Is Frankie Boyle A Racist?

Frankie Boyle is currently suing the Daily Mirror over an article claiming he was racist.

Do you like Frankie Boyle as his humour does cut quite close to the bone at times? I saw him live once and while he was very, very funny he did comment on topics that some would say shouldn't be mocked - skin colour, disability etc.

What do you think.....a racist or just a good comedian doing his job?

Since leaving Mock The Week he has literally gone over the top. He was near the knuckle when he was on MTW but what he does and says now is just pure vile and definitely not funny.



I am not a prude and do laugh at jokes that are funny, whether it involves disability, race or whatever - a joke is a joke after all, but Boyle's gone further than that and is crude, vile, ignorant and down and out rude.

I used to think he was funny but lately he seems to be making too much of an effort to be controversial. His banter with the audience is often simple abuse and not always actually very funny. I'm not offended by his choice of material, if it's funny I will laugh.

Racist? I doubt it.

Hardly, will be more of his "pushing the envelope" style of comedy.

I don't like his stuff tbh, that show he did "tramadol nights" was so so so bad i wish i could have it erased from my memory with one of them MIB light guns.

Hipster_Nebula wrote: i wish i could have it erased from my memory with one of them MIB light guns.

I do that with all your posts.

Natasha Whittam wrote:

Hipster_Nebula wrote: i wish i could have it erased from my memory with one of them MIB light guns.

I do that with all your posts.

Who isnt, he's a bigger twat though.

The problem with humour is that it is slowly being eradicated by political correctness. I find lots of things funny but others may not share my viewpoint. Surely that is just how the world is ?

Reebok Trotter wrote:The problem with humour is that it is slowly being eradicated by political correctness. I find lots of things funny but others may not share my viewpoint. Surely that is just how the world is ?

^^^ this...

Reebok Trotter wrote:The problem with humour is that it is slowly
being eradicated by political correctness. I find lots of things funny
but others may not share my viewpoint. Surely that is just how the world
is ?

Correct.

Does telling a joke about a child make
you a child hater if the joke puts the child in a bad light? No, I
doubt it. Does a joke about pedos make the comedian a paedophile? No.
Does a joke about firemen mean that the joke teller hates or dislikes
firemen. No. So why does a joke about race make someone a racist? It
doesn't. (That doesn't mean that one is not a racist. Just that race
related jokes do not necessarily make one a racist. Of course a racist
person is able to tell a joke about race. The racist is still a racist
without the telling of the joke.

why are you writing
like this
so all your paragraphs
are all tiny.

Becuase
that's
how
he
roles.

Frankie Boyle has some excellent gags, but I've never gone out of my way to watch something with him on it.

There's no way somebody that makes jokes like he did about Jordan's child is a nice person.

There is no poem
that I see
As lovely as
a tree
Now that's
poetry!

(Sorry, it looked like fun.)

Frankie Boyle. Amazingly deadly on MTW but Tramadol Nights was abysmal!