The Independent’s scathing review of Mrs Brown’s Boys is much funnier than the show
Once voted the nation’s favourite sitcom, Mrs Brown’s Boys is like Marmite – much better shut in a cupboard where I can forget it exists. One poor reviewer, Sean O’Grady, had to watch it to do his job, for which we sincerely hope he received generous remuneration – plus some counselling.
You can read the whole thing here, but some highlights – or lowlights, if you’re involved in the production of Mrs Brown’s Boys – include:
“so awful that it is physically painful to sit through”
“a lot of people watch it. But then lots of us used to enjoy a day out at a public execution, or an afternoon down the boozer watching a bear being attacked by dogs.”
“It’s based on drag. This genre is inherently unfunny and should have been retired when Arthur Lucan died, in his frock, as Old Mother Riley in 1954 …Proper drag queens are something else – outrageous, sexy, deviant. A fat fella in a perm wig is not really making much of an effort.”
“The British Broadcasting Corporation’s gift to the licence payers on Christmas Day 2018 is a pun that can be carbon dated to circa 1918.”
It wasn’t just the official reviews that were terrible.
https://twitter.com/phantom_flinger/status/1077697541649690624
Things I find more funny than Mrs Brown's boys
Kidney stones
Gout
Stepping on Lego
Stubbing toe on bed
Football to groin on a cold January morning
Burning orphanages
The Daily Mail— matt price (@monkwelshfunk) December 27, 2018
https://twitter.com/toby__jh/status/1077696271056556032
https://twitter.com/JJisRad/status/1077690831157542913
I honestly don’t know which way I’d vote if there was a 2nd referendum, and the options were:
a) Remain in the EU
b) Cancel Mrs Brown’s Boys— Tilly (@philtilston) December 26, 2018
It isn’t the first time Mrs Brown’s Boys has drawn heavy fire from a reviewer and it won’t be the last, unless they stop making them – they should just do that, then.
Source: Independent