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# you're thinking of the prostitutes you have suspended from your garage ceiling.
(I helped save b3ta! Thor_sonofodin has done things, terrible things on, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 14:38, archived)
# How many dead prostitutes can I fit in my garage?
Two more if I move the bike.

/Frankie Boyle
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Tue 21 Dec 2010, 14:39, archived)
# Tramadol Nights = all controversy and no humour
Discuss
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 14:42, archived)
# Dunno, the advert was more than enough to suggest I shouldn't watch it.
(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 14:45, archived)
# Frankie Boyle used to be funny.
However his 'humour' has now evolved to the point where watching him is such a draining experience that you can't wait for it to be over so you can go and experience something less bleak.
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# I disagree.
I was having dinner with some awful, fashionably lefty types the other day.

"I got the new Frankie Boyle video for my birthday" I said.

"Oh god" they said disdainfully, "Poor you. He's awful isn't he?"

"Oh - have you seen it?" I asked.

"No" they replied.

...

I think part of the fun of watching him is the nervousness of the audience with what he's going to say next, whether you yourself is going to find it funny, whether or not you should be allowed to find it funny, and whether or not the people next to you will find it funny, and whether or not that makes them utter, utter bastards.

It's a jolly good DVD, by the way - I thoroughly enjoyed it.
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 14:51, archived)
# I've seen his Live DVD myself.
It's all just a bit too much relentless bile for me. He fitted in well on Mock The Week as you had a mix of comedians, some more gentle than others, and you could always expect something scathing from him every few minutes. But without that balancing factor to bring you up a little before you're stamped on again - his act purely seems to be a continuous barrage of 'Oh, that's oh so tasteless and shocking. AGAIN. Which disabled celebrity/ war dead/ terminal illness is he going to make fun of next?'
(It's my b3taday!It's my b3taday!It's my b3taday!It's my b3taday!It's my b3taday!It's my b3taday!It's my b3taday!It's my b3taday!It's my b3taday!It's my b3taday!It's my b3taday!It's my b3taday!It's my b3taday!It's my b3taday! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 15:12, archived)
# The weird thing is that
by saying something shocking, he's just being a performing monkey to people who want to hear him say something shocking, which is actually a very un-challenging act.

I like the line in Stewart Lee's book "If the audience are on your side, you're facing the wrong way".
(I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 15:50, archived)
# I only watched one
and the term 'trying too hard' came to mind. Shame.
(I helped save b3ta! TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 14:47, archived)
# Same here
I've got the rest taped, but can't really be bothered to persevere
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 14:49, archived)
# It is not
the first time that people who have a natural talent seem to rush into something, anything, to cash in while they are 'hot' and get it terribly wrong. Filthy, Rich and Catflap was pretty dire in an effort to follow the Young Ones, and who can forget the car-crash that was the 'Ulrika Comedy Special'? Only one word in the title was remotely accurate.
(I helped save b3ta! TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 14:58, archived)
# Well, there was an element of "special"
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 15:00, archived)
# true;
and the fact it was so spectacularly bad I still remember it probably means something, but i know not what.
(I helped save b3ta! TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 15:02, archived)
# I got through the first 10 minutes of one last night - first time I'd watched it.
Rubbish. You're exactly right. His MTW and stand up, however - good stuff, though frighteningly close to Bernard Manning.
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 14:53, archived)
# Ah, that gem was from his Mock The Week days.
That went down a storm at the pub. However, someone topped it with a joke that generated a silence of almost two minutes before the first laugh...
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Tue 21 Dec 2010, 14:49, archived)
# Yes I agree.
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 14:52, archived)
# I really think his main fault is
that there's no self-hate in his misanthropy, which makes him look arrogant.

He's far more Clarkson than Hicks.
(I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 15:47, archived)
# He used to have a bit more humility
and a little self-loathing, but it seems to have entirely ebbed away.
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 15:55, archived)
# Oh, that was in the old house
I wonder if the new owner kept them?
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 14:39, archived)