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Just gonna throw this out there: I'm not a big fan of Mrs Brown and her extended family. I'm also not a huge fan of the show Bottom featuring the late Rick Mayall. I'm fairly indifferent to both I would say. Having seen several episodes of each they seem to have a lot in common: slapstick, dick jokes, toilet humour, studio audience interaction. Both very broad comedies. And yet, a couple of weeks ago the tribute thread to Rick Mayall was full of EG regs saying how much they loved his work, in huge part quoting their favourite scenes from Bottom. Yet this thread is nearly universal condemnation for the bold Mrs B. Not calling out anyone as hypocrites here, but are those show really that different, am I missing something? |
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estoo 2,879 posts
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Stickman 29,986 posts
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Registered 17 years agoYes the shows are different and yes you're missing something. -
estoo 2,879 posts
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Registered 15 years agoreally? -
DFawkes 32,791 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI think I'm probably one of the few who enjoys Mrs Browns Boys, but I feel that Bottom is better in almost every way. Pygmy got it spot on, all the differences make it feel almost nothing like MBBs and far more enjoyable to watch. -
Lukus 24,640 posts
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Registered 17 years agoI think looking down at people who find Mrs Brown's Boys funny is perfectly acceptable. I do it unashamedly. So there. You comedy apologists make me sick. -
Ziz0u 11,006 posts
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Registered 12 years agoA comment from the trailer on YouTube:
IF THAT MAKE ME HAVE A"low level of intelligence." THAT'S GREAT AND TO HELL WITH ALL OF YOU WHO ANT GOT A FUNNY BONE IN THEIR BODY'S.. I LOVE MRS.S BROWN AND GOT EM ALL ON DISC AND MOVIE LOOKS SUPER COOL WILL ADD THAT 2 THAT'S MY OPINION ( AT LEAST GIVE MOVIE A CHANCE TO BE SEEN BEFORE YOU BRING IT DOWN AS MYBE NOT EVERYONE'S TASTE) A FAN FROM SCOTLAND, GO ON MRS. BROWN WE LOVE YOUR SHOW
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Waffleaber 826 posts
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Registered 18 years agoMy missus got us some free tickets to the live show a while back (I hadn't seen more than half an episode of the tv show) and it was actally pretty funny. Lots of good improv stuff, trying to get the other cast to laugh/fluff lines, taking the piss out of fluffed lines.
That was until a girl she worked with went the night after and described exactly the same "improvised" comedy bits going on. Made me feel like a bit of a mug. -
HarryB 7,630 posts
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Registered 18 years agoCan't watch it, only people over 40 seem to recommend it to me but it just overloads my cringe gland -
twelveways 7,131 posts
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Registered 15 years agoThe first time I saw this I thought I was watching a repeat of some shitty show from the 70s, a sketch from that Dusty Bin show or something. I kept expecting Frank Carson or the Grumbleweeds to appear. -
I do think there's something about the class war, sorry lads. Or at least, less educated, maybe.
The people I know who like this are, it has to be said, generally less educated people, Harry Enfield used to do a sketch (Wayne and Waynetta, I think) where they would make reference to the 'posh' people who like Newman and Baddiel ("They don't say nob, they say pee-niss").
The people I know that like MBB (low education, but not idiots) would hate Daniel Kitson, or Tony Law, or Stewart Lee, or pretty much any of the comedy I like, but that's fine - at least they're not going to those shows and braying like idiots to every sentence. -
PES_Fanboy wrote:
Seems a bit extreme. I was thinking more along the lines of free compulsory euthanasia with every ticket
Load_2.0 wrote:
But people shouldn't be allowed to watch it, it seems.
No 1 at the UK box office.
Or, watch it but walk out halfway through, vomiting with rage all over a letter to their MP demanding they ban it from the cinemas. -
@tincanrocket Good idea. They are probably the same pricks who voted Ukip anyway.
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beastmaster 22,373 posts
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Registered 17 years agoNumber 1 at UK Box Office doesn't surprise me at all. It's probably made a healthy profit too. But it's a film released during the World Cup tournament and that can really be profitable for the right kind of film. Sex In (or is it And?) The City movie became a massive hit and that was released during a football tournament (forget which).
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ChiefGB 13,815 posts
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Registered 10 years agoWaffleaber wrote:
Doesnt surprise me, my issue with it all is its too nudge and wink to the camera. Much to self aware for my liking.
My missus got us some free tickets to the live show a while back (I hadn't seen more than half an episode of the tv show) and it was actally pretty funny. Lots of good improv stuff, trying to get the other cast to laugh/fluff lines, taking the piss out of fluffed lines.
