“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.
The Irish comedian stars in the BBC sitcom as matriarch Agnes Brown, a character he has been performing in drag since the 1990s.
I suppose we all have a remote control, and the ability to buy or not buy a ticket.”
However, while many comedies including Little Britain were pulled from streaming in 2020 due to their use of blackface or other offensive stereotypes, O’Carroll told The Irish Sun that he didn’t see Mrs Brown’s Boys going the same way. “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?” he said.