Frankie Boyle on Down Syndrome - horrific

[Lymond]

interesting blog post from a mother of a DS daughter who was blasted by a 5-10 minute diatribe containing all the old stereotypes about people with DS at a Frakie Boyle show. I'm turning off any TV show he's on in future.

blog here

Grauniad article on it here

You need to find something else to do instead of following me around....but you wont...

Don't flatter yourself there are plenty of posters who feel the same Nasty

I laugh at daft punk quite a lot actually. Hope that's allowed.

One person mentioned that it's not OK any more to joke about women or black people.

Oh yes it is! They just don't show that stuff on the BBC.

You can joke about anything you want to in live comedy.

If they banned making jokes about the differences between men and women the Edinburgh Fringe would go bust.

True, but they don't follow me around like you do...they just lay into me in if we happen to meet up on a thread.....you're something else....

I certainly don't follow you you silly thing if I see you on a thread I want to take part in my heart sinks tbh as you have a set routine on threads which is highly irritating.Ciao

I doubt he'll be banned but this will probably damage his career.It was ill advised and cringey by his own admission.

The proportion of bigots in his audience will probably increase.

It won't damage his live career one bit, although he may well have to kiss goodbye to any future BBC work.

Channel 4 are showing him live this weekend.

Riven...where are you..?

Sorry, I meant recorded live. Not actually live. Not even Channel 4 would do that!

Sometimes someone just crosses a line and people go off their particular 'style' iykwim a bit like what has happened with Jonathan Ross and then like sheep others follow.Thats what i think will happen to FB and we as a family have always found him quite amusing but this has put us off even ds who is 15 and can be pretty non pc in his humour at times.

Did your family used to go and see him live, noddy?

No just on TV Dp and ds have seen him though

Christ I am shocked that some people are sticking up for Frankie Boyle - all under the banner of freedom of speech (my arse).
I have a profoundly disabled dd. It sickens me to think that taking the piss out of her disability is acceptable.

daftpunk - laughing at jokes about deaf and blind people?!! Sheesh. I can't believe you're owning up to that.

I saw a blind comedian a few months ago, he was great. Most of his set wasn't about his blindness, but a few gags were and they were brilliant.

I shook his hand afterwards and bought him a drink!

I'm sure he found it v refreshing to have us all pissing ourselves at the bizarre realities of life as a young blind man (ie strangers telling him his girlfriend is attractive etc) as it must seem funny to him too.

Or do we have to go all po-faced in the face of any disability? How would you learn about others then. I read Deaf Sentence by my fave author David Lodge, it is illuminating and hilarious on the subject of deafness.

Like any other human experience, there is humour in illness, bereavement, disability, whatever. For many if they didn't laugh they'd cry, and for others (like me) if they weren't allowed to laugh they wouldn't want to hear about it in the first place.

Tim Minchin does a barn-storming number about 'gingers'.

Plenty on here think that shouldn't be allowed either.

I agree FB's 'gags' were crap and tasteless rather then inspired and hilarious, but at base level I just can't accept any kind of censorship of live comedy.

Even if it's racist, sexist, whatever. I may find it abhorrent or simply not funny, but I can vote with my feet and my cash, just as I would if it was a crap Hollywood film or trashy pop video promoting such crassness.

They won't get a penny from me.