Prior to this piss-poor sketch show, my only problem with Frankie Boyle was the fact that he was Scottish.
I don't mind Scottish people in general, but Scottish comedians are a big No-No as far as I'm concerned. The accent grates on me to such an extent that it's impossible for me to find them funny.
The only way Frankie Boyle could ever make me laugh was if he got cancer and died.
That's only the second post you have made in the last 2 years so you obviously feel pretty strong about this huh?
I wonder who your death wish will be on when you return in 2013 
Stand up was a lot better this time. I laughed at maybe 1/5 of the jokes? Maybe not that many. I laughed at about 3 in a row of the cancer jokes though.
Sketches were just as hit and miss as they have been. The PCP sketch was terrible. Two of the You've Been Framed videos were brilliant though. The columbian news sketch had a nice premise but was also terrible. Can't remember any more. Were there any? Oh yes. The young boy who was obsessed with sex? Also terrible.
I think they could have made a decent episode if they combined the best bits of the last three.
Saw a bit.
Standup ok.
PCP had potential but it missed it
Sex obsessed kid was just unpleasant and achieved the new nadir of poor writing
TS4C(Too shit 4 critique)
I can't get over how poor the sketches are!
His sense of timing and pace are fabulous in the stand up - really enjoy it.
But when it comes to the sketches, it's as if someone turns his critical faculties off.
And I don't mean the subject matter - there's often some neat stuff trying to get out.
It's just the sheer lack of basic craft.
I mean, I actively dislike The Morgana Show, but at least it looks as if someone has bothered.
Quote: chipolata @ December 14 2010, 10:44 PM GMTI liked the porn sketch but it seemed to just end without going anywhere.
Pretty fair description of my sex life. 
The sketches strike me as written by someone who's never written sketches before, never paid much attention to the form(s) but thought "Yeah, I'm funny. I make people laugh. I can do that."
Oh hai Horne & Corden!! 
The back-to-back Confessions... and South American TV Fast Show Rip-Off skits were the poorest of the whole series, I think, and certainly called to mind those two cretinous slayers of sketch comedy. Everyone loves tossing hyperbole around, but this is a very poor show, not helped by the fact that all of the decent stand-up is lifted wholesale from his latest DVD (OUT NOW!) - the only deviation from this being audience banter/lazy abuse. Couldn't even be arsed to write new material. On the basis of the sketches, dude couldn't be arsed writing ANY material.
I secretly hope this is all a farewell "F**k You" and parting gift to the perceived plebs who buy his live DVDs and pay thirty English pounds to see him as a speck in an arena, for jokes they've already heard. Sadly, I doubt it.
I can't help but feel that for many (the majority?) of sketches, he's really not trying to be funny or to write sketches in a traditional humour-driven sense, but rather to get across some twisted notion through story rather than lecture (as is the case with stand-up).
I don't see why the twisted notion "PCP makes you aggressive and feel invicible" called for a 5 minute sketch of the same joke on repeat. I think it would have been very funny if they'd taken one of the ideas like Rocky and just gone with that. They could have done a spoof trailer making it look like the entire movie was about PCP addiction. A 45 second sketch. Not five bloody minutes.
Same with the columbian news sketch. A couple of short headlines which all end with "died in a..." and then over to the news, a single gunshot and then end. 45 seconds, as opposed to what, 3 minutes?
I saw Adam Buxton do a bit last night called 'Frankie Boyle's Christmas Crackers' where he took popular jokes and gave them a Frankie Boyle twist. Example:
What do you call a blind dinosaur?
A blind c**tosaurus.
I have a lot of time for Frankie Boyle but this show is trying my patience.
Far too many incest and child molestation jokes, each one with diminishing returns, as if he's trying too hard to stamp his edgy image.
Other stale targets include his poor 70s thick Irish gags rehashed as Wayne Rooney jokes. As for the decade old 'isn't Victoria Beckham thin' remarks, it sounds like he's been rifling through Joan Rivers' bin.
Much of the criticism on this thread has some basis in fact: I wouldn't seek to deny that.
The fact remains however that FB has his own TV show and appears to have been given carte-very-nearly-blanche re its content.
Which one of us wouldn't love that?
And which one of us wouldn't get slagged off to Hell and back by at least SOME of our viewers?
FB's show may not be perfect but it's bloody funny (imo) and - surely to God - some of his most outrageous material is there just to raise a finger to the very people he knows will hate it?
More power to elbow, I say!
The World Cup, isn't that topical, eh?
Quote: Nat Wicks @ December 15 2010, 11:55 AM GMTThe World Cup, isn't that topical, eh?
Armstrong and Miller do sketches about cave men.
How topical is THAT ??????
Quote: Veronica Vestibule @ December 15 2010, 11:54 AM GMTThe fact remains however that FB has his own TV show and appears to have been given carte-very-nearly-blanche re its content.
Which one of us wouldn't love that?
And which one of us wouldn't get slagged off to Hell and back by at least SOME of our viewers?
I do agree with you, in that most people on here would love to be in his possition, but that jealousy doesn't negate criticism. I've never seen Boyle take this much of a beating, a lot of his old fans seem to be getting distinctly turned off by it.
Quote: Veronica Vestibule @ December 15 2010, 11:56 AM GMTArmstrong and Miller do sketches about cave men.
How topical is THAT ??????
I think there's a bit of a difference there.
