Mrs Brown's Boys: Live - What did everyone think?

Lollipop95

Personally I thought it was great Standouts for me were:

Mrs.Brown taking out her ear piece
The pussy comment
The Grandad and the priest
Winnie admiring the "old dears" and Mrs Brown saying it was a mirror!
The 10 grand comment at the end of the credits


I loved how amused Rory looked when Mrs Brown said she wanted to talk to him as you could tell from his reaction that it wasn't in the script! I know they're not professional actors but I think the lad playing Buster is brilliant, genuinely funny!

What did eveyone else think?

Howjoe1

Lollipop95 wrote: »

Personally I thought it was great Standouts for me were:

Mrs.Brown taking out her ear piece
The pussy comment
The Grandad and the priest
Winnie admiring the "old dears" and Mrs Brown saying it was a mirror!
The 10 grand comment at the end of the credits


I loved how amused Rory looked when Mrs Brown said she wanted to talk to him as you could tell from his reaction that it wasn't in the script! I know they're not professional actors but I think the lad playing Buster is brilliant, genuinely funny!

What did eveyone else think?

That's nice

PeterTheNinth

Honestly, I like Brendan and I admire him. And generally I like his one liners but think the show's writing is far too simplistic to be considered a proper sitcom.

but that show tonight was way over the top crude. It was as if the only jokes he thought would get a laugh were the crude sex jokes.

squonk

Howjoe1 wrote: »

That's nice

Come on! It was pretty good. They're not professional actors and they did a great job. Not the best show ever but not the worst either

ThisRegard

They're being paid to act on tv , they've acted on stage numerous time. They make a living acting.

They are professional actors.

fryup

everyone responsible for that show tonight should be rounded up put up against a wall and...machine gunned!!

(i'll gladly supply the ammo)

ziedth

I'm not a fan of the show really (although I like BOC and think he gets a hard time). Some of the jokes in my opinion properly landed. Some of course are rehashed jokes from elsewhere and some are straight up lifted from his stand up routine in the 90's.

However, I properly laughed when he was winding up the priest son for making a balls of the improv, giggled at a couple of others and thought the end scene and standing by buster scene were quiet nice.

It'll never be my cup of tea and I'm not some comedy snob my two favourite comedy films are Borat and team America but credit where it is due I really did think it worked allot better with the live format. We'll done to the lot of them although with the shows routes in theatre it can't have been too much of a stretch

matchthis

My wife was the only one in the sitting room watching it. By the end we were all in with her. I think he summed it up nicely at the end of the show

tampopo

Dire.

BettePorter

Yeah its stupid. But it doesn't pretend to be anything else. I like the ad libbing aspect of it and how he throws them under the bus at times. They seem to be having a great time making in it and to be fair I think he well deserves his success. It was a long time coming. There are a lot less talented people on telly doing a lot worse for their bucks.

freshpopcorn

Mrs Browne is Mrs Browne. You know what your getting yourself into when watching it. They only thing I do know about it is. It brings a lot of happiness to people's lives outside of Boards.ie users!

eviltwin

I only watch it for Winnie. She makes the show for me. I enjoyed it.

Harry Angstrom

A load of ould contrived rubbish.

Strazdas

I enjoyed it, especially the parts where Mrs Brown went completely off script

This idea that comedy can only be good comedy if it is "clever" and "sophisticated" does sound very elitist and snobbish, which is why a lot of the media and intelligentsia can't stand MBB.

jacksie66

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Mahony0509

Twas terrible.

Strazdas

jacksie66 wrote: »

No. We can't stand it because it's utter sh1te..

It had an audience of nearly 7m viewers in the UK last night (a sky high figure for a Saturday night show in the middle of summer). Nobody is forcing them to watch it.

jacksie66

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Strazdas

jacksie66 wrote: »

Just because 7m people watched it doesn't mean it's good. Millions of people watch Big Brother, The Kardashians, Geordie Shore and other brain dead nonsense like that..

