WITH its old-school gags and stereotyping, Mrs Brown’s Boys is often viewed as the nemesis of woke culture. But creator Brendan O'Carroll, who also plays the show’s matriarch Agnes Brown, insists they’ve blazed a trail for political correctness.
And as the BBC1 sitcom marks its tenth year on our screens with a Halloween special tonight, he says that’s never changed. He said: “At the time I wrote the character of Agnes’s gay son, it was a radio series, and it was illegal in Ireland to be gay.
So I actually wanted to buck the system. “And I don’t know where and how you use the pronouns ‘them’ and ‘they’ - but Agnes Brown is gender fluid after all.
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