To be nonplussed why people rave over Mrs Brown's Boys

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I've tried watching it twice twice and haven't got past the first five minutes it was so awful.

It seemed like an artless parody of a shite 70s sitcom (like something Frankie Howerd forgot to make) Don't get me wrong I'm not a comedy snob and quite enjoy a broad knockabout comedy like Vicious, yet I am utterly bemused by Mrs Brown's Boys, it looks dated, absurd and utterly free from laughs.

Yet it has a massive following, especially amongst people of my parents' generation. Normally when there's a TV programme I dislike I can see why other people (Top Gear for example) may enjoy it. But Mrs Brown seems to be without any redeaming features.

There must be some fans out there who can explain its appeal?

Runes - you really should revisit it. I used to dislike it too because I compared it too much to the later ones and because I didn't like how snivelly Edmund was (and Baldrick being clever was all wrong), but now I love it and realise it's just as brilliant as the others.

Same here for Blackadder the first.

Watching it now I really appreciate it.

Jim Broadbent was the interpreter.

I love him Blackadder's Christmas Carol too, as Prince Albert, giving away the content of all of Victoria's presents:

'Damn, damn, damn'.

Man, I thought I was alone. One family member LOVES it and I had to sit through like three episodes. It's so crap. It's badly made, the main dude/woman/whatever always looks at the camera./drops out of character which is annoying. and it's not funny. There's so many other shows which are a billion times funnier.

Blackadder's Christmas Carol is brilliant too. Baldrick getting a fist in his stocking was and . Love it.

Runes I agree with all of your Great list that I've watched and should probably check out the ones I haven't. I was going to add Phoenix Nights to it, but see you added that later. I used to know chunks of Blackadder 2 and 3 off by heart. I loved Big School too

Never seen Big School. Is that the BBC one that David Wailliams was in?

I'm Irish and it makes me cringe so much. It does not poke fun at stereotypes in a witty way at all.

Yes that's right. Frances de la Tour was fab as the headmistress.

What I like most about MBB is that it is crude and like a bad panto. I love that it has no pretensions at all. I love that it is un pc too.

My fav blackadder was the first series but I think I'm the only person in the world to hold that opinion, very strange. But I find it laugh out loud funny. Especially the sketch with the morris dancer on a plastic donkey.

All I can say it is a matter of taste, when look at some of your 'greats' I think they are a pile of shite too! Get stuffed.

Or a matter of a lack of taste.

It's certainly un pc. There's a bit in it where Mrs Brown refers to her son's gayness as his "illness." I feel for any young teen watching that with his parents roaring with laughter next to him.

Any young gay teenager

That's an interesting thought, Opal.

To me it hides behind the idea that we're holding up 'her' outdated attitudes as a source of humour. That argument is about as convincing as it was in the late 90s when magazines sprang up with pictures of semi naked women and claimed they were post modern and empowering rather than sexist. Homophobic jokes are homophobic jokes. Racism is racism. 'Political Corectness' is a label used by those who would like to still be able to display those attitudes in public without being called on it.

Melika

Your attitude is just delightful.

Why on earth are you getting so angry and confrontational because people don't share your opinion of a tv show?

Christ knows what you're like when someone disagrees with you about something that actually matters!

Melika is probably just trying to be funny - much the same way as MBB does

Its painfully shite.

It's dreadful.

Runes agree with your list but am ok with Miranda (first series).

melika is there really any need to be so rude? Although if 'get stuffed' is your idea of a witty retort, I can see why you may enjoy Mrs Brown's Boys so much.

It's comedy for the hard of thinking.

It's no coincidence that on a night that it's on, the people who are getting excited over it on my FB newsfeed are the ones that can't spell.

"watchin mrs browns boys wid da fam lol hilareous"

Stillenacht I actually quite like Miranda Harte and was disappointed not to like the show, it gives me no pleasure to put Miranda on the shit list but it just doesn't make me laugh. Mrs Brown's Boys on the other hand, I would have been worried about myself had I found that trunks funny. Before I forget, Benidorm needs to be added to the shit list.