Frankie Boyles Tramadol Nights...

They should pull the plug on that appalling show before it kills his career.

I liked him on Mock the Week, the only good reason for watching the show was the odd edgy line from him.

But this stuff is putrid. Last night he managed 40 humourless minutes, interrupted by the odd downright bad effort. 'Hey, how are you fat man, the only reason she's with you is 'cos you've got your own centre of gravity' stuff. Utter peurile tripe. Give it up Frankie, you were good for a while, I for one have had enough of the abuse/metaphor/abuse/metaphor...

me too.

aye it's dire. don't watch it.

there was a good doc on more4 last night at the same time - Road to Las Vegas

Agreed. It soon gets tiresome watching someone being as deliberatley and knowingly "edgy". As you say, far better on something like Mock the Week, where he's one voice among others, but his own show clearly needs a better editor.

  On 12/15/2010 at 11:17 AM, keltoi said:

there was a good doc on more4 last night at the same time - Road to Las Vegas

Saw the end of it, seemed very good.

Watched most of "Run Ricky Run" on ESPN. Very good documentary on the career and meltdown of the superstar running back. He came across as very thoughtful and eloquent, though a man with many demons.

channel 4 in "bad comedy show" shocker

This episode was the worst so far, he is vile!

I have been quite enjoying The Morgana Show a bit though... *ducks*

i dont like it but enjoy watching it. i dont like mock the week or enjoy watching it. morgana show just isnt funny, apart from the idiron character. panel and sketch shows shouldnt be made.

The Fast Show and Big Train had some laugh out loud moments.

i was going to say 'anymore'

What is up with those sketches? They seem to be written by a complete amateur who has no idea of what is generally known to be either funny or at least watchable.

It's a complete waste of time.

  On 12/15/2010 at 2:21 PM, Conor74 said:

The Fast Show and Big Train had some laugh out loud moments.

The Fast Show had one joke per character hammered into the ground over and over again for god knows how many series. It is directly responsible for the Little Britain etc. shit we have to put up with today. Big Train on the other hand had lols in it.

This is wicked news thank fuck for that. i new i thought this was the biggest most horrid crock of shit i've seen in a while.

  On 12/15/2010 at 2:47 PM, Iain C said:

It is directly responsible for the Little Britain etc. shit we have to put up with today.

Jesus.

Little Britain. Now that WAS a really unfunny heap of shit.

Fuck me, Walliams must be the shittiest comedian ever to make millions out of one trick. Frankie Boyle, you are forgiven.

I watched Boyles first stand up DVD but it was a load of piss. I'm sure he used to be funny without having to be vulgar but now it seems to be the other way around. Probably has ruined his career if theres any justice

  On 12/15/2010 at 2:52 PM, Conor74 said:

  On 12/15/2010 at 2:47 PM, Iain C said:

It is directly responsible for the Little Britain etc. shit we have to put up with today.

 

Jesus.

 

Little Britain. Now that WAS a really unfunny heap of shit.

 

Fuck me, Walliams must be the shittiest comedian ever to make millions out of one trick. Frankie Boyle, you are forgiven.

I mean, I was a kid when the Fast Show was on... wiki says it started in 1994, I would have been 9, and my brother and I used to piss ourselves at it - but every time I've caught it in recent years I just think "wtf is this boring shit" and I can see the direct line that descends from it into the lazy, catchphrase sketch comedy we see so often today. Little Britain is beyond redemption.

I haven't seen Tramadol Nights and I have no intention to - one Jerry Sadowicz is enough.

  On 12/15/2010 at 2:47 PM, Iain C said:

  On 12/15/2010 at 2:21 PM, Conor74 said:

The Fast Show and Big Train had some laugh out loud moments.

 

The Fast Show had one joke per character hammered into the ground over and over again for god knows how many series. It is directly responsible for the Little Britain etc. shit we have to put up with today. Big Train on the other hand had lols in it.

Couldn't agree more.

Anything that Graham Linehan has anything to do with is amazing, the difference is he not only knows comedy but how to structure it.

Problem with Frankie Boyle is he thinks his stand up can translate directly to tv, if his stand ups anything to go by he seems like a complete arrogant prick he probably thought he could do all the writing himself.

You need to know basic tv aesthetics, there's no suspense its just shock value.

Frankie Boyle's a TV light Sadowitz.I did like the Harvey fucking Jordan line tho, that was Sadowitz full fat.

  On 12/15/2010 at 3:01 PM, Dirty Protest said:

Frankie Boyle's a TV light Sadowitz.I did like the Harvey fucking Jordan line tho, that was Sadowitz full fat.

Sadowitz is horrible too. I saw him live a few years ago and call me soft, but an hour of shouting wishing cancer on people isn't "edgy", it's just in very poor taste.

Totally agree with Iain C's points re Fast Show and Big Train. The Fast Show was hilarious when it first appeared, but every single character was done to death.

As for Little Britain - just dire. I see those two have another show on over Christmas set in an airport with another array of HILARIOUS characters. It's funny because foreign people talk funny! Aren't the poor and mentally ill funny?! He he he...

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You went to see Sadowitz, then complained after that it was in poor taste?You could have saved yourself £20 quite easily =)

It’s hard to say really that Big Train was better than The Fast Show, I would presume that Big Train had learned from The Fast Show and took a different angle, and purposefully avoided repeating sketches, but then of course they nosedived after one series and jacked it in. Fast Show got sickening but looking back at it there are huge amounts of amazing material in there. I still think Little Britain was good at the start, but they didn’t even try after that and just shouted catchphrases, any sketches they had somehow had the restraint to leave as they were got dredged up and fucked face down ass up. Painful viewing. Sketch shows are very shaky ground and mixing sketches into stand up doesn't often work, Russell Howard does awful ones on his show, the grinning idiot, and Stewart Lee's show had Kevin Eldon in most sketches but they tended to be a bit awkward all the same

  On 12/15/2010 at 3:40 PM, Dirty Protest said:

You went to see Sadowitz, then complained after that it was in poor taste?You could have saved yourself £20 quite easily =)

I know, I maybe should have known better. But he was a lot more bile-filled on stage (as you'd expect, in hindsight) to the point where I got the impression he stopped eben trying to be funny.

And he didn't do a single card trick.

a dude from consolevania is in this. some of the sketches are like that. which was amusing for an online video game review thing

  On 12/15/2010 at 3:50 PM, Karnov said:

  On 12/15/2010 at 3:40 PM, Dirty Protest said:

You went to see Sadowitz, then complained after that it was in poor taste?You could have saved yourself £20 quite easily =)

 

I know, I maybe should have known better. But he was a lot more bile-filled on stage (as you'd expect, in hindsight) to the point where I got the impression he stopped eben trying to be funny.

 

And he didn't do a single card trick.

i reluctantly went to see him with a friend at edinburgh festival. he did some pretty cool close-hand magic interspersed with his trademark bilious rants. he shouted in the face of some wheelchair bound disabled guy in the front row something like... "get up! fuckin get up! you're not fooling anyone you lazy fuckin leeching spastic bastard!!". the whole thing was horrible.

he's openly bitter about being banned from the airwaves when there is lots of his brand of humour on tv all the time now.