That was until a girl she worked with went the night after and described exactly the same "improvised" comedy bits going on. Made me feel like a bit of a mug. -
Fourwisemen 1,108 posts
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Registered 11 years agoestoo wrote:
I think the difference between MBB (from what I've seen, which isn't a lot) is the characters are supposed to be likeable and loveable whereas Bottom features characters that are intentionally disgusting and unlikeable.
Just gonna throw this out there:
I'm not a big fan of Mrs Brown and her extended family.
I'm also not a huge fan of the show Bottom featuring the late Rick Mayall.
I'm fairly indifferent to both I would say.
Having seen several episodes of each they seem to have a lot in common: slapstick, dick jokes, toilet humour, studio audience interaction. Both very broad comedies.
And yet, a couple of weeks ago the tribute thread to Rick Mayall was full of EG regs saying how much they loved his work, in huge part quoting their favourite scenes from Bottom. Yet this thread is nearly universal condemnation for the bold Mrs B.
Not calling out anyone as hypocrites here, but are those show really that different, am I missing something?
The interesting thing is that the opposite happens and I can only put that down to the quality of writing and performance.
I truly despise MBB and haven't managed even a smile whilst watching it, quite the opposite whereas Bottom really can have me in stitches.
As for those who talk about comedy snobbery, I really don't buy into that idea. Comedy is either funny or not to the individual, beauty in the eye of the beholder if you like. I personally love the combination of the silly and smart but I don't think I'll ever 'get' Eddie Izzard. -
nickthegun 87,711 posts
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Registered 16 years agoIf this makes good money, please look forward to 'Miranda: The Movie'.
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DUFFMAN5 26,891 posts
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Registered 17 years agonickthegun wrote:
Indeed!
If this makes good money, please look forward to 'Miranda: The Movie'.
You brought this on yourself, lowest common denominators of britain.
Chaps, find "Sunday afternoon at home" it is a radio HHH it was first broadcast in 1958 and is perfect sit-comedy. Not on topic but I will always promote Hancock (Sid James,Hattie,Ken etal) in any disscusion re Comedy.gif)
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I suspect if there was a Miranda movie, you'd be able to avoid it just like MBB / picket every cinema showing it and convince cinema goers not to watch it and watch Frasier reruns instead -
Can I repeat, one last time, the point that just because you dislike this does not make you a snob, nor does it mean you necessarily want to stop people watching it. FFS. -
QotSAfan 2,402 posts
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Registered 14 years agodirtysteve wrote:
He is right though. Us Irish are terrible for praising anybodys success. Especially the nearer to the border you get. It's the general mentality for us to look at the guy with the big house and say fuck that guy. Whereas Americans look at the same thing and say I'm going to be that guy.
O'Carrol gets right arsey about criticism. Apparently it's some kind of class warfare and snobbery in Ireland. We're all 'begrudgers', just because we call stuff like this and Louis Walsh's - shit.
I suspect it comes from 800 years of British rule and the like, where the successful were not seen as being either Catholic and then with the advent of nationalism, Irish. -
wobbly_Bob 5,162 posts
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Registered 15 years ago@QotSAfan I don't think so we British are that way too .gif)
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chopsen 21,958 posts
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Registered 16 years agotbh, if he's managed to make a nice living out this shite then good for him. It's really the audience I don't have any respect for. -
nickthegun 87,711 posts
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Registered 16 years agoIts the same as Dan Brown. He has caught lightning in a moron shaped bottle, so fair play to him. -
neilka 24,025 posts
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Registered 16 years agoIf we're conflicted about this then just wait for next week's Pudsey The Movie, written by Digitiser's Mr. Biffo :/ -
VideoGameAddict25 718 posts
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Registered 8 years agoIt saddens me that this made £4.3 million. 4.3 FUCKING MILLION! 
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Darth_Flibble 5,592 posts
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Registered 17 years agoVideoGameAddict25 wrote:
Proof there is no god
It saddens me that this made £4.3 million. 4.3 FUCKING MILLION! -
Waffleaber 826 posts
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Registered 18 years agoneilka wrote:
Holy shit, Biffo! How is that a real thing? Though according to IMDB he's done a fair amount of kids stuff since Digi.
If we're conflicted about this then just wait for next week's Pudsey The Movie, written by Digitiser's Mr. Biffo :/ -
neilka wrote:
I thought you were kidding but nope it's a real thing.
If we're conflicted about this then just wait for next week's Pudsey The Movie, written by Digitiser's Mr. Biffo :/
Goddamnit Biffo. I'm sure it pays well, but you go from sneaking pictures of spunking cocks on Teletext to 'Pudsy the Movie'? How the mighty have fallen.
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