Brendan O’Carroll insists Mrs Brown won’t fall victim to ‘over-correctness’

 

Brendan O’Carroll, star and creator of hit television series Mrs Brown’s Boys, has insisted that the programme will never fall victim to ‘over-correctness’.

The series sees O’Carroll, 65, taking on the role of Agnes Brown, a foul-mouthed, accident-prone grandmother living in inner-city Dublin.

The antics of Mrs Brown and her family have entertained thousands of people in Ireland and the UK since the series launched in 2011, although the programme’s popularity may be beginning to wane, as O’Carroll’s annual Christmas special recorded unprecedentedly low viewer figures.

Speaking to the Irish Sun, O’Carroll insisted that he believes Mrs Brown’s Boys will never be taken off air due to concerns about political correctness, as he never endeavours to produce ‘racist or homophobic’ material.

O’Carroll added that his intention is never to offend, only to entertain, citing Agnes’s description of the LGBTQ community as the ‘LGBTLMNOP’ community as an example of the comic effect of her benevolent lack of understanding of the modern society in which she lives.

While O’Carroll, a native of Finglas himself, is acutely conscious of changes in audience sensibilities as far as attitudes towards bad language and the kind of jokes deemed acceptable go, he believes his programme will survive a swing towards ‘over-correctness’.