Frankie Boyle
Frankie Boyle

Frankie Boyle

  • 51 years old
  • Scottish
  • Actor, writer and stand-up comedian

Press clippings Page 48

You know what? I've been thinking that TV is complete garbage for ages... and then I realised... I've been watching, and laughing, and enjoying, Mock The Week.

Dara O'Briain, the wonderful, affable giant of a host, is a wolf in sheep's clothing. He looks and sounds for all the world like a bloody nice bloke. That is until he shoot you down with his heat seeking wit.

Same goes for Frankie Boyle. Boyle seems to be more at ease on the telly now, but hasn't lost his (f)ire. He can still pull out the jokes that make you wince and laugh simultaneously, but thankfully, gone are the 'rape' jokes. He's stopped trying too hard.

The rest of the gang are, in fairness, bit part players. That may seem a little unkind, but only Ed Byrne gets a look in when Frankie and Dara go off on one.

mofgimmers, TV Scoop, 31st August 2007

A more inane panel game you are unlikely to find - unless you catch the dire News Knight on ITV1, and I'd advise catching hepatitis instead - Mock the Week is a show you don't even laugh at contemptuously.

Rather, as Dara O'Briain, Hugh Dennis, Frankie Boyle, Andy Parsons and Russell Howard wade through it, as if through thigh-high excrement, it's a show to sit slack-jawed in front of, awestruck at its dearth of humour, charm and originality. Still, at least Ben Elton isn't in it.

Gareth McLean, The Guardian, 9th August 2007

It's great to have Mock the Week back. I love the show's lack of slickness and it's the ideal vehicle for Frankie Boyle who seems strangely restricted on News Knight with Trevor McDonald.

Dek Hogan, Digital Spy, 16th July 2007

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