Creator of Mrs Brown’s Boys Brendan O’Carroll says the programme will never be axed “because of political correctness”.
The 65-year-old comic actor said he doesn’t see the show, being pulled off streaming services over offensive stereotypes like other programmes such as Little Britain.
The actor, who has been performing in drag as Agnes Brown since the nineties, told The Irish Sun: “I would never go out of my way to be racist or homophobic so I’m not that worried myself because I only write what I think is funny, and you hope that enough of an audience agrees with you.
Brendan O’Carroll talks political correctness
“Agnes refers to the alternative community as LGBTLMNOP because she doesn’t understand it. She knows what gay is but she doesn’t know what gay is so from that perspective she is able to get away with a lot.”
He continued: “I don’t think Mrs Brown will be affected, and I often question myself: is Mrs Brown, me, a man, dressing up as a woman to play Mrs Brown, the same as blackface?”
Mrs Brown’s Boys will be on air until at least 2026
“And [I] decided no it’s not, because I’ve never played Mrs Brown as a man playing a woman like they do in films like Mrs Doubtfire. Agnes is a woman like Dame Edna… Overall, it’s very hard to draw the line in comedy. I suppose we all have a remote control, and the ability to buy or not buy a ticket.”
Mrs Brown’s Boys returned for a Christmas Day special on the BBC, just days after O’Carroll signed a new six-year deal with the broadcaster.
However, the show suffered its lowest viewing figures in nearly a decade, with just 3.8million viewers tuning in to see what Agnes and the gang had been getting up to.
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
