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

FioFio, thanks for posting that article about Gervais. I knew he was low but I didn't realise how low he was.

I googled and found some more info on this horrible incident, which gives an insight into the mind of this offensive clown
sotcaa.net/blogcaa/?p=31

As the blog writer says, Gervais is a disgrace. As the woman with cherubism says, this clown can say whatever offensive things that come into his head and still appear on 'Comic Relief' and be feted by the BBC and receive awards for his comedy. This shows what Gervais and the BBC etc. really think. They would come down on Gervais like a ton of bricks if he started being 'edgy' about race, but anything else is fair game and the awards keep coming.

Never sit anywhere near the front at live comedy. I still get flashbacks to the time that the 2 men who did the Carling ads made me pretend I was a sheep and he 'rogered' me throughout his routine. I had to just stand there, bending over, being 'rogered'. The audience loved it. It was 25 years ago!

I went to see Frankie Boyle a couple of years ago after seeing him on MTW. I hadn't seen his DVDs, so I guess I didn't know what to expect. I wasn't impressed and yes, he was offensive and he wasn't funny. I wouldn't go and see him again.

Michael McKintyre, on the other hand, was very very good live and it was very enjoyable.

Thanks for posting that claig. How vile of Gervais and co.

Stephen Amos is very funny

but Eddie Izzard is the best and he isn't offensive at all

used to love Billy Connelly in his heyday too

Frankie Boyle is about as funny as Cancer.

Vile, disgusting prick.

Peter Kay is my fave- he manages to be hilarious without having to resort being an absolute rancid cock.

Stephen Amos is very funny. And Bill Bailey's another comedian on the list of talented people who manage not to pick on minorities or disadvantaged groups.

It was just low, proving a lack of inventive comedy and a complete lack of imagination from F Boyle. School bully level, I read the blog and it was very measured and intelligent- should put him to shame.
What an arse.....
I thought attacking a young girl like Rebecca Adlington was bad enough. A grown man should know better.
Pathetic

I had tickets for Frankie Boyle for next week - it clashes with a holiday so I sold them. Very glad now.

Actually, I was glad already - I liked him on Mock the Week, but I saw his stand-up DVD and it was crap, actually, dh and I switched it off about half way through.

Can I throw Bill Bailey into the 'hilarious but not offensive' pot, too, please? (Actually, have you noticed that the ones that are most intelligent are the ones that are least offensive?)

seems other media are now picking up on it... quite rightly

sorry but it is the Daily Mail

Fantastic that the Daily Mail has publicised this. This means that Boyle can't hide and easily get away with it. Millions of people will now be more aware of his true nature.

the DM's DS 'victims' and 'sufferers'

Anyone going to see Frankie Boyle and not expecting him to make rude jokes about people with special needs is an idiot - he's known for it, it's watered down on all his tv shows but he still does them.

Much like those idiots who took their 8 and 6 year-olds last year to see Rob Brydon when I went - a stand up starting at 8pm on a school night - twats. He saw them in the audience and then said "there's a few jokes I won't be telling tonight".

What a prick.

I have 2 dd's with sn's.

He's not the first comedian to take the piss out of sn/disabled people and he won't be the last (sadly). Its just sad that they don't think that they might be upsetting people .

I think 'those idiots' are starting to wake up. I think Boyle and his agent are starting to crap themselves. I think that 'those idiots' will start putting pressure on the BBC and advertisers and promoters and this will start to affect Boyle's business. Boyle isn't as 'edgy' as he pretends, there are subjects he won't touch. He thought this subject was fair game, now he is starting to learn a few lessons and not underestimate 'those idiots'.

"have loved his humour, how dry he is, how nasty he is, how clever he is. We wanted to see him out of the confines of a TV editing suite, to hear him say things he could not get away with on mainstream"

Sorry but she went to see him hoping to see him be cruel and offensive, this is the equivelant of going to Brendon Burns and then complaining about it being close to the bone.
FWIW I'm not a huge fan of Franky Boyles, I think he's very good and astute at times and at others he trys to find a "shock value" angle to a joke that would have played better if delivered subtley. But you know what you are going to see when you are going to Frankie Boyle, and she was actively looking forward to seeing him do his normal shtick.
With any comedians,especially ones like FB (i.e. ones which play on stereotypes and cruelty), is that at times they're going to misjudge the tone of an audience or when a joke has crossed from satire to unacceptable. Now for many of the posters they've obviously never liked FB and have always thought him cruel and offensive. However I think it's a bit rich if you are happy to accept his cruel brand of humour being applied to a host of other minorities and groups but think he's gone too far or has crossed a line when he applies it to a group which you or a loved one are a part of.

i must be weird as I don't get the "joke"
how can it be funny, to take the piss out of disabled people. not edgy just plain nasty.
I think the joke is calling twats like him a comedian. I think there are better names to call him.

well said 2shoes. How many people do any of us in real life know who would even think the thoughts that this scum uttered, let alone think that they were funny? I know some nasty, cruel people but I know no one who would stoop as low as that. He must be sick.

You'd be suprised how many people think them. And how many further still find them funny and would utter them but for social conventions. So for them someone like FB is a cathartic release of these taboo thoughts. This goes for a lot of thoughts, racist/sexist jokes, not just disabled ones.
Thats why FB is so successful, some people were drawn to him on MTW because they viewed him as a tonic to the overly sensitive PC culture that prevails now and others simply believe in the horrible things he says and he became the publicly acceptable face of their hatreds.

bump - want to keep this 'out there'.

Agree that FB is trying to be the antidote to the overly PC culture but this is.....

you see I think Boyle and Gervais are PC. They are the height of PC, that's why they are lauded and given access to the BBC etc. and are on 'Comic Relief'. The same way that the offensive misogynistic 'Little Britain' is the height of PC. I think this shows what PC is really all about. The PC brigade care nothing about disabled people, they think it is quite acceptable to humiliate them and goad the public into joining in. The public doesn't really find these things funny, but they are being led to think that they are acceptable, they are becoming the norm, because the critics laud these comedians and the crowd follows. No one wants to stand out from the crowd and say that the emperor has ni clothes.

Sadly I think majorq is right.