show with better writing.

areyawell

JonathanAnon wrote: »

I thought both shows were disappointing as well.. There certainly good jokes in there but a LOT of lazy, cliché jokes, the northern woman is horrifically wooden, the storylines are extremely simplistic like they are written for kid's TV... Seems like the public will lap up anything they put on at the moment, but they could actually make it a good show with better writing.

I think the main reason people like the show is because its simplistic.

Yamanoto

areyawell wrote: »

I think the main reason people like the show is because its simplistic.

True that.

My biggest problem with it though is this - even within the broad and bawdy genre it inhabits, it lacks the charm, wit and craft of many of its precursors on British TV.

fryup

murpho999 wrote: »

The Royle Family was awful.

Not a patch on what that show used to be. Should be put to bed.

just had an idea!!

how about for next years xmas special ...the royle family meets mrs browns boys...they have so much in common rude crude vulgar...it would be a riot:pac:

(gonna email brendan and caroline straight away)

movingsucks

Ooooo how would this work?
They all go to Butlins for Christmas or something?
Cheryl is finally getting married and the Browns are some of her relatives?

py2006

Have to agree, the Christmas special was very poor. I was never a huge fan of Brendan O'Carroll but I did warm to the series alright and it did have some very funny moments. However, those two shows were very poor by comparison.

Hopefully, the new series will be good.

Happyman42

Fair play to O'Carroll for finding a way to play and get paid for these hackneyed old jokes, but the whole concept just doesn't have any charm, it has fake charm but that's not the same thing. The second one was positvely missable!

Sir Oxman

murpho999 wrote: »

Are you serious?

The Royle Family was awful.

Not a patch on what that show used to be. Should be put to bed.

Yep, it's long since departed from what made it great.

A few good lines but overall, it was shíte.

MBB was absolutely awful this time around (and I don't mind that show, it is what it is)

the christmas eve special was so funny
the christmas day special was just alright

at xmas how much holiday material do you have to work with ?

1 special would of been enough


(you might ****ing join him )

roanoke

Come to think of it there was one joke that I didn't get. Something about a guy opening a newsagents and the other saying he always wanted to be a shepherd.

What was that about? I'm afraid that was a bit too high brow and intellectual for me.

Clareboy

How dare RTE show that filthy show at Christmas! Its just a load of dirty double meaning rubbish. Brendan O' Carroll is just a dirty little man with dirty little mind. I now see that RTE have sold that filth to the BBC - shame on them! Mrs Brown's Boys feed into all the stereotypes of the drunken, foul-mouthed, dirty Irish. What an embarrassment to the decent Irish people living in the UK.

Skuxx

Clareboy wrote: »

How dare RTE show that filthy show at Christmas! Its just a load of dirty double meaning rubbish. Brendan O' Carroll is just a dirty little man with dirty little mind. I now see that RTE have sold that filth to the BBC - shame on them! Mrs Brown's Boys feed into all the stereotypes of the drunken, foul-mouthed, dirty Irish. What an embarrassment to the decent Irish people living in the UK.

It's actually the BBC the make it and RTE get it off them!

dom40

absolutely terrible from brendan and the family,the first and second series made me laugh, but come on brendan the christmas special was just pure tripe,very very disappointed. hand on heart brendan ,are you seriously happy with this rubbish.

Son0vagun

Mrs Brown was the funniest thing on tv this Xmas. My family all laughed a lot.

Hootanany

Son0vagun wrote: »

Mrs Brown was the funniest thing on tv this Xmas. My family all laughed a lot.

Each to there own.

fr3d12

Easy known RTE are up their b****cks in debt with the awful Christmas TV schedule and Mrs Browns Boys is just cheap and tacky.Brendan at least has kept his untalented and unfunny wife,family and in laws off the dole with the show.
Apparently it is quite popular in the UK

BlaasForRafa

Hootanany wrote: »

Each to there own.

