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arista 15-10-2024 08:08 AM

BBC Racist "joke" Mrs Browns Boys
 
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[The Irish actor Brendan O’Carroll
has apologised over a “clumsy” joke
where a “racial term was implied”
during rehearsals for the upcoming
Christmas special of Mrs Brown’s Boys.

The BBC temporarily paused rehearsals
to investigate the incident,
but they have since resumed
at the broadcaster’s Pacific Quay studios
in Glasgow – with shows going
ahead as planned,
the PA news agency understands.

Mrs Brown’s Boys creator and
star O’Carroll, 69, will return to his
role as mischievous matriarch
Agnes Brown in the Christmas Day
and New Year’s Day specials.

O’Carroll said in a statement given
to PA: “At a read-through of the
Mrs Brown’s Boys Christmas specials,
there was a clumsy attempt at a joke
in the character of Agnes,
where a racial term was implied.]


https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-r...rm-was-implied

Crimson Dynamo 15-10-2024 08:16 AM

so it was a read through of a script

and we don't get to see what the horrific "joke " was?


pathetic

oh its the Guardian

No wonder its on its arse begging readers for money

and the Mirror just trolling its leftist readers rather than provide actual news content

arista 15-10-2024 10:25 AM

Yes they have angles

Glenn. 15-10-2024 11:51 AM

How is this trash still even on

arista 15-10-2024 12:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Glenn. (Post 11530723)
How is this trash still even on


Long old contract with BBC

Oliver_W 15-10-2024 01:00 PM

Something that didn't make it beyond a table-read doesn't need to be news.

arista 15-10-2024 01:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Oliver_W (Post 11530803)
Something that didn't make it beyond a table-read doesn't need to be news.



Many want his show,
to end.

Thats the real problem

Ammi 15-10-2024 02:33 PM

…it’s not my thing at all in terms of comedy but that’s by the by…Brendan O’Carroll made a racist joke to his colleagues and all filming is halted because of that, with all of the finance investment and planning and scheduling that’s involved etc…?…it feels as though there’s more to this story than is being reported…well wait and see..

Ammi 15-10-2024 02:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Oliver_W (Post 11530803)
Something that didn't make it beyond a table-read doesn't need to be news.

….hmmmm, that’s why it has a feeling of not being a complete story…

arista 17-10-2024 02:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ammi (Post 11530914)
….hmmmm, that’s why it has a feeling of not being a complete story…

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standar...f16e4.jpg.webp

Mystic Mock 17-10-2024 05:31 AM

It depends on the intent for me.

Was meant in a malicious way, or is it like in White Chicks where the white girls start singing the N-word because it's apart of the lyrics to a song that they were singing?

I don't know what Mrs. Browns Boys humour is meant to be like.

Crimson Dynamo 17-10-2024 11:28 AM

It was along the lines of

(and this is in the character of Mrs Brown) "I know people call a spade a spade but I call a spade a ni...... "and then a cast member interrupted and I guess they all gasped or laughed

Ray. 17-10-2024 11:31 AM

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Gusto Brunt 17-10-2024 11:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Glenn. (Post 11530723)
How is this trash still even on

Yes that is the biggest scandal. That 'show' is about as funny as rabies!

Mystic Mock 20-10-2024 05:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Crimson Dynamo (Post 11533418)
It was along the lines of

(and this is in the character of Mrs Brown) "I know people call a spade a spade but I call a spade a ni...... "and then a cast member interrupted and I guess they all gasped or laughed

It sounds kind of similar to a Mr. Garrison joke on South Park.:laugh:

Cherie 20-10-2024 06:55 AM

I hate that programme with a passion, I am sure the BBC are trolling Irish people putting on Christmas Day specials

Jessica. 20-10-2024 07:06 AM

Good, hope the show gets cancelled, the stereotyping and dumbing down of Irish people is so bad.

arista 20-10-2024 09:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jessica. (Post 11537344)
Good, hope the show gets cancelled, the stereotyping and dumbing down of Irish people is so bad.


Yes.
it is out of Date
Wise Jess

Benjamin 20-10-2024 09:15 AM

Who even watches this trash? One of the worst programmes to ever be made, and the fact it’s still going.

Alf 20-10-2024 09:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Benjamin (Post 11537499)
Who even watches this trash? One of the worst programmes to ever be made, and the fact it’s still going.

There's people exactly like you who say the same thing about Big Brother.

So why do you still watch that Big Brother trash, even after the amounts of racism in it?

Benjamin 20-10-2024 09:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alf (Post 11537500)
There's people exactly like you who say the same thing about Big Brother.

So why do you still watch that Big Brother trash, even after the amounts of racism in it?

Mrs Browns Boys is the most unfunny thing to have graced television. Big Brother isn’t the best thing on TV but it has its moments.

Cherie 20-10-2024 09:27 AM

4 million tuned in last year, I guess its hard to account for taste

Alf 20-10-2024 09:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cherie (Post 11537506)
4 million tuned in last year, I guess its hard to account for taste

That's over 3 million more than tune in to Big Brother. I think that makes Big Brother much bigger trash than Mrs Brown's boys in the publics eye.

Jessica. 20-10-2024 09:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alf (Post 11537511)
That's over 3 million more than tune in to Big Brother. I think that makes Big Brother much bigger trash than Mrs Brown's boys in the publics eye.

We've got a fan of Mrs Brown in our midst! :hehe:

Cherie 20-10-2024 09:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alf (Post 11537511)
That's over 3 million more than tune in to Big Brother. I think that makes Big Brother much bigger trash than Mrs Brown's boys in the publics eye.


You cant compare viewing for a one off special on a day alot of people are off work to a 6 week nightly viewing commitment in my view


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