Brown

Mightily impressed by the debut of "Mrs Brown's Boys" on BBC1 last night. Very, very funny.


I always wondered would Brendan O'Carroll manage to get the stageshow and DVDs across in the same way on terrestrial television. And the answer is a resounding yes!


Part of the reason for this is the whole show is played in front of a live audience. No canned laughter in this sitcom.


The best bit last night was where Mrs. Brown found she was short of money in the pub. So she simply walked off to another part of the set and collected her purse from the kitchen - all the film cameras on show as O'Carroll did this. So inspired. And very Pythonesque.


The cast were cracking each other up as the episode progressed, so reminiscent of "Not Only But Also". It was top-notch stuff.


Me and Mum have seen him at the Empire twice in "Mrs Brown" mode. He's a genius. When I lived over the water, there was a pub down the road called the "Silver Granite" where O'Carroll started his stand-up career. The landlord of the pub was a midget, so Brendan spent the entire night taking the piss out of the poor man, until he was chased out by an angry doorman!!!


O'Carroll is extremely crude, lude and utterly offensive. I lost count of the "f" word usage. Totally recommended.