Frankie Boyle's joke about Rebecca Adlington: Racist gags worse than personal attacks? (02.11.09)

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[TWStuff]

Please keep your comments measured and don't mouth off otherwise they'll be removed. Thankyou.

[richieblackhearted]

Comedy and satire should have no boundaries. Frankie has made jokes about Kerry Katona, Princess Diana, Heather Mills, Heath Ledger the list goes on an on. He should not apologise, he should never have even been asked to. The media need to realise that regardless of how personal an insult from a comic, it is just for comic effect. Stop cracking whips and pointing fingers. If it is really that abominable, who should be blamed? The comic for saying it or the vast majority that found it funny?

[BigBulgeCheeks]

75 comments. Wow, never mind that millions of people watched mock the week and pissed themselves. That cow needs to get a sense of humour 'cos she's not exactly got her looks going for her.

[darkshinesmedic]

aww Kristian... :( RIP :(

[atticusboyx]

either everything is open to make jokes about. or nothing is.

the point of comedy is entertainment, not an outlandish personal attack on a specific person or race.. whatever. its observational comments that make people laugh. if you dont like it. deal with it, nothing happens to you when your offended, cos im so sure that these celebrities who get jokes made up about them dont even know there happening alot of the time, and if they do i dont think they should even care. i certainly wouldnt.

[Riisepower]

If she has ever laughed at a joke about someone else then she can't be upset about that. Most people have heard jokes about things that are close to them, like disease or race but you can't laugh at a joke about pedos if you haven't had a kid who was raped. Then be upset about a joke about obesity if your a fatty.

[adamsworld2k8]

Wheres The Freedom of Spech? Obviosly there isnt any in England :/

[GreatFilmMoments]

stupid woman who complaind.. ppl cant take jokes these days..

[pinkcheesey101]

The funniest part of frankies joke was this, rebecca heard it/about it, thought about it, realised that he made a good point, and got pissed about it :L

I love frankie XD

[ciaracustard]

'let's go to Lin a massive Frankie Boyle fan" - it's probably more offensive how much I laughed about that.

[570793]

You can see that the host of this show is just dying to laugh just by thinking about the joke!! Look at his face when he describes it: 0:44 - 0:48.

[dialchemy]

Oh Yeah, lets ban this aswell. Each new law we introduce like this disproves Democracy and freedom of speech, this place is gonna end up like syria in a few years, Frankie Boyle is a genius.

[cookie1994LFC]

so how come when he made fun of richard hammond, richard and the public had nothing to say? so why should this matter, get a life losers it's comedy.