You may remember the story a few months ago that Brendan O’Carroll, the actor who created and plays the eponymous matriarch Agnes in Mrs Brown’s Boys, had to apologise for making a “clumsy” joke where ...

I was chatting, a few months ago, with a comedy legend who had, in the past, written for Brendan O’Carroll’s sitcom, Mrs Brown’s Boys. I confessed, quite blithely, that I – like everyone I’ve ever met ...

It’s a mam’s world: Brendan O’Carroll, right, as the eponymous Mrs Brown, alongside his wife, Jennifer Gibney, who plays the matriarch’s daughter, Cathy - Graeme Hunter/BBC Television’s most divisive ...

Is Mrs Brown’s Boys really that bad? Until last week, I had never seen more than a minute of Brendan O’Carroll’s infamous BBC sitcom – but knew it, of course, by reputation. The series, which sees ...

Joe Duffy has leapt to the defence of ‘genius’ Brendan O’Carroll over the Mrs Brown Boys creator’s ‘clumsy joke’ controversy which has landed him in hot water. It emerged on Monday morning that ...