Mrs Brown's Boys

 by Anne Ward

It's  the  best  laugh  on  T.V.,  full  of  adult  humour   and  innuendo,  written by Brendon O`Carroll  a  Dublin writer and actor,  who  also  plays the main part  of  Mammy  (Mrs Brown).

An interfering mother with a disjointed family  of  three  boys, one girl  and  a long  suffering granddad  who sits in arm chair.              A  series  of  half  hour sitcoms  shown on Monday night  on  BBC  one at  9 30pm. Performed  in  front  of  a live  audience .

                There  is a certain amount of bad language but some how the show wouldn’t be right without it.   There is a great deal of family warmth and some modern day issues are addressed,  like one son and his family considered going to Australia to find work, in the last  episode they decided to leaflet the area were they lived and the husband got more work than he had imagined so they stayed.

     Then  there is the favourite son who has  triplets, they had a christening and the party guest after was a hypnotist who used Mammy and her  friend as his subjects,  Mammy was a randy dog when the trigger word Triplets was said and  with the  word Baptism she became a  stripper, which was made even funnier  as the happened in front of the priest who was sat at the kitchen table having tea.

In another episode her daughter (played by O`Caroll’s wife), is going out with a policeman, Mammy discovers Brendon (a family friend, not the brightest button in the box)  has left an illegal mobile phone in the kitchen so she puts on silent and hides it in her Knickers, meanwhile in the pub Brendon is trying to find the phone so he keeps ringing it which causes it to vibrate in Mammy’s knickers and make her eyes water.

    For me this show is the best laugh on T.V. I  have seen in a long time, there are so many  repeats  on day after day it becomes boring and I hit the off button quite frequently.   Its a shame we won’t see Mrs Browns Boy’s again till Christmas, soon as I find out when its back that will be a date I will circle on my calendar.