Brendan O’Carroll as Mrs Brown in BBC’s Mrs. Brown’s Boys
A fictional woman called Brown
Is the latest talk of the town
It seems her chat show
Is now good to go
Which will make the highbrow types frown.
John Moynes
Pic: BBC
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Everything. As It Happens.
First guest : Bruce Jenner.
OK. Don’t fwown, snile.
I think Brendan O Connor seems like a decent sort, with a big heart and love for his fellow Irishman. But I cannot stand Mrs Brown, or her boys.
I admire him because he’s professional as all get out, but Mrs Brow is like fingernails on a blackboard to me. I would like to see a GK Chesterton mashup called father Brown’s Boys, though.
Or would I?
” love for his fellow Irishman” – what the fook does that mean?
It does seem like an alien concept to some, doesn’t it?
I meant to write Brendan O’Carroll, but the morning cup of coffee has not kicked in.
But to give you an example of what I meant by him having a love for his fellow Irishman, have a look.
http://www.thejournal.ie/brendan-ocarroll-food-vouchers-svp-3155461-Dec2016/
http://www.thejournal.ie/brendan-ocarroll-crash-victim-2567918-Jan2016/
I saw his show about 1916: it was really good. No doubting he’s a smart man and his mother was a formidable woman.
BOC was a total plonker (putting it mildly) but age has sorted him out. His family circumstances made him a nicer person, I think: he has written about his daughter publicly so I don’t think it’s off limits to mention it.
Ah Jaysus. I’m totally confused. You said O’Connor, so I forgot what the whole post was about and wrote about him instead. DELETE!
Sorry. Mea culpa!
(If it helps, I thought it was Friday until about an hour ago)
If only!
…ballsy guy…ballsy woman…easy mistake
Know that B O’C refused to return 150k belonging to a victim of RCC child abuse, and had to be brought to court.
https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-248432564.html
Know that B O’C tried hard to remove this article from the internet, this seems to be the one remaining copy.
It’s not my type of humour, but his ratings can’t be dismissed. Millions love his stuff and he’s making hay while the sun shines. Good luck to him.
+1
Mrs Merton, part deux.
Ah now. Very different comedy.
A Mrs Brown chat show has the potential to be fairly subversive, but it’s not likely to go that way.
Mrs. Merton was a woman playing a older woman and it worked. The man dressed as a woman in and of itself isn’t funny. Brendan O’Carroll is riding the coat tails of extremely talented British comedians who could pull it off. Eerily convincing at times. Coogan and the guys from a League of Gentlemen being recent examples. O’Carroll on the other hand, plagiarizes sitcom gags from decades ago. Now he thinks he’s Dame Edna? It’s an national embarrassment. Even Lilly Savage dropped the act when he was slipping into the wrong side of history. There’s no accounting for taste I suppose.
The public get what the public want.
I wonder when the trend for comedy-focused chat shows will end and we get a new version of the Parky-style
It’ll also put “Wossy” out of a job finally