History Creator / FrankieBoyle

His career hit a speedbump in November 2010, Creator/Channel4 released his new sketch show, ''Series/FrankieBoylesTramadolNights'', which included a joke involving Katie Price's disabled son Harvey. This caused an extreme wave of controversy[[note]]When you manage to sink lower than ''Creator/BernardManning'' who for all his faults refused to tell jokes about disabled kids as "they couldn't help it" then you really must want to torpedo your career[[/note]], [[RecycledScript despite the fact that he told the same joke]] during his 2010 stand up tour (with the DVD being widely available at the time). While Boyle didn't withdraw from public life completely, he announced that his latest stand-up tour ''The Last Days of Sodom'' [[OneLastJob would be his last as he wants to spend more time with his family and is tired of touring]].

Boyle eventually made a return to touring and television in 2012. He hosted a special for Channel Four entitled ''The Boyle Variety Show'', which was a mixture of Frankie doing stand up and several other acts including comedians and musical performances in the style of a [[JustForPun Royal]] Variety Show. While it was generally well received, Boyle managed to stir up more controversy with a series of jokes about the 2012 Paralympics (Which Channel Four has exclusive broadcasting rights to) on his Twitter account. He ended up staying away from Creator/Channel4 for an entire decade before returning to present a documentary in 2022,[[note]]It was about the UsefulNotes/BritishRoyalFamily but had to be shelved when Elizabeth II passed away[[/note]] followed by competing on [[Recap/TaskmasterSeriesFifteen the fifteenth series]] of ''Series/{{Taskmaster}}'' the following year.

Boyle eventually made a return to touring and television in 2012. He hosted a special for Channel Four entitled ''The Boyle Variety Show'', which was a mixture of Frankie doing stand up and several other acts including comedians and musical performances in the style of a [[JustForPun Royal]] Variety Show. While it was generally well received, Boyle managed to stir up more controversy with a series of jokes about the 2012 Paralympics (Which Channel Four has exclusive broadcasting rights to) on his Twitter account. He ended up staying away from Creator/Channel4 for an entire decade before returning to present a documentary in 2022[[note]]It was about the UsefulNotes/BritishRoyalFamily but had to be shelved when Elizabeth II passed away[[/note]].

* ViolentGlaswegian: On a [=BBC=] travelogue show where he was tasked with making sense of UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} for British people, Frankie spent time with the UsefulNotes/{{Cossacks}}. His hosts demonstrated their sword-skills to him, and gave the impression that they'd be very surprised if any non-Cossack, let alone a non-Russian, would even know which end to hold a sabre by. Allowed to try and replicate one of their feats of swordsmanship, with the expectation he would prove to be amusingly inept at it, Frankie took a swing and managed it first go. Then a second time on the backswing. As he said afterwards, he was aware he'd just completely failed to dispel a lingering cultural prejudice concerning Scotsmen with sharp blades.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: The "jerk" part doesn't need explaining considering what pretty much everything on this page says about him (to drive the point further home, the names of his live shows include "''I Would Happily Punch Every One Of You In The Face''" and "''Morons, I Can Heal You''"). However, to quote Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}, he "said that the situation in Palestine "seems to be, in essence, apartheid", concluding that he had reached this position after watching a documentary about life in Palestine that had made him cry". There's also the below quote.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: The "jerk" part doesn't need explaining considering what pretty much everything on this page says about him (to drive the point further home, the names of his live shows include "''I Would Happily Punch Every One Of You In The Face''" and "''Morons, I Can Heal You''"). However, to quote {{Wiki/Wikipedia}}, he "said that the situation in Palestine "seems to be, in essence, apartheid", concluding that he had reached this position after watching a documentary about life in Palestine that had made him cry". There's also the below quote.

** Creator/MichaelMacIntyre, for his very safe, suburban, and borderline-offensively banal content;

In November 2010, Creator/Channel4 released his new sketch show, ''Series/FrankieBoylesTramadolNights'' in which a joke involving Katie Price's disabled son Harvey caused an extreme wave of controversy and arguably almost put an end to his TV career[[note]]When you manage to sink lower than ''Creator/BernardManning'' who for all his faults refused to tell jokes about disabled kids as "they couldn't help it" then you really must want to torpedo your career[[/note]], [[CrossesTheLineTwice despite it being recycled from his 2010 stand up tour/DVD]]. While Boyle isn't withdrawing from public life completely, he has said his latest stand-up tour ''The Last Days of Sodom'' [[OneLastJob is going to be his last as he wants to spend more time with his family and is tired of touring]]. Although his previous tour [[RefugeInAudacity ''I would happily punch every one of you in the face'']] (Released on DVD as [[CrossesTheLineTwice ''If I could reach out through your TV and strangle you, I would'']]) was also [[TenMinuteRetirement stated to be his last,]] [[OneLastJob so you never know]].

