I am a big fan of MBB i guess i am one of the "audience that enjoyed the broad, double entendre comedy of On The Buses and Are You Being Served" mentioned below.
Mrs Brown's Boys has beaten Fleabag and After Life to win a fifth comedy prize at the National Television Awards.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-46619935
How has a slapstick comedy, hinging on a middle-aged man pretending to be a troublesome 'mammy', thrived in the gulf between critics and audiences?
"I think it's because there's a certain section of the audience that feels disenfranchised by modern comedy; an audience that enjoyed the broad, double entendre comedy of On The Buses and Are You Being Served?" says Dick Fiddy, archive TV programmer at the BFI.
"I think Mrs Brown's Boys, as well as shows like Miranda, represents a style of comedy that isn't elsewhere."
It has been called "the worst comedy ever made," but after eight years, Mrs Brown's Boys remains a huge hit with viewers.
This was evidenced once again on Tuesday night after it won a fifth comedy prize at the National Television Awards.
When the sitcom, created by and starring Brendan O'Carroll as a foul-mouthed Irish matriarch, arrived on screens in 2011, it was generally met with critical disgust.
"Jaw-droppingly past its sell-by date," wrote the Metro at the time. "Old-fashioned," said the Guardian.
Things didn't improve from there, with the Observer calling it "shameless excrescence" in 2017.
Strong words. But at the same time, the show has grown to become one of the most-watched TV sitcoms in decades.
In 2016, it was named the greatest British sitcom in a Radio Times audience poll. It has won Baftas as well as a viewer-voted National Television Award.
Its Christmas special in 2018 brought in 6.8 million viewers, making it the most-watched programme of the day.
Mrs Brown's Boys has beaten Fleabag and After Life to win a fifth comedy prize at the National Television Awards.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-46619935
How has a slapstick comedy, hinging on a middle-aged man pretending to be a troublesome 'mammy', thrived in the gulf between critics and audiences?
"I think it's because there's a certain section of the audience that feels disenfranchised by modern comedy; an audience that enjoyed the broad, double entendre comedy of On The Buses and Are You Being Served?" says Dick Fiddy, archive TV programmer at the BFI.
"I think Mrs Brown's Boys, as well as shows like Miranda, represents a style of comedy that isn't elsewhere."
It has been called "the worst comedy ever made," but after eight years, Mrs Brown's Boys remains a huge hit with viewers.
This was evidenced once again on Tuesday night after it won a fifth comedy prize at the National Television Awards.
When the sitcom, created by and starring Brendan O'Carroll as a foul-mouthed Irish matriarch, arrived on screens in 2011, it was generally met with critical disgust.
"Jaw-droppingly past its sell-by date," wrote the Metro at the time. "Old-fashioned," said the Guardian.
Things didn't improve from there, with the Observer calling it "shameless excrescence" in 2017.
Strong words. But at the same time, the show has grown to become one of the most-watched TV sitcoms in decades.
In 2016, it was named the greatest British sitcom in a Radio Times audience poll. It has won Baftas as well as a viewer-voted National Television Award.
Its Christmas special in 2018 brought in 6.8 million viewers, making it the most-watched programme of the day.