Indeed, I thought it was about as funny as being told you have bowel cancer but others in my family insisted on watching the whole thing and laughed like drains through it.

murpho999

fr3d12 wrote: »

Easy known RTE are up their b****cks in debt with the awful Christmas TV schedule and Mrs Browns Boys is just cheap and tacky.Brendan at least has kept his untalented and unfunny wife,family and in laws off the dole with the show.
Apparently it is quite popular in the UK

What are you on about? It's made by the BBC.

fr3d12

murpho999 wrote: »

What are you on about? It's made by the BBC.

If you actually read what my post you would have noticed l referred to RTE's Christmas schedule and furthermore the show is a co-production made by BBC Scotland,Bocpix and RTE so what are you on about!

dom40

AFAIK,Its a joint venture between RTE and the BBC,

dom40

jonathananon.have to agree on the donegal girls acting. she is absolutely terrible,she is brendans daughter in law afaik,Idont think that would have anything with her getting the part would it? ah no surely not...

Strawberry Fields

parts of it were funny, parts were cringeworthy.
apparently it's huge in Australia as well. He's sold out there already.

lertsnim

murpho999 wrote: »

What are you on about? It's made by the BBC.

It's a joint effort. RTE are involved too

areyawell

The reason why people like it is because its simple, not professional actors, family made show. It has a huge fan base and is funny.

fryup

dom40 wrote: »

absolutely terrible from brendan and the family,the first and second series made me laugh, but come on brendan the christmas special was just pure tripe,very very disappointed. hand on heart brendan ,are you seriously happy with this rubbish.

of course he f*cking is!!

he's laughing all the way to the bank:pac:

coolhull

areyawell wrote: »

Brilliant series, There making a games show out of it this year as well. Can't wait. If ye don't like it why do ye continue to watch it and make threads about it and feel how you think you need to comment on every episode and how "crap it is".

Its a phenomenon known as ''free speech.'' Anyone can do it. You should try it sometime.

Tipsy McSwagger

areyawell wrote: »

The reason why people like it is because its simple, not professional actors, family made show. It has a huge fan base and is funny.

The reason a lot of people like it is because it's made for simple people. That's not an insult, it's just that a lot of people haven't got the intelligence for proper comedy shows like Seinfeld or Curb Your Enthusiasm.

fryup

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

it's just that a lot of people haven't got the intelligence for proper comedy shows like Seinfeld or Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Ooooooooooooooooooooo

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

The reason a lot of people like it is because it's made for simple people. That's not an insult.

ya right

gjc

Im a big lover of mrs brown but I thought the Christmas show was very poor indeed. Brendan grace however was brilliant wet myself laughin

spurious

roanoke wrote: »

Come to think of it there was one joke that I didn't get. Something about a guy opening a newsagents and the other saying he always wanted to be a shepherd.

What was that about? I'm afraid that was a bit too high brow and intellectual for me.

Passed me by too - any of the big fans here like to enlighten us?

movingsucks

"He can be a shepherd.
Ah great he used to work in a newsagents."

Now I think that's what the joke was, so can anybody help us get it?
Is it just that Buster doesn't know what a shepherd is? Or is it a cynical dig at the media and people following the news being sheep? Ha?

Jimdagym

http://www.thejournal.ie/mrs-browns-boys-uk-ratings-731966-Dec2012/?utm_source=twitter_self

Nearly 9 million people watched each night. Fair play to him. Not my thing, but obviously plenty like it.

roanoke

Jimdagym wrote: »

http://www.thejournal.ie/mrs-browns-boys-uk-ratings-731966-Dec2012/?utm_source=twitter_self

Nearly 9 million people watched each night. Fair play to him. Not my thing, but obviously plenty like it.

I wonder how many of that 9million just happened (like me) to be sitting in the room when it was on and absolutely hated it and would have to be held at gunpoint to even entertain the notion of ever watching it again? I'd guess a good 5-6 million (hopefully).