Right. Someone isn't owning up. Who's watching it?
Biggest pile of shit
In fairness he has got his act a bit more together in this. Don't know if it's the production? The old Mrs Browne stuff that people used to rave about was shite. And although it is still mediocre, at least it's miles ahead of the old stuff. It's Brendan Grace Humour - no harm nor groundbreaking!
Quote from: From the Bunker on January 02, 2015, 06:15:04 PM
In fairness he has got his act a bit more together in this. Don't know if it's the production? The old Mrs Browne stuff that people used to rave about was shite. And although it is still mediocre, at least it's miles ahead of the old stuff. It's Brendan Grace Humour - no harm nor groundbreaking!
Can't say I've noticed the difference...
Young lad watches it, he's probably too young but it keeps him out of my hair for a bit :). I was unlucky enough to see both episodes over the Christmas, it's pure brutal. A half hour of totally unfunny comedy with one laugh out loud moment, usually unscripted or ad libbed..
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jan/02/tv-ratings-mrs-browns-boys-dethrones-queen
A mystery to me as I don't know anyone of the millions claimed to be watching it.
Quote from: ONeill on January 02, 2015, 06:46:20 PM
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jan/02/tv-ratings-mrs-browns-boys-dethrones-queen
You could say it was an Irish Queen upstaging the British Queen! :P
You are all a pile of grumpy feckers. :D
To be fair it is funnier than most other shows on TV at the minute. Silly and harmless.
Slapstick, toilet humour at its best. O'Carroll hasn't changed from the time I saw him in the Glencarn in Blayney when I was about 16 and that's a year or 2 ago. 'On Baggot Street Bridge, it was cold as a fridge...' ah the memories ;D
He is very good at what he does. It is an uncertain time for a lot of people and they don't want stuff that is too stuffy or complicated. It is very different to the early 80s when the Young Ones or the 70s when Monty Python were going. Fair play to him for spotting the opportunity.
I gave it a chance the other night. Could only take 5 minutes. I've seen better novelty acts in Scór that finished last.
Anyone looking forward to channel 4s new sitcom based during the famine. Word is that they are planning a Auschwitz comedy next year too.
Quote from: seafoid on January 02, 2015, 08:26:07 PM
It is an uncertain time for a lot of people and they don't want stuff that is too stuffy or complicated.
What a ridiculous statement.
Quote from: Maguire01 on January 02, 2015, 09:38:44 PM
Quote from: seafoid on January 02, 2015, 08:26:07 PM
It is an uncertain time for a lot of people and they don't want stuff that is too stuffy or complicated.
What a ridiculous statement.
Aye. The poor people wouldn't want to be reading Seafoods essays on Palestine on some of these threads.
Quote from: seafoid on January 02, 2015, 08:26:07 PM
He is very good at what he does. It is an uncertain time for a lot of people and they don't want stuff that is too stuffy or complicated. It is very different to the early 80s when the Young Ones or the 70s when Monty Python were going. Fair play to him for spotting the opportunity.
+1. The man is very funny. Snobby oul cnuts the whole lot of yiz
Tried to watch it a number of times. Normally I'd get a small laugh out of the most mundane programmes, but couldn't even managed a smile for Mrs Brown's Boys.
I've been told it's goes over my head (not sure if they were making short jokes at my expense) and it's too sophisticated for me. They must think I'm a complete oink!
This has polarised Ireland more than the Tony Keady affair.
Quote from: Itchy on January 02, 2015, 09:27:21 PM
Anyone looking forward to channel 4s new sitcom based during the famine. Word is that they are planning a Auschwitz comedy next year too.
Not getting the uproar over this. Wait and see how it's done. Blackadder Goes Forth tastefully and poignantly covered the senselessness of millions of deaths of WW1. I remember watching a comedy on the Holocaust which perfectly worked.
People are signing petitions etc before it's seen. Give it a chance. Plenty of people supposedly outraged by this probably couldn't tell you a lot about it, whereas a carefully written show maybe will educate them.
Quote from: ONeill on January 02, 2015, 11:11:31 PM
Quote from: Itchy on January 02, 2015, 09:27:21 PM
Anyone looking forward to channel 4s new sitcom based during the famine. Word is that they are planning a Auschwitz comedy next year too.
