Mrs Brown's Boys starts tonight.

[big dub]

This very funny show starts tonight on BBC1 at 22:35 for half an hour.

I encourage all to watch. Here's a sample below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdSaWW9vuow

[Bob Fossil]

Just goes to show that it's "each to their own"... I stumbled across this tonight and it just seems to be a load of outdated old ste... the "feck" joke was done to death by Father Jack years ago, and the dialogue is clunkier than an Allegro gearchange.

Not for me.

[Lordbenny]

Sounds like canned laughter, what are the audience on to laugh that much at such ste jokes! Reminds me of Rab C Nesbit.....dosnt really cross the boarder!

[barefoot]

Laughed out loud !

[GTIR]

Oh my god!

What a load of fecking ste. Not funny and cringeworthy.

BBC. Hang your head in shame for this tosh.

[sparkythecat]

Yes it's puerile, farcical and anachronistic and contains some previously used material but it's very very funny.

[Kinky]

Each to their own ..... I found it utterly hilarious

[spud989]

Almost as out of touch as Paul Whitehouse and Harry Enfield are now. Almost.

[ajprice]

Liked it. Yes its a lot off eff and jeff but it was on at half past ten at night. You could see some things coming a mile away (turn off the taser when its finished charging, then the phone rings...) but the talk to the crowd and walking across the sets bits were good.

[vixen1700]

Lasted 5 minutes or so of it and thought it just looked dreadful. Did it get any better?

[vdubbin]

Brendan O'Carroll is about as funny as Alzheimer's. On behalf of the people of Ireland I humbly apologise.

[CooperD]

I actually laughed quite a lot. I didn't think it was as bad as some here have said. I've seen a lot worse "comedy" than this on the TV recently.

[Turbodiesel1690]

Saw the live show last week in Londonderry, it was brilliant - some jokes have been reused for the TV version but still funny IMO

[The GMan]

Seen the live show before and I thought last night was good even though some of the jokes are old.

[Obiwonkeyblokey]

I laughed more than Ive laughed at anything in ages.

Im sure the canned laughter and oevrsize sets are a deliberate part of the programme to align it with more "routine" sit-comms.

that straight after a cracking episode of episodes made for a great nights telly

[Morningside]

Childish, Overacted, stupid? Yes it was, but this was something as fresh as the Young Ones or Bottom was all those years ago. Would they work in todays world?

To be honest I am so glad its not the usual dull BBC Sitcom. Set in London Suburb, middle class family, semi detached £450,000 house. One being a teacher. 2 children with cardboard acting.

As for the canned laughter, I think The Big Bang Theory, The IT Crowd and others have been accused of this as well.

I also liked the 'breaking the 4th wall' of going out of the pub scene, past the camera and back to the house.

[Smiler.]

Bob Fossil said:

Just goes to show that it's "each to their own"... I stumbled across this tonight and it just seems to be a load of outdated old ste... the "feck" joke was done to death by Father Jack years ago, and the dialogue is clunkier than an Allegro gearchange.

Not for me.

Hehe, great name. No wonder you hated it

[The GMan]

Morningside said:

Childish, Overacted, stupid? Yes it was, but this was something as fresh as the Young Ones or Bottom was all those years ago. Would they work in todays world?

To be honest I am so glad its not the usual dull BBC Sitcom. Set in London Suburb, middle class family, semi detached £450,000 house. One being a teacher. 2 children with cardboard acting.

As for the canned laughter, I think The Big Bang Theory, The IT Crowd and others have been accused of this as well.

I also liked the 'breaking the 4th wall' of going out of the pub scene, past the camera and back to the house.

In the live show he goes off script loads leaving the rest of the cast not knowing whats going on and laughing more than the audience. I thought it was going to be st and not work on screen but it did. I liked it and as you say better then some of the crap being shown now.

[im]

Yep, I have to admit, it was real belly-laugh stuff.

The jokes are old and done to death but the timing and characterisations somehow bring them back to life.

8/10

[spud989]

That's the thing, though, there was nothing in there that you couldn't get from a dozen different comedies from the last 30 years, especially British ones. At least with stuff like The Big Bang Theory (some of) the jokes are new because they're done for a different audience and in a different style (probably best described as intellectual absurdism, or something).

Also, I have to say that having seen an advert for it 4/5 times a day for the last 3 weeks I was expecting to see some sort of comedic revelation. Someone high up at the Beeb has invested a lot in this and is desperate to see it succeed. Not seen anything get so much promotion in a long time.