Author Topic: Mrs Browns Boys  (Read 8206 times)

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Re: Mrs Browns Boys
« Reply #25 on: 12 January, 2017, 08:54:03 pm »
However..

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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.

Given that the 21st century is barely 16 years old, it seems a little premature to be declaring anything the "most popular" of the century.  It's like all these polls that declare something to be the greatest "of all time". Trouble is, time hasn't finished yet.

If Mrs Brown's Boys is the best we'll see this century, I feel sorry for my son and any offspring he may have. It'll be a very unfunny world.
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Re: Mrs Browns Boys
« Reply #26 on: 12 January, 2017, 09:04:17 pm »
Reputedly he'd been doing the character for years with no success until standards got so very, very low that he was signed up for a series.

If you like the concept of a man dressed as a granny and swearing a lot, it's funny.  Otherwise, it's not, because that's all there actually is to it.
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Re: Mrs Browns Boys
« Reply #27 on: 12 January, 2017, 11:30:51 pm »
If you like the concept of a man dressed as a granny and swearing a lot, it's funny.  Otherwise, it's not, because that's all there actually is to it.

Isn't just a little dated, considering how long ago it was that the likes of Monty Python, Dick Emery (stop sniggering at the back, 'Zilla!), the Two Ronnies, Les Dawson et al* were doing that sort of thing?


* For some reason, I keep thinking that Windsor Davies did it as well, but I must be confusing him with someone else...
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Re: Mrs Browns Boys
« Reply #28 on: 12 January, 2017, 11:32:31 pm »
Is it a man  ???
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Re: Mrs Browns Boys
« Reply #29 on: 15 January, 2017, 11:01:29 pm »
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Monty Python, Dick Emery, the Two Ronnies, Les Dawson

They all objectified women in a way Mrs Brown doesn't. In 70s comedy women were either dragons or sex pots to be grabbed and pawed, Mrs Brown is a loving matriarch who doles out mawkish sentimental homilies. I don't watch it because I'd rather have cat Aids but it's not sexist like those programmes were.

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Re: Mrs Browns Boys
« Reply #30 on: 16 January, 2017, 08:42:33 am »
I don't watch it because I'd rather have cat Aids

 ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Mrs Browns Boys
« Reply #31 on: 26 December, 2017, 08:31:28 pm »
Well Mrs Brown's Boys was the most watched show on Xmas. 1 in 3 people watching telly, watched it.  I have never watched more than a minute of it, and didn't know of anyone who has watched it. I asked around and finally one of my friends admitted to having seen an episode.

"As part of an Irish family, I have indeed watched Mrs Brown's boys. We were all made to sit down and watch the Christmas special a few years ago. I think it's actually only A's sister who likes it and everyone else hates it. I have to say though that a lot of it is very true to Irish life - especially the way people walk randomly into each others houses, talk a load of shite and then leave. Some of A's family's friends could literally be in a Mrs Brown's boys script.

I can confirm that we both loathe it. I had no idea it was so popular over here, particularly as nobody in Britain would understand half the jokes."

However this still doesn't explain why it's popular.

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Re: Mrs Browns Boys
« Reply #32 on: 27 December, 2017, 09:05:28 am »
It would be interesting to see a geo breakdown of the figures. There are enough TVs in Ireland to make up that number.
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Re: Mrs Browns Boys
« Reply #33 on: 27 December, 2017, 09:15:04 am »
I'm baffled as to how this subject can be construed as either Art or Entertainment.
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Re: Mrs Browns Boys
« Reply #34 on: 27 December, 2017, 10:11:00 am »
We retuned Lt. Col. Larrington (retd.)'s distascope and digibox over Christmas.  He's got more than a hundred TV channels; back when Morecambe & Wise were pulling in twenty million punters there were three.  I don't know whether to be amazed or appalled at this year's numbers.
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Re: Mrs Browns Boys
« Reply #35 on: 28 December, 2017, 10:55:21 pm »
We watched It's a Wonderful Life. 

Again.

