I find Boyle boring tbh. His stand up has shock value for about ten minutes and then it's just all a bit meh. I'm not really enjoying the political ranting of his new show either. The travel thing he did around Scotland was well worth a watch though.this guy probably thinks the disgusting Frankie Boyle who mocks disabled kids is hilarious though....cos he hates Thatcher meaning all other sins are forgiven
You listen to what you want mate, I just find him a bit of an unfunny racist. I've actually examined my own prejudice in this respect in that I'm not similarly appalled by Bernard manning. I've concluded this is probably because I'm racist against southerners or something.Deserves never to be heard again? So you're setting little rules about free speach? Lets hear them all then.
Chalky white? Im not totally convinced he ever called his fictional chararacter that, i think it maybe just have been chalky but i may be wrong.
You think he was being lazy and sinister when he sat down and spent hours and hours writing routines?
I found him quite funny at the time as did millions of others. To critisise him now for an act he did 35 years ago seems a little bit strange to say the least.
Yes its dated, all comedy dates, as do all art forms.
He has an obe and still lives here.
Im not saying hes perfect but ffs he doesnt deserve the crap spouted on here
Great post. You've nailed it there mateWhat I dislike about all this, is the attempt to wipeout the past when little Britain and come fly with me were removed I was pissed off because like it or not it’s part of history In tv. If we take everything off that people dislike in the future we are going down a dark route for me. You can’t rewrite it, if you don’t like it dont watch it, there is an off button, they don’t show Alf Garnett anymore yet that show was showing the white man to be a racist ranting loon, we were laughing at him not with him, yet the snowflakes just jump on board and say it’s racist, no it’s not it’s taking the piss out of a bigot. The same with Love thy Neighbour it was laughing at the white man, the language he used was terrible but it was a reflection of times, if we don’t show it up for what it was how do you learn from it?
JD and others of his time reflected those times, are his views offensive to some yes to some no, but if you dont like don’t watch him, do you think people are going to rise up because of what he says I very much doubt it. I’m sick to death of people telling what I can and can’t say or watch, if they want to re run all this type of comedy, there are enough channels to do it just don’t watch it.
Oh and Bernard Manning was a brilliant comedian it’s amazing how everyone concentrates on his racist jokes when they were just part of a bigger show, again he took this piss out of everyone, if he concentrated just on one part of society I’d get it but he was a piss taker of all of them. We are taking about a comedian from the 70s nearly 50 years ago, I guarantee in 50 years theyll not be talking about one single of the modern day comedians as they are shit, forgettable and interchangeable.
I'm disappointed that this thread has not provoked more of a backlash. I'll give it until after country file then pretend to be offended and outraged by it to see if we can get it going.What I dislike about all this, is the attempt to wipeout the past when little Britain and come fly with me were removed I was pissed off because like it or not it’s part of history In tv. If we take everything off that people dislike in the future we are going down a dark route for me. You can’t rewrite it, if you don’t like it dont watch it, there is an off button, they don’t show Alf Garnett anymore yet that show was showing the white man to be a racist ranting loon, we were laughing at him not with him, yet the snowflakes just jump on board and say it’s racist, no it’s not it’s taking the piss out of a bigot. The same with Love thy Neighbour it was laughing at the white man, the language he used was terrible but it was a reflection of times, if we don’t show it up for what it was how do you learn from it?
JD and others of his time reflected those times, are his views offensive to some yes to some no, but if you dont like don’t watch him, do you think people are going to rise up because of what he says I very much doubt it. I’m sick to death of people telling what I can and can’t say or watch, if they want to re run all this type of comedy, there are enough channels to do it just don’t watch it.
Oh and Bernard Manning was a brilliant comedian it’s amazing how everyone concentrates on his racist jokes when they were just part of a bigger show, again he took this piss out of everyone, if he concentrated just on one part of society I’d get it but he was a piss taker of all of them. We are taking about a comedian from the 70s nearly 50 years ago, I guarantee in 50 years theyll not be talking about one single of the modern day comedians as they are shit, forgettable and interchangeable.
Excellent, so anyone who calls Manning racist is being Antisemitic?Manning hated everyone equally. Many don’t know he was Jewish...