Mrs Brown's Boys' Brendan Carroll's racist 'joke' exposed - that brought filming to standstill

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The racist 'joke' told by Mrs Brown's Boys star and creator Brendan O'Carroll has been revealed following a BBC probe. It's been reported that the Irish comic 'implied' the N-word during rehearsals for the BBC comedy's upcoming Christmas special. O'Carroll, in character during a script read-through, is said to have quipped: "I don’t call a spade a spade, I call a spade a..." The Daily Mail claims the actor then started to utter the N-word before he was stopped by a co-star also in character. In