Frankie Boyle is 'pathetic'

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Slammed over 'autistic' comment

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arjayeff · Joined: 01 Jan 2012 Posts: 16

I might look to get a laugh at the "expense" of a group in society but generally shy away from naming and shaming individuals. Some exceptions perhaps - individual politicians, industrialists and entertainers are also fair game IMHO.
A laugh at the expense of the disadvantaged or, in this case, a group of schoolkids that he names and shames is a cheap route to notoriety and celebrity that he chooses, rather than needs, to use.

hodgson · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Posts: 1144

He's never the target of his own humour and that makes him comes off as really unlikeable
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Arthur Daley · Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 8:39 pm Post subject: Re: Frankie Boyle is 'pathetic'

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hodgson · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Posts: 1144

The McSquirters were indeed a pair of strike breaking, pro apartheid , anti NHS scumbags.
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HazelHumph · Joined: 15 Apr 2003 Posts: 11183 Location: Essex

Perhaps rather than being sickened by Boyle's cynicism which he expresses for a living, Ms Dineage MP would be better off fighting the cynicism of a government which will keep places like Gosport as the "deprived" area that comedians take the piss out of for easy laughs.

Seriously if anyone was traumatised over this, they do need to get a grip. It's one of those jokes where you replace the place name and it means the same thing. Liverpool, Jaywick, Croyden, Streatham....oops can't say Streatham!

Anyhow they have got some great publicity for their event (which I sadly doubt would have made many front pages otherwise) and no individuals were named.

Surely it's Frankie's casual use of disability as an insult that is the most unpleasant aspect of this story.
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Arthur Daley · Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 7:27 pm Post subject:

Well, it's quite hard to turn "autistic" into a compliment.

I mean really, it's nothing that you cant hear every night of the week at every open mike night in London. Okay too many disability jokes and one starts to suspect a neo-Nazi agenda but really... I dont think turning everything into a taboo actually helps andybody/everybody and I have to wonder how long it will be before political correctness stops us from actually ever saying anything about any real issue.

Not that I dont believe in political correctness as an idea but any idea taken to extremes is retarded ... As John Cleese once said (I'm paraphrasing) ...although not upsetting anyone needlessly or picking on the weak seems like a good idea and probably is generally ...if you end up moderating what you say to the barometer of the most sensitive people in society ...when you analyse that ...it's actually a bit sick.
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mike taylor · Joined: 13 Nov 2007 Posts: 696 Location: Manchester

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dani · Joined: 26 Oct 2011 Posts: 25 Location: Gloucestershire

I have an autistic child and found his joke very funny.
He's also probably done more to raise awareness of autism in one sentence than the current government ever will.

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