Frankie Boyle

[OneLittleFish]

I'm sure that you'll have read about all the complaints about material on his Tramadol Nights show - jokes about Harvey, AIDS, racist terms - has Frankie Boyle lost it?

I'm beginning to think that he's turning into the new Roy 'Chubby' Brown - the sort of comedian that needs to warn people "if easily offended stay away". I seen him back in 2008 and really enjoyed him, but watching Tramadol nights all the original scraps of wit have gone, he's playing a part now and it's fairly disappointing throughout and only exists for the shock value. I think that the breakthrough of Kevin Bridges as another quality, popular Glasgow comedian's no helped him.

Am I alone, or do other people still enjoy him?

[ampersand]

i think the stand up bits i've seen are still funny.

but he needs to concentrate on being funny, rather than being shocking. you can be both at the same time, but he's in danger of becoming exlusively shocking.

[Budweiser]

He's hilarious.

[luckysalt]

I caught one of his eps of the new show a few weeks back, and I thought it was f**king awful. His stand up DVD was good, but this new show is just cack.

[Purple Monkey]

I only liked him when he was part of an emsemble i.e. on Mock The Week or You've Been Watching. Even then he was 'alright'. His humour needs contrast.

He's good in small bursts, but becomes too much very quickly. His comedy is also quite vapid, in that there's very little else beyond the outrage powerring the joke. I don't like the way he picks on people in the audience, and his act is often brimming with the same kind of arrogance on par with your average armchair manager barfly in the most unwelcoming and racist pubs up and down the country.

[llcoolphil]

Tramadol Nights is so unfunny it's offensive seeing it called comedy.

[joe1990 fresh account]

I'm sure that you'll have read about all the complaints about material on his Tramadol Nights show - jokes about Harvey, AIDS, racist terms - has Frankie Boyle lost it?

I'm beginning to think that he's turning into the new Roy 'Chubby' Brown - the sort of comedian that needs to warn people "if easily offended stay away". I seen him back in 2008 and really enjoyed him, but watching Tramadol nights all the original scraps of wit have gone, he's playing a part now and it's fairly disappointing throughout and only exists for the shock value. I think that the breakthrough of Kevin Bridges as another quality, popular Glasgow comedian's no helped him.

Am I alone, or do other people still enjoy him?

[rachbon]

he's not funny at all. i used to really like him but can't stand him now.

it seems like he doesn't even attempt to be funny with his stand up, he just tries to be shocking. you can be shocking and funny but he is neither.

the sketches on tramadol nights are just embarrassing. the only explaination is that he must be having a mental breakdown, i don't know how he could possibly think they are any good and not be ashamed to have them shown on tv.

[diddly-dee]

I don't think we should confuse not being funny anymore because his jokes aren't working and not finding him funny because you might be sensitive to some of his material. I still think aids, disability etc. are a rich vein for comedy (and his racist material (use of the n-word) was a parady of racism and exposing hypocrisy rather than inherently racist itself) that is all-too-little tapped in the world of entertainment. I just don't think that Frankie hits the target with his gags on these subjects as much as he used to.

[rachbon]

I don't think we should confuse not being funny anymore because his jokes aren't working and not finding him funny because you might be sensitive to some of his material. I still think aids, disability etc. are a rich vein for comedy (and his racist material (use of the n-word) was a parady of racism and exposing hypocrisy rather than inherently racist itself) that is all-too-little tapped in the world of entertainment. I just don't think that Frankie hits the target with his gags on these subjects as much as he used to.

[Kowalski]

Seen him live three times but I won't be going to see him again. He seems to have lost all his wit and is instead intent on trying to shock instead.

[worm]

I hadn't heard of him until this week and I haven't stopped hearing about him since. I believe he's on mainstream TV so will carry on assuming that his comedy is as funny as he is significant i.e. not at all.

So why has he become an institution in so far as everyone is expecting certain things from this brand name?

[jamiejc]

Remember the days of morecambe and wise when jokes could be heard by all the family...Ken Dodd would make your ribs ache and never offend anyone.

Boyle, pah he's got nothing on this...

Edited December 24, 2010 by jamiejc

[ampersand]

Remember the days of morecambe and wise when jokes could be heard by all the family

[the real new messiah]

Remember the days of morecambe and wise when jokes could be heard by all the family...Ken Dodd would make your ribs ache and never offend anyone.

Boyle, pah he's got nothing on this...

[gratedenini]

Nowt really shocks me and I`ve only ciaght a bit of this Tram stuff. I agree that he was very witty and sharp in that Mock thing (esp compared to that drab vicars son,whats his name--the tall unfunny one??).

But--i tell you what i was a bit uncomfortable with... I was watching witout the sound...and I think it was that Morgana Show.

Hells flame.. a woman was having sex with an animal out of Sesame Street I think..which initailly was ok..but it ended with her blowing him off and hot white sticky love piss flew all over her face!

Nah... not at 11pm on C4. Nah...too much even for me that.

There might be a place for that sort of thing, but not on TV.

And thats the trouble now.. a lot of "comedians" have to go to whatever extremes to consider themselves funny.

Maybe they are to the younger generation, I dont know, and whilst I`m not in the pocket of Morecambe and Wise.. you got to say that the humour back then was generally more roundedly funny.

den

[worm]

There might be a place for that sort of thing, but not on TV.

den

[ampersand]

Morcambe and Wise VS Michael Mcintyre = Fillet steak VS Belly Pork

[dakyras]

Remember the days of morecambe and wise when jokes could be heard by all the family...Ken Dodd would make your ribs ache and never offend anyone.

Boyle, pah he's got nothing on this...

[irons]

The boy at the work had tickets for him a few weeks ago in Glasgow. It was the time of the heavy snow, he comes from Fife and couldn't get past Livingston.

FB decided not to cancel and played anyway. My mate couldn't get his money back or anything, he's lost another fan there.

dakyras, I agree completely. Where are all the good acts and sitcoms now? The only one I can think of is Alan Partridge, his new show's on the web by the way. Radio shows from his emerging digital channel, they're hilarious. The one where he gets slowly drunk on wine is hilarious. They're on YouTube.

Edited December 25, 2010 by irons

[irons]

Double post, sorry.

Edited December 25, 2010 by irons

[ampersand]

good sitcoms. peep show and the big bang theory. all you need!

[irons]

good sitcoms. peep show and the big bang theory. all you need!

Edited December 25, 2010 by irons

[ampersand]

Not bad. But I doubt they'll be talked about in 30 years like Hancocks Half Hour, Fawlty Towers or Dads Army. IMO the last great sitcom was Blackadder. Alan Partridge comes close.

[LondonTom]

they're still here. michael mcintyre?