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Wednesday 16th December 2009 3:41pm
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Quote: john lucas 101 @ December 16 2009, 10:19 AM GMT
My favourite comedians over the years have been Alexei Sayle, Jasper Carrott, Jerry Sadowitz and Stewart Lee. I dare say some of those may be considered for their edginess, but it isn't what specifcally attracts me to them.
Interesting. I've loved all those comics over the years.
I would say that some of Sayle's and Sadowitz's material could be considered the same style as Boyle.
Eg, Sayle: "A lot of people come up to me on the street and ask me where I get my ideas, and I say to them 'Sod off!'"
Sadowitz: "The Pope, what a c**t."
(As an aside, I'm sure you'll agree the reason why Lee is a genius is that his "I vomited into the gaping anus of Christ" wasn't the joke, the joke was that he told it "in context")
My problem with F. Boyle is people finding him somehow outrageous, but his humour is really quite cheap, with cheap obvious targets,like Rebecca Adlington. Where is the value of 'satirising' somebody like that? There's no thought process or moral centre to it. Just knee-jerk, pack driven school boy humour.
I'd have to agree, given that example. The first part of the Adlington joke was rubbish. Not only that, but it's as old as spoons themselves. The second part, about her being able to hold her breath quite well, almost but not quite justified it.
Not Boyle's finest hour, but hardly a typical target, I would say.
He's built a reputation for joking about shocking topics like paedophilia, but he's usually got an original take on them.
On his new beard: "What is it about this look that small children find so attractive?"
I'd class him as "edgy" precisely because his topics are those on the "edge" of what is considered acceptable. There's something unnerving about his material.