The BBC director of comedy has refused to answer a seemingly simple question: Does he find Mrs Brown's Boys funny? Top TV executive Jon Petrie awkwardly brushing off a pondering fan comes as millions of TV license payers demand Mrs Brown's Boys gets the axe to make way for new comedians and sitcoms. The BBC sitcom, penned and led by Brendan O'Carroll, has kept some of the nation laughing for over a decade, with fans eagerly awaiting their annual Christmas specials. The Irish actor, who portrays the sharp-tongued matriarch, Agnes Brown, enlisted his own kin and close pals to star in the show.
Mrs Brown's Boys, which debuted in 2011, has always enjoyed high ratings over the years but the slapstick sitcom also been subjected to scathing reviews from unimpressed comedy fans. "I’m just gonna leave this here..
..Mrs Browns Boys.
..we are forced to pay for this horrific content, it should be a choice," one TV fan once wrote on Twitter (X) when discussing the state-funded channel.
"Please please axe Mrs Browns Boys," another tweeted the BBC directly, with a third asking in 2021: "The @BBC said its decision to axe #TheMashReport was you sometimes have to make way for new comedy...
so how do they explain Mrs Browns Boys still going then? Or flogging Last of the Summer Wine to death, or Still Open All Hours?" At a Q&A session earlier this week, BBC's director of comedy Petrie was put on the spot by a TV fan who seemingly doesn't wish to watch Mrs Brown's Boys. "'Can I ask as comedy chief.