Not getting the uproar over this. Wait and see how it's done. Blackadder Goes Forth tastefully and poignantly covered the senselessness of millions of deaths of WW1. I remember watching a comedy on the Holocaust which perfectly worked.
People are signing petitions etc before it's seen. Give it a chance. Plenty of people supposedly outraged by this probably couldn't tell you a lot about it, whereas a carefully written show maybe will educate them.
Father Ted caused uproar too.
It did. It referenced paedophilia many times. We've been sickened with comedies about the troubles on BBC and ITV for years now. Not because of the subject matter but because they're crap.
Now we have a hierarchy of acceptable comedy depending on what?
Give it a chance or don't watch it.
Quote from: ONeill on January 02, 2015, 11:35:54 PM
It did. It referenced paedophilia many times. We've been sickened with comedies about the troubles on BBC and ITV for years now. Not because of the subject matter but because they're crap.
Now we have a hierarchy of acceptable comedy depending on what?
Give it a chance or don't watch it.
I read some absolute drivel last night (retweeted by Ziggy I think) about what was funny about people eating grass etc. What was funny about the front line in WW1? The people behind this shite seem to think it will show images of dead babies and emaciated bodies ::)
Django, Inglorious, Life is Beautiful, all the crap BBC war comedies....but as soon as us Irish are involved it's an outrage. Unfortunately social media can whip people into a frenzy before they sit down and have a think.
On the other hand, it's ok to oppose all comedy that touches on death or tragedy if that's your choice. But don't pick and choose.
On another hand - it might be shite.
Mrs B must be too sophistimacated for the likes of me. Maybe that's why I don't get it.
Besides being not funny, I can't stand that shifty wee bollix BO'C. He sums up the dodgy fcukers you see all the time in Dublin. The types that would rob your eye teeth if they could manage it.
Quote from: ONeill on January 02, 2015, 11:59:59 PM
Django, Inglorious, Life is Beautiful, all the crap BBC war comedies....but as soon as us Irish are involved it's an outrage. Unfortunately social media can whip people into a frenzy before they sit down and have a think.
On the other hand, it's ok to oppose all comedy that touches on death or tragedy if that's your choice. But don't pick and choose.
On another hand - it might be shite.
Or maybe the point is a British station making a comedy about a genocide they (british) inflicted on the Irish. Have any German stations made a show about the holocaust ?
Quote from: Itchy on January 03, 2015, 12:40:52 AM
Quote from: ONeill on January 02, 2015, 11:59:59 PM
Django, Inglorious, Life is Beautiful, all the crap BBC war comedies....but as soon as us Irish are involved it's an outrage. Unfortunately social media can whip people into a frenzy before they sit down and have a think.
On the other hand, it's ok to oppose all comedy that touches on death or tragedy if that's your choice. But don't pick and choose.
On another hand - it might be shite.
Or maybe the point is a British station making a comedy about a genocide they (british) inflicted on the Irish. Have any German stations made a show about the holocaust ?
Shhh You are not supposed to say that out loud!
Quote from: Tony Baloney on January 02, 2015, 11:54:45 PM
Quote from: ONeill on January 02, 2015, 11:35:54 PM
It did. It referenced paedophilia many times. We've been sickened with comedies about the troubles on BBC and ITV for years now. Not because of the subject matter but because they're crap.
Now we have a hierarchy of acceptable comedy depending on what?
Give it a chance or don't watch it.
I read some absolute drivel last night (retweeted by Ziggy I think) about what was funny about people eating grass etc. What was funny about the front line in WW1? The people behind this shite seem to think it will show images of dead babies and emaciated bodies ::)
Grass? What are you on about?
You do know that it is by an Irish writer who was given a blank canvas to write about anything he wanted?
Yes
Sorry, not you Zig.
Ah, ok :)
Quote from: ONeill on January 03, 2015, 01:06:54 AM
You do know that it is by an Irish writer who was given a blank canvas to write about anything he wanted?
If its a blank canvas why did the station suggest the Famine as a suitable topic? I believe it is distasteful, sorry if I'm not hip and modern enough. Maybe C4 should make a comedy about Lockerbie?
Quote from: Itchy on January 03, 2015, 11:36:33 AM
Quote from: ONeill on January 03, 2015, 01:06:54 AM
You do know that it is by an Irish writer who was given a blank canvas to write about anything he wanted?
If its a blank canvas why did the station suggest the Famine as a suitable topic?
Now you're making stuff up.