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Father Ted or Mrs Brown's Boys?

aca101

Two great Irish comedies in their own right, Father Ted was completely original and groundbreaking at the time but looking at back at it now it feels like the gags became repetitive as the series went on.

Mrs Brown's Boys is seems to be underrated here in Ireland, I'll no doubt get dog's abuse from the Father Ted fanatics but given the recent phenomenal success of MBB I think it's a touch and go as to which of these two is the greatest Irish comedy series. What say ye?

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passremarkable wrote: »

this thread needs to be closed, waste of boards space.no contest..ted wins hands down..
mrs brown's boys is one terrible show, awful stuff

As I said before, mrs Browns Boys is just a crap version of Mrs Doubtfire. It's just not funny. End of story.

RodgersLFC

Not sure if this thread is just an attempt at trolling, or a serious question. Mrs Brown's Boys is terrible, just awful. Not funny at all. Father Ted is an all time classic comedy.

neaideabh

MBB is good but there is no contest against Fr. Ted.

brendansmith

Ah here c'mon.
Father ted was very well written and very funny but it must be 20 years old now.

MBB is far more culturally relevant and currently significant as its being written in the current day.
Also Brendan (close family friend) is hilarious. His comic timing is absolutely spot on.

passremarkable

RodgersLFC wrote: »

Not sure if this thread is just an attempt at trolling, or a serious question. Mrs Brown's Boys is terrible, just awful. Not funny at all. Father Ted is an all time classic comedy.

well said brendan. hope your ready for oldham

passremarkable

brendansmith wrote: »

Ah here c'mon.
Father ted was very well written and very funny but it must be 20 years old now.

MBB is far more culturally relevant and currently significant as its being written in the current day.
Also Brendan (close family friend) is hilarious. His comic timing is absolutely spot on.

brendan is that you?brendan smith.. eh???maybe it should be brendan oc..no too obvious, il go for b. o carroll...no-one will know its you!!

brendansmith

passremarkable wrote: »

well said brendan. hope your ready for oldham

passremarkable wrote: »

brendan is that you?brendan smith.. eh???maybe it should be brendan oc..no too obvious, il go for b. o carroll...no-one will know its you!!

How's yere wibbely wobbely wonders?

RayM

brendansmith wrote: »

MBB is far more culturally relevant and currently significant as its being written in the current day.

Culturally relevant? It makes Dad's Army look modern.

johnny-grunge

Father Ted all the way!

passremarkable

brendansmith wrote: »

How's yere wibbely wobbely wonders?

wobbly

Busted Flat.

brendansmith wrote: »

Ah here c'mon.
Father ted was very well written and very funny but it must be 20 years old now.

MBB is far more culturally relevant and currently significant as its being written in the current day.
Also Brendan (close family friend) is hilarious. His comic timing is absolutely spot on.

I reckon you are a Tea Party fan.

Ruudi_Mentari

Mrs brown has a gay lad and a chav for sons, if that's more culturally relevant to the times but it hardly counteracts the relentless torrent of cliches.

Da Shins Kelly

Father Ted is hilarious, brilliantly written and culturally important. It's great satire.

Mrs. Brown's Boys is lowest common denominator humour. Men dressing up as women hasn't been funny in decades, and to be honest, I feel like a lot of its popularity among people in the UK has more to do with them laughing at us rather than with us.

Is this a serious question?

Lone Stone

the only people i know who like mbb is mother and her mate and generally anyone in that 50+ age bracket

Rasheed

Should be a public poll. Then we could see the few people that need help.

wp_rathead

This question:
Getting a Blowjob or getting the ****s?

donvito99

3.64% of the country should have to know how to make arrows before Len ships them off to some godless parish in Central America.

syklops

Ann22 wrote: »

MBB is getting cruder as the series goes on. Brendan O'C went the same way, he was amusing starting off then as he ran out of gags, he depended on smut to get his laughs.

Is that you Ma?

