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.

[cazzz1975]

do you make fun of mentally disabled people flobadob? you know for their own good so that they dont receive special treatment?

[jackthehat]

Upon what are you basing that ?
The fact that we can say, in some areas FB is well beyond the pale ?

MTW was heavily edited.

<<Knock knock. "Hello madam, I'm afraid your husband has been murdered. Could I borrow a shovel?" >>

Funny ? Yes...........but there are no slurs on 'anyone' in that joke, it's non-specific enough to be funny.

Try it this way
<<The scene is things you wouldn't want to hear upon opening the door in the middle of the night. Knock knock. "Hello Mr and Mrs Yeates, I'm afraid your daughter has been strangled. Could I borrow a shovel?" >>

Ooooo, my ribs.................:o(

[andy-hughes]

Come on jack, you are not going with the Frankie flow here -

more like -

Hello Mr and Mrs Yeates, your daughter has been strangled but she was obviously a brainless tart who was asking for it, and I don't need a shovel becuase I dumped her body in a field because I'm a big conservationist and i wanterdf all the woodland animals tohave a bite first, and while we're at it, why don;t you take proper care of your children you useless brain-dead tw*ts!!!!!

Now that has me readhing for my FB-monogrammed hankie to wipe away my tears of mirth and joy!

Can we make the next victim a paraplegic please? let's not leave out the disabled shall we?

[jomifl]

I can't help thinking that laughing at people less fortunate than or different to yourself is not a basis for a fair equitable and sympathetic society.

[flobadob]

I'm still very much in disagreement here about how much of his humour is based on disabled people etc. A lot of the time he is poking fun at himself ie that he looks like The Proclaimers or the Bear from Bo Selecta. Most of his jokes are general rather than personal. Another one was famous last words, so looking up. "The funny thing is that the closer it gets, the more it looks like a piano." Anyway as I said we were always going to agree to disagree I suppose but I'm standing by my theory that most jumped on the bandwagon over a few select jokes.

It all seems quite elementary now as the series is over and it's all died down somewhat.

[Mick-Talbot]

Frankie Boyle is funny, why pretend he is not?
but he does overstep the mark sometimes.

And he does write his own material and also writes (or used to write) material for other comedians.

[flobadob]

It would appear we are in the minority here Mick.

[ummmm]

We are going round in circles Andy....but I do understand why people are offended. I'm just not one of them. I think that's where the 'if you don't like it' argument comes in. Reading your answers I think that maybe I could agree with you on the fact that maybe showing it channel4 might not have been the best move.

Maybe I put too many maybes :-)

Sitting in the privacy of your own home with like minded people, watching a FB DVD and peeing your pants is OK though :-)

[Mick-Talbot]

Well my father was a useless excuse of a man, I have, or rather had( he is dead now) no respect for him what so ever....BUT he could be hilarious.

No point me saying anything else, the truth was he was hilarious. That though never made up for his other inadequacies.

[ummmm]

Anyone read Frankie Boyles book 'My sh!t life so far'?

It shows a different side to him...

[Mick-Talbot]

I've not read it ummmm, does it mention any bullying at school?

[ummmm]

He grew up in Scotland...he has ginger hair...what do you think??

Haha..not really...I can't remember it mentioning bullying. He use to be a teacher and a care worker...

[tiggerblue10]

A teacher and a care worker. Wow, I might find his book interesting actually. Its funny how I like reading autobiographies of people who are deemed contraversal as it does show a side to them we don't see.