Frankie Boyle

Brave and boundary pushing people do not block right to reply

Pitiful

I don't think Frankie and I would hit it off somehow

The thing is, RG isn't even making jokes about trans people, he's just showing trans on screen. There's a scene in After Life where they go and interview a fat bearded middle aged man who's insisting he's a 13 year old girl... there's an eye roll between the characters iirc but the 'joke' is that this is actually happening, irl.

I always think RG must be OK because he's with Jane Fallon and I luffs her.

This is not it, this is just straightforward vicious abuse aimed at hurting a woman by saying the worst thing he possibly could.

Yep.

I was horrified and livid at the time he made those jokes about Harvey Price, and about the 2012 female athletes. I am feeling those emotions all over again now, but this time he has the fucking nerve to slag off another comedian for not being 'kind' enough?

Fuck off Frankie.

knows which side his bread is buttered innit?

like the lamentable sarah pascoe. gotta embrace the religion to get the BBC deals these days

But if you look at the end result, his 'advocacy' amounts to attacking women. So maybe - entirely in character?

Yes, and he's not the only established misogynist for whom trans right is a brilliant fit.

Well, let's be fair, he's obviously had a hard life and probably struggles with various issues.

As a rich white male, it must be hard to maintain the edginess required to back up his personal brand.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/celebrity/frankie-boyles-firm-raked-16m-23155172

It is indeed "entirely out of character" for Boyle to be anyone's advocate. But if you look at the end result, his 'advocacy' amounts to attacking women. So maybe - entirely in character? I wonder if people were starting to see through him so he felt he had to mask his bile a bit?

And yes, he clearly prefers to 'punch down' onto the weaker whilst tugging his forelock to those who he fears can damage his career.

Didn't he withdraw from the circuit for a bit, ostensibly to write a book? I wonder if a timeline could be put together, showing whether his hiatus had any correspondence with the few trans jokes he'd made?

I like dark humour, edgy humour, black humour, satire. Even the kind that makes you have a sharp intake of breath, sometimes. This is not it, this is just straightforward vicious abuse aimed at hurting a woman by saying the worst thing he possibly could.

Fully agree with this.

AnyfuckerI love your n nonsense straight talking, never change

I don't think Frankie and I would hit it off somehow

'humour targeted at a child's expense, especially when the child is "as young as eight years old, and has a number of disabilities which are specifically focused on as the target of that intended humour".

The jokes appeared to "directly target and mock the mental and physical disabilities of a known eight-year-old child who had not himself chosen to be in the public eye", it said.

It added: "Frankie Boyle's comments appeared to derive humour by demeaning the physical and mental disabilities of a known eight-year-old child."'

I mean, I would quibble that it was in any way, shape or form humorous or funny to suggest that someone's child would try and rape them because of their disabilities.

I like dark humour, edgy humour, black humour, satire. Even the kind that makes you have a sharp intake of breath, sometimes. This is not it, this is just straightforward vicious abuse aimed at hurting a woman by saying the worst thing he possibly could.

Such a hypocrite, dishes it out but can't take it, pretends to want discussion but won't entertain any opposing view. He probably got all the mileage he can out of making sick jokes about the disabled (eg Harvey Price) so perhaps he's decided to jump on the trans bandwagon?

Either that or he's got some skin in the game but isn't honest enough to say so. Just another beardy bloke waving his male priviledge around.

Oh sorry I meant 'who he' as in he is a nobody, inconsequential. He is not funny, or even good looking so I don't know why he gets any airtime at all.

But thank you for the answers, they did make me smile 😃

He was using a disabled child to target his mother with venomous abuse, not to abuse the child or disability per se

I think he managed to do all of the above. Which is nice.

His childhood sounds bleak.

Sick of losers making careers out of their mummy issues.

@Anyfucker I love your n nonsense straight talking, never change

He’s a disgusting little man

No excuse

Has anyone listened to his interview with Louis Theroux? I thought it was pretty interesting. His childhood sounds bleak.

He's a washed-up nob jockey

No doubt it amuses him greatly to have woke female comedians like Sarah Pascoe and Katie Ruffle fawning over him because of his stance on transwomen.

Also, uses block lists on Twitter to avoid people (women) who have absolutely no interest in him in the first place

I remember one trans joke Boyle made on 'Mock the week' years ago, the punchline was still at the expense of actual women though.

It went something like:

'Did you hear about the bloke who went to court to advocate for his own sex change? He won and had all the surgeries to look female. Now he regrets it and wants all of them reversed!

Typical woman, can't make up her mind one way or the other!'

I'm paraphrasing but it was some shite like that.