So who gets to decide what is good comedy and bad comedy then? Some elite group of people who have a benchmark of sophistication and cleverness for humour and if a sitcom falls below that level, it is unfunny?

James7810

I thought it was alright there was a few bits throughout that were bit dull ,then there were bits where you wouldn't stop laughing.

raspberrypi67

Thought it was great, very funny. Some old jokes but on the whole its great to get a laugh. Better then boring Miriam!!

brian_t

Strazdas wrote: »

I enjoyed it, especially the parts where Mrs Brown went completely off script

I'm happy for his success but I don't watch it myself.

In relation to him going off script - I thought everything was scripted and planned including the so called bloopers and the "going off script".

raspberrypi67

brian_t wrote: »

I'm happy for his success but I don't watch it myself.

In relation to him going off script - I thought everything was scripted and planned including the so called bloopers and the "going off script".

So why bother commenting on it if you dont watch it at all?? lol

I do agree some of the 'off script ' probably planned though Rory is always laughing, doubt thats scripted...!!! You do know which one Rory is if you dont watch it? Do you? lol.

sabat

Strazdas wrote: »

So who gets to decide what is good comedy and bad comedy then? Some elite group of people who have a benchmark of sophistication and cleverness for humour and if a sitcom falls below that level, it is unfunny?

Imagine you had to choose between two people to execute an extremely important task for you, something like defending you on a murder charge or performing heart surgery or engineering a bridge. You know absolutely nothing about either of them-their qualifications, age, sex, name- nothing apart from the fact that one of them loves Mrs Brown's Boys, watches every episode, buys the dvds and insists that anyone who disagrees is a snobby elitist begrudger whereas the other individual thinks it's utter lowest common denominator garbage.

Which person would you choose to give yourself the best chance of success?

brian_t

sabat wrote: »

Imagine you had to choose between two people to execute an extremely important task for you, something like defending you on a murder charge or performing heart surgery or engineering a bridge. You know absolutely nothing about either of them-their qualifications, age, sex, name- nothing apart from the fact that one of them loves Mrs Brown's Boys, watches every episode, buys the dvds and insists that anyone who disagrees is a snobby elitist begrudger whereas the other individual thinks it's utter lowest common denominator garbage.

Which person would you choose to give yourself the best chance of success?

Good luck with your heart surgery.

Based on how how you choose your surgeon I think you'll need it.

icjzfmq7ewon1t

raspberrypi67 wrote:

Better then boring Miriam!!

That's a bit like saying a headache is better than a toothache. They're both painful

Strazdas

sabat wrote: »

Imagine you had to choose between two people to execute an extremely important task for you, something like defending you on a murder charge or performing heart surgery or engineering a bridge. You know absolutely nothing about either of them-their qualifications, age, sex, name- nothing apart from the fact that one of them loves Mrs Brown's Boys, watches every episode, buys the dvds and insists that anyone who disagrees is a snobby elitist begrudger whereas the other individual thinks it's utter lowest common denominator garbage.

Which person would you choose to give yourself the best chance of success?

If you look at the ratings for MBB - almost 7m viewers last night and it has hit 9m viewers for one or two specials in the past - it's obvious that it appeals to all classes and all ages.

Someone further up mentioned Geordie Shore and The Kardashians etc but shows like that only have 1m viewers or so. To portray MBB viewers as a bunch of inarticulate, beer swilling chavs on benefits would be very inaccurate and misleading - I notice a British MP for example tweeted last night that he was in stitches watching the show.

shar01

sabat wrote: »

Imagine you had to choose between two people to execute an extremely important task for you, something like defending you on a murder charge or performing heart surgery or engineering a bridge. You know absolutely nothing about either of them-their qualifications, age, sex, name- nothing apart from the fact that one of them loves Mrs Brown's Boys, watches every episode, buys the dvds and insists that anyone who disagrees is a snobby elitist begrudger whereas the other individual thinks it's utter lowest common denominator garbage.