Despite having it on DVD

And several of us were still crying at the end.
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Re: Mrs Browns Boys
« Reply #36 on: 29 December, 2017, 08:42:29 am »
We retuned Lt. Col. Larrington (retd.)'s distascope and digibox over Christmas.  He's got more than a hundred TV channels; back when Morecambe & Wise were pulling in twenty million punters there were three.  I don't know whether to be amazed or appalled at this year's numbers.
And we used one of those ulti-zillion channels to watch a programme about...


...Morecambe and Wise!
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Re: Mrs Browns Boys
« Reply #37 on: 29 December, 2017, 11:46:09 am »
Disappointingly, I couldn't find "The Great Escape" on any terrestrial channel this Christmas.  Standards are definitely slipping.
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Re: Mrs Browns Boys
« Reply #38 on: 29 December, 2017, 01:01:56 pm »
Must be a malfunction

Or a glitch in the matrix.
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Re: Mrs Browns Boys
« Reply #39 on: 29 December, 2017, 02:03:45 pm »
Comedy seems to have replaced music as a sort of communion of identity.  it wouldn't occur to me to watch Mr's Brown's boys, as it doesn't speak of any culture I identify with.

I used to quite enjoy standup comedy, but instead of observing the culture, it's become the culture. An abrasive, urban-centred sneer.

So it's bit surprising that they made 'Detectorists', there's still hope.

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Re: Mrs Browns Boys
« Reply #40 on: 29 December, 2017, 02:08:22 pm »
We watched It's a Wonderful Life. 

Again.

Despite having it on DVD

And several of us were still crying at the end.

The bit where Donna Reed is so grievously effected by being husband-less she needs glasses?

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Re: Mrs Browns Boys
« Reply #41 on: 29 December, 2017, 02:35:14 pm »
Disappointingly, I couldn't find "The Great Escape" on any terrestrial channel this Christmas.  Standards are definitely slipping.

But happily, "The Dam Busters" has been on.



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Re: Mrs Browns Boys
« Reply #42 on: 17 January, 2018, 01:52:27 pm »
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.

Agreed.  The programme makes me titter. 

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Re: Mrs Browns Boys
« Reply #43 on: 18 January, 2018, 12:40:37 pm »
Disappointingly, I couldn't find "The Great Escape" on any terrestrial channel this Christmas.  Standards are definitely slipping.

But happily, "The Dam Busters" has been on.



Official, Ministry of Aircraft Production: You say you need a Wellington Bomber for test drops. They're worth their weight in gold. Do you really think the authorities will lend you one? What possible argument could I put forward to get you a Wellington?

Doctor B. N. Wallis, C.B.E., F.R.S.: Well, if you told them I designed it, do you think that might help?

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Re: Mrs Browns Boys
« Reply #44 on: 18 January, 2018, 10:12:59 pm »
Re Brown. I think it's shite.

There are many reasons for that opinion, but the main one is that it is shite.
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Re: Mrs Browns Boys
« Reply #45 on: 18 January, 2018, 11:43:13 pm »
Re Brown. I think it's shite.

There are many reasons for that opinion, but the main one is that it is shite.

Same as all the other reasons then.
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Re: Mrs Browns Boys
« Reply #46 on: 19 January, 2018, 08:29:51 am »
Re Brown. I think it's shite.

There are many reasons for that opinion, but the main one is that it is shite.

Same as all the other reasons then.

Yes it's fucking terrible but there are endless alternatives (including the off switch). Don't watch it if you don't like it. 

Leave it for the people who like it. You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.

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Re: Mrs Browns Boys
« Reply #47 on: 19 January, 2018, 08:36:52 am »
Yes it's fucking terrible but there are endless alternatives (including the off switch). Don't watch it if you don't like it. 

Such sage advice, and here we all were, watching it. 

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Re: Mrs Browns Boys
« Reply #48 on: 19 January, 2018, 09:07:39 am »
No. No I'm not...
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Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

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Re: Mrs Browns Boys
« Reply #49 on: 19 January, 2018, 12:03:06 pm »
No. No I'm not...

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