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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.

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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.

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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?'

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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".

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monkeon schmonkeon, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 15:50, archived)