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Frankie Boyle came to prominence when he won the Daily Telegraph’s Open Mic competition in 1996, launching his stand-up career.

On TV, he has appeared on every episode of BBC Two’s Mock the Week, and has been a familiar face on 8 Out Of 10 Cats, for which he was also a writer, They Think It’s All Over, Law of the Playground and BBC Scotland’s Live Floor Show.Other writing credits include 2DTV and 29 Minute Of Fame.

He has also been a team captain on BBC Radio Scotland’s Spin on This and Famous for 5 Minutes.

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Yes, people, he hates comedy and is barely trying. He re-uses jokes- but this is so widely-known that if you go to his shows, presumably, you don't mind. The man doesn't even like TV or his job as a comedian. He has said so many times. He's still (occasionally funny). Over-rated? Probably. But the poor guy has prostituted himself enough- let's buy his book, his DVD, and the tickets for his last tour so that he can comfortably go back home in peace.

Liz Jansen, December 2009

Frankie says many comedians are only in the game to try and pull women after the show. What a clever observation. Next he'll inform us that musicians have the same agenda. Thank you Frankie for enlightening us, and just because you are personally so fucking ugly that nobody would shag you, don't spoil the spoils foer the more attractive, and maybe (God Forbid) more talented among us who women would be seen dead with.

Frankie Wankie, November 2009

Frankie Boyle is the funniest panelist on Mock The Week, but it is his delivery which stands out rather than his material and he sticks to fairly safe topics to whip up the audience, e.g. Kerry Katona, the race of men and women known as the Scottish and of late, Adrian Chiles. On the flip side, he is an absolute hog on the 'things you wouldn't' section and treats the show as if it is his own. He very rarely laughs at the guest panelists' jokes and David Mitchell quite easily upstages him every time he is on the show. If you are thinking of going to see Frankie Boyle live some time soon, be warned, he saves his best material for MTW. You might want to check out his live DVD first. It might just save you time and money that would be best spent seeing somebody decent.

Dale Boyle, September 2009

Peter Black, a few comments down, says that Frankie Boyle writes for Jimmy Carr and Sean Lock. This is untrue in terms of their primary careers; both artists believe in writing their original material to call their own. However, I think Peter is thinking about Boyle's position as a writer for 8 Out Of 10 Cats because naturally Jimmy Carr alone couldn't form so many of those jokes on a weekly basis. However, he and all the other writers on the team (e.g. Charlie Brooker, Robin Ince) only write the jokes for the autocue (i.e. Jimmy Carr's), the team captains are paid to write their own topical material, so i'd be surprised if Sean Lock and Jason Manford are having material written by Frankie Boyle. His style of jokes wouldn't fit either of them. I think Peter Black has made a sweeping generalisation, and, as a huge fan of Sean Lock, i am not pleased that someone has underestimated his abilities.

Bill Ryan, May 2009

I saw Frankie at the Gangster Party at The Stand on the closing night of the Glasgow International Comedy Festival and was disappointed to say the least. I've seen Frankie at The Stand before and at the Academy in Glasgow last year as well as buying his DVD and being a huge fan of Mock The Week. However, I feel that by using a clipboard full of jokes when headlining a sell out gig to close a great festival showed a massive lack of respect for the festival and his fans. I understood when I saw him do a pre-Edinburgh Festival gig at The Stand that he would be using the clipboard because he was trying new stuff for Edinburgh but he should have had a full act ready, prepared and polished for the Glasgow festival, not using it as a trial run for some jokes he hopes to get on telly or on his next DVD. Poor show Frankie.

Iain D\'Arcy, April 2009

Ah Frankie Boyle. I do hope that it is you on these threads. Just been reading through the comments. We all know how those panel shows like, Mock the Week and 8 out of Ten Cats work. A lot of material that is used on the show never actually makes it on the TV so that tends to be the funnier stuff. And TV itself chews up and swallows comedy at an alarming rate. Once it's been used very few comedians will use it again on a live DVD. I think the fact you did reuse some of the material surprised most the audience. However anybody on here, and I'm going to assume its all of you, who has seen Frankie on MTW would know exactly what he's like and his general attitude towards any of his topics which he decides to use. There's no point in moaning about something, which if you had time to think, had warning about. And also Frankie writes material for the likes of Jimmy Carr and Sean Lock. I think it would be interesting to see how much of their material comes from him. I realise this sounds very pro Frankie but I don't like him enough to buy his DVD myself, I watched it online ;-).

Peter Black, February 2009

Hang on...what a bunch of bitter old gits you lot are! Frankie, I think you are fantastic. I have no shame in admitting I actually peed my pants laughing at your DVD - well maybe a little bit of shame but not much. I've never seen you live but would love to. I watch Mock the Week regularly and whilst some of it was repeated it was still bloody funny. I can think of a few really offensive comedians who take it too far and Frankie Boyle isn't one of them. It's close but not too close. I think your fucking brilliant. In fact I may even have a crush on you...

Lindsey, January 2009

Best performer about at the moment? So glad I never paid to see it live, ended up reading a book while it played in the background. I feel so worthy about my life having wrote this comment, thanks for this great opportunity Chortle, fuck off Frankie and give somebody else a chance to speak on MtW.

Kev Nelson, December 2008

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