The comedian and actor admits he got it wrong and has apologised unreservedly for causing offence to a show runner at a read through of a Mrs Brown's Boys script
Brendan O'Carroll admits he was disgusted with himself after making a racist joke through a recent run-through of a script on the set of Mrs Brown's Boys.
Read more: Gary Hollywood responds to recent Mrs Brown’s Boys controversy and if he’ll return to show "I wanted to poke fun at intergenerational racism, and how Mrs Brown doesn't get racism. She doesn't know what racism is. was kinda like, 'Eenie meenie minie mo catch a -,' and then Kathy interrupts and says, 'Mammy you can't say that'. We went on with the rest of the read through.
"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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