-Frankie Boyle
When a white Irish Catholic man from Scotland has the nerve to say about America what many middle class Americans never will.
He really is the Bill Hicks who managed to avoid dying tragically young.
Ah, so much of an ally
he joked about a disabled black child – the son of some British celebs – raping his own mother (again, a disabled black child, whom he called by name on stage) and saying when the parents got divorced and fought
over custody that “one of them would have to keep him.” After the public
outcry he just kept on going, saying later “I find it hard to believe there are kids at that school who would like to slag [the child in question], but can’t think of an angle” and
then encouraged his standup audience to “join me in my attack on a disabled boy.”
Wait, you thought maybe it was just that one particular disabled person (child) he hated? Nope! Told a woman to her face her Downs Syndrome child was going to die early (”Everything I’ve said is true, isn’t it?”), after a skit which consisted of mocking people with Downs Syndrome.
There was also that time he tried to name one of his tours, “Deal with this, r*t*rds” before being stopped. (He really loves that word.)
How about using racial slurs for Edgy Comedy? Yep, he’s got you covered there, too. Reducing women to punchlines about their looks? Also something he delights in. Jokes about outright raping women? (One particular woman, whom again he named?) No problem. Constant gross tweets about a gold-medal-winning (black) sportswoman, again all said in a public arena? Check.
Oh, he says plenty good things. He says all the right things in fact. S’just when it comes to actual individual people, especially women and disabled people, he’s a bully and a harasser. But don’t you dare call him a racist, it’ll make him feel sad!