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10:33
Ravi Amruth
As some of you may know, I do standup comedy in my spare time. Although I'm more of the good-natured, ramble-on, just-keep-talking-and-they'll-laugh type, and I'm far from a Frankie Boyle fan, I feel a need to defend him here.
Sharon Smith, who has a five year old daughter with downs syndrome, was on radio five live this morning, complaining that she saw Frankie Boyle for his "cutting, clever" sense of humour, and then became quickly upset when Boyle started making fun of downs syndrome.
No offence or anything, but IT'S FRANKIE BOYLE. Did you think he was going to make fun of them? (Or should I correctly word that: DO BEARS SHIT IN THE WOODS!?)
I find it completely hilarious: this woman goes to see Frankie Boyle BECAUSE he's a nasty bastard, and because he has that cuttingly devastating sense of humour, and then gets all whiny when something that she is so close to gets made fun of. What about everyone else? what about when an issue close to them is touched on?
At the same time, IT'S A COMEDY GIG. Either heckle (it's your public right, I believe), or do the thing that every comedian hates, and GET UP AND LEAVE.
Yes, I agree, Frankie Boyle is an acquired taste. I, myself, am not a fan, and I don't appreciate his type of comedy. But at the same time, you KNEW his style, but you went and saw him anyway.
I guess you're a few sandwiches short of a picnic...
Sharon Smith, who has a five year old daughter with downs syndrome, was on radio five live this morning, complaining that she saw Frankie Boyle for his "cutting, clever" sense of humour, and then became quickly upset when Boyle started making fun of downs syndrome.
No offence or anything, but IT'S FRANKIE BOYLE. Did you think he was going to make fun of them? (Or should I correctly word that: DO BEARS SHIT IN THE WOODS!?)
I find it completely hilarious: this woman goes to see Frankie Boyle BECAUSE he's a nasty bastard, and because he has that cuttingly devastating sense of humour, and then gets all whiny when something that she is so close to gets made fun of. What about everyone else? what about when an issue close to them is touched on?
At the same time, IT'S A COMEDY GIG. Either heckle (it's your public right, I believe), or do the thing that every comedian hates, and GET UP AND LEAVE.
Yes, I agree, Frankie Boyle is an acquired taste. I, myself, am not a fan, and I don't appreciate his type of comedy. But at the same time, you KNEW his style, but you went and saw him anyway.
I guess you're a few sandwiches short of a picnic...
