It’s a mam’s world: Brendan O’Carroll, right, as the eponymous Mrs Brown, alongside his wife, Jennifer Gibney, who plays the matriarch’s daughter, Cathy - Graeme Hunter/BBC Television’s most divisive ...

I was chatting, a few months ago, with a comedy legend who had, in the past, written for Brendan O’Carroll’s sitcom, Mrs Brown’s Boys. I confessed, quite blithely, that I – like everyone I’ve ever met ...