'Silly'? Hardly.
My point is - you can justify anything in your own mind - that does not mean that everyone else is obliged to agree with you simply because it is your point of view.
I know i am hammering the point, but it is valid - just because something amuses a group of people is not in itself a justification for offering it for consumption on national television.
People used to turn up to executions for a day out - we simply move on as a society, and what we see is acceptable changes accordingly.
Being outrageous in the guise of 'edgy comedy' is simply not justified, and an audience for it does not make it so - as i have opined already, you can find an audience for just about anything, but just because something can be done does not mean that it automatically should be done.
Let Mr Boyle try making a joke about David Cameron's loss of a child - see how many people are laughing then.
But people will laugh, so that's OK then.