Frankie Boyle Live (DVD)

Having got into Frankie from his new autobiography, I was very keen to give his DVD a go, and I am glad I did. Frankie is a Scottish stand up comedian famous for his role in Mock the Week. This is his tour DVD from 2008. The comedy on this DVD is quick, fast paced one liners that remind me of Jimmy Carr. Because of this, it's hard to follow without staying alert, and this adds a sense of tension to the DVD as you can easily miss a joke by drifting off or being distracted for half a second. I even missed some because I was laughing from the last joke! The content is rude and vulgar, often offensive and brilliantly funny! If you are liable ...  Read the complete review

Frankie Boyle is my favourite comedian of the moment; I saw this stand-up DVD without having seen Mock the Week or having ever heard of or seen Boyle, so his cutting, insane jokes that have NO IDEA where the line is, were pleasantly surprising, and I must confess that this is probably my favourite stand-up DVD ever. I've read a lot of complaints that Boyle simply recycles Mock the Week jokes, but I think a lot of people are failing to realise that this was actually filmed around April 2008, but wasn't released on DVD until after the subsequent Mock the Week series took place, so in fact it was Mock the Week that Boyle recycled his gags on (as I can't imagine a ...  Read the complete review

After seeing comedian Frankie Boyle as one of the panellists on Mock The Week and more recently on Charlie Brooker's new programme You Have Been Watching, I thought I would check out his stand-up DVD simply titled, Frankie Boyle Live. Boyle is a Scottish comedian probably best known for his dark sense of humour and grumpy persona. I can't say that I had seen that much of him on TV before, although he seems to be on some channel or other every week, with me just flicking over and catching the odd joke or two. What I had seen I liked though and decided to sit down and watch one of his shows, as a bit of Friday night light entertainment. The humour ...  Read the complete review

'Frankie Boyle Live' is the first DVD release from the controversial comedian who has found fame on the live circuit and most notably on TV shows such as Mock the Week and 8 out of 10 cats. This DVD is a live performance from a show at the Hackney Empire in London. Boyle employs shock humour, you often find that you laugh at something then stop as you feel you shouldn't be laughing at it but then start again as you can't help yourself. I imagine that if you are easily offended or if you have never seen him before then you could easily be put off quite early into this. As he puts it in finding out a FT journalist is in the audience 'What the F##k are you ...  Read the complete review

Frankie Boyle is a Scottish stand-up comedian who is probably most famous as a panellist on Mock the Week. Frankie Boyle Live is his first and only DVD to date. Filmed at London's Hackney Empire the show runs to slightly over an hour but there are a few extras(more about them later.) Boyle's style of observational comedy touches upon many subjects including Scotland, disability, sex and several other topics. All of his preprepared material is delivered with excellent timing and wit bringing some huge laughs. In this show no topic seems taboo and he has no reservations about speaking his mind. As with most comedians, Frankie also talks to audience ...  Read the complete review