Brendan O'Carroll
- 69 years old
- Irish
- Actor, writer and producer
Press clippings Page 14
Judy Murray and her mum were Mrs Brown's first guests
TV's most devious mammy reveals how Andy's mum fared on the sofa and tells us what to expect from All Round to Mrs Brown's.
Sarah Doran, Radio Times, 26th January 2017Mrs. Brown chatshow a reassuring move by the BBC
The mega success of Dublin's most offensive widow may gobsmack many, but the BBC knows when it's on to a good thing - and how to maximise it.
Mark Lawson, The Guardian, 11th January 2017Could Mrs. Brown really beat Ant and Dec?
The BBC could easily have a hit on their hands for when Strictly Come Dancing is out of season.
Sarah Deen, Metro, 11th January 2017BBC confirms new Mrs Brown's Boys show
The BBC has confirmed it is making a new series called All Round To Mrs Brown's, a Saturday night entertainment show starring Brendan O'Carroll as Mrs Brown.
British Comedy Guide, 9th January 2017Why you just don't get Mrs Brown's Boys
Can't fathom how Brendan O'Carroll's comedy became such a big hit at Christmas (and the rest of the year)? Sarah Doran investigates...
Sarah Doran, Radio Times, 1st January 2017I 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, simplistic to the point of catalepsy, savagely lacking in wit. 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.
Euan Ferguson, The Observer, 1st January 2017Mrs Brown: Jokes 20 years past their sell-by date
O'Carroll's speech about bullying had me retrospectively wishing I hadn't loathed what had gone before. Yet the irony was that for the previous 30 minutes the viewer had been menaced with endless groaners.
Ed Power, The Telegraph, 1st January 2017Mrs Brown's Boys Live tour extended
The Mrs Brown's Boys 2017 live tour has been extended. Three additional dates - in London, Birmingham and Manchester - have been announced for Good Mourning Mrs. Brown. Tickets are on sale now.
British Comedy Guide, 18th November 2016BBC to pilot new Mrs Brown's Boys entertainment show
The BBC is piloting a new entertainment show called All Round To Mrs Brown's. The format will see the characters from the show in 'fun-fuelled' segments.
British Comedy Guide, 22nd September 2016Coming to terms with people liking Mrs. Brown's Boys
Even if you don't find 'best sitcom of the century' remotely funny - and I don't - it's not right to claim it's safe or lazy. It's something much odder than that
Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 27th August 2016