Boyle made a return to television in August 2012 to host a special for Channel Four entitled ''The Boyle Variety Show'', which was a mixture of Frankie doing stand up and several other acts including comedians and musical performances in the style of a [[JustForPun Royal]] Variety Show. While it was generally well received, Boyle managed to stir up more controversy with a series of jokes about the 2012 Paralympics (Which Channel Four has exclusive broadcasting rights to) on his Twitter account. It is currently unknown if Creator/Channel4 will be working with Frankie again in the future.

Surprisingly, however, the increasingly-unsettled context of British and European politics (particularly the lead-up to the 2015 Scottish referendum, the 2016 "Brexit" vote and the election of Creator/DonaldTrump to the US Presidency) has become a well-spring of satire, which catapulted Frankie back to Creator/TheBBC (first in the ''Autopsy'' iPlayer specials, and then back to BBC Two via ''Series/FrankieBoylesNewWorldOrder''). Perhaps unusually for someone who has spent so much of his career lampooning PoliticalOvercorrectness, his recent shows and editorials lean hard to the left, which has helped him find a resurgent audience in the field of British comedy.

* ViolentGlaswegian: On a [=BBC=] travelogue show where he was tasked with making sense of UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} for British people, Frankie spent time with the UsefulNotes/{{Cossacks}}. His hosts demonstrated their sword-skills to him, and gave the impression that they'd be very surprised if any non-Cossack, let alone a non-Russian, would even know which end to hold a sabre by. Allowed to try and replicate one of their feats of swordsmanship, with the expectation he would prove to be amusingly inept at it, Frankie took a swing and managed it first go. Then a second time on the backswing. As he said afterwars, he was aware he'd just completely failed to dispel a lingering cultural prejudice concerning Scotsmen with sharp blades.

* [[BlackComedy Pitch-Black-To-The-Point-Of-No-Return-On-An-Infinite-Journey-Into-Hell Comedy]]

Surprisingly, however, the increasingly-unsettled context of British and European politics (particularly the lead-up to the 2015 Scottish referendum, the 2016 "Brexit" vote and the election of Creator/DonaldTrump to the US Presidency) has become a well-spring of satire, which catapulted Frankie back to Creator/TheBBC (first in the ''Autopsy'' iPlayer specials, and then back to BBC Two via ''Series/FrankieBoylesNewWorldOrder''). Perhaps unusually for someone who has spent so much of his career lampooning PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad, his recent shows and editorials lean hard to the left, which has helped him find a resurgent audience in the field of British comedy.

** In his autobiography ''My Shit Life So Far'', Frankie makes it clear how much he learnt to loathe and despise most people involved in commissioning and production of television shows, especially the Creator/{{BBC}}. His experience was one of the performing talent working in opposition to the execs, with the TV suits being keen, above all, to avoid even the slightest whiff of career-breaking controversy or edge, often at thne expense of any creative originality in the shows. ExecutiveMeddling was something he learnt to loathe, and exercise of the ExecutiveVeto happened frequently and drove him to the point where he was asking if it was worth the effort. Frankie tried to throw in lots of outrageous and deliberately offensive material when it was too late to edit it out, just to make the point.

** He's infamous for his dark sense of humour but on ''Series/Room101'', he says he hates celebrity atheists. He states that while he is an atheist, he wouldn't be so judgemental towards someone who needs faith to help find comfort during hopeless times.
** Transphobia is something he won't stoop to. When Creator/RickyGervais made an entire stand up set about how he should start identifying as a chimpanzee now that "people can identify as whatever they want", Frankie called him out for picking on trans people instead of writing any actual jokes.

* BerserkButton: Though this is what set him off on stage once, and had him taking a pause in between touring because he was close to a breakdown. Being a comedian is a job too, and you can get overworked it seems.

* BadassBeard: Grew one in his late career. It's [[http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/11/25/1322220839370/Frankie-Boyle-007.jpg awesome.]]

