Mrs Brown's Boys and Citizen Khan.....

Mrs Brown's Boys and Citizen Khan.....

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Wacky Racer

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38,099 posts

246 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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And the men behind the characters.......



Mr Khan...







Mrs Brown...










Top marks for the make up department.....

Hugo a Gogo

23,378 posts

232 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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shame about the writing department

HTP99

22,441 posts

139 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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Citizen Khan is reasonably funny, however I don't watch it, Mrs, Brown's Boys is utter, utter toilet

Wacky Racer

Original Poster:

38,099 posts

246 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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HTP99 said:
Citizen Khan is reasonably funny, however I don't watch it, Mrs, Brown's Boys is utter, utter toilet
I have to say I agree with this though.......

s3fella

10,524 posts

186 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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I thought this would be about them being as funny as an infected anal fissure

williredale

2,866 posts

151 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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Wacky Racer said:
HTP99 said:
Citizen Khan is reasonably funny, however I don't watch it, Mrs, Brown's Boys is utter, utter toilet
I have to say I agree with this though.......
Indeed!

Wacky Racer

Original Poster:

38,099 posts

246 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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Tbh, my OP was more a comment on how well people can be disguised, (For instance if the wanted to commit a crime for example), rather than the merits (or otherwise) of the programmes themselves......nerd

CAPP0

19,530 posts

202 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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I cannot in my wildest moments imagine how anybody managed to sell the concept of MBB to the BBC in any shape whatsoever, let alone with a prime slot on BBC1. What were the lot of them thinking? And does anyone know anybody with an IQ higher then 1 who actually enjoys it and/or finds it funny?

Escort3500

11,827 posts

144 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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CAPP0 said:
I cannot in my wildest moments imagine how anybody managed to sell the concept of MBB to the BBC in any shape whatsoever, let alone with a prime slot on BBC1. What were the lot of them thinking? And does anyone know anybody with an IQ higher then 1 who actually enjoys it and/or finds it funny?
Exactly; it beggars belief that the BBC commissioned this crap. Schoolboy humour of the lowest level. Mind you, much the same can be levelled at CK. and don't get me started on Miranda rolleyes

OP - no amount of clever make up can disguise the fact these programmes are dire smile

HTP99

22,441 posts

139 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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CAPP0 said:
I cannot in my wildest moments imagine how anybody managed to sell the concept of MBB to the BBC in any shape whatsoever, let alone with a prime slot on BBC1. What were the lot of them thinking? And does anyone know anybody with an IQ higher then 1 who actually enjoys it and/or finds it funny?
I was taking the piss out of my 55yo colleague yesterday as he took his 17yo son to see it when it was on at the cinema; it's bad enough admitting to watching it on telly, however to spunk £30 on a trip to the cinema to see that utter tripe; well!

He thinks it is hilarious.

Mr Gearchange

5,892 posts

205 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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I saw Mrs Browns Boys once. I couldn't believe it wasn't a parody.

Never have I seen such pathetic and derivative poo.

I would happily spend a day flushing the commissioning editors head down the toilet for lowering the bar to that level.

BossHogg

5,971 posts

177 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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Each to their own I suppose, I enjoy Mrs Brown, but absolutely detest Citizen Khan, its shyte!

supertouring

2,228 posts

232 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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Mrs Brown Boys has been going for years as a stage show hasn't it? only recently coming to TV. This is was a successful show hence the BBC picking it up.

It is just the modern Terry & June type comedy, for which there must still be an audience.


CMYKguru

3,017 posts

174 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
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Add Miranda to Citizan Khan and Mrs Brown and you have my list of the least funny 'comedy' shows even produced in the entire history of British Television.

Compare them with Porridge and Only Fools and they're not even in the same league.

Mrs Brown takes a lot of material and lines from Father Ted.



Edited by CMYKguru on Sunday 21st December 23:27

Matt_N

8,900 posts

201 months

Monday 22nd December 2014
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CMYKguru said:
Mrs Brown takes a lot of material and lines from Father Ted.
And somehow manages to make them unfunny.

I quite enjoy a bit of Father Ted, but Mrs Brown's Boys is parp.

heebeegeetee

28,590 posts

247 months

Monday 22nd December 2014
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Mr Gearchange said:
I saw Mrs Browns Boys once. I couldn't believe it wasn't a parody.

Never have I seen such pathetic and derivative poo.

I would happily spend a day flushing the commissioning editors head down the toilet for lowering the bar to that level.
A parody of what?

ArsE92

21,007 posts

186 months

Monday 22nd December 2014
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CAPP0 said:
I cannot in my wildest moments imagine how anybody managed to sell the concept of MBB to the BBC in any shape whatsoever, let alone with a prime slot on BBC1. What were the lot of them thinking? And does anyone know anybody with an IQ higher then 1 who actually enjoys it and/or finds it funny?
I quite like it. (152, for the record biggrin )

But I'm weird.

Nom de ploom

4,890 posts

173 months

Monday 22nd December 2014
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both are a disgrace to the licence fee imho....

not funny either of them

Six Fiend

6,067 posts

214 months

Monday 22nd December 2014
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MBB appears to be the unfortunate genetic mutation of the least funny bits from Bread and Father Ted. Can't abide it.

CK takes what Goodness Gracious Me did and drags it back 20 yrs.

Just my opinions, likers are free to carry on liking.

Mr Gearchange

5,892 posts

205 months

Monday 22nd December 2014
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heebeegeetee said:
Mr Gearchange said:
I saw Mrs Browns Boys once. I couldn't believe it wasn't a parody.

Never have I seen such pathetic and derivative poo.

I would happily spend a day flushing the commissioning editors head down the toilet for lowering the bar to that level.
A parody of what?
Of a really badly written late 70's/ early 80's Sit Com.

It's actually worse than the Sit-Com in Extra's where the whole conceit is that it's a really awful, dumbed down load of trite rubbish that panders to the lowest common denominator.

Quite how the BBC can commission both programmes is borderline hilarious.