Jackson Booth-Millard People may not know that Brendan O'Carroll created the whole concept for this show in 1992, first made as a radio broadcast, then he wrote four books, one of them being turned into a movie starring Angelica Huston, and then becoming a touring stage show, but finally in 2011 his creation became a television hit. Basically Mrs. Agnes Brown (Brendan O'Carroll) is an Irish widowed foul-mouthed matriarch with five adult children: only daughter Cathy (Jennifer Gibney, Brendan's wife), son Dermot (Paddy Houlihan), gay son Rory (Rory Cowan), son Mark (Pat Shields), son Trevor (Martin Delany), and who looks after Grandad Harold (Dermot O'Neill). She also has various in-laws and grandchildren, her best friend is Winnie McGoogan (Eilish O'Carroll, Brendan's sister), and Dermot's criminal friend Buster Brady (Danny O'Carroll, Brendan's son) is a frequent visitor. Mrs. Brown runs the household, she likes nothing more than meddling in the lives of her children, she is never lost for words, always uttering profanities and caustic remarks, and there is always chaos somewhere around her, but she always has her heart in the right place. Also starring Amanda Woods as Mark's wife Betty Brown, Fiona O'Carroll (Brendan's daughter) as Dermot's wife Maria Brown, Gary Hollywood as Rory's husband Dino Doyle; Fiona Gibney, Jennifer's sister as Sharon McGoogan, Conor Moloney as Father Damien, Emily Regan as Barbara, Coronation Street's Susie Blake as Hilary Nicholson; Jamie O'Carroll, Brendan's grandson as Bono Brown, Mark Dymond as Mick, Derek Reddin as Dr. Flynn and Gary Lilburn as Father Quinn. Particular features that make this comedy different to others is not just the lead character breaking the fourth wall and talking to the audience, but production mistakes, fluffed lines, tomfoolery and cast laughing and smirking are not all edited out, they are included in many episodes and add to the great laughs. O'Carroll is a fantastic writer and producer, and as Mrs. Brown he is just a fantastic character, Dibney as his only daughter is always great as well, many of the supporting cast do very well also, it is very cool that many of O'Carroll's real family and friends are included in the cast. This programme has always divided opinion from audiences and critics alike, it's like Marmite, you either love it or hate it, admittedly when I first saw bits of it, it didn't look like my sort of thing, but once I tried I absolutely love it, and it does draw in huge audiences. It's a fantastic mix of a standard sitcom format, foul language, slapstick, stupidity and playing with expectations from production recording and the studio audience, it is no wonder that it has had many high-ranking Christmas specials, toured live and had a hit movie, it's a great situation comedy. Very good!

Pandorum_Sufferer I had to write a review after seeing an Australian comment how this rubbish has taken Australia by storm, well that must be your primary school that has been taken by storm because I know no-one that will admit to watching this dribble.I know comedy is subjective so to give you an idea of what I find funny my two favorite comedies are: Community and It's always sunny in Philadelphia.In summary this show is gets its jokes from the 60's, the cast cannot even pull off a joke without cracking and no that is it the show sucks.The purpose of this review other than saving people a miserable experience is to counter "anthanth's" insulting comment about Australian humour.

williamrayner3 There's no other way to put it, Mrs Brown's Boys is pure garbage. It's the typical low brow, garbage sitcom format: a 30 minute trough of recycled jokes, tired gags, one liners and non-sequiturs thrown out at random to entertain a lowest common denominator audience the BBC tends to shamelessly target nowadays. It's the result of a ratings driven BBC that's unwillingly to take risks and is consequently stuck in the pastIf you've ever watched Ricky Gervais' Extras, Mrs Brown's Boys will feel inherently familiar to Gervais' character Andy Millman's sitcom 'When The Whistle Blows', a similarly catchphrase driven, low brow comedy show a result of BBC meddling.

John Pendrick I honestly thought I'd hate the show when I first saw it...It seemed like it had all been done before.....but it wasn't until I watched it 3 or 4 times that I got hooked on it like no show before....In almost every episode I have moments when I am choking with laughter.The difference between Mrs Browns Boys and shows like 'The Inbetweeners' is that with 'The Inbetweeners' You can get hooked on the show within your first 5 minutes of watching it because the come backs are so sharp and funny. But with Mrs Browns Boys it takes a few episodes to get into it and that's why it has critics but once you get into it then you will be hooked for sure and it's as funny as anything else out there...'Mammy Swings', 'Mammys Going' and 'Mammys Inflation are the funniest episodes.Can't wait for 2015 when more come out