Frankie Boyle

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  1. LDR

    LDRed Well-Known Member

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    Funny or not?
     
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    Sometimes very very funny. Sometimes an idiot. Like a lot of shock comics I guess.
     
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    He's very clever, wether that translates as funny is debatable sometimes.
     
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    I think so.
     
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    sometimes he is funny sometimes disrespectful

    but like all things if you dont like him dont watch him or read something by him
     
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    I find him very funny.
     
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    used to be before he went for more controversy and shock
     
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    Unfunny. I don't mind shock comedy, Jimmy Carr does some very offensive material, but he's incredibly clever with it. Frankie Boyle is clever, and I think he knows he's too clever to rely upon it, but for some reason it's just there, almost as if he only comes out with it because people expect him to. As if he's determined to get to the point where people no longer find him funny, just so he can do other stuff.
     
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    I think he's a lovely person


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    I used to find him funny. I don't get offended by jokes, his included, but nowadays he tries too hard to offend people to the extent that there's no actual humour about it.
     
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    There's nothing funny about being brutally offensive. He's just a pr!ck.

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    [FONT=&amp]Frankie on Brexit:

    "The most obvious beneficiary of a Remain vote will be George Osborne, a man who exudes all the warmth of Scott of the Antarctic’s last dump, who made detailed claims about what the British economy would be like in 2030, despite not being able to predict the recession a week after it happened. It was like someone telling you they can predict what the weather will be like on any given day in 14 years time, while standing in the rain without an umbrella."[/FONT]
     
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    I used to find him funny but as time has worn on his jokes have grown thinner than a gymnast on a diet. Being shocking to be funny I get being shocking just to be shocking not bothered about.
     
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    Think he's brilliant. I understand that some people are a lot more easily offended than me but I've grown up in an age where I've seen beheadings, terrorist attacks, school kids murdered & I feel immune to been offended by a few controversial jokes.
     
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    Its a very difficult job being professionally funny year after year.

    Much humour is very culture and moment specific.

    That's why so much comedy does not stand the test of time, or travel across the Atlantic.

    Much of the material of even the funniest people does not work, or only works on the night.

    So my answer - sometimes.
     

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