Do you find Mrs Brown's Boys funny..yes or no ??

rafatoni · 28-12-2015 12:06PM

Its one of those shows when you land on the station you cant move it on quick enough.

Painful garbage.

fryup · 28-12-2015 12:08PM

Deleted User wrote: »

As someone who actually really enjoys the show, I thought the movie was abysmal.

dressing up as a chinaman doing the whole squinty eyed & accent routine was quite simply....galling

i just couldn't believe my eyes what i was watching, and this passes as comedy??

lanos · 28-12-2015 12:34PM

Wonda-Boy wrote: »

What's the alternative Willy wonka and the wizard of fcukin oz!!! It is what it is, don't over think it ffs.

use your imagination
read a book, download a documentary, listen to music.
there are always alternatives to the mind-numbing drivel and advertising that is forced upon us when we switch on the TV most evenings.

ZV Yoda · 28-12-2015 12:38PM

suicide_circus wrote: »

I know it dosnt make any claims that it's high brow, well written, well acted or takes itself seriously. And yes there are worse things on TV. That dosnt stop it from being appalling garbage best suited to those who have given up on life.

Anesthetize wrote: »

You can thank the stupidity of the average Irish person for the popularity of this show. Unfortunatly there's too many people out there with no concept of quality.

bucketybuck wrote: »

If I saw somebody sticking their head into a cowpat and rubbing the shit all over their face while giggling like a toddler I would happily assume that they were in fact, stupid. I assume you would not have a problem with that? I mean, rolling in shit is objectively not much fun at all and although people are allowed to enjoy whatever they want, still I would say that cowpat diving would be the action of a very stupid person.

Well, that show is the entertainment equivalent of a nasty wet cowpat. So although people can like what they want, I'm just going to go ahead and make a judgement about the intelligence of those who do so.

The Golden Miller wrote: »

I'd also make a similar judgement towards people who find Lee Evans funny. He and Mrs. Brown Boys truly are the cesspit of comedy

BunkMoreland wrote: »

Only simpletons find it funny

Oh, FFS! Are you lot for real? Get off those pedestals.

I'm in my mid 40s. I don't know if that puts me in the "oldie" category or not. I like MBB. It makes me laugh most of the time. Sometimes it makes me cringe, but so did Faulty Towers, Only Fools and Horses etc.

Bottom line, it's tongue-in-cheek slapstick comedy. Feel free to like or dislike it as you see fit. As far as I'm concerned, BOC is a funny, clever & generous man. I cannot for the life of me understand why people feel the need to put him down. I seriously doubt any of the posters above have done as much for charities or their own families as BOC has done.

You're all slagging me off because I like MBB? Well, that says more about you lot than it does about me. Name calling is what kids do in the school playground. I grew out of that a long time ago. I haven't given up on life. I have a great life. I'm intelligent & very well educated. I'm certainly no simpleton. I appreciate quality. I also appreciate diversity. I appreciate that people have different tastes.

I like BOC, but I also like Frankie Boyle & Tommy Tiernan. As it happens, I also prefer MBB to Father Ted. I also like Midleton Whiskey, but that doesn't preclude me from liking chocolate milkshakes.

I'd sooner have broad tastes than a narrow mind.

meeeeh · 28-12-2015 12:44PM

I am not a big fan of wast majority of sitcoms, I find MBB worse than most. I also don't like majority of stand up comedy. I'm just miserable.

Sunflower 27 · 28-12-2015 12:46PM

No. It's abysmal.

Azalea · 28-12-2015 12:47PM

Not for me - and that's fine, I can change the channel.

Not sure which crowd is more annoying: the "You're only saying you hate it to look cool" crowd or the "Everyone who likes it is a simpleton" crowd.

osarusan · 28-12-2015 12:48PM

Azalea wrote: »

Not sure which crowd is more annoying: the "You're only saying you hate it to look cool" crowd or the "Everyone who likes it is a simpleton" crowd.

They're both more annoying.

biko · 28-12-2015 12:51PM

I prefer Give My Head Peace, also a show that divides people on whether it's funny or not.

yosser hughes · 28-12-2015 12:52PM

ZV Yoda wrote: »

Oh, FFS! Are you lot for real? Get off those pedestals.

I'm in my mid 40s. I don't know if that puts me in the "oldie" category or not. I like MBB. It makes me laugh most of the time. Sometimes it makes me cringe, but so did Faulty Towers, Only Fools and Horses etc.

Bottom line, it's tongue-in-cheek slapstick comedy. Feel free to like or dislike it as you see fit. As far as I'm concerned, BOC is a funny, clever & generous man. I cannot for the life of me understand why people feel the need to put him down. I seriously doubt any of the posters above have done as much for charities or their own families as BOC has done.

You're all slagging me off because I like MBB? Well, that says more about you lot than it does about me. Name calling is what kids do in the school playground. I grew out of that a long time ago. I haven't given up on life. I have a great life. I'm intelligent & very well educated. I'm certainly no simpleton. I appreciate quality. I also appreciate diversity. I appreciate that people have different tastes.

