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To think that the success of male comedians online playing eccentric female characters is a true sign of misogyny?

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 10/12/2025 10:55

I can think of loads of male comedians who've made it big by acting out characters who are funny, eccentric middle aged women

Its all the rage on tiktok, men just donning a wig and acting like their mums

Cant think of many female comedians doing the same thing and getting success from it 🤔

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 10/12/2025 11:05

grannycake · 10/12/2025 11:04

French & Saunders did a couple of sketches where there were men

I love Jennifer Saunders 🥰

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XWKD · 10/12/2025 11:05

mumofoneAloneandwell · 10/12/2025 11:01

I dont know any women who have done as well as the men do

Why can't a woman play Mrs browns boys!? Might make it the tiniest bit funny then 😒

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The original Mrs. Brown was Angelica Houston in Agnes Brown.

I think Mr's Brown's Boys is dreadful, but not because of the sex of the actor.

grannycake · 10/12/2025 11:04

French & Saunders did a couple of sketches where there were men

LoserWinner · 10/12/2025 11:04

Stephen Fry, whom I generally don’t like very much, is an astonishingly brilliant Lady Bracknell in ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ at the Noel Coward Theatre in London.

Slightyamusedandsilly · 10/12/2025 11:02

mumofoneAloneandwell · 10/12/2025 11:01

I dont know any women who have done as well as the men do

Why can't a woman play Mrs browns boys!? Might make it the tiniest bit funny then 😒

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Exactly. It's the most cringey, unfunny thing I've ever seen. Such a pathetic attempt at humour.

MrsSkylerWhite · 10/12/2025 11:01

mumofoneAloneandwell · 10/12/2025 11:00

Mrs browns boys
David walliams

On tiktok theres loads of guys 'portraying their mum'

Its everywhere!

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Don’t look at TikTok.

Can’t stand those two but I just don’t watch.

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 10/12/2025 11:01

ThatVividReader · 10/12/2025 10:59

I see women doing it too, in my limited experience of online stuff.

I don't think it's biased by sex.

I dont know any women who have done as well as the men do

Why can't a woman play Mrs browns boys!? Might make it the tiniest bit funny then 😒

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MrsSkylerWhite · 10/12/2025 11:00

mumofoneAloneandwell · 10/12/2025 11:00

Mrs browns boys
David walliams

On tiktok theres loads of guys 'portraying their mum'

Its everywhere!

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 10/12/2025 11:00

MrsSkylerWhite · 10/12/2025 10:58

Such as?

Mrs browns boys
David walliams

On tiktok theres loads of guys 'portraying their mum'

Its everywhere!

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ThatVividReader · 10/12/2025 10:59

I see women doing it too, in my limited experience of online stuff.

I don't think it's biased by sex.

XWKD · 10/12/2025 10:59

I used to love Cissie and Ada.

MrsSkylerWhite · 10/12/2025 10:58

Such as?