Surprisingly, however, the increasingly-unsettled context of British and European politics (particularly the lead-up to the 2015 Scottish referendum, the 2016 "Brexit" vote and the election of Creator/DonaldTrump to the US Presidency) has become a well-spring of satire, which catapulted Frankie back to Creator/TheBBC (first in the ''Autopsy'' iPlayer specials, and then back to BBC Two via ''Frankie Boyle's New World Order''). Perhaps unusually for someone who has spent so much of his career lampooning PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad, his recent shows and editorials lean hard to the left, which has helped him find a resurgent audience in the field of British comedy.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Frankie was less than pleased when the very first episode of his new TV series ''Frankie Boyle's New World Order'', billed as a satirical and acid commentary on the previous week's news, went out. Unknown to him, ExecutiveMeddling had severely edited the broadcast show to make it look as if he was tamely approving of the BBC's editorial news line and sympathetic to government whilst hostile to the opposing Labour Party. A barrage of criticism followed from fans who were asking him when he'd been bought by the establishment, and whether selling out had been the price he paid for getting a TV show. Frankie pointed out, among other things, that he had not been responsible for the way the show had been edited and he had no knowledge of how it had been edited - he said the original recording session had been a lot longer and the true, acid-cynical, Frankie Boyle had been present both in comment and in humour - not that you'd have known it from the edit. People in the studio audience confirmed this and said the tame broadcast edition was not the show they'd attended.

* DeathSeeker: Where his TV career is concerned, at least. Given how much he manages to severely cause outrage amongst the tabloids and the moral guardians (As well as landing the TV companies themselves in hot water) one has to wonder about why he would repeatedly put himself in such a position of hatred. It's also arguably what led to his departure from Mock the Week, the cancellation of ''Tramadol Nights'' and most recently his Twitter jokes about the Paralympics which seem have put his relationship with Channel Four [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/aug/31/frankie-boyle-paralympics-twitter-jokes?newsfeed=true in serious jeopardy.]]. Some believe Frankie's desire to retire sooner rather than later has led to him trying to make sure that nobody will bother him to come back. He even referred to his recent ''Boyle Variety Show'' as his "Career suicide note" in an interview for a TV Guide included in British tabloid ''The Sun'' (For whom he is also a weekly columnist).

* EveryoneHasStandards: He's infamous for his dark sense of humour but on ''Series/Room101'', he says he hates celebrity atheists. He states that while he is an atheist, he wouldn't be so judgemental towards someone who needs faith to help find comfort during hopeless times.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: When asked by his daughter, "Daddy, what's the best thing in the world?" he didn't have to think twice before answering "You are, sweetheart. You're the best thing in the world."
** To which she replied "For me it's sausages."

In November 2010, Creator/Channel4 released his new sketch show, ''Series/FrankieBoylesTramadolNights'' in which a joke involving Katie Price's disabled son Harvey caused an extreme wave of controversy and arguably almost put an end to his TV career[[note]]When you manage to sink lower than ''Bernard Manning'' who for all his faults refused to tell jokes about disabled kids as "they couldn't help it" then you really must want to torpedo your career[[/note]], [[CrossesTheLineTwice despite it being recycled from his 2010 stand up tour/DVD]]. While Boyle isn't withdrawing from public life completely, he has said his latest stand-up tour ''The Last Days of Sodom'' [[OneLastJob is going to be his last as he wants to spend more time with his family and is tired of touring]]. Although his previous tour [[RefugeInAudacity ''I would happily punch every one of you in the face'']] (Released on DVD as [[CrossesTheLineTwice ''If I could reach out through your TV and strangle you, I would'']]) was also [[TenMinuteRetirement stated to be his last,]] [[OneLastJob so you never know]].

** To which she replied "For me it's chips."

* TooSoon: Frankie, [[BlackComedy being Frankie]], naturally obliterated this when he was asked about the suggested cost of the state funeral for UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher, and he suggested that £3 million would be more than enough to buy everyone in Scotland a shovel [[CrossesTheLineTwice so they could dig a hole deep enough to hand her over to Satan personally.]]

Surprisingly, however, the increasingly-unsettled context of British and European politics (particularly the lead-up to the 2015 Scottish referendum, the 2016 "Brexit" vote and the election of Creator/DonaldTrump to the US Presidency) has become a well-spring of satire, which catapulted Frankie back to Creator/TheBBC (first in the ''Autopsy'' iPlayer specials, and then back to BBC Two via ''Frankie Boyle's New World Order'').

* EveryoneHasStandards: He's infamous for his dark sense of humour but on ''Series/Room101'', he says that he hates celebrity atheists. He states that while he is an atheist, he wouldn't insult or mock someones faith because it's something that helps them endure the day and have hope.

* EveryoneHasStandards: He's infamous for his dark sense of humour but on the show "Room 101", he says that he hates celebrity atheists. He states that while he is an atheist, he wouldn't insult or mock someones faith because it's something that helps them endure the day and have hope.

* TokenEvilTeamMate: The comedy equivalent on Series/MockTheWeek, and any other panel show he appears on.