The controversial comedian Frankie Boyle played a second night at Portsmouth Guildhall last night. I have to admit I was a little apprehensive about this gig, due to the press a story in the press last week, highlighting how he had offended a mother who had a downs syndrome daughter. About three of his jokes are about downs syndrome; however, Boyle did make a good point in that the jokes about downs syndrome are probably the least offensive of his whole act!
No one and no thing is safe from the comedian’s dark humour, from religion to politics, Jade Goody to Christine Bleakley. There were a lot of his jokes when I wondered if it was right to laugh and some jokes were very close to the knuckle. But then you know what you are getting when you see Frankie Boyle, the things that used to be left in when he was on Mock the Week was shocking enough, so imagine him uncensored, if you didn’t like him then, you would hate him live.
He is probably one of the most un-PC comedians around, talking about Baby P and Jack Tweed’s recent rape case. Saying that he did make some valid points about Ashley Cole using an unregistered phone so he could send anonymous texts to women and then used said phone to take photos of his face! A true definition of a moron as Frankie put it himself.
I knew that he was probably one of those comedians who talks to the crowd, so I made sure all toilet breaks were taken before he came on. He tried to give career advice to some lad in the front row as well as trying to convince a social worker for young offenders to turn into a modern day Fagin.
One thing I found increasingly annoying wasn’t Boyle’s crude jokes but the people in the crowd taking photos. Particularly two girls in the second row who throughout seemed to be either filming, taking photos or texting, seemingly totally disinterested, why pay £20 to come to a show and then not pay attention! They did however, catch the attention of Boyle who asked the woman to turn her phone off and even threatened to chuck her out of the auditorium.
One mention has to go to Craig Campbell, the support act, a Canadian who has lived in this country for 10 years gave a brilliant and hilarious insight into England, he is visiting the south on tour, make sure you check him out.
Frankie Boyle was funnier than I was expecting but just as outrageous.
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