Mrs Brown's Boys

take everything

Anyone watching tonight.
The seasonal televisual series of assaults have begun.

Had this on in the background there and wanted to see what the appeal was. Tried to reserve judgemnet and enjoy it but just couldn't. It really is terrible.

I'm baffled at its popularity:
Mrs Brown gets the wrong end of the stick.
Dick joke.
Rory is camp.
Pussy joke.
Minor crisis from above.
Dick joke.
Resolution
Pussy joke
Rory is gay
Repeat for 30 mins

If this is the best Irish comedy offers i find it seriously depressing.
And it's not family viewing. So who it appeals to I dunno.

I know people like it so it's just an opinion. It's just baffling.
The Bafta has only emboldened it unfortunately.

brian_t

This seems like a good thread to post this

alan partridge aha

OH GOD this is awful sh1te, its on rte and bbc.

neris

Vested interest joe duffy nearly blew his load last week telling his listners that mrs browns bastards was on somthing like 15 times on tv over xmas n new years. Its utter tripe that belongs back in the 1960s

BorneTobyWilde

It's funny if you let it be
No need to over analyze it
The simplicity is on purpose
The humor old but classic

alan partridge aha

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

It's funny if you let it be
No need to over analyze it
The simplicity is on purpose
The humor old but classic

Well millions do love it I grant you, but I find it awful garbage.

BorneTobyWilde

alan partridge aha wrote: »

Well millions do love it I grant you, but I find it awful garbage.

New movie will start filming soon
You should pre-order a ticket

alan partridge aha

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

New movie will start filming soon
You should pre-order a ticket

Nice one, I did go to the 1st one with the wife(loves it) and I got 2 half laughs, I was grumbling so much during DA Movie she told me to shut up or leave. :eek:

Welsh Megaman

Proper comedy on BBC2!

Back Of The Net

_Brian

Dreadful stuff. Can't abide seeing a glimpse of it at all. Comedy aimed at the lowest form of wit.

Brendan does seem to be generous with his wealth. Have to hand him that.

alan partridge aha

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Proper comedy on BBC2!

Back Of The Net

Well I know he stole my name and I love the series but the movie wasn't great.

brian_t

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Proper comedy on BBC2!

Back Of The Net

In the Channel 4 poll Britain's Best Loved Sitcoms "Mrs Brown's Boys" came 10th whilst "I'm Alan Partridge" came 46th. There's just no accounting for taste.

I know which I prefer but to each his own. I also enjoyed "We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story"

BorneTobyWilde

''Dermot wanted for xmas something to wear and something to play with, so I got him some new trousers and cut the pockets out. He still has them''

Roger_007

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

It's funny if you let it be
No need to over analyze it
The simplicity is on purpose
The humor old but classic

The 'humour' seems to depend entirely on expletives. Hardly classic comedy?

Strazdas

I thought the 2014 MBB Christmas special (tonight's one) was a bit patchy and short on laughs just watching it back there. Hopefully this year's one is an improvement.

BorneTobyWilde

Innuendo is classic
From carry on
To Benny Hill

brian_t

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Innuendo is classic
From carry on
To Benny Hill

Ooh... You Are Awful

Kev W

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Innuendo is classic
From carry on
To Benny Hill

So tantalisingly close to a haiku there.

Kev W

Mrs Brown Haiku:

Brendan O'Carroll
Is dressed up as a woman
Loudly shouting "f*ck!"

Technocentral

alan partridge aha wrote: »

Well millions do love it I grant you, but I find it awful garbage.

Millions read The Sun and go to Fast and Furious and Transformers etc, the masses have crap taste , always have, always will. They wouldn't get a show like Peep Show because a lot of it's references are too smart.

brian_t

Technocentral wrote: »

Millions read The Sun and go to Fast and Furious and Transformers etc, the masses have crap taste , always have, always will. They wouldn't get a show like Peep Show because a lot of it's references are too smart.

Some folk, after a hard days work, like to unwind by switching their brains off and having a good old belly laugh. It's got nothing to do a persons IQ.

