Frankie Boyle | |
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Birth name | Francis Martin Patrick Boyle |
Born | Pollokshaws, Glasgow, Scotland |
16 August 1972
Medium | Stand-up, television |
Years active | 1995–present |
Genres | One-liners, black comedy, blue comedy, wit, improvisational comedy, insult comedy, political satire |
Subject(s) | Scottish culture, celebrities, politics, television, current events |
Influences | Bill Hicks, Spike Milligan, Richard Pryor |
Website | frankieboyle.com |
Francis Martin Patrick "Frankie" Boyle[1] (born 16 August 1972) is a Scottish comedian and writer, well known for his pessimistic and often controversial sense of humour.[2] He was a permanent panellist on the comedy panel show Mock the Week for seven series and has made guest appearances on several other popular panel shows including Have I Got News for You, 8 out of 10 Cats, Would I Lie to You?, You Have Been Watching, Never Mind the Buzzcocks (as guest host and team captain when Phill Jupitus was unavailable for recording), and Argumental, as well as writing for Jimmy Carr's Distraction and Sean Lock's TV Heaven, Telly Hell.
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Early life
Boyle was born and brought up in Glasgow to Irish parents from the Dungloe area of Co. Donegal. After leaving school he attended Aston University for a year before leaving and starting a BA in English at Sussex University.[3] Whilst doing a teacher-training course in Edinburgh at the age of 23, he began doing stand-up routines.[4] He got his big break after performing at The Stand Comedy Club in Edinburgh, a venue that has also helped launch the careers of Stewart Lee, Johnny Vegas, Dara Ó Briain and Michael McIntyre.[5]
Career
Television
Mock the Week
Boyle was a regular on the BBC panel show Mock the Week until October 2009, a show in which the panel comment humorously on various news stories from the British media. He has been referred to as the "dark heart of Mock the Week" by host Dara Ó Briain.[6] He is known for his morbid sense of humour, which plays on negative images of celebrities, politicians, and society (particularly his home country of Scotland). On 2 October 2009, Boyle announced that he was leaving the show to concentrate on other projects. It was announced to the public via Facebook on the Mock the Week fan page.[7][8][9] Boyle has since criticised both the show's production team and the BBC Trust. He claims that the show did not cover enough major news stories, and was too restrictive on his risqué comedy act because the producers and the BBC Trust were afraid of "frightening the horses".[10] He returned to Mock the Week for his final appearance on the 2009 Christmas Special, which aired on 22 December 2009 as a series of best bits and festive clips. On 9 December 2009, he was the guest host of Never Mind the Buzzcocks.[11]
Frankie Boyle's Tramadol Nights
In October 2009, Boyle piloted a sketch and stand-up show for Channel 4, entitled Deal with This, Retards to be produced by RDF Scotland subsidiary the Comedy Unit.[12] Boyle mentioned on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross that the original title of the show had been dropped, due to its offensive nature, and been renamed Tramadol Nights and aired from the end of November 2010.[13] An official page launched via Channel 4's official website, which confirmed that the show's full name is Frankie Boyle's Tramadol Nights and the series was made up of six episodes.[14] Boyle caused controversy on the show with his comments about Katie Price and Peter Andre's disabled son Harvey.
Frankie Boyle's Rehabilitation Programme
On 21 August 2011, it was revealed that Channel 4 had given Boyle permission to record a pilot for a topical talk show in October of that year, which would be called Frankie Boyle's Rehabilitation Programme (despite the controversy surrounding Frankie Boyle's Tramadol Nights). Channel 4 head of comedy Shane Allen told the press that "it's very much like Parkinson or Wogan, but with paedo jokes" and that the show would feature Frankie "in a studio, riffing off the audience a bit with some people challenging what he says".[15] After the pilot (which was said to be "non-transmittable") was filmed, it was announced on 30 January 2012 that Channel 4 had chosen not to commission the series, nor were there any plans to commission a second series of Tramadol Nights.[16]
The Boyle Variety Show
On 15 June 2012, it was announced that a new show hosted by Boyle entitled The Boyle Variety Show will premier sometime in August, as part of a Channel 4 event called Funny Fortnight. A spokesman for Channel 4 described the show as "Frankie's unique take on a royal variety event. The show will come direct from a London theatre and feature content so cutting-edge and scurrilously funny that no self-respecting royal would dream of attending".[17]. A few days after the show was broadcast. Boyle sparked outrage on Twitter by posting jokes about the 2012 Paralympic Games. Channel 4 then stated that they would be cutting all ties with Frankie[18].
Books
On 1 October 2009, Boyle's autobiography My Shit Life So Far was released,[19] published by HarperCollins.[20] His second book Work! Consume! Die! was released in October 2011.
