Mrs Brown's Boys is a family affair in every sense; the show is about family, the cast and crew are made up of family, and those who aren't family soon become as good as.
The O'Carroll family has been working together on the hit comedy for years, a feat many of us couldn't achieve without bloodshed.
Brendan O'Carroll, who plays the famous Agnes Brown, laughs at the notion.
"We have our moments," he says.
"But it's about the audience, and our audiences, on the whole, are not exactly the millionaires of the world - for many of them, it's not their night out this week it's their night out of this month.
