Jimmy Carr

[Mr Kobayashi]

One of the jokes that Boyle came out with on Mock the week once was about the producers of the Jeremy Kyle show going round netto with a net to catch guests for the show... Where does that sit on the tour/tv angle?...It was piss funny...

Yes but wasn't that actually true as well?

 

[dronefromsector7G]

Those were the days about 13 years ago. The Queen’s pussy was haunted too, wasn’t it?

Remember his joke about the Fanny Mae collapse, he said he thought Kerry Katona was pregnant again

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Not in the slightest - better things to do than be offended. It's an emotional affectation.

 

[BlueAnorak]

I'm surprised he survived not paying his taxes.
Hopefully this will see the back of him.
He truely is a twat.

 

[MarsLlama]

If it was just laughter it would be one thing, but the cheers from the audience pretty clearly indicate plenty of ill feeling towards the traveller community.

 

[Mike N]

Im just imagining an hour and a half of that. ‘Anyone fancy a pint?’

 

[Ric]

I know he can be a bit close to the bone sometimes, but this seems a pretty crass joke. Not even funny, either.

 

[Corky]

Ok, and why do you think he changed his modus operandi?

To stay on the BBC. Tramadol Nights kept him off the telly in his own right for too long, even though he said that would happen on tour before it aired.

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

Long live Jimmy Carr.

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

Frankie Boyle's a pretty interesting case.

Back in the early to mid-00s there was a big trend of really nasty comedy, where people thought the funniest thing you could joke about was someone being gay, trans, poor, disabled etc.

Boyle on Mock the Week was right at the forefront of that, along with Catherine Tate and Little Britain, and I think it's really interesting looking back at just how badly those shows and characters have aged.

The shock factor was what people laughed at, and that brand of comic had to keep making more and more shocking jokes. So over the space of a couple of years he goes from telling "I can't believe he's got away with that" jokes about Thatcher or Gordon Brown or the Royals, to making his 8 year old Harvey Price his public punching bag. When you look back at it 15 years later when it's no longer shocking...they do not stand up, they're just not good jokes.


I think if he's honest he'd probably agree that this shock jock persona got away from him and his comedy is better now it's not being written with the sole aim of being as offensive as possible.


By the way, Boyle used to write Jimmy Carr's jokes for him, so quite fitting he's popped up here.

not for his tour material but 8 out o 10 cats etc yeah he did.

jimmy used to write for bo selecta