Francis Martin Patrick Boyle was born on 16 August 1972 and is a Scottish comedian and writer.
50 Facts About Frankie Boyle
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Frankie Boyle is known for his cynical, surreal, graphic and often controversial sense of humour.
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Frankie Boyle has embarked on a number of tours, releasing several stand-up specials.
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Frankie Boyle was born and raised in Pollokshaws, Glasgow, to Irish Catholic parents from Crolly in County Donegal.
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Frankie Boyle attended St Conval's Primary and Holyrood Secondary School in Glasgow.
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Frankie Boyle then studied Urban Planning at Aston University for a year before leaving and beginning a BA in English literature at the University of Sussex.
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Frankie Boyle graduated from university aged 22 and his first job was working in a mental health hospital.
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Frankie Boyle then went to a teacher-training college in Edinburgh and had placements in schools, but by then was performing as a stand-up comedian.
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Frankie Boyle first performed stand-up at the University of Sussex Student Union, later gaining his big break after performing at The Stand Comedy Club in Edinburgh and winning an open-mic event at the 1996 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
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Frankie Boyle was a regular on the BBC panel show Mock the Week from its first episode on 5 June 2005 until 17 September 2009.
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Frankie Boyle is known for his morbid sense of humour, which plays on negative images of celebrities, politicians and society.
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On 2 October 2009, Frankie Boyle announced via the Mock the Weeks Facebook fan page that he was leaving the show to concentrate on projects.
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Frankie Boyle has since criticised both the show's production team and the BBC Trust.
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Frankie Boyle is seen in archive footage of Mock the Week on the 2009 Christmas Special, which aired on 22 December 2009, as a series of "Best Bits and Festive Clips", in a compilation celebrating the show's 100th episode on 5 July 2012 as well as in archive footage on the 2012 Christmas Special, which aired on 27 December 2012.
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In October 2009, Frankie Boyle piloted a sketch and stand-up show for Channel 4, entitled Deal With This, Retards to be produced by RDF Scotland subsidiary the Comedy Unit.
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Frankie Boyle mentioned on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross that the original title of the show had been dropped, due to its offensive nature, and been renamed Tramadol Nights and aired from the end of November 2010.
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Frankie Boyle caused controversy on the show with his comments about Katie Price and Dwight Yorke's disabled son, Harvey.
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In 2014, Frankie Boyle starred in the short comedy film Gasping for BBC Scotland, written by Greg Hemphill.
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Frankie Boyle contributes occasional articles to UK newspapers, including satire and opinion pieces for the British newspaper The Guardian.
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Frankie Boyle wrote a regular column for The Sun until 2012.
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Frankie Boyle's first fictional book, Meantime, is a crime fiction novel set in Glasgow in the aftermath of Scottish Independence.
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Frankie Boyle wrote for the book while in hotel rooms after a gig, saying that he would be unable to sleep due to adrenaline.
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Frankie Boyle said at the Edinburgh Book Festival in 2022: "I would much rather, if I could, segue into writing novels and just stay in the house and not travel so much".
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Frankie Boyle said of writing, in comparison to stand-up comedy, that "you don't have to go and sell it to people".
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Frankie Boyle planned to begin writing a second novel over Christmas 2022.
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In October 2007 Frankie Boyle embarked on a stand-up tour of Britain, playing over 100 dates and enjoying a sold-out run that was extended through until December 2008.
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Frankie Boyle said that he planned to retire from live stand-up before he turned 40, had written his final tour, and planned to do more television work after this.
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Frankie Boyle performed the tour, entitled I Would Happily Punch Every One of You in the Face, between March and December 2010.
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On 21 November 2011, at a "Meet the Comedians" session in the Apple Store, Regent Street with Jimmy Carr, Frankie Boyle announced he was doing another tour entitled The Last Days of Sodom, despite intending I Would Happily Punch Every One of You in the Face to be his final one.
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Frankie Boyle mentioned the tour would not be as long as its predecessor.
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Frankie Boyle's website stated it would run from July to December 2012 with more dates to be added.
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Frankie Boyle has featured in three DVD compilations of material from Mock the Week.
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The recording includes some audience interaction, with Frankie Boyle offering to test some of his new "put-downs" on the crowd.
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In September 2010, Frankie Boyle began publishing his comic strip Rex Royd in the launch issue of CLiNT magazine, co-written with comedian Jim Muir and with artwork by Michael Dowling.
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Frankie Boyle appeared as himself in the video game Grand Theft Auto: The Lost and Damned, in a stand-up routine at Liberty City's Split Sides Comedy Club.
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Frankie Boyle appeared on Real Radio Wales's weekly comedy show Comedy Nighthorse on 19 October 2011.
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Frankie Boyle made his theatrical stage debut playing the role of Hamm in a production of the Samuel Beckett play, 'Endgame'.
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Frankie Boyle has been involved in several public controversies due to his humour.
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Frankie Boyle was eventually cleared of any misconduct by the BBC Trust, although they called the comment "sexist and ageist".
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In 2018, Frankie Boyle accused BBC television producers of "editing out" comments he made on New World Order about Palestinian deaths on the Gaza border and his joke about "Israel being an Apartheid state".
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In July 2011, the Daily Mirror published an article strongly criticising Frankie Boyle which alleged he had been forced to quit Mock the Week and described him as a "racist comedian".
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On 6 March 2013, Frankie Boyle caused controversy when he was invited to perform at Russell Brand's BBC Three fundraiser Give It Up for Comic Relief at Wembley Arena.
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Frankie Boyle was called a hypocrite by some other comedians and fans due to his history of jokes about killing celebrities and marginalised groups, including about transgender people.
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Frankie Boyle has admitted that his career had caused him to neglect his family.
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Frankie Boyle is a supporter of the Glasgow-based Celtic Football Club.
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Frankie Boyle has been known to have an interest in Gaelic Football, particularly involving County Donegal, having attended their Senior Club County Final in 2018, won by Gaoth Dobhair.
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Frankie Boyle posted a picture to his Instagram account of himself and Donegal footballer Eamon McGee with the Sam Maguire Cup, a trophy awarded to the winner of the All Ireland Football Championship.
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Frankie Boyle was an alcoholic, having started drinking at the age of 15 and stopped at 26, and is a former drug user, who now maintains a life of sobriety.
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When making the TV show Frankie Boyle Goes to Russia before the 2018 World Cup, he travelled there by train.
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Frankie Boyle is a supporter of Noam Chomsky and says that Chomsky has had a great influence on his political beliefs, claiming to be more left-wing than Chomsky himself.