If fans of Peep Show really think they are the intelligentsia of the TV viewing public then they are not as smart as they think they are.

Kev W

brian_t wrote: »

Some folk, after a hard days work, like to unwind by switching their brains off and having a good old belly laugh. It's got nothing to do a persons IQ.

If fans of Peep Show really think they are the intelligentsia of the TV viewing public then they are not as smart as they think they are.

I don't think Peep Show fans generally think that, it's mainly dick jokes anyway. It's just that they're funnier dick jokes.

Oasis1974

Brendan Carroll is talentless and this programme is jaw droppingly bad. The guy says **** and it qualifies as comedy it's his one trump card in the show.

Technocentral

Kev W wrote: »

I don't think Peep Show fans generally think that, it's mainly dick jokes anyway. It's just that they're funnier dick jokes.

And jokes about the Byzantine Church and The New Deal!

Welsh Megaman

Father Ted Christmas Special on Channel 4 is tonight's alternative!

The money was just resting in my account

PeterTheEighth

Oh brilliant, Mrs Brown's Boys is on.


^ Something I've never heard anybody say, ever.

Nermal

brian_t wrote: »

Some folk, after a hard days work, like to unwind by switching their brains off and having a good old belly laugh. It's got nothing to do a persons IQ.

If fans of Peep Show really think they are the intelligentsia of the TV viewing public then they are not as smart as they think they are.

People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can't trust people.

Strazdas

brian_t wrote: »

Some folk, after a hard days work, like to unwind by switching their brains off and having a good old belly laugh. It's got nothing to do a persons IQ.

If fans of Peep Show really think they are the intelligentsia of the TV viewing public then they are not as smart as they think they are.

I'm a fan of Alan Partridge *and* Mrs Brown, so I don't really buy the 'MBB is for stupid people' argument either.

ProudDUB

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Father Ted Christmas Special on Channel 4 is tonight's alternative!

The money was just resting in my account

The sign of a great tv show (or fillum) is the amount of catch phrases from it, that just take on a life of their own. Off the top of my head, I can think of 10 Fr Ted catch phrases that I say all the time, my family says all the time & you read/see/hear in the meeja all the time.

Can not think of one single memorable line from Mrs Browns Boys. Ever.

Fichtl

Another stolen joke, this time from Karl Pilkington (Dracula reflection)

SureYWouldntYa

ProudDUB wrote: »

Can not think of one single memorable line from Mrs Browns Boys. Ever.

That's nice

Wanderer78

ah im done with it im afraid. twas a laugh but ive moved on. best of luck to them all

Roger_007

I'm not surprised that Brendan O'Carroll and Joe Duffy have a mutual admiration society going. Brendan gets all his, (ancient), gags from the Funny Friday crew which Joe laughs at like giggling schoolgirl.

That_Guy

Watching it at the moment. I'll admit that I've laughed at a few things in the show on previous occasions but it's the same gags over and over again.

It's nice that an Irish product is doing so well but it's so stale.

I'm beginning to think that they actually script people "forgetting" their lines now.

paleoperson

There's a sizeable amount of the population that are over 70. A lot of people who I'd call the "winning streak" crowd. And a lot of them are British also. Not everyone ages the way Patrick Stewart does.

There shouldn't be any assumption that because something is very popular it must be good.

weemcd

Lowest common denominator shit that would be the worst show on television if only it wasn't superseded by Big Bang Theory and Miranda.

Ipso

ProudDUB wrote: »

The sign of a great tv show (or fillum) is the amount of catch phrases from it

Are you having a laugh?

Ridley

That_Guy wrote: »

It's nice that an Irish product is doing so well but it's so stale.

My theory is that the BBC would never have touched it if the show was British as it's so reminiscent of TV coming out of the 1970s but being by Irish it falls under multicultural programming.

Fr Tod Umptious

What I hate most is the terrible acting.

I'll admit I watched it the odd time and have got a few laughs out of it, but its not appointment viewing.

But some of the acting is cat.
The grey haired guy who plays one of the sons, Mark I think it is, he is brutal.
Same goes for the daughter, Kathy I think.

