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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/mrs-browns-boys-paid-in-tshirts.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="The cast of Mrs Brown's Boys were originally paid in t-shirts" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-mrs-browns-boys-paid-in-tshirts.jpg" alt="The cast of Mrs Brown's Boys were originally paid in t-shirts"/></a></p>
<p>Brendan O&#8217;Carroll has revealed that he was paid in t-shirts for the first incarnation of Mrs Brown&#8217;s Boys.</p>
<p>The Irish comedian, who writes and stars in the BBC One comedy, said it started out as a radio show on Irish station RTE1 after he (a struggling stand-up comedian at the time) heard there was a spot going free on the schedule.</p>
<p>&#8220;I said I had a show, I don&#8217;t know why, but the producer asked me what it was called and I said &#8216;Mrs Brown&#8217;s Boys&#8217; off the top of my head,&#8221; said the 55-year-old comedian, who hails from Finglas in Ireland, the same Dublin suburb as U2&#8217;s The Edge.</p>
<p>&#8220;And I said, &#8216;It&#8217;s about this widow who has six kids and they&#8217;re all grown adults but she treats them as if they&#8217;re five. She&#8217;s a typical Irish mammy, she won&#8217;t let go, they&#8217;ll be tied to the apron strings for the rest of their life.</p>
<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s one who wants to be a priest, one who&#8217;s in and out of prison and &#8211; I swear to God &#8211; I was winging it as I went along,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>The show was commissioned but, as the channel didn&#8217;t have a budget for comedy, O&#8217;Carroll was paid in T-shirts.</p>
<p>&#8220;They said, &#8216;Say if we gave you 500 T-shirts a week, we&#8217;ll print Mrs Brown&#8217;s Boys on them, then you can sell them for £5 a go, that&#8217;ll give you £2,500&#8217;. So we took the deal and got paid in T-shirts,&#8221; he added.</p>
<p>:: Mrs Brown&#8217;s Boys is on BBC One on Mondays.</p>
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