Frankie Boyle

Amanda Holden: 'I loathe Frankie Boyle'

"Frankie Boyle. I loathe him," Holden explained. "I don't think he's funny or clever and I don't understand why anyone would give him a television show. You can print that."

Book Review: Frankie Boyle - My S*** Life So Far

The point missing BBC4 sitcom Twenty Twelve coupled with repeats of Auf Vedasane Pet have given me chance to catch up on my reading. I've always been a big fan of Digby Mackworth Dolben so I have naturally gravitated to Frankie Boyle's semi Autobiography "My shit life so far".

Frankie Boyle in talks with Channel 4 over show

Channel 4 are in talks to commission a new Frankie Boyle series - as the storm over his vile sexual slurs reached Government.

Commerce, Art, Humour, Humanity: all abstracts which Campus assiduously avoids in its mission to become the year's most surprising televisual misfire. Surprising, because this series set around the infantile faculty of a red-brick uni is the baby of Victoria Pile, the creator of the joyous hospital sitcom Green Wing. More surprising, still, because it pretty much replicates its predecessor's entire comedic set-up, from the general mood of institutional chaos to the surreal inter-scene interludes and the central, love-hate flirtation between a scatty neurotic and a smug wannabe lothario.

So where did it go wrong? Probably when Pile became possessed by the spirit of a 16-year-old Frankie Boyle acolyte. For where in Green Wing the sardonicism was lightly sprinkled, this slimes you with an industrial-sized vat of bile. In last week's opener, jokes, in no memorable order, involved: disabled people with "mongy" faces, the word vagina, foreigners talking funny, the word vagina, desperate fat women, women wearing no pants, and the word vagina. That many of these emanated, under the cloak of irony, from as blatant a David Brent rip-off as Andy Nyman's Vice Chancellor only added insult to injury. Might it improve? For many viewers, I suspect, that question is entirely academic.

C4 head 'apologises to Price over Boyle gags'

The head of Channel 4 has sent a letter to Katie Price apologising for an offensive joke that Frankie Boyle made about her son Harvey on his show Tramadol Nights.

Katie Price asks MP to sack C4 chief over Boyle joke

Glamour model Katie Price has called for the sacking of the Channel 4 boss who allowed the broadcasting of a vile sexual slur by comedian Frankie Boyle about her disabled son Harvey.

HarperCollins buys two more books from Frankie Boyle

HarperCollins has bought another two books from controversial comedian Frankie Boyle.

There are heroes of comedy... and there's Frankie Boyle

It takes a bespoke brand of mental infirmity to confuse personal courage in advancing the right to cause offence with a penchant for bullying the most vulnerable.

Frankie Boyle: A C***

Risqué comedy is part of our culture. But does Frankie Boyle really push boundaries or just bully disabled people?

Katie Price wants C4 to apologise after Ofcom's ruling

Katie Price has demanded an apology from Channel 4, after Ofcom ruled comedian Frankie Boyle's comments about her disabled son Harvey broke broadcasting guidelines.