Comedy gold or TV at its worst?
Mrs Brown’s Boys’ great divide
SOME swear by it, while others just swear at it...
Mrs Brown’s Boys was the most popular TV entertainment on Christmas Day but it divides us like no other show.
Agnes Brown’s raucous antics drew in 6.8 million viewers – beaten only by the Queen’s message – adding another feather in the cap of star Brendan O’Carroll.
It started life on Irish radio in the 1990s and was turned into books and a stage show before it hit BBC1 in 2011.
Yet for every viewer who loves its innuendo and expletive-filled slapstick, there is one who loathes it. Here a lover and hater explain why...