Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brendan O'Carroll in Mrs Brown's Boys - BBC The smile was wiped off the face of BBC head of comedy Jon Petrie this week when he ...

Mrs Brown’s Boys star Brendan O’Carroll has defended implying highly offensive racial slurs in his comedy. O’Carroll, the 69-year-old Irish actor who plays the title character in the long-running BBC ...

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 some of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brendan O’Carroll, pictured as title character Agnes Brown in last year’s Mrs Brown’s Boys Christmas special, apologised after ...

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 ...

It's Agnes Brown's anniversary and she's in a great mood. However, she would be in an even better mood if she could just find someone to look after Grandad for a couple of weeks while she treats ...

Mrs Brown’s Boys is somehow back for another season, but its viewership has dropped off a cliff amid growing calls to axe the show. The BBC comedy returned on Friday night after a two-year break and a ...

Tina Fey led the charge last week as America’s most famous sketch show attempts to conquer these shores. But with an ...