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

Barry Badrinath

Have you spoken to Brendan about this?

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

What an original thread.

pgj2015

its frivolous nonsense for the moronic classes.

lost in cork

sorry havent been on here in years

Morrissey

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.

'The worst thing is that our readers have written to us to complain as they think we've flogged (sold) the ideas to McDonald's for thousands of pounds,' said Viz editor Chris Donald. He said lawyers acting for McDonald's claimed the company's advertising campaign was based on original ideas and not on jokes from Viz. However, one Viz joke suggested saving on laundry bills by giving clothes away to Oxfam, a charity, which would wash and iron them and then put them on sale for only 50 pence (75 cents). The McDonald's version was exactly the same except for substituting a second-hand shop for Oxfam.

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

Annasopra

Morrissey wrote: »

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

As long as he doesnt recycle condoms

kneemos

Some will tell you humour is relative,it's not.Mrs. Brown is a pile of stinking horse doings and those that find it funny are laughing at something else.

MadsL

painul means something else. Probably apt for MBB though.

Not linking here...no way...

cowboyBuilder

Morrissey wrote: »

In this episode was also a joke identical to something said by Karl Pilkington on one of the XFM radio show years ago.

What was it ?

Sam Kade

lost in cork wrote: »

Is this show one of the most unfunny on TV at the moment ,it seems like a throw back to the 70s ,if On The Buses was funny then so is this ,thoughts please because i dont get it

There was no sh1te like that back in the 70's, were you even around back then?

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!

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:

Annasopra

Eeeeewwwww

Just read urban dictionary on painul.

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.

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:

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.

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:

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.

x43r0

Joeytheparrot wrote: »

Eeeeewwwww

Just read urban dictionary on painul.

Jesus Christ :eek:

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.

Ken.

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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.

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.

Morrissey

cowboyBuilder wrote: »

What was it ?

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

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.

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

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.

seachto7

When the whistle blows

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