I hear that they are all related to O Carroll in some way, well he should ditch the nepotism and hire some decent actors.

PeterTheEighth

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

What I hate most is the terrible acting. I'll admit I watched it the odd time and have got a few laughs out of it, but its not appointment viewing.

Yeah I'd agree with this. Brendan O'Carroll certainly has comic talent and is good at the one liners. But his writing alone is not enough to sustain the movie or the series, not if it is to be taken seriously as a comedy series.

BorneTobyWilde

Tried to watch the movie
I could not
It was very poor
Out takes left in during editing?
WTF
I could not watch
I might try again tomorrow

Strazdas

paleoperson wrote: »

There's a sizeable amount of the population that are over 70. A lot of people who I'd call the "winning streak" crowd. And a lot of them are British also. Not everyone ages the way Patrick Stewart does.

There shouldn't be any assumption that because something is very popular it must be good.

That theory works just as well in reverse of course and when you see that the Christmas specials get around 8 or 9m viewers in the UK, there is clearly a lot more than just over 70s watching and enjoying it.......sounds more like entire families are watching.

A Primal Nut

take everything wrote: »

Mrs Brown gets the wrong end of the stick.
Dick joke.
Rory is camp.
Pussy joke.
Minor crisis from above.
Dick joke.
Resolution
Pussy joke
Rory is gay
Repeat for 30 mins

What's not to like?

lertsnim

I had the misfortune of seeing the film tonight. What an awful load of old ****e.

benjamin d

I'll sum up the movie:

Blind people can't see things
Asian people talk funny
Gay people are camp
Men dressed as women are hilarious
Tourettes is great comedy material

If someone tried to produce an American version of this they'd probably be arrested.

PeterTheEighth

benjamin d wrote: »

Blind people can't see things
Asian people talk funny
Gay people are camp
Men dressed as women are hilarious
Tourettes is great comedy material

You just reminded me of a controversy at the time it was released. I'd almost forgotten about this. Joe Duffy lashed back at the review of the movie that was on Arena.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/duffy-leaps-to-defence-of-movie-after-racism-claim-30393795.html

Joe Duffy: "I was in Gorey for the weekend and I'm being stopped by people on the street talking about the movie and they all said they thoroughly enjoyed it," he told comedian and 'Mrs Brown's Boys' creator Brendan O'Carroll who was the guest host of the popular weekend radio slot yesterday. Mr Duffy said he also questioned the critic's claims that the film was "racist, sexist and homophobic". "That's a pretty serious charge," he said, noting that anyone "with even a cursory knowledge" of O'Carroll knows "there's not a racist bone in your body".

Penn

That_Guy wrote: »

I'm beginning to think that they actually script people "forgetting" their lines now.

That's my biggest issue with it too. It's too obvious that it's all scripted and planned, even the bits that look specifically like they're not scripted and planned.

Like the bit last night with the egg being smashed by the present, and they all looked shocked that it smashed, and it was supposed to be a rubber egg.

No, there was no reason for the egg to be in the scene at all other than to be smashed by the present, and it was left exactly where yer man was going to slam down (not put down, slam down) the present.

But, still kinda made me laugh, and made the rest of my family laugh. What it's all about at the end of the day.

PeterTheEighth

Penn wrote: »

That's my biggest issue with it too. It's too obvious that it's all scripted and planned, even the bits that look specifically like they're not scripted and planned.

I think this was one of the many things that didnt translate to the big screen. It would have been hard enough to keep the audience's attention with the paper thin plot that was there already, without having the actors start laughing and then immediately restarting a new take.

The film was beautifully shot though, but it's a bit like having a Rolls Royce engine in a Mini.

Avatar MIA

Penn wrote: »

That's my biggest issue with it too. It's too obvious that it's all scripted and planned,

We were supposed to believe the two boys learned a dance sequence because Brendan is such a legendary improviser.

'That's riiight'' *wrinkle nose, look at camera over glasses*

Is it true the actress that plays Winnie left the show?

Avatar MIA

Deleted User wrote: »

Is it true the actress that plays Winnie left the show?

Brendan's sister? She was in it last night.