To think 'Mrs Brown's boys' is a pile of wank?

[Krumbum]

People rave about it but it really is hack, unfunny, shit imo.

So glad I'm finding people who think it sucks as much as I do. My ILs love it, but then they're racist, homophobic, sexist and every other wrong label you could give them.

Black Books, on the other hand, is comedy gold. "I'll come over Fran, I'll come over."

So glad I'm finding people who think it sucks as much as I do.

Me too. It's restoring my faith in human nature.

How did I miss Ed Byrne in Black Books? Who did he play? Was it just a cameo?

He wasn't in black books, as far as I know?

dylan moran was the irish comedian in black books.

-kicking bishop brennan up the arse
-the pat mustard episode
-the '' 'nam' episode when all the priests got lost in the lingerie department of a department store and had to get out before they were found there.

i think these are my favourite father ted episodes

i saw one episode of mrs brown's boys, by chance, and i liked it but have never seen it again.

YABU.

When I watched the episode where 'she' gives herself a bikini wax, I thought I might die laughing. Seriously, I stopped breathing.

Mind you, I also like stuff like 'Bottom' so happy with puerile jokes and swearing.

Black Books is my favourite ever, though.

I'm Irish, not a chav (?), not a pensioner, in fact I'm frightfully middle class and I'm not ill humoured in any way, and I LOVE Mrs Brown. She could be my mother.
My Nana (MIL) suggested to my mother that she should clean her net curtains. My Mam was working full time with 2 under 2. My mother pulled them down there and then and said " you fuckin clean 'em".

I don't think it's that dated- I love turning to the audience stuff and the improvised bits- I really find alot of the comments very po faced and V snooty

Pat Mustard All the little babies on Craggy Island with the facial hair.
I can watch Father Ted over and over again and I'm still in hysterics. Loved Graham Norton as Noel Furlong.

I love Mrs Brown's boys'.
GetDownNesbitt that episode was great wasn't it? I was crying from all the laughing.

it's rubbish

i love Father Ted, only comparison is they are both set in Ireland. Father Ted is hilarious i love A Song for Europe with My Lovely Horse :)

Oh oh and 'hoisewives singer' Brendan McLove, "awww look a puppy with a bandaged paw" cue all of the Irish mammies cooing and swooning over him. Bloody genius that programme!

I can't fucking stand Brendan O'Carroll.
He is about as funny as a drowning dog.

Eoin McLove..*I'm Eoin McLove, and I can do what I like"

In my own mind, it is Ed Byrne in Black Books. But I know now I am wrong.

I feel I have let the thread down.

I can't stand it nor Keith Lemon. What is it about him, he's more prevalent than a virus!

It is a great steaming heap of shite. I am mortified that my mother finds it hilarious (mind you, she thinks the dire Miranda is screamingly funny too but that's a whole other story).

Do people really compare it to Father Ted?

Father Ted was a work of genius. Kicking Bishop Brennan Up The Arse was probably the funniest thing I've ever watched. My mate and me haven't ever got drunk and run around a field late at night with our coats held out like capes going 'Crilleeeeey!!'. Oh no.

Pat Mustard was hysterical, as was Noel Furlong, but Mrs Doyle trying to guess the Priest's name (actually that whole episode, when he flicks out his speech and goes 'now - liars!') and Father Fintan Stack and his ghetto blaster made my sides hurt I was laughing so much.

RIP Dermot Morgan :(

Eoin that was it. I wonder who he was based on?

And The Lovely Girrrrlllllls :o

Alex, who could it possibly be?

The Mammy still hasn't sold at 99p.

my fave Father Ted is the 'racism' episode with the perfectly square dirt mark on the window and the sudden chinese community on craggy island.

That episode is sooo funny Spuddy.

Yanbu about Mrs Browns boys - glad DP & I are not the only ones!

DH describes it as low brow. I think it's just shite. Not exactly father ted is it

YABU - it's brilliant.

Crap like Fresh Meat and whatever BBC 3 seem to think passes for comedy - now that is shite.