The Observer’s review of Mrs Brown’s Boys is worth reading for the viciousness

Euan Ferguson has written an amusingly vicious review of Mrs Brown’s Boys that connected its popularity with Brexit.

Euan Ferguson's review of Mrs Brown Boy's in today's Observer. pic.twitter.com/2qxzY6Z2jj

— Diarmuid Doyle (@diarmuiddoyle) January 1, 2017

And a full transcript for those who don’t like to squint.

I decided not to lazily write off Mrs Brown’s Boys. It remains absurdly successful, despite critics having generally trashed Brendan O’Carroll’s creation as demeaning, cheap, grotesque, . So I watched it, and was surprised. It’s all of these insults, yes, but the immersive experience is actually, shockingly, worse than expected. Sentimental to retching-point, homophobic, itch-lousy with single entendres, somehow managing to be both twee and vulgar, achingly unfunny, it made The Vicar of Dibley look like Father Ted.

I suspect those of us in our high ivory metropolitan-elite towers (translation: humans who paid even nugatory attention to at least one class in school) missed a trick in 2016: the popularity of this shameless excrescence (I can now write it off after due diligence), which was voted by Radio Times readers the best sitcom of the 21st century, should have given a huge clue to the Brexit vote.

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