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[truehibernian]

Frankie Boyle doesn't make "shocking" jokes for the sake of it - that's just his style of comedy and he certainly doesn't need the media attention.

I think he does mate - in fact, FB strikes me as a 'Guardian reader' behind his front door, then 'out to shock' (at times) when in front of the camera. Just my opinion on him - not saying he is not funny either, I think he is, very. But I don't think he lives his life by his humour. Not many people do. I also think he started of as a very good observational comedian with a real bite and cutting edge - however as his career grew, his jokes then became more intent on challenging our own comic boundaries - like a test of people's comedic stomachs.

After all, how often does the media now refer to Frankie as 'controversial comedian' ? He now makes a good career out of 'controversy'.

[Stranraer]

I think he does mate - in fact, FB strikes me as a 'Guardian reader' behind his front door, then 'out to shock' (at times) when in front of the camera. Just my opinion on him - not saying he is not funny either, I think he is, very. But I don't think he lives his life by his humour. Not many people do. I also think he started of as a very good observational comedian with a real bite and cutting edge - however as his career grew, his jokes then became more intent on challenging our own comic boundaries - like a test of people's comedic stomachs.

After all, how often does the media now refer to Frankie as 'controversial comedian' ? He now makes a good career out of 'controversy'.

Fair point. He went on HIGNFY and I'm sure he said something like "the audience is full of middle class people laughing at John Prescott is fat jokes". I must admit I wouldn't sit on the front row at a live show.

[Pretty Boy]

I've not got a problem with humour that's a bit edgy or close to the bone if it's funny or inventive.

Calling someone a 'chinky', 'a gay snake' or jokes about Jews and money are hardly going to have people rolling in the aisles laughing. Pish jokes best left in the past.

[21.05.2016]

I've not got a problem with humour that's a bit edgy or close to the bone if it's funny or inventive.

Calling someone a 'chinky', 'a gay snake' or jokes about Jews and money are hardly going to have people rolling in the aisles laughing. Pish jokes best left in the past.

I'm the same, don't mind humour that is perhaps a bit close to the bone but thats just plain stupidity.

As for Frankie Boyle, as another poster brought up earlier, he's obviously built up a reputation of being very out there with his jokes and thats what his fans expect and pay to see. Some of his stuff is quite funny but tbh a lot of it is just disgusting and bullying - making jokes about Katie Prices disabled son being a ****** and licking windows etc. is NOT funny and absolutely sick to make fun of a child suffering severe illness and disability.

[(((Fergus)))]

I know - I had heard about the booze problems, but poor guy.

They're doing GENOCIDE on him now? Wow!

This is the sort of casual racist comment you should be pontificating against.

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This is the sort of casual racist comment you should be pontificating against.

I beg your pardon?

How was that comment racist? Please explain in detail exactly which racial minority I was abusing?

What I was making fun of was the fact that in spite of Gaza (SP) being in the news every frickin day for the last how many years, some people still don't know how to SPELL it.

How you interpret that as racist I can't quite work out.

And I don't "pontificate" - I might be an arrogant opinionated Presbyterian but the blame for that does not lie with the Holy Pontiff, bless him.

Now tell me - is that me being SECTARIAN as well? :devil:

[phoenixfire]

I beg your pardon?

How was that comment racist? Please explain in detail exactly which racial minority I was abusing?

What I was making fun of was the fact that in spite of Gaza (SP) being in the news every frickin day for the last how many years, some people still don't know how to SPELL it.

How you interpret that as racist I can't quite work out.

And I don't "pontificate" - I might be an arrogant opinionated Presbyterian but the blame for that does not lie with the Holy Pontiff, bless him.

Now tell me - is that me being SECTARIAN as well? :devil:
Daddies
As an Irish rc I think you. Speak a helluva lot of. Sense (for a Presbyterian minister:devil:)
Keep up the good work
Regards. Terry

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Daddies
As an Irish rc I think you. Speak a helluva lot of. Sense (for a Presbyterian minister:devil:)
Keep up the good work
Regards. Terry


Cheers, Terry. :aok:

[lapsedhibee]

I don't know how many would be old enough to remember 'Round The Horne' on BBC Radio. Kenneth Williams and Hugh Paddick did a series of sketches on that show involving Julian and Sandy, a couple of very camp out-of-work actors. The jokes were about homosexuality, not usual at the time.

Both actors were homosexual. HP lived in a steady, long-term relationship; KW was unhappy, conflicted, and celibate.

The Julian and Sandy sketches were brilliant, but if one of the actors was in a happy and stable situation and the other was very definitely not, what does that say about why they were performing in them?


I would be auld enough, though I don't remember rofling at those particular sketches. What does it say about their motivation? In my ignorance I'd have thought they were likely just doing it for the lolly.

[Phil D. Rolls]

Used to love this gag when I was a cabbie.

I had a Pakistani, a Jamaican and a Jew in the back of my cab, and I thought.

What a great example of racial harmony.


You could hear the colour drain from their cheeks as I paused before the pinch line. I liked it because they thought I was behaving stereotypically, when it was them that prejudged me.