Is it just an Irish thing,?

I know, I was just using it as a example of what early to mid 2000s Ireland was, which the poster i was quoting was talking about.

The thing that annoys me about Brownes boys is the way after a joke they all stop to laugh at their joke. Fair enough every now and again for a really good joke but it is usually a really obvious barely amusing joke.

Because they don't want to spend the money on good writing and afraid of their lives of those being satirised writing in complaining or sueing so most of what comes out of RTE is "safe" to satisfy their legal/PR teams but also chronically unfunny.

Foil Arms and Hog are well known enough to sell out a few nights in Vicar St and tours of smallish venues in US and Oz .

MBB is cringe worthy stereotypes and well past its sell by date . Who said it's for over 50s ? More like for anyone any age with a taste for slapstick Benny Hill type humour .

The 2 J s cringeworthy attempts at humour for the younger crowd ..I am not in that focus group so it's possibly why I never took to them , not sure if I ever liked that sort of humour though ?

Interesting point about Benny Hill. He certainly was an actor in his day .

We spotted him on Chitty Chitty Bang Bang of all things a week ago . He was the Toymaker !

Probably true about the talent but he always creeped me out .

All terrible, MBB is the lowest form of comedy out there, if indeed you could call it that.

I vaguely remember Jenny Maguire and Hilary Rose did a decent show, but Maguire stopped being funny after she changed her name and haven't seen a lot of Hilary Rose about these days

Last genuine top notch comedy(Irish anyway) i remember was Naked Camera with PJ Gallagher, used to love that show.

Yeah but isn't it fine that comedy would be aimed at different audiences? If comedy was aimed at everyone, it would ge so broad and shallow as to ge meaningless.

I'm a culchie and I get the 2 Johnnies. I don't find everything they do funny. But sometimes they really hit a parody of people, or parts of the culture, which are very funny.

It's fine if other people don't get it. Why should they get it if it's parody of a culture they don't know about?

Hilary Rose plays the matriarch role in the young offenders tv series on BBC/RTE. The 2024 Christmas special has just been aired. Her husband is the writer/producer so in some ways they have all their eggs in one basket.

Hey, what’s with the ageism ? I’m (well) over 50 and I think Mrs Brown is probably the most unfunny sitcom I’ve seen in my life (and I remember Are You Being Served ?). Dreadful rubbish. I think what especially grates is that they put it on at prime time on a Christmas night. Not like they use it as filler at 8.30 on a Monday evening or some such.

Only very low IQ people like Mrs Brown or The two abortions from Tipp.

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I'm suprised Foil, Arms and Hog have never been given a sketch show on RTE. They've been around long enough. Have they even appeared on the LLS or any other Irish chat show?

(also if you don't mind me saying it's a bit harsh to refer to the two lads as a*******s, they are just a comedy duo doing no harm at all)

It all goes back to the OPs question asking why the hatred for them.

It's weird that some people would use that sort of language to describe a piece of entertainment they don't like and probably never watch.

It's actually a BBC production in association with RTE filmed in Scotland.

The reason the BBC keeps making it is that it has good audience figures. When it wanes they will drop it.

Full disclosure: I don't like it.