Mrs Brown’s Boys creator Brendan O’Carroll has hit back at haters of the show and declared he’s unbothered by the trolls who complain they’ve “suffered enough”
Comic Brendan O’Carroll says people who hate Mrs Brown’s Boys can just “feck off”.
Snooty critics have blasted the popular BBC sitcom, which is back with two specials this Christmas. But O’Carroll – who created the show and plays lead character Mammy – isn’t bothered.
The 68-year-old said: “First of all, I’m well aware that comedy is very subjective. What some people like, other people just detest. So I don’t take it too serious.”
The Irish star also revealed that the show is still a huge hit with families, who lap up Mammy’s one-liners, and has even helped autistic children.
He explained: “When we started… by about the fourth or fifth episode, we got a couple of letters from people who had autistic children.
“It started as a couple of letters and it’s now been over 3,000. And they said that their kids watched Mrs Brown and they heard them laugh in context for the very first time. One woman said she was in the kitchen and heard her son laughing for the very first time.
“So when you get a letter like that I don’t care what the critics say. That’ll do me.” Brendan admitted he’s blown away by the show’s success.
He told BBC Radio Sounds: “People say to me you must be living your dreams. I’m so far past my dreams, that it’s not true.
“I started doing a five minute thing on radio. There’s now been 240 episodes of it on the radio. It’s been just unbelievable. My mother had a great saying, my mother used to say that success is like disco music, just dance to it.”
Recently the BBC announced: “’Mrs Brown’s Boys is back with two episodes as Mammy tries to enjoy a nice, peaceful Christmas before the whole gang start the New Year by attempting a tough new health and fitness regime.”
However the online backlash came immediately. “Please stop, we’ve suffered enough.” one reaction on X read,
Another commented: “Why? It’s not funny anymore.” Others simply exclaimed ‘NO’ or asked ‘WHY?’, why another fired off “absolutely pitiful.”
Another joked: “Its good how they’ll put stuff on so that people switch off the TV and play board games with their families instead.” The show has aired since 2011, with a Christmas special every year.
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