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Ta, I shall email No.1 directly!

It's "Mrs Brown's Boys" Janey,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00x17n9

Has anybody actually said the name of this new BBC comedy here?? I'm not seeing it and I want to tell No.1 so he can download it. ;)

It's sounding like our Trailer Park Boys. Some stations here show it in rerun, bleeped. Most things the characters say consist of more bleeps than words, hardly worth watching. I wonder what they do with the episode where Ricky's in court and asserting his "people's freedom of choices and voices act" right to defend himself in his own way to the judge ("your majesty") -- the title of the episode being "if I can't smoke and swear I'm ****ed".

So would the Trailer Park Boys be if they couldn't swear. ;)

It's always funny to see celebrity guests from the US on the Graham Norton show when they haven't been fuly briefed ... "you can say that on TV??" Such Puritans they are there.

So tell me tell me -- what is this new show I need to see??

**M** No I would not use it at all, but my sense of
humour is as is. I block out the f word and look through
it as in any film or play I see, if it offended me I always
have the off button that I can use. lolx

Emmax

My opinion,For what its worth is, Anyone who has to use that sort of language to get a Laugh is not a Comedian,just Foul mouthed and unable to get a laugh any other way. Just ask yourselves ( Those who like it) would you in all honesty use it in your own home just for a Laugh? **M**.

I watched last nights also and like last weeks
thought it was hilarious. Am well and truly hooked,
laughter is the best medicine of all.

Emmax

Well, I didnt watch last weeks episode but I DID watch last nights', and yep I too thought it was pant wettingly funny!!

Bob


ps very much like "Bread" but Brown bread!!

Rose he may have but do not believe he ever used four letter words.

One certain four letter word is to my knowledge an anglo-saxon word and is a noun - today seems to be used a lot as an adjective.

I thought it was very funny have seen it before but well worth watching again. mrs brown can be brought on dvd

Thanks Rose - I've just been having a look at it and think it's quite funny - could do with a being a bit more subtle in places but not bad.

I'm sure I can't be the only person who finds that well used swearing in comedy can make things funnier.

I can't swear to it, no pun intended, Chris but I am pretty sure Dave Allen went further than damn? but it is true that some comedians use the swearing to get the laugh rather than being funny...also depends on whether they are being 'themselves' or playing a character maybe?

It was on well after the watershed Uggers , started about 10.35 I think,

There are comedians who appear to think they can only be funny if they swear.

Mrs Slocombe didn't swear and Dave Allan - well we still watch him and I cannot recall any swearing unless it was a damn.

Me Mammy was wonderful. Evidently I missed this programme.

and with 5 more to come...mondays will be set aside for IPlayer in action}}}}

I would personally rather have the bad language of today as opposed to the overt racism of some of the popular 'funny' comedians of the 70's...words I don't find especially offensive, it is the 'motive' behind them that I look for...

Dead isn't she, Lee?

Didn't see the programme, Rose but I loved Father Ted and am quite fond of the f word. If it was on after about 9ish, the assumption is that either viewers are adults who can choose to watch something or children who are allowed to - as long as there are the usual warnings, I can't see any problem.

After reading your thread Rose I watched it on IPlayer this afternoon.

I do remember Milo O'Shea...

I don't much like bad language in humorous situations/comedy,there's been lots of brilliant comedians in the past who have never resorted to using it in their acts or on tv.
The My Mammy character did remind me of Norman Evans or Freddie Frinton (in style) but I did laugh out loud when he appeared from behind the settee after being tazed,and his hair was spikey, and thought it was hilarious when mammy was trying to walk upstairs......pure music hall! lol

Am I going deaf? i thought the 'feck word was being used'....I don't like the other....

I do think Father Ted was better.

Where is Mary Whitehouse when you need her, some one needs to reign these television programmes in or where will it end, the "C" being used on Blue Peter.
Our TV programmes have never ever contained so much vile filth and immorallity as they do today, i for one am disgusted at what they show today compared to what we watched back in the 60s 70 80s, and the downward spiral continues sadly.

It took me unawares lol, most of you won't remember 'Me Mammy' sitcom with Milo O'Shea and Anna Managhan as his mum from '68-'71, it had a little echo of that I think....as someone quotes from it:

" A line sticks in my mind, which goes something like, 'Me mammy has no objection to me getting married. It's just that whoever I married would have to be over 60. And she'd have to be a nun. And she'd have to be a fella!'

I'm glad I'm not the only one to have found it funny despite the language etc.

Yes, Kay, but it has to be said with a bit of style you know:-) Lol BCXX