Which person would you choose to give yourself the best chance of success?

Either - are you saying that if a heart surgeon likes Mrs Brown's Boys that they're less talented than someone who doesn't? Or they're going to start breaking their sh!te laughing half-way through an operation because they remember a funny episode. Sorry, that analogy makes no sense.

PropJoe10

Strazdas wrote: »

It had an audience of nearly 7m viewers in the UK last night (a sky high figure for a Saturday night show in the middle of summer). Nobody is forcing them to watch it.

That says more about the people that watch it than it does about the quality of the program, to be honest. It's utter drivel of the highest order.

Yamanoto

Strazdas wrote: »

This idea that comedy can only be good comedy if it is "clever" and "sophisticated" does sound very elitist and snobbish, which is why a lot of the media and intelligentsia can't stand MBB.

The problem I have with O'Carroll's show is just how utterly charmless it is.

The writing, performances and direction don't come within an asses roar of anything done by the likes of Kenneth Williams, Sid James or Frankie Howerd some 50 years previously - television that could hardly be classed as 'clever' or 'sophisticated', but that remains patently superior to Mrs. Brown's Boys in every conceivable way.

brian_t

raspberrypi67 wrote: »

So why bother commenting on it if you dont watch it at all?? lol

You do know which one Rory is if you dont watch it? Do you? lol.

I didn't comment on the programme - I just queried the 'going off script' bit. lol

No I don't know who Rory is.

Strazdas

Yamanoto wrote: »

The problem I have with O'Carroll's show is just how utterly charmless it is.

The writing, performances and direction don't come within an asses roar of anything done by the likes of Kenneth Williams, Sid James or Frankie Howerd some 50 years previously - television that could hardly be classed as 'clever' or 'sophisticated', but that remains patently superior to Mrs. Brown's Boys in every conceivable way.

The likes of Kenneth Williams, Sid James and Frankie Howerd could be quite rude and coarse when they needed to be, with lots of sexual double entendres thrown in. I could easily imagine Mrs Brown showing up as a character in a Carry On movie in the 60s (she wouldn't be allowed use the F word of course but otherwise she would fit in well).

Strazdas

brian_t wrote: »

I'm happy for his success but I don't watch it myself.

In relation to him going off script - I thought everything was scripted and planned including the so called bloopers and the "going off script".

At one point, Mrs Brown sat 'Rory' down in a clearly unrehearsed segment at the end of a scene and went off on a monologue about a neighbour's cat full of double entendres which reduced Rory to fits of laughter. It didn't look like anyone on the set anticipated it or knew she was about to do it.

Thargor

Strazdas wrote: »

At one point, Mrs Brown sat 'Rory' down in a clearly unrehearsed segment at the end of a scene and went off on a monologue about a neighbour's cat full of double entendres which reduced Rory to fits of laughter. It didn't look like anyone on the set anticipated it or knew she was about to do it.

Ah FFS do you really think any of those little improv bits are unscripted? Theres 10 of them in every ep, they're completely fake, and they're not good enough actors to pull it off so its just more cringe.

Its honestly one of the worst things ever put on television, its just so low-brow. The success is completely bizarre.

Lady Chatterton

My name is Mrs D and I like Mrs Brown's Boys

Was disappointed last night, I thought that parts of the script were very like 'Are You Being Served?' That Mrs Slocombe one (very dodgy name ) was forever talking about her pussy.

philstar

BettePorter wrote: »

Yeah its stupid. But it doesn't pretend to be anything else. I like the ad libbing aspect of it and how he throws them under the bus at times. They seem to be having a great time making in it and to be fair I think he well deserves his success. It was a long time coming. There are a lot less talented people on telly doing a lot worse for their bucks.

its so contrived and pre-planned that its painfully obvious

alan partridge aha

Rubbish of the high street order, off script my backside, Rory and his forced laughing. About as funny as a bad toothache.

EICVD

Thought it was ****e, like it always has been!

