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Frankie Boyle on modern society
By Will last year, at the end of October Add your comment below
Political correctness and the banality it engenders. Frankie Boyle is an angry, brilliant man. I’ve always admired people who speak their mind. I try to, and often do, but not as much as my Grandfather who’d think nothing of seeing someone in a weird hat, going over to them, and saying “Were you paid to wear that?” Or, in the nicest possible way and with absolutely no malice, greeting a Jewish person in a very loud voice with “Shalom!”
Boyle’s problem – if it is a problem – is that life, or society, is too bland for him. He doesn’t really admire anyone on the mainstream comedy circuit, believing comedy has become a career – “There’s a lot of banality about” – and, despite his need to promote his autobiography, he rages against the fact that everything has become so PR-driven.
“Everything is so mediated,” he says, and swings into an amusing story about a contribution he was asked to make to The Culture Show.
“They wanted 10 celebrity inserts about ‘what is culture’,” he recalls. “And my thing was culture is a war of ideas. People such as stand-ups and artists and alternative thinkers are on one side and you’re fighting with pea shooters against these giant summer blockbusters that are designed to have this numbing ideology.
“They just looked at me and said, ‘What? We really can’t show that at all.’ So I said what do you want, and they said, ‘We had Patsy Kensit in today and that was good.’ She said, ‘Culture is buying my daughter an ice-cream at the Natural History Museum.’ So that’s what you’re up against. That’s the level of banality that’s desired.”
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