Brendan O'Carroll has spoken out on the 'joke' that left him 'disgusted' with himself and saw him at the centre of controversy earlier this year, after a member of staff flagged the issue
Brendan O'Carroll has openly expressed his remorse for a racist joke he made during a script run-through on the set of Mrs Brown’s Boys.
READ MORE: Mrs Brown's Boys' Brendan Carroll's racist 'joke' that brought filming to standstill exposedSetting out to highlight "intergenerational racism", O'Carroll discussed Mrs Brown's naivety regarding racism: "I wanted to poke fun at intergenerational racism, and how Mrs Brown doesn't get racism. She doesn't know what racism is.
He explained his approach to humour and acknowledged a recent misstep, adding: "If Mrs Brown is going to say blowjob, Kathy would stop her. I know the audience would finish in their head. That's what happened here, I expected them to finish it their head but I expected it to be they realised, 'Oh, she doesn't get it'.
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