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At a time of complex geopolitical struggles and hour news cycles, perhaps it's no wonder that this style, visceral and uncomplicated, holds such a large audience. At the press launch for 's Christmas episode, O'Carroll recalled how he refused a request from BBC management to alter the programme. Cohen was a fan of the show and keen to keep it on air, but wanted the language toned down so it could be shown in a more family-friendly timeslot.

O'Carroll recalled: "He spent the first 10 minutes telling me how lucky the BBC felt to have found me and the family, how wonderful Mrs Brown's Boys was and how he liked that there was also pathos there and hopefully a message at the end - that families fall in and fall out but at the end of the day there's always something that keeps them together.

You want me to stop [swearing] so you can put the show on at eight o'clock. Put it at eight o'clock, or put it on at half 10, put it on at half 12, the people who want to see it will find it. But the show is the show. I don't care when you put it on, we are not changing the show'. Writing in , the Observer's TV critic commented, perhaps not entirely seriously, that the popularity of Mrs Brown's Boys "should have given a huge clue to the Brexit vote".

Are there parallels to wider national schisms in the gulf between the show's supposedly metropolitan critics and its supposedly "left behind" audience? Whether or not the critical tide will turn on Mrs Brown's Boys, its success goes to show just how persistent its breed of humour can be. Comedy evolves, but not always in the same direction. Derek Reddin Dr. Flynn as Dr. Flynn …. More like this. Storyline Edit. The Mother of Comedy.

Did you know Edit. Jennifer Gibney Cathy is Brendan's wife. Eilish O'Carroll Winnie is Brendan's sister. Fiona O'Carroll Maria is Brendan's daughter. Danny O'Carroll Buster is Brendan's son. Connections Featured in Breakfast: Episode dated 17 June User reviews 88 Review. Top review. Was brilliant to start with. It's had it's day now!!!

Mrs browns boys is a to present 5 series comedy created by Brendan O'Carroll. A comedy centered on a loud- mouthed Irish matriarch whose favourite pastime is meddling in the lives of her six children and friends. The first few series was absolutely brilliant but now it's had its day. Thomas Clowne. She hates her distant relative, Hillary Nicholson, the mother of her daughter-in-law, Maria. However, sometimes this dislike subsides for whatever reason.

She is best friends with her next-door neighbour, Winifred "Winnie" McGoogan, this relationship apparently started when they were in school together. Winnie moved next door to Agnes after Redser Brown's death.

She dislikes her father-in-law, Harold Brown, giving him the nickname "The man that God forgot", but is known simply as Grandad. Agnes' skits with Grandad are often hilarious.

She is his full-time carer. She is not cruel, but can't wait until he passes away. Mrs Brown is a well loved person who enjoys meddling in other people's lives, especially love life despite having none of her own. Her children love her, however she sometimes gets on their nerves by not understanding things properly. She is rude at times but will do anything to help her family and friends, and will irritate anyone who she believes is a threat to her family's well-being.