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

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  • #212
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Mrs Brown looks like a cross between a 1970s Les Dawson (the look) and a 1980s Brendan Grace (the jokes) = awful auld rubbish :(

    Can't stand him/her for one moment, but others love her!


  • #213
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Had to endure that awful film on Xmas day with the relatives.

    There was a goddamn Android box plugged in so we could've watched ANYTHING else but, no, had to sit and stare at the horror unfold before us while we all sat in silence.

    Was a bit surreal, actually. :pac:


  • #214
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,236 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Eeeeewwwww

    Just read urban dictionary on painul.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #215
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,651 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Duggy747 wrote: »
    Had to endure that awful film on Xmas day with the relatives.
    I'd be looking at getting new relatives if I were you.


  • #216
    irish coldplayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 203 ✭✭irish coldplayer


    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    Eeeeewwwww

    Just read urban dictionary on painul.

    Just looked it up now as well sometimes I wish I could unread stuff, I really didn't need to know what that meant. :eek:


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  • #217
    valoren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,706 ✭✭✭valoren


    You'd swear people are forced to watch it.

    It's a show about Brendan O'Carroll dressed in drag acting like your archetypal Dublin mammy.
    It's not going to be Beckett or Shakespeare now is it?

    It is Panto for TV and that's why it is successful.


  • #218
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    Duggy747 wrote: »
    Had to endure that awful film on Xmas day with the relatives.

    There was a goddamn Android box plugged in so we could've watched ANYTHING else but, no, had to sit and stare at the horror unfold before us while we all sat in silence.

    Was a bit surreal, actually. :pac:
    Did your relatives tie you to a chair and pop your eyes open with matches? :eek:


  • #219
    HandsomeDan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 812 ✭✭✭HandsomeDan


    It's harmless enough. The film was a bit much maybe.

    Anyway, I you don't like it don't watch it. And as for judging people who like it, says more about you than them tbh.


  • #220
    x43r0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,278 ✭✭✭x43r0


    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    Eeeeewwwww

    Just read urban dictionary on painul.

    Jesus Christ :eek:


  • #221
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    Did your relatives tie you to a chair and pop your eyes open with matches? :eek:

    No, but they did keep supplying me with beer................my one weakness.


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  • #222
    Ken.
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    Mod-Threads merged


  • #223
    MadDog76
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭MadDog76


    Morrissey wrote: »
    Not only is the show a throwback to seventies television, they even recycle jokes from seventies television. In the Christmas programme there was a lederhosen dancing scene similar to a scene from Are You Being Served. In this episode was also a joke identical to something said by Karl Pilkington on one of the XFM radio show years ago.

    When Brendan O'Caroll was on QI his first contribution was a joke from Viz from the early nineties. This was a Top Tip about buying your clothes back from charity shops that had been in Viz and then afterwards was allegedly plagiarised by MacDonalds in one of their advertising campaigns. Viz considered suing them.



    So he recycles things that have already been recycled. Can't get any more derivative than that.

    I remember watching Brendan O'Carroll stand-up videos with my Dad years ago, when he first became known, and my Dad saying "He's robbing all Billy Connolly's jokes!" .......... and it's true, one of Brendan's routines is an almost word-for-word rip off of one of Billy's routines .......... the only difference is, Billy is funny.


  • #224
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    Duggy747 wrote: »
    No, but they did keep supplying me with beer................my one weakness.
    That explains it and I bet being tanked up with beer still didn't make the tranny granny funny.


  • #225
    Morrissey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 83 ✭✭Morrissey


    cowboyBuilder wrote: »
    What was it ?

    If Dracula can't see his reflection, how come his hair is always styled so neatly.


  • #226
    Shurimgreat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,133 ✭✭✭Shurimgreat


    I could be wrong but that might be an old joke. But I agree comedians should be original. With O'Carroll there seems to be a case of the emperor having no clothes.

    He's popular in the uk which demonstrates how low culturally that country has fallen. But good luck to him.


  • #227
    Morrissey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 83 ✭✭Morrissey


    Shurimgreat wrote: »
    I could be wrong but that might be an old joke. But I agree comedians should be original. With O'Carroll there seems to be a case of the emperor having no clothes.

    He's popular in the uk which demonstrates how low culturally that country has fallen. But good luck to him.

    It's probably a thought many people have had to themselves over the years and nobody knows who was the first. I remember Pilkington saying it in 2003. I doubt he was the first. But O'Carroll just recycles everything.

    Remember he had the "where's the Any Key" bit from The Simpsons thrown into one of his episodes too. I'm sure if someone watched every episode you could find hundreds of lifted jokes. I just remember another recycled joke:

    -Can I have a quickie?
    -It's pronounced quiche.

    I remember hearing that joke back when Moses wore short pants*.

    *Cite - Sopranos


  • #228
    thelad95
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,812 ✭✭✭thelad95


    Film was a step too far. RTE making it the flagshow of their Christmas schedule shows how out of touch they are with the majority of Irish society.

    As others have mentioned, he uses a lot of not so original jokes and some truly vile sexual humour.


  • #229
    seachto7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,863 ✭✭✭seachto7


    When the whistle blows

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdTD8Y6G2lM


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