Frankie Boyle - an apology on behalf of the Scots Page 9

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I guess jokes are made about all types of people, whether they are different in gender, race, appearance, sexual preference, the way the live their lives, religious beliefs or the jobs they do, etc, because there has to be something different about how the character of the joke behaves. This behaviour (perceived or otherwise) has to be understood by the audience to make the punchline work.
The only real question is what is acceptable in the current society. Any portrayed negative attribute of the joke's character, whether an individual or a large group, will cause offence. The level of offence will depend on the individual or group themselves and the actual targetted attribute of the joke.

This 'offence boundary', which most shy away from, and others push, is a moving target and will sway to and fro, ad infinitum.

This just leaves me with two personal observations:

1)Jokes that sail close to the wind. Do they make you laugh or do they make you wince? One is comedy, the other is not.

2) Get your Martian jokes in now, before it's too late.

This isn't meant to be clever. I'm just a regular guy.

I don't see that much of a difference between what Jimmy Carr (or to a lesser extent Ricky Gervias) do onstage to what Frankie does.

I think the mistake Boyle made was taking his most obscene Live stuff and putting it on national TV, which was watched by small minds who couldn't fathom that he was joking.

And that deacto makes it ok?

Whatever Frankie Boyle says or does, at least he's not Susan Boyle.