Can it ever be funny to make jokes about Madeleine McCann and her parents? Or about Baby P and Katie Price’s blind, autistic son Harvey?
Not to mention Jade Goody’s cervical cancer, limbless swimmers and the rape of children?
This is what I am thinking, sitting in the audience of one of Frankie Boyle’s sell-out London shows as the audience roar and guffaw from the stalls to the circle.
This concert is part of Boyle’s current British tour, charmingly entitled I Would Happily Punch Every One Of You In The Face; a night of the kind of hateful observations and poisonous asides that masquerade as comedy in the modern world.
The Scottish entertainer says this tour will be his last as he plans to quit stand-up and do more television instead.
That’s going to be interesting. Boyle jokes that his new Channel 4 series which starts at the end of this month will be called Hide And Seek . . . And Rape. At least I hope it’s a joke.
On stage, he does indeed seem to be unhealthily obsessed with rape, but has promised to clean up his act for television. Out on the road, however, it is a different story.
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