I like BOC, but I also like Frankie Boyle & Tommy Tiernan. As it happens, I also prefer MBB to Father Ted. I also like Midleton Whiskey, but that doesn't preclude me from liking chocolate milkshakes.

I'd sooner have broad tastes than a narrow mind.

You're mixing things up now. None of the highlighted bit above, has anything to do with the quality of the show. It's an irrelevance. If you are as intelligent and educated as you say; you'd know that.

28-12-2015 12:54PM

My granny watched a dvd of the movie yesterday, and she laughed her head off. She's a Dublin woman though, and some of the characters remind her of people she knew, or still knows. Anyone who wants to call my Gran stupid is going to have to deal with me.

Of all the things to assert an intellectual superiority over though, taste in sitcoms is pretty petty and ridiculous. Having different taste doesn't make you better, it only makes you different.

As an aside, I was at a drinks thing once and in the corner were two very learned gentlemen who were renowned and recognizable in their different fields, both with hundreds of publications to their names and one with several popular books published for a general audience, and they were arguing about something very animatedly. Turns out it was who they wanted to win Americas Got Talent. Thickos both of them, obviously.

BunkMoreland · 28-12-2015 01:07PM

It's really funny, anyone who doesn't like it is a begruder.

jacksie66 · 28-12-2015 01:13PM

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To Elland Back · 28-12-2015 01:19PM

There are some very funny moments in it and I'd say I've watched maybe 4 episodes in total, but I couldn't watch it every week or a complete series.

Insect Overlord · 28-12-2015 01:21PM

BunkMoreland wrote: »

It's really funny, anyone who doesn't like it is a begruder.

False, and also false.

catbear · 28-12-2015 01:22PM

I hated the radio show and despised the idea of a TV show but recently having seen it for the first time can see why it's so popular.
It's Panto humour, vaudaville. So many comedy shows are laugh tracked and slick but the loose messing around of MBB is actually good fun, you can see the actors struggling against the giggles which is funny in itself.
The jokes are muck but it the messing but the live relaxed nature of thing is what's refreshing. While away for years it was that not taking things too seriously aspect of Ireland I missed.

sonofenoch · 28-12-2015 01:23PM

It's ****!

Trekker09 · 28-12-2015 01:27PM

The film was embarrassing, the series a tad less so but I dislike BOC and can't stand it, it's too contrived

fryup · 28-12-2015 01:32PM

catbear wrote: »

So many comedy shows are laugh tracked and slick but the loose messing around of MBB is actually good fun, you can see the actors struggling against the giggles which is funny in itself.

its all fake, even the "bloopers" are fake and pre-rehearsed.. its plain to see

lanos · 28-12-2015 01:38PM

Candie wrote: »

As an aside, I was at a drinks thing once and in the corner were two very learned gentlemen who were renowned and recognizable in their different fields, both with hundreds of publications to their names and one with several popular books published for a general audience, and they were arguing about something very animatedly. Turns out it was who they wanted to win Americas Got Talent. Thickos both of them, obviously.

amusing anecdote

probably made-up

28-12-2015 01:51PM

kneemos wrote: »

Don't knock Willy Wonka.Unless it's Depp's paedo version.You can knock that.

Help. police. murder.

Mister Vain · 28-12-2015 01:58PM

The first episode I ever watched I thought was very funny. Everything I've seen since then was crap. The film was the worst.

philstar · 28-12-2015 02:06PM

Father Ted has a certain charm to it that gives it a wide appeal across the masses...but this MBB is just crude for the sake of being crude its comedy at its lowest-common-denominator

in short.. its the comedy equivalent of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut

take everything · 28-12-2015 02:14PM

HugsiePie wrote: »

Nope. Ive known a few people who thought it was tripe as well until it became big in Britain, then all of a sudden it was brilliant in their eyes...imo that was "a proud to be Irish" reaction.

I actually think this is a big part of it. Of course it won't be admitted by even serious commentators but it is.

lanos · 28-12-2015 02:16PM

philstar wrote: »

Father Ted has a certain charm to it that gives it a wide appeal across the masses...but this MBB is just crude for the sake of being crude its comedy at its lowest-common-denominator

in short.. its the comedy equivalent of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut

the sledgehammer will at least succeed
MBB will not

diomed · 28-12-2015 02:17PM

Better than Michael McIntyre.

Usernemises · 28-12-2015 02:18PM

No, watched it a couple of times, never found it funny. Not even near being in the same league as father ted IMO.

take everything · 28-12-2015 02:28PM

Kev W wrote: »

I would watch a Stewart Lee Christmas special in a heartbeat.

He's no Tom O' Connor in fairness.

Buona Fortuna · 28-12-2015 02:31PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Neither am I - yet >.>

Nor me

And I used to hate it but now I get the odd giggle and its funny when the golden oldies start shrieking at it.

mdwexford · 28-12-2015 02:39PM

I don't think it's remotely funny.

Anyone comparing it to Faulty Towers or Only Fools are mad. They were brilliantly written, well acted sitcoms. MBB is neither.

Do you find Mrs Brown's Boys funny..yes or no ??

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