Remember when you lot liked Frankie Boyle? Remember when you watched Mock The Week and thought it was ‘alright’? Remember when you realised how awful it was? Remember when Boyle turned into a poor man’s Jerry Sadowitz/post-modern Roy Chubby Brown?
Of course you do. You’re still supremely sore about it. You’re irked and wounded because someone you once liked has gone so very, very shit.
And worse still, you’re irritated because Boyle is so very good at winding you up. That’s exactly what he’s doing right now, by wishing a raping on comedians Josie Long and Richard Herring. God, he’s a twitter outrage dream isn’t he?
So what’s he done?
Well, in his new book – which we can’t remember the name of because we, like you, have absolutely no intention of actually buying it – he’s gone and made a distasteful joke… WHICH IS A MASSIVE SURPRISE ISN’T IT?
Basically, Chortle report that he’s written down a depraved daydream that imagines
“Richard Herring being ‘fucked to death?”
He also muses on Josie Long (admittedly lovely)
“inhabiting a monkey body and being raped by a similarly simian Hitler”
And, with a wearisome predictability, Twitter goes into full outrage mode, giving Boyle approximately a million times the attention he would’ve had if everyone simply ignored it.
This kind of publicising has of course been mastered by the Daily Mail and the Fox News Network, which preys on liberal outrage… which of course, is the best kind of outrage.
Why? Because all the complaining wet-farts are simply going to complain… and complain… and complain… and that’s it. Nothing else. They’ll sit there with their arms folded like sulky toddlers in a supermarket, bottom lips stuck out kicking their thin little legs to no avail.
These people are, of course, the same people who grow moustaches for charity and are politically active, provided you don’t have to do anything beyond putting your email address into an online petition.
We saw a similar level of pathetic outrage when Ricky Gervais repeatedly used the word ‘mong’. Mong, granted, is not a very nice thing to say… but the response from an online community who still says things like ‘that’s well gay’, refers to androgynous people as looking ‘like trannies’ and doesn’t mind calling a friend a ‘spazz’ is a bit rich, right?
While Boyle is, without question, a tit who likes to make crass comments for his own amusement, at least he’s canny enough to feed on the pointless outrage that exists and turn it into a decent mortgage payment or ten.
So well done to you saps for that. Perhaps we should wish a raping on you spazzofaggotAIDSnegroes too, just to provoke some kind of traffic gobbling return too?
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Gof Minger says
But you’re not ignoring it either are you, with this, erm, “story” that I expect you tweeted about. I’m outraged by your outrage at the outrage.
Arthur ASCii says
Trolling the Twitter left is like fishing in a barrel, using sticks of dynamite.
Jonny says
This article is so full of right-wing condescending bullshit that it actually makes me want to throw up on my keyboard. Im a big fan of Frankie Boyle and I think that in comedy there is no place that is off limits. You havn’t even read his book yet, but just like all the 80 year-old women who send complaints about films that havn’t even been made yet, you have an opinion. Everyone is entitled to opinion but actually read the joke in context first and then voice it, you ignorant mongoloid f.uck!