Journalism
It was reported on 24 October 2008 that Boyle was to begin a weekly column in the Daily Record, a Scottish tabloid newspaper.[21] On 26 June 2009, he reported via his MySpace profile that he had quit his newspaper column as "they refused to print any Michael Jackson jokes." This message was followed by the article he wanted to be printed, which contained dozens of Michael Jackson-based jokes referring to the singer's health, childhood and paedophilia charges.[22] Frankie Boyle now writes articles in The Sun, satirising the weekly news as he did previously on Mock the Week.
Live shows
In October 2007 Boyle embarked on a long stand-up tour of Britain, playing over 100 dates and enjoying a sold-out run that was extended through until December 2008. Boyle plans to quit stand-up before he turns 40, and has stated that he has written his final tour and plans to do more TV work after this.[23] Boyle performed the tour, entitled I Would Happily Punch Every One Of You In The Face between March and December 2010.[24]
On 21 November 2011, at a Meet the Comedians session in the Apple Store, Regent Street with Jimmy Carr,[25] Boyle announced he was doing another tour entitled The Last Days of Sodom despite intending I Will Happily Punch Every One Of You In The Face to be his final one. He mentioned the tour will not be as long as its predecessor. His website has stated it will run from July to December 2012 with more dates to be added.[26] Tickets went on sale in December 2011.[27]
DVD releases
On 10 November 2008 Boyle's first DVD was released,[6] featuring a sell-out stand-up performance given at London's Hackney Empire and some additional material, including a documentary about the tour, entitled Fuck You Scotland, and some sketches from the BBC3 comedy Rush hour.[28] The DVD was described by WhatDVD.net as "certainly not one to watch with your grandparents – not unless they are pretty open-minded!"[29]
Boyle has also featured in three DVD compilations of material from Mock the Week. The compilations, entitled Too Hot for TV, include material deemed too offensive for broadcast on TV and uncut versions of several full episodes. Boyle's second live DVD, If I Could Reach Out Through Your TV And Strangle You I Would, was released on 15 November 2010.[30]
Podcast
On 16 July 2009 Boyle's first, and only, podcast was released.[31] Entitled Mock the Week Musings, the podcast is a recording of Boyle testing the material he has written for Mock the Week to a London audience. Boyle comments on his material throughout and often informs the audience that certain jokes are not going into the show due to their reaction (or lack thereof), and the podcast carries an explicit content warning. The recording includes some audience interaction, with Boyle offering to test some of his new "put-downs" on the crowd.[32]
Comic book
In September 2010, Boyle began publishing his comic strip Rex Royd in the launch issue of CLiNT magazine, co-written with comedian Jim Muir and with artwork by Michael Dowling. The story follows a Lex Luthor-style newspaper magnate with a super-villain alter-ego. Initially, the strip ran for first four issues of CLiNT. The strip resumed again in November 2011.
Other appearances
Boyle appeared as himself in the video game Grand Theft Auto: The Lost and Damned, in a stand-up routine at Liberty City's Split Sides Comedy Club. He appeared on Real Radio Wales' weekly comedy show Comedy Nighthorse on 19 October 2011.
Controversy
Rebecca Adlington
Boyle managed to attract criticism in August 2008 when complaints were received about comments he made regarding British swimmer Rebecca Adlington on Mock the Week, saying that she "looks like someone who's looking at themselves in the back of a spoon". The BBC ruled that the jokes were indeed "humiliating" and "risked offending the audience", whilst also calling Boyle "a brilliant member of the team".[33] Despite this, Adlington's agent said that simply admitting mistakes was not enough, saying: "By giving Frankie Boyle a rebuke they fail to discourage others from doing the same."[34] Adlington later went on to say she was hypocritical in making this complaint.[35]
The Queen
In October 2008, during The Russell Brand Show prank telephone calls row, Boyle found himself in the midst of a scandal when the BBC broadcast a Mock the Week repeat in which he made a joke about the Queen, saying that she was "so old that [her] pussy is haunted".[36] This caused many to complain about the state that the BBC had come to with Conservative MP David Davies calling the joke a "disgracefully foul comment".[37] Boyle was eventually cleared of any misconduct by the BBC Trust, although they called the comment "sexist and ageist".[38] Despite the media backlash, fellow comic Dara Ó Briain spoke out against the reaction and said that "not every TV show is for everyone".[39]
Down syndrome
Boyle's 2010 tour attracted negative media attention over a routine about Down syndrome, after he received a complaint from audience member Sharon Smith, whose daughter suffers from the genetic condition.[40] Her feelings about the routine were made public after she posted details of the event on her personal blog.[41] Boyle's response to the incident on stage was to laugh and try and steer the topic back onto comedy, saying: "Oh well, it's all true, isn't it?"[42] He later added: "This is my last tour. I don't give a fuck what people think."[43][44] Mencap spokesman Ismail Kaji said that the comments were "no different to bullying".[42]
