Frankie Boyle - A very dark man...

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Saw Frankie Boyle in Cambridge on Saturday evening.

I very much enjoyed the show and found myself laughing nearly all the way through - even to things really one shouldn't laugh at!
To say Frankie Boyle is a dark man is a little bit of an understatement - he has a very twisted mind.

If you can still get tickets to see him live - definitely do it.
If not, wait for a DVD release as it is worth seeing.

Oh and if you've seen him on "Mock The Week" and thought "Oh, quite funny and quite dark" - that is nothing compared to his stand-up in places.
 
I must say that for me this man is the funniest thing on TV at the moment. His jokes on MtW always make me laugh more than any of the others'. Would love to see him live, he's a class act and often has me in tears.
 
I was a big Boyle fan, but saw him live a while ago and the whole routine was a regurgitation of his Mock the Week material.
 
Extras: **** You Scotland: 23-minute tour film, looks like it’s shot on the cheapest cameraphone going. Rush Hour sketches: Eight minutes from the BBC Three series in which Boyle played an insensitive roadside assistance mechanic. Drug Experiment. Frankie and three other comics take herbal highs and talk nonsense for an hour. You’d have to be a fairly hardcore fan to want to want to sit through this.
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The drug experiment is the funniest.
 
He can be funny but I don't rate comedians who use the same material over and over again till it becomes stale.

Which is why Eddie Izzard/Ross Noble are my favourite comedians.

Closely followed by Dara O'Briain and Dylan Moran.
 
mleh said:
I was a big Boyle fan, but saw him live a while ago and the whole routine was a regurgitation of his Mock the Week material.
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It is the other way around, Mock the Week is just him peddling his old material - some comedians are extremely witty, being able to riff new material on demand and some rely on years worth of stand up to have a good base of topics to have a crack at... I am yet to see Frankie Boyle demonstrate anything but the latter (not that he isn't very funny).
 
mleh said:
I was a big Boyle fan, but saw him live a while ago and the whole routine was a regurgitation of his Mock the Week material.
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yeah i keep hearing the same jokes in different shows on tv. i know its common but he seems to do so more then most. really dislike the man although a lot of his jokes are funny the first time
 
I really loved Frankie Boyle when mock the week started but I'm slowly getting turned off him because of his lack of new material. I'd love to see him live but I would dread hearing the same jokes again.

Saw Ed Byrne earlier in the year and he was really good, was abit put off him after watching his Live DVD (which i thought was weak) and expecting the same jokes from mock the week and that dvd. Think he only included 3 maybe 4? The taxi ride, the dvd anti-privacy ad and the daughter at the airport. But his crowd interaction and jokes overall were amazing, was a great night.
 
slightly off topic but how the **** did that gimp andy parsons get a job on mock the week? i can't stand the ****. his jokes are terrible and the delivery.....?? i guess he has to speak like that for his target audience (idiots) to be able to understand him??? :mad::mad:
 
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