Is it just an Irish thing,?

MBB is essentially an old type of man-in-a-dress British humour with an Irish twist. It's still popular in the UK; in Ireland it'd be popular with the same type of people that would have liked the old UK equivalents. It's seen as very formulaic and repetitive because that's exactly the way it's made.

The 2 Johnnies is a type of culchie/redneck humour that you get in most countries. It's always looked down on by people who are seen as more educated and sophisticated.

FA&H is barely known outside of Youtube and maybe some Irish comedy clubs (as shown here). They get an easier time from the media because they're fairly inoffensive and have a low profile whereas the first two have high profiles and any commentary will get a lot more views and engagement.

Mbb is popular with people over 50 do the UK audience know the mammy is a man I wonder .MBB would have looked old fashioned in 1975 it's a relic it's like watching an old Elvis movie in terms of relevance to modern life

I,ve never seen fa and h and I listen to comedy podcasts every week I think low profile means unknown outside ireland

Ive never even seen them mentioned in an Irish newspaper.

MBB is basically Panto for children ages 50 and up.

Three gobshxxes ? 👀

Mrs Brown's Boys always reminds me of

MBB is awful, but it knows its target audience well and judging by the amount of awards it has won, must be doing something right, even though it's a mystery to most people.

2 Johnny's are shocking and I genuinely thought Foil, Arms and Hog was a restaurant somewhere.

Probably one of the stand out things I learned from joining Boards - how offended and upset people get about what others find funny.
yis will never find consensus nor inner peace, laugh and let laugh.

That's a very odd take.

As has been pointed out they took "lad down the pub" dialogue and turned it into a successful podcast, and a stage show, a radio slot and a TV show.

I'm not in the media (yet) but would love to be able to create my own content based on things I am interested in and make a success of it.

To turn that content into a successful podcast, radio show, stage show and TV show would be an absolute phenomenal achievement.

I don't know why these guys need sympathy for that achievement.

Can you elaborate further please?

Ireland only ever made one useful piece of produced comedy, and that was The Savage Eye.

I did not see pure mule the last good Irish comedy on tv was batchelors walk .All good Irish comedians go to the UK as soon as possible.the it crowd was good on channel 4 years ago but the Irish writer of that is now cancelled .

culchie in american would be a hillbilly or a hick.

That's all well and good when the subject speaks the same language as you.

You can identify Cletus The Slack Jawed Yokel because he speaks English in a different way than other Americans you hear.

Same with a Bogen in Australia. This guy comes to mind

But it's impossible to do if the subject is speaking a language you don't understand.

Anyway I think in every culture certain representations of the population on screen are looked down upon by others.

Rte has a track record of making bad sitcoms .

Pure Mule was a drama series, not a comedy or sitcom.