Having decided that no publicity is bad publicity, Channel Four've apparently decided that they're going to work with Boyle to develop a "topical" comedy show.

The only way this feels like it couldn't be a train wreck after Tramadol Nights is if "work with" means keeping a muzzle and a leash on him - but I doubt that Boyle would agree to that.

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I'd've welcomed a bit more Frankie during the last 2 weeks.

Frankie Boyle on MtW with a BBC confident enough to have run the story on that show would have been epic entertainment.

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Indeed bluebell, and I must say that although I agree with the general feeling here that Tramadol was mostly bad quality rushed through it seemed to capitalise on his popularity, a new Frankie show at a time like this is sorely missed by many.

Panel shows suit him, I think it could work very well for him (if he's given the chance).

As for comicfight, Davies would crush the lot of them, possibly literaly.

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Stewart Lee on the other hand would be awful in a fight.

He'd think he'd be great because everyone he knows tells him he would be, but put him up against an even slightly talented opponent, and he'd crumble like a bitch. Then claim he actualy won by his own proper rules but we're all too stupid to see that obviously. Whilst calling other, greater comedians arseholes as he drags his limping carcas from the ring.

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After that first bout, the audience had developed a taste for blood.
A chant arose in the cheap seats at the back, and spread to the ringside.
The crowd demanded another sacrifice.

Mac-in-tyre, Mac-in-tyre, Mac-in-tyre, Mac-in-tyre, Mac-in-tyre, Mac-in-tyre.

Oblivious to the danger, the next challenger skipped to the ring...

...his head bobbing infuriatingly, as if he'd already endured ten rounds of Davies sitting on his skull until his neck snapped, but amazingly he is still yet to take a single hit,

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Frank does seem one miserable unpleasant Jock. But funnily enough that episode was the best by far.

And he's off again.

New book to flog, Frankie? Readership on your newspaper column down? Post-MtW career still not being as fair to your immense, world-beating amazingness as you tell your poor, victimised self it should be?

Still coming across as a tired, hackneyed shock jock who now not only has to be pointlessly offensive to get attention, but can't even think of anything new to be offensive about.

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And again.


Apparently, that's "non-discriminatory".

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I thought that was an okay joke. Sort of on a par with Jimmy Carr's controversial quip a few years back about the UK going to have a brilliant Paralympics team thanks to IEDs in Afghanistan. Actual victims from Aghanistan loved the joke and laughed out loud at the gallows humour, and waddaya know - we do actually have former servicemen who lost limbs in Afghanistan competing as paralympians today.

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To me, that seemed more like laughing with them than laughing at them - making lemonade when life gives you lemons, if you will. Carr said himself that he'd picked the joke up from squaddies, and I can believe it. Ultimately, the disabled people get the last laugh in the punchline, even if making a joke about war and war wounds seems off-colour - there's no actual, personal insult there.

Calling the team a bunch of thieves just strikes me as off, even without the disability angle. Lazy, negative, stereotyping. I'd expect that joke from someone more like Jim Davison.

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Surely the point about the "thieves" reference was to point out that it might be possible for some of the Saudi paralympians to have acquired their disabilities via the penal limb amputations that still pertain in that country under their somewhat savage sharia legal system - obviously exaggerated for comic effect - an all but unique feature of that society. It wasn't having a laugh by calling them thieves, and although something of an (inevitably) negative stereotype, I didn't think it was lazy.

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That's how you and I read it and I'm sure that's what Boyle intended. However the Mailtards see it as bashing the Arabs/Muslims AND being un-pc by mocking the disabled. So, a bit like the Danish Mohammed cartoons, different people appreciate the joke, but for very different reasons. Perhaps Boyle should have anticipated that.

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That subtle admixture of the absurd and the surreally plausible...

I liked his joke about the high jumper's personal best being set with Al Qaida assistance. Squaddies would laugh at that.