Author Topic: Mrs Browns Boys (Read 8248 times)

fuzzy · « **on:** 01 March, 2011, 09:27:31 am »

Am I the only one that thinks this is a pile of shite?

I simply do not get it, one little bit.

JohnP · « **Reply #1 on:** 01 March, 2011, 09:54:31 am »

You are joined by 100% (both) of Famile Ponting.

her_welshness · « **Reply #2 on:** 01 March, 2011, 10:03:21 am »

Is that the one with the chap playng the 'Mam' style figure with the Irish accent? Then yes truly a pile of poo. 'High Hopes' was a lot better.

pcolbeck · « **Reply #3 on:** 01 March, 2011, 11:00:46 am »

It's like a really really crap version of Bread.

citoyen · « **Reply #4 on:** 01 March, 2011, 12:02:51 pm »

I watched the first 10-15 minutes of the first episode. I tried to stick with it and give it a chance but after the scene in the pub, I felt I'd seen quite enough, thank you very much. Really poor.

d.

Gandalf · « **Reply #5 on:** 01 March, 2011, 01:28:33 pm »

Nothing to detain anyone over the age of fourteen IMHO.

spindrift · « **Reply #6 on:** 01 March, 2011, 01:32:38 pm »

has its moments:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/1iTsqxflNFc&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/1iTsqxflNFc&rel=1</a>

Rhys W · « **Reply #7 on:** 01 March, 2011, 01:37:54 pm »

I haven't even bothered, it just looks like the bad sitcoms we endured in the 70s and 80s. Looks a bit Les Dawson/Dick Emery to me, am I correct?

fuzzy · « **Reply #8 on:** 01 March, 2011, 01:47:30 pm »

Quote from: Rhys W on 01 March, 2011, 01:37:54 pm

I haven't even bothered, it just looks like the bad sitcoms we endured in the 70s and 80s. Looks a bit Les Dawson/Dick Emery to me, am I correct?

No, Emery and Dawson were funny.

gene hunt · « **Reply #9 on:** 02 March, 2011, 09:52:25 am »

Very poor, don't find it funny

Notsototalnewbie · « **Reply #10 on:** 02 March, 2011, 10:52:45 am »

We saw the trailer for this and said, in unison, 'That looks shit'.

LEE · « **Reply #11 on:** 09 January, 2017, 10:31:20 pm »

BBC - Comedy star Mrs Brown is to front a new Saturday night TV show on BBC One.
All Round to Mrs Brown's will be hosted by Agnes Brown, the female alter-ego played by Brendan O'Carroll in the sitcom Mrs Brown's Boys.
O'Carroll said: "The entire cast is excited by this. I think Agnes may be worried that she'll need a bigger kettle to make tea for everyone that's coming round!"
The series will transmit later this year.
'Fun and mischief'
The BBC said the show would feature "celebrity guests, surprise audience shenanigans and outrageous stunts" in front of a live studio.
Charlotte Moore, director of BBC content, said: "Bringing one of our biggest comedy stars, Mrs Brown, to Saturday nights in 2017 with a new entertainment show is going to be full of fun and mischief and totally unpredictable."

Unpredictable? Really?

I predict it will be infantile shite, just like the 1970s-esque sitcom. Just a wild guess.

However..

Quote

A Saturday night live episode of Mrs Brown's Boys was watched by more than 11 million viewers last year. The sitcom was also voted the most popular of the 21st century in a Radio Times poll.

That figures. Trump, Brexit and now this. Voting shouldn't be allowed.

Maybe they mean "popular" in the way that the Great Plague was popular.

Basil · « **Reply #12 on:** 09 January, 2017, 11:20:10 pm »

Loved this review in the Observer.

https://twitter.com/diarmuiddoyle/status/815662701812846593?s=09

LEE · « **Reply #13 on:** 10 January, 2017, 08:35:45 am »

Quote from: Basil on 09 January, 2017, 11:20:10 pm

Loved this review in the Observer.

https://twitter.com/diarmuiddoyle/status/815662701812846593?s=09

Not just me who linked it to Brexit then.

tiermat · « **Reply #14 on:** 10 January, 2017, 08:42:42 am »

A steaming pile, and goes to show, along with Citizen Kahn, that Auntie can't produce any decent mainstream comedies. Which is a shame. They should stop relying on second rate drag acts and racists stereotypes and start employing some decent comedians again, there are plenty out there (I am sure half the cast of "Live at the Apollo" could knock together a decent, non-stereotyping, sitcom)

rafletcher · « **Reply #15 on:** 10 January, 2017, 07:28:20 pm »

Quote from: tiermat on 10 January, 2017, 08:42:42 am

A steaming pile, and goes to show, along with Citizen Kahn, that Auntie can't produce any decent mainstream comedies.

I think Mrs Browns is an RTE production.

Exit Stage Left · « **Reply #16 on:** 10 January, 2017, 07:50:50 pm »

Made in the BBC Scotland studios, in partnership with RTE. I can be pretty sure that they haven't got me in mind when they're making it. But that's something I can accept.

Jaded · « **Reply #17 on:** 11 January, 2017, 12:08:51 am »

Mrs Brown Turds

Torslanda · « **Reply #18 on:** 11 January, 2017, 01:42:32 am »

Many years ago RTE made a series called 'Me Mammy' or somesuch, featuring a stereotypical Irish family and all the religious references you could eat. Even as a pre-teen i thought it was utter shite.

This latest pap is no better. About as funny as piles.

Riggers · « **Reply #19 on:** 11 January, 2017, 02:50:34 pm »

I've never seen it, so am unable to offer an opinion.

I've seen trailers of it, and thought "That looks rubbish."

ian · « **Reply #20 on:** 11 January, 2017, 05:33:51 pm »

I watched a bit of it on YouTube the last time it came up. I couldn't believe it was as bad as people were making out.

It's actually immeasurably worse. I think, and I cringe at the very thought, that they even made a movie.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #21 on:** 11 January, 2017, 05:48:30 pm »

An article about the chat show and what it means by Mark Lawson
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/jan/11/mrs-browns-boys-gets-chatshow-what-a-reassuring-move-by-the-bbc

madcow · « **Reply #22 on:** 11 January, 2017, 06:18:23 pm »

This sounds like a reincarnation of Carol Aherne's "Mrs Merton Show".
Celebrities plugging their latest book or project and Mrs Brown doing the jokes.

Morrisette · « **Reply #23 on:** 12 January, 2017, 10:30:25 am »

It's much funnier when you realise that it's actually a documentary about your in-laws! I think it's funny. The Irish mammy character is very similar to the Welsh mam, and most of it is pretty accurate!

It's not highly intellectual, no, but everything doesn't have to contain cutting insights into the current political situation. Sometimes it's OK to laugh at a man in a dress straddling a Christmas tree.

LEE · « **Reply #24 on:** 12 January, 2017, 01:56:57 pm »

Quote from: madcow on 11 January, 2017, 06:18:23 pm

This sounds like a reincarnation of Carol Aherne's "Mrs Merton Show".
Celebrities plugging their latest book or project and Mrs Brown doing the jokes.

Are you being serious?

Caroline Aherne was quite scathing of some of her guests, justifiably so. I think the Mrs Brown show will be irony-free.

My money is on it being more like Noel's House Party, maybe even more childish and inane.

Author Topic: Mrs Browns Boys (Read 8248 times)

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