Frankie Boyle
- 52 years old
- Scottish
- Actor, writer and stand-up comedian
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Frankie Boyle's Katie Price jokes censured
Media regulator Ofcom has censured comedian Frankie Boyle and Channel 4 for broadcasting "offensive" jokes about Katie Price and her son Harvey.
BBC News, 4th April 2011Blind charity calls for action against Frankie Boyle
Frankie Boyle is facing further backlash against his shows after a blind charity called for a boycott of his latest tour.
Such Small Portions, 28th March 2011Frankie Boyle defends Harvey joke
The Tramadol Nights star finally speaks out on his controversial gag, adding a couple more to the mix...
Spoonfed, 22nd March 2011Video: Katie Price condemns Frankie Boyle
Katie Price condemns the Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle, who regularly tells jokes about her and her disabled son Harvey.
The glamour model and television personality told BBC Radio 5 Live: "If he wants to take the mickey about someone's disability... to me that's sick, that's not even funny."
Richard Bacon, BBC News, 22nd March 2011Frankie Boyle escapes rap for Tramadol Nights advert
Frankie Boyle has escaped being given a slap on the wrist by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for a poster promoting his controversial Tramadol Nights show.
Metro, 16th March 2011O'Grady attacks C4 over the 'disgusting' Frrankie Boyle
Paul O'Grady, who left Channel 4 in 2009, says other comedians would have been sacked for making the same 'disgusting' jokes as Frankie Boyle.
Richard Eden, The Telegraph, 6th February 2011Video: Jack Dee - Maypole dancing with Boyle and Hague?
Jack Dee joined BBC Breakfast today to help launch the 2011 Comic Relief campaign: Do Something Funny for Money.
The comedian explains why his idea of maypole dancing with William Hague and Frankie Boyle was turned down!
Comic Relief's Red Nose Day is on the 18 March 2011.
BBC News, 3rd February 2011Mark Watson: My war with Frankie Boyle
In the past few weeks, I briefly became a hot topic on Twitter; I was in a couple of national newspapers; I was written about exhaustively on every comedy website of note; and I became enough of a talking point - at least in certain small, Soho-based circles - that quite a few conversations I've had have begun with people asking, "How have you been?" You could say that I've been the centre of attention, which is what all comedians want, in a nutshell. So that's the good news.
Mark Watson, The New Statesman, 1st February 2011Frankie Boyle's comedy show faces the axe
Channel 4 is expected to axe Frankie Boyle's controversial comedy show after he mocked the disabled and used racist language.
Liz Thomas, Daily Mail, 19th January 2011Channel 4 denies it has 'dumped' Frankie Boyle
Claims that Frankie Boyle has lost his comedy show and threw a tantrum over the British Comedy awards are denied.
Eliot Sefton, The First Post, 19th January 2011