Originally Posted by Claires_dad:
“As I said above people have different sense of humours, I can't stand Ricky Gervais but many people find him funny.”
I agree with you Claires_dad, there always seems to be a certain smugness about him. Not to my taste, but undeniably popular.
As for Mrs Brown's Boys, I hadn't watched it until about two weeks ago when my mother of all people, a very respectable lady in her 80s who would never dream of swearing, said it was exceptionally funny. I watched it. I laughed like a drain!
Although it is crude and vulgar in the extreme, I like the ensemble cast, the way they bow to the audience at the end and involve us throughout the show. It's also (apart from the language) very old-fashioned and slightly redolent of the radio shows I grew up with in the 1950s and 60s such as Round the Horne. Which was also crude and vulgar although I didn’t understand that at the time! And there’s a warmth that is often absent in this day and age.