Brendan O'Carroll
- 69 years old
- Irish
- Actor, writer and producer
Press clippings Page 10
For Facts Sake: like a concussed QI
Look out, Brendan O'Carroll has a new role as a quiz-show host.
Stuart Heritage, i Newspaper, 15th October 2018The last in the current series of the awkward panto/chat crossover has a guest list that, like the jokes in the script, isn't bursting with contemporary freshness: Ray Mears, Jerry Springer and Boy George are the visitors, with Boy George the gamest because he's brought his mum, Dinah.
Jack Seale, The Guardian, 23rd June 2018Brendan O'Carroll's mammy welcomes more guests for japes and single entendre. Tonight's lucky recipients of Mrs Brown's wit are Marvin and Rochelle Humes and Alan Davies, while Wayne Bridge delivers footballing wisdom. Picture This provide musical relief from the panto fun.
Hannah Verdier, The Guardian, 16th June 2018Brendan O'Carroll throws on the cardigan and curlers to welcome TV Dragons Peter Jones and Deborah Meaden into the den. Tonight''s other interviewees are musical collaborators Sting and Shaggy, This Morning chef-turned-Italian Escape artist Gino D'Acampo and Loose Woman Christine Lampard.
Mark Gibbings-Jones, The Guardian, 2nd June 2018Mammy Mia, here we go again. Series two of the chat show spinoff continues, with various game celebs - Freddie Flintoff, Jason Manford, Fatima Whitbread - yielding to the chaotic quizzing of Brendan O'Carroll's matriarch. Pleasingly, the bawdy spotlight is equally focused on the studio audience.
Graeme Virtue, The Guardian, 26th May 2018The blanket critical disdain heaped upon Brendan O'Carroll's Irish matriarch can feel a little lazy. So, to bend over backwards, this format, in which guests subject themselves to Agnes's lewd provocations, is the character's best delivery mechanism. Tonight, Amir Khan, Danny Dyer and Kate Humble pay a visit.
Phil Harrison, The Guardian, 19th May 2018Brendan O'Carroll will kill off Mrs Brown if show axed
Brendan O'Carroll has said he he had no qualms about killing off Mrs Brown if the show ends.
The Sun, 18th May 2018Brendan O'Carroll interview
The UK's favourite foul-mouthed Dublin mammy is back!
TV Choice, 15th May 2018Mrs Brown's Boys stars to film BBC panel show For Facts Sake
BBC One is making For Facts Sake, a new panel show hosted by Brendan O'Carroll and starring other members of the Mrs Brown's Boys cast as team captains.
British Comedy Guide, 23rd February 2018O'Carroll & Gibney share near €1m in dividends
Brendan O'Carroll continues to profit from his hugely successful Mrs Brown's Boys show with recently filed accounts showing the comedian and his wife, actress Jennifer Givney shared a near €1 million payout last year.
Charlie Taylor, The Irish Times, 16th January 2018