简介：　　Mrs. Brown&#39s Boys became a runaway success upon its initial broadcast. Every episode aired won its timeslot for RTÉ, with an average viewership of 753,500 in January, 2011. One episode&#39s rating beat that of RTÉ&#39s own ratings giant The Late Late Show, with 856,000 viewers tuning in to watch. However, critics disliked the show. &quotThe whole thing is entirely predicated on viewers finding a man dressed as a foul-mouthed elderly woman intrinsically funny,&quot noted Bernice Harrison in the Irish Times. &quotIf you do, you’re away in a hack (and the viewing figures are astronomical), but if you don’t, and you think that died out with Les Dawson and Dick Emery, then it’s a long half-hour.&quot The Irish Independent said that Mrs Brown&#39s Boys was the type of TV programme that &quotthat makes you vaguely embarrassed to be Irish&quot. The Daily Telegraph&#39s Sam Richards noted that show&#39s comedy has a &quotrudimentary nature&quot, consisting of &quotan old-fashioned blend of silly voices and slapstick, played out in front of a live studio audience who collapse into giggles at the mere mention of the word “willy”.