A biography for Frankie Boylehasn’t been written yet.
“It's always easier to dismiss other people than to go through the awkward and time consuming process of understanding them.”
“The truth is that modern governments sit at the head of a well-funded security apparatus. They are told that foreign military adventures put domestic populations at risk and they give them the thumbs up anyway.”
“I'm not Russell Brand or Ricky Gervais, but I have enough money that I don't have to work. Most people who've done what I do don't have that.”
“I went through a brief phase years ago of getting Men's Health then I realised there are actually only three ways to do a sit-up and they're just repackaging it endlessly.”
“There are many indicators of advanced civilisations, but unthinking hero worship of the military isn't one of them.”
“Somehow, I always imagine that Trump spends the evenings with his forehead pressed against the cold glass of an aquarium, talking telepathically to the tormented albino squid in which he has hidden his soul.”
“We live in a culture built on debt, so we are encouraged to have no self control.”
“I have some friends who are comedians but not many.”
“I don't think I'm angry. I'm horrified - powered by horror.”
“Let's not forget that the essential message of a Republican candidate is a tricky sell. That you love America, but hate all the groups that make up America. That you love democracy, but hate people.”
“America has gone from the Obama Years to the Trump Years, like going from the 'West Wing' to a sitcom where the incidental music involves a tuba.”
“Our attitudes are fostered by a society built on ideas of dominance, where the solution to crises are force and action, rather than reflection and compromise.”
“The No 1 priority in TV comedy today is 'don't frighten the horses,' and it's probably No 2 and 3 as well.”
“I don't believe I'm a recovering alcoholic - I'm someone who used to drink. AA comes from a religious movement and that whole thing of 'I'm always burdened with this' and the original sin idea. It's not like that for me.”
“The average British person would hear me doing my joke about Rebecca Adlington and realise there's no malice in it. It was an off-the-cuff ad lib.”
“I think you have a lot of rich and Conservative people who control our country who are racist and their views trickle down through things like tabloid papers.”
“I've been studying Israeli army martial arts. I now know 16 ways to kick a Palestinian woman in the back.”
“The Conservative party now exists largely to misinform the public, to convince voters struggling through austerity that they have the same interests as billionaires and corporations.”
“In the future we will all be famous for 15 minutes. It will be on a daytime magazine programme and we will each wear a tasteful shirt and slacks combination. We'll be interviewed by a soothing voice under a clock that's permanently set to 4pm. We will talk about the weather. We will record for months to get 15 minutes they can use in the edit.”
“People feel much more comfortable with the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' version of women's liberation: possibly feeling life would be much simpler if the suffragettes hadn't wanted the vote and just really enjoyed chaining themselves to railings.”