Palestine and Israel
In April 2010, the BBC Trust's Editorial Standards Committee apologised for a joke made by Boyle on Radio 4 panel show Political Animal in which he likened the situation in Palestine to "a cake being punched to pieces by a very angry Jew". Boyle also made another joke where he said that he had "been studying Israeli Army martial arts. I now know 16 ways to kick a Palestinian woman in the back".[45] In response, Boyle published a letter in which he criticised the Trust's "cowardly rebuke of my jokes about Palestine" and reprinted the jokes in question. He then criticised the BBC for not broadcasting a humanitarian appeal during the 2008–2009 Gaza War, saying that it was "tragic for such a great institution but it is now cravenly afraid of giving offence and vulnerable to any kind of well drilled lobbying." Boyle then said that the situation in Palestine "seems to be, in essence, apartheid", concluding that he had reached this position after watching a documentary about life in Palestine that had made him cry.[46]
Harvey Price
In December 2010, both Katie Price and Peter Andre were said to have been left "absolutely disgusted and sickened" by a joke that was made on Frankie Boyle's Tramadol Nights about Price's heavily disabled son, Harvey. On the show, Boyle said: "Apparently Jordan and Peter Andre are fightin' each other over custody of Harvey, well eventually one of them'll lose and have to keep him." Then he added: "I have a theory that Jordan married a cage fighter cause she needed someone strong enough to stop Harvey from fuckin' her."[47]
In a response, Katie Price said: "Harvey Price is a little miracle. Every day he overcomes so many difficulties and has so many battles to win due to his medical problems. I love him and am deeply proud to be his mother. If Mr Boyle had a tenth of his courage and decency, he would know that to suggest, let alone think funny, that Harvey may sexually attack me is vile and deeply unfair. Mr Boyle clearly has serious issues and those that give him a TV platform to say such disgusting things need to look at themselves very honestly."
Andre's representative also responded to the comments made by Boyle and said "We're all disgusted by these comments. Peter is angry and very upset at Harvey being mocked in this way. Children, especially a disabled youngster, should be off-limits." Both confirmed that they had sought legal action and wrote a complaint to Channel 4 regarding Boyle's jokes with Price saying: "To bully this unbelievably brave child is despicable; to broadcast it is to show a complete and utter lack of judgement. I have asked my lawyers to write to Channel 4."[47] Ofcom confirmed that Price issued a complaint and accordingly launched an investigation into the programme.[48] In April 2011 Ofcom ruled Channel 4 had breached broadcasting rules by transmitting the material in question but did not require the network to broadcast an apology saying that it was "erroneous decision on a matter of editorial judgment on the broadcaster's part". Price criticised the decision not to require a broadcast apology.[49]
2012 Tax avoidance controversy
In June 2012, The Daily Mail accused Boyle of avoiding tax in the amount of £873,388 through a process of liquidating (winding-up) one of his companies "Traskor Productions Limited", making him liable to pay only 10% tax instead of a maximum of 50%.[50] The story had more impact as Boyle joked on Twitter about the tax avoidance of fellow comedian Jimmy Carr.[50] [51]
Personal life
Boyle lives in Glasgow with his partner, Shereen Taylor,[52] and has two children: a daughter (born 2004) and a son (born October 2007). He has admitted that his career had caused him to neglect his family.[53] He is a recovering alcoholic, having started drinking at the age of 15 and stopping at 26, and former drug user, who is now teetotal.[54][55]
He is a follower of Noam Chomsky and says that he has had a great influence on his political beliefs, claiming to be more left-wing than Chomsky.[56] He is a supporter of Celtic Football Club and Donegal GAA.[citation needed]
Filmography
Television
Live shows
Year | Title |
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2007–2008 | Morons, I Can Heal You |
2010 | I Would Happily Punch Every One of You in the Face |
2012 | The Last Days of Sodom |
Stand-up DVDs
Year | Title | Notes |
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2008 | Frankie Boyle Live | Live at London's Hackney Empire |
2010 | If I Could Reach Out Through Your TV and Strangle You, I Would | Live at London's HMV Hammersmith Apollo |
2012 | The Last Days of Sodom | Live at Glasgow's King's Theatre |
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External links
- frankieboyle.com - Official website
- Frankie Boyle at the Internet Movie Database
- Frankie Boyle's column in the Daily Record
- Upcoming gigs
- Frankie Boyle live review
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