Strazdas

Thargor wrote: »

Ah FFS do you really think any of those little improv bits are unscripted? Theres 10 of them in every ep, they're completely fake, and they're not good enough actors to pull it off so its just more cringe.

Its honestly one of the worst things ever put on television, its just so low-brow. The success is completely bizarre.

Why would he even need to script and rehearse a scene where he throws a few adlibbed comments at another actor with the intention of making them laugh? Most times he's done it, the actor just sits or stands there laughing and not saying anything as happened with Rory last night.

As for lowbrow vs highbrow, a lot of highbrow stuff is not necessarily even that funny : often Oxford and Cambridge educated types giving us their satirical and ironic view of the world and we're meant to be wowed by how clever they sound.

squonk

It looks like a lot of people on here are watching a show they know from the outset they will not like. I like Mrs. Brown for what it is. It doesn't pretend to be high brow or particularly intellectual or clever. Some of the jokes you can see coming a mile off or you've heard them before but, for it's faults, it's 30 minutes of turn your brain off fun. I wouldn't go out of my way to catch an episode however I often find myself watching it with my parents and getting a laugh out of it. It's one of those rare things now where both me, my mother and father will happily watch the same thing end enjoy it equally.

For those who don't like it, that's fine. Nobody is calling round to your houses, putting a gun to your head and making you watch it I'm sure. I detest Two and a Half men and The Big Bang Theory and I don't even attempt to watch either show as I've seen enough of both show to know that I'm going to hate them and end up really annoyed. There are lots out there that can appreciate Two and a Half Men or Big Bang Theory and that's OK. I don't think they're thickos or somehow inferior. Comedy is subjective an it's worth is very much in the eye of the beholder.

When I was in college almost 25 years ago Brendan O'Carroll was doing Mrs Brown sketches on the Gareth O'Callaghan show on 2FM. His humour was the same back then as it is now. I think he deserves his success after plugging away at his career for a long time. He's grown the character over time and he's now very good a playing Mrs. Brown. Fair play to him.

Strazdas

squonk wrote: »

It looks like a lot of people on here are watching a show they know from the outset they will not like. I like Mrs. Brown for what it is. It doesn't pretend to be high brow or particularly intellectual or clever. Some of the jokes you can see coming a mile off or you've heard them before but, for it's faults, it's 30 minutes of turn your brain off fun. I wouldn't go out of my way to catch an episode however I often find myself watching it with my parents and getting a laugh out of it. It's one of those rare things now where both me, my mother and father will happily watch the same thing end enjoy it equally.

For those who don't like it, that's fine. Nobody is calling round to your houses, putting a gun to your head and making you watch it I'm sure. I detest Two and a Half men and The Big Bang Theory and I don't even attempt to watch either show as I've seen enough of both show to know that I'm going to hate them and end up really annoyed. There are lots out there that can appreciate Two and a Half Men or Big Bang Theory and that's OK. I don't think they're thickos or somehow inferior. Comedy is subjective an it's worth is very much in the eye of the beholder.

When I was in college almost 25 years ago Brendan O'Carroll was doing Mrs Brown sketches on the Gareth O'Callaghan show on 2FM. His humour was the same back then as it is now. I think he deserves his success after plugging away at his career for a long time. He's grown the character over time and he's now very good a playing Mrs. Brown. Fair play to him.

Indeed, people are attacking MBB for being lowbrow and simplistic and unsophisticated comedy as if that is the worst form of insult you can throw at the show. But Brendan concedes all of this and has never claimed it to be anything else. He has even cracked jokes within the show as Mrs Brown about how lame and obvious some of the gags are and fully admits that much of it is old and unoriginal. Nonetheless, there's nothing to say an old fashioned comedy like this can't be a big success and be popular.

raspberrypi67

Ah sure it was Great...If something can make me laugh then to me its good...lol

fryup

^^^^^^^^^^

what mental hospital are you in?

peteeeed

d'ire