No seriously, that was our(my family's and me experience on Brendan O'Carroll. Charming and eloquent on the Late late so my mother bought my father the DVD for Xmas. It would have made Roddy Doyle blush. "Ride me sideways said the cross dressing dwarf to the goat with the big arse".

Fr Ted had everything from funny music, catchphrases, visuals, sticking it to the church, and getting away with saying Fu*k on RTE after being told they couldn't say it.

MBB has managed to discuss teen pregnancy, vibrators, and condoms to an audience who werent awake for most of it, or who were too old when vibrators were invented to know what they were talking about. Big wow.

I disagree with the poster who said "Only a moron could find it funny". Occasionally, he does make a good joke, but putting it in the same category as Father Curly is silly.

dpofloinn

Mother of sweet divine Jesus has it come to this where mbb and Fr.Ted compared as equals.I don't want to live in a world where such a thing could happen

13spanner

Akrasia wrote: »

At least
B-)
Good dougal quote but let down by context

True, possibly one of his best

context was fair to poor at best.

Hank Scorpio

can't believe they stole that Simpsons gag and ruined it

Merkin

aca101 wrote: »

Two great Irish comedies in their own right, Father Ted was completely original and groundbreaking at the time but looking at back at it now it feels like the gags became repetitive as the series went on.

Mrs Brown's Boys is seems to be underrated here in Ireland, I'll no doubt get dog's abuse from the Father Ted fanatics but given the recent phenomenal success of MBB I think it's a touch and go as to which of these two is the greatest Irish comedy series. What say ye?

Are you really Brendan O'Carroll?

Sikpupi

The jokes on MMB are so OLD and you can see them coming a mile off ! Does he have to use the F word to extract a laugh?? Cant believe that's a live audience laughing.. He must have that laughter box thingy that they play to simulate laughter... Some of the lines are BRUTAL!!!

As fir a talented family.... Can't see any of them getting a call up to Have I Got News For You etc.

youtube!

Sikpupi wrote: »

The jokes on MMB are so OLD and you can see them coming a mile off ! Does he have to use the F word to extract a laugh?? Cant believe that's a live audience laughing.. He must have that laughter box thingy that they play to simulate laughter... Some of the lines are BRUTAL!!!

As fir a talented family.... Can't see any of them getting a call up to Have I Got News For You etc.

Everything you say is correct but can you believe that O Carroll is a member Mensa!
What a waste of intelligence! Incidentally so was jimmy Savile.

yosser hughes

youtube! wrote: »

Everything you say is correct but can you believe that O Carroll is a member Mensa!
What a waste of intelligence! Incidentally so was jimmy Savile.

Question:How do you know if someone is a member of Mensa?
Answer: They will tell you or at least let it be known.

Being a member of mensa is a dubious claim to make about oneself.

David Mitchell sums it up well here:

El Siglo

Could AH and Boards.ie put into their respective charter and user guidelines that no threads should ever be started or allowed to exist where Father Ted is ever compared against any other television comedy?

Father Ted replaced Roman Catholicism in Ireland and is the only thing that people here regardless of race, religion, sex, gender, politics will ever agree was the greatest television sitcom.

Mrs Brown's Boys is about an annoying twirp in drag.

fangee

I can only presume this thread is a gag in itself.

Mrs. Browns Boys is an embarrassment. End of.

poisonated

I only saw Mrs Brown's boys once on Christmas day. It was terrible. Kind of feel bad because I had just gotten a gift of a box set of it that day.

Real Life

I dont understand how people find mrs browns boys funny, but then i remember theres people who find the big bang theory funny also and it makes more sense.
some people just want to watch the world burn

xzanti

MarkMc wrote: »

Father Ted of course. Mrs Brown's Boys has got to be the biggest load of sh/te ever shown on Irish tv. And thats saying something considering RTE are our national broadcaster

+1

I used to like Brendan O'Carroll's stand up shows years ago.. but I have to say, I don't get the whole Mrs Browne thing at all.

Fr Ted was, is and always will be, the best Irish TV show ever made.

Fact.