Brendan O'Carroll
- 69 years old
- Irish
- Actor, writer and producer
Press clippings Page 6
Introducing someone to Mrs Brown's Boys
Find us a more faithful representation of Irish life.
Wayne Farry, JOE, 4th March 2020Roy Chubby Brown 'deserves credit' for Mrs Brown's Boys
The Teesside comic's manager, Tony Jo, took to Facebook to make the claim about the BBC smash-hit. Mr Jo says the show is inspired by Chubby's act - and claimed the Grangetown-born entertainer's fans could "finish every gag".
Mike Brown, Teesside Gazette, 15th February 2020Why we're coming round to Mrs Brown
Critics love to sniff and sneer at the mightily popular recorded "as live" sitcom Mrs Brown's Boys, but it is clever, it's funny - hilariously so.
Fiona Phillips, The Mirror, 7th February 2020Roll over Fleabag, Mrs Brown got the priest first
Stewart Lee asks why do we view the experimentation of Mrs Brown's Boys as naive and the same techniques used by Phoebe Waller-Bridge in The Flea Bag (as he calls it) as genius?
Stewart Lee, The Observer, 2nd February 2020Face it, Mrs Brown's Boys is funnier than smug Gervais
Our columnist has a sneaky confession to make after the public outcry over Mrs Brown's Boys' fifth National Television Award win over Fleabag and Ricky Gervais's Netflix comedy After Life.
Anila Baig, The Mirror, 30th January 2020Mrs Brown's Boys creator to pilot peacekeeper comedy
Mrs Brown's Boys creator Brendan O'Carroll is working on a BBC One sitcom pilot called The Lebanese Outpost.
British Comedy Guide, 15th January 2020Mrs Brown's Boys is now Jamaica's most popular comedy
It's the potty-mouthed comedy that divides opinion in Britain - but Mrs Brown's Boys is winning a whole new audience of sitcom fans around the world.
James Desborough, Daily Mail, 29th December 2019Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas special, review
Brendan O'Carroll's show puts two fingers up to the snooty metropolitan elite and appeals to viewers with fond memories of the early 1970s.
Ed Cumming, The Independent, 25th December 2019Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas special: it's perfectly fine
For something that provokes such venom, Mrs Brown's Boys is a lot like other British comedies.
Barbara Speed, i Newspaper, 25th December 2019Mrs Brown: how TV's worst show become Xmas must-watch
Somehow, without anyone noticing, the dire BBC sitcom has become the centrepiece of Christmas TV. How on Earth did this happen?
Joel Golby, The Guardian, 21st December 2019