Yahoo News Mrs Brown's Boys creator addresses sitcom haters: 'I'm well aware that comedy is very subjective'
It's returning for another Christmas special.
Brendan O'Carroll has brushed aside the many critics of his long-running sitcom Mrs Brown's Boys.
On air since 2011, the show boasts four full series and is about to release an 11th Christmas special, but its appeal only extends so far amongst TV watchers.
Joining BBC Sounds recently, creator and star O'Carroll, who slips into the foul-mouthed character Agnes Brown, reflected: "First of all, I'm well aware that comedy is very subjective. What some people like, other people just detest. So I don't take it too serious."
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He then went on to reveal: "When we started... by about the fourth or fifth episode, we got a couple of letters from people who had autistic children. It started as a couple of letters and it's now been over 3,000.
"They said that their kids watched Mrs Brown and they heard them laugh in context for the very first time. One woman said she was in the kitchen and heard her son laughing for the very first time.
"So when you get a letter like that I don't care what the critics say. That'll do me."
Further along the interview, O'Carroll, who took Mrs Brown all the way to the big screen in 2014's Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie, described his creation's popularity as surpassing even his wildest dreams.
"People say to me you must be living your dreams. I'm so far past my dreams, that it's not true," he said.
"I started doing a five-minute thing on radio. There's now been 240 episodes of it on the radio. It's been just unbelievable. My mother had a great saying, my mother used to say that success is like disco music, just dance to it."
As for what else is on the box this Christmas, look no further than Yahoo's channel-hopping breakdown.
Mrs Brown's Boys returns for a two-part special at 10:45pm on BBC One on Christmas Day
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