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Danielle Pinnock’s character, a Jamaican woman who is taken to America by a wizened older man she refers to as the “old raisin,” has a brassy boldness and bawdiness that also seduces the audience’s affections.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

It's this lineage of comedy that Mrs Brown's Boys taps into, one that survives in Christmas pantomimes, with its end-of-the-pier bawdiness, underpinned by a pervading whiff of sentimentality.

From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2018

Stewart and Snoop’s new show channels the bawdiness of her roast performance, but, perhaps not surprisingly, the dual-fish-out-of-water premise is probably too much of a gimmick to sustain a series.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 17, 2016

Photograph: Ian Dickson/Redferns But some of the lyrics on those Faces and early solo albums are wonderful – a unique combination of picaresque tales, music hall bawdiness and reminscence.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 19, 2013

It was Jumbo’s arrival from London in 1882, Dr. Wittmann said, that turned the circus into family entertainment; before that its rowdy bawdiness attracted mostly men.

From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2012




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