Entertainment For Lively Minds
Frankie Boyle
Posted by Dave Amitri on 6 November 2010 - 3:40pm.
When:
05/11/2010
Where:
Hammersmith Odeon
Comments:
I knew what to expect from Frankie Boyle, I have at times defended his humour based on what I've seen on Mock The Week. What I didn't expect for him to be so spectacularly unfunny. "Jokes" about cancer, child abuse, rape, wishing his audience a heart attack, even involving his 2 year old child in his humour just doesn't work over an hour long set. This is not something new and exciting, he is not breaking new ground he is repeating the worst of those text jokes that do the rounds among sad people that we can all confess to laughing at once but now we instantly hit the delete button, which is what I wanted to do to Frankie after 10 minutes.
The only Fuckwit there last night was on the stage and as Frankie was keen to remind us he doesn't give a fuck and you know what Frankie, neither to I you talentless, four eyed, ugly, disgrace to the Scottish race, ignorant prick. I wish you a heart attack while being anally raped, now that would be funny. It's only a joke Frankie, only a joke
The Audience:
A split between those who seemed to enjoy themselves, those that forced out laughter and those that regretted the whole episode and the waste of time and money.
Food & Drink:
Just a beer
It Made Me Think...:
Michael McIntyre, Peter Kay and their ilk have more skill, wit and talent in their toenails than Boyle can hope to have. I have never been so wrong about something, he is scum.
Dave
I've got to ask ... how come you had to go and see his act in order to realise that he's rubbish?
Doesn't he prove it on telly every time he opens his gob?
Honestly.
I bought the tickets in August 2009 for me and my 18 year old son after thinking Boyle was quite amusing on Mock The Week and thinking they were for November 2009. It was only when they arrived that I realised they were on sale 15 months before the gig! I obviously heard more about him since and I was unsure whether to go as son is now at university so I took the wife (big mistake). I should have had the balls to walk out after 5 minutes, it was that bad. As I said, I have never been so wrong.
So
...did you like it or not?
Mmm
I was rather upset by the whole experience when I wrote this. I'm not sure I took a breath but at least get the point across, I think. To be clear, my rant at the end paraphrases Boyles attempt at audience interaction, grrr I'm just getting angry again.
The Audience: A split
I think the same clear distinction can be made between people that are basically c*&ts, and people who are human beings.
A joyless mirth free zone
As someone said, its very affecting, affecting my ability to laugh at a joke ever again.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/frankie-boyles-tramadol-nights/4od#31...
Observational comedy vs…
…oh so thats it! Watched until the sketch where the 'Loose Women' from Iran get hung. Oh how I laughed. And not just hung, but now firing squad too! Hold off Frankie, my sides are splitting.
I watched that
It was terrible, with one funny joke - the bbc one
I somehow get the feeling...
...that this man's days as a successful comedian are numbered. People don't mind a bit of dark, but because Frankie Boyle isn't very bright, he's not twigged that people DO mind uninterrupted vitriol, mean-spiritedness and a teenage desire to shock. He's passed his sell-by date and he doesn't even know it. Shocking comedy only works if it's funny, Frankie, and you emphatically are not funny. Now off you go and drink yourself to death. Why delay the inevitable? (See what I did?)
Frankie Boyle is like...
That really horrible guy at school who everyone agrees they don't like but who makes you laugh occasionally despite yourself, by appealing to your darker impulses, rather than the ones you'd rather be known for.
I alway feel as if he's made me laugh at disadvantaged people whenever I see him. Actually, he usually literally has.
Agree his current shelf life is rapidly expiring, as British society rejeects in general a whole raft of concepts that have stood stead for a generation. This includes the idea that stand up comedy is somehow a culturally important art form, whose practitioners should be lauded for constantly pushing "social boundaries and accepted norms", rather than just rude show offs with potty mouths.
He'll be back in 10 years time as a cultural treasure though.. Brrrr (I shudder)
Cultural shift.
I know what you mean. Any number of consensuses seem to be dying off at the moment. Some of it's bad news, some of it's good. But there's definitely something going on.
Totally agree...such
As serious state investment in the railways by a Tory government.
Who woulda think it?
Well, also...
...in education, there's a lot of knocking down of ideas that have been around for ages: the removal of "modular" GCSEs and A-levels (so kids can't retake until they get a decent grade), the idea that exams are better than coursework for assessing kids' academic achievement. Loads of stuff, much of which has been an article of faith for the educational orthodoxy for bloody ages. I'm quite pleased about that stuff, actually. Less pleased about other things, mind.
Me too Bob...
But I am haunted by the feat I amturning into a Daily Mail reader?