A biography for Frankie Boylehasn’t been written yet.
“I have no real enemies in comedy, but there are a couple of people who I'd laugh about if I heard that their legs had fallen off.”
“There's still a lot of racism in stand-up.”
“Trump's one liberal policy seems to be his desire to pump more funding into mental health - which I've taken the liberty of interpreting as a massive cry for help.”
“I'm actually all for political correctness. If you want to work to change the usage of a word that's discriminatory then fine, I'm behind you. But that's a conversation that needs to be had in the culture. You can't just decide that commonly used parts of a language are evil and that the people who didn't get the memo must be bad people.”
“Bisexuals are really attracted to senior Lib Dems - as they are both a man and a great big pussy.”
“I'm not cynical at all.”
“Your ruling class don't care about what happens to you. What seems like some enormous upset in your community is undetectable from a helicopter or a speeding motorcade. They are pitiless.”
“Sectarianism is a real problem, but it should be addressed by people engaging with each other - reconciliation.”
“A lot of racism comes from projection. White Americans have a stereotype of black people being criminals purely because they can't acknowledge that it was actually white people that stole them from Africa in the first place.”
“It is part of my job description to be offensive.”
“My uncle would have about ten pints some nights and then drive us all home. I guess the feeling was that we weren't going to crash into anyone, because barely any fucker lived there.”
“On channels terrified of accusations of bias, or political retribution, comics making jokes about the growing power base of far-right politicians aren't taking the 'easy' route.”
“There's been a thread of coverage implying that Corbyn is a decent guy but he clearly doesn't understand how the world works. Ignoring the fact that for the majority of people, it doesn't.”
“Supporting Rangers, being in an Orange Lodge, that whole life - that's a valid culture.”
“I love the BBC and I think it's a really important thing.”
“Corbyn sounds like a dreadful town, dresses like a catalogue model for the Sue Ryder shop and won't look significantly different when he's been dead for a week.”
“People think that the Middle East is very complex but I have an analogy that sums it up quite well. If you imagine that Palestine is a big cake, well... that cake is being punched to pieces by a very angry Jew.”
“We live in a country where posting 'Let's riot or something bruv!' on Facebook will get you a couple of years in prison, while writing a column saying we should bomb Syria is practically an entrance exam for public intellectuals.”
“I've never felt any sense of kinship with other comedians; they've always seemed too needy.”
“People hate jokes.”