Frankie Boyle is hilarious. Prove me wrong.

[flobadob]

There has been a lot of guff spewed in recent days on the subject of Frankie Boyle and how he is unfunny and racist. I'm not saying that Tramadol Nights was funny, it wasn't great. However, on Mock The Week and in his stand up routines he is hilarious. Also I don't see how using the packing and niggling words a couple of times makes you a racist.

Can anyone show me how he is not funny using an example or two, perhaps a clip from youtube. I think you will find it difficult to find something that is not funny. Yes, I know that humour is subjective but I would still like to see what other people find that proves that Frankie is not funny.

[AB Editor]

I would suggest he is not funny because he reinforces stereotypes and prejudices - he doesn't challenge his audience, well, no more than the kid in the playground who finds a new swearword.

[murraymints]

with you there ab ed ! as a Scot too I find him an embarrassment to his ainfolk !

[brionon]

Prove you wrong ? Are you serious ? How would you Prove that something is Not funny ? By not laughing ,maybe .

[Robinia]

I agree with those who say it's not possible to prove whether someone's funny or not. I think he's totally unfunny...and moreover, totally unlikeable. He has the look about him of the arrogant school kid who uses insults because he thinks it makes him look clever.
I think this is the first time I've bothered to comment on him and it will be the last. The sooner everyone stops talking about him, the sooner he'll hopefully disappear.

[NazNomad]

"Frankie Boyle is hilarious. Prove me wrong."

Why? Do you not want him to appear hilarious to you?

[ummmm]

Like someone has already mentioned. He's number 7 in the DVD charts...so he's not going to disappear anytime soon.

[Ankou]

no ummmm, but it seems his supporters and fans might be chased out of town with pitchforks and flaming torches.

[ummmm]

I'll fight them off..!!!

[Goodsoulette]

he clearly is funny and quite clever but for some reason he just cant pick the subject matter. His obsession with jokes about abusing young children is beyond me and he is ALWAYS making fun of someone. I dont think he is racist, he just tries to shock. Not for me, I prefer it a bit nicer, Tim Vine and Russell Howard are more me friendly.

[Stargazer]

I switched on a week or so back just to see what the fuss was about and I agree that he was totally offensive, especially about the handicapped and blind child of Katie Price. He is the type that will no doubt now joke about cot deaths.

[Stargazer]

If his dvd is number seven in the charts it just goes to prove how degenerate and sick this society has become. Obviously, the people who have bought this dvd tend to be of a specific age group, intellectual level, have a distorted view as to what is genuinely funny and largely made up of dissidents and uneducated yobs. Who else has the money to waste on this bilge? After all. it isn't a dvd that you would watch more than once surely? Hence, those who do purchase it must be even more degenerate if they want to eatch it again and again.

Tasteless crap does not begin to describe it. I imagine crap would be delicious by comparison.

[ummmm]

I have money to waste on it...and I've watched it 3 times.

Stargazer - You are being very hypocritical. You don't like FB because you find him offensive but it's ok for you to say offensive things to people who do like him..!!

Makes sense that...

[andy-hughes]

All credit to you ummm - you are standing by your principles - and admirable approach.

PS - I forgot to offer my respect because you did agree that you laughed at the first half of FB's most controversial observation.

[ummmm]

The second bit just wasn't funny. But I don't expect to find everything in a comedy show funny.

I also got Jimmy Carr and watched that the same night. I equally laughed at that.

Lee Evans barely raises a chuckle in me....

[China Doll]

I'm clearly a dissident and an uneducated yob then. It's a remarkably well hidden in me though I must say.

Just as people who don't like FB won't convince me he's not funny, then I can't convince anyone else that he is. He was marvellous in Mock the Week, I loved him on Buzzcocks the other night but I don't enjoy Tramadol Nights particularly. I enjoyed his stand up DVD that I brought.

And like Ummmmm, Lee Evans won't even make my lips move... unless I'm tutting possibly.

[joko]

just because he has made a few dodgy jokes that have offended many, does not now mean his entire back catalogue of work is unfunny and rubbish....

[Davethedog]

I always found him funny until Tramadol nights. I watched two I wasn't shocked I wasn't disgusted I was totaly unamused. Case in point, Flobadob what was funny about the peice Katie Prices son, you can be outraged but it just wasn't funny.

Bernard Manning once said if you tell a joke and you don't offend someone your doing it wrong, but he was funny.

I think Frankie Boyle wants to see how far he can push it before he gets banned.

His latest DVD is call something like "If I could reach through your TV screen and strangle you, I would" I for one think he means it.

[jackthehat]

Yes, Frankie Boyle is hilarious.................it's a shame that much of what he says isn't, however.

[steg]

i watched fawlty towers last night and Basil called Manuel a ***, should fawlty towers be banned because it is racist and unfunny ?

[steg]

lol the starred out word was da go