Frankie Boyle's Tramadol Nights

Heckler1974

:shock:

I thought he was the funniest thing on Mock the Week, unrestrained, he's just shock for it's own sake and after a while started to really grate.

I'll lay odds he'll get pulled after a couple of episodes....

LangerDan

Heckler1974 wrote:

I'll lay odds he'll get pulled after a couple of episodes....

That'll be nice for him. Most comedians only get a warm bottle of Stella in the Green Room.

CHRISNOIR

LangerDan wrote:

Heckler1974 wrote:

I'll lay odds he'll get pulled after a couple of episodes....

That'll be nice for him. Most comedians only get a warm bottle of Stella in the Green Room.

Strong posting there.

Heckler1974

Ba-bom tish.

zanelad

I was very disappointed in the show. Just wasn't funny. My wife asked why I watched such crap and to be honest, I had to agree with her.

I like Frankie Boyle, but if the show doesn't get better I doubt that I'll continue to watch many more episodes.

takethehighroad

I'd heard good things about his book so I read it on holiday. I was disappointed in that too, a lot of recycled jokes from MTW and a kind of diatribe about how awful the world is

AndyF16

A promising new show but very disappointing IMO - stern Auntie Beeb punished him so he's gone to liberal Uncle Channel 4 and is being as gratuitously crass as possible like a spoiled kid

Heckler1974

AndyF16 wrote:

- stern Auntie Beeb punished him

I did not know that, was he asked to leave Mock the Week then?

UpTheWall

Agreed.

Saw him live at the Apollo a few weeks back and he has seriously dropped his skill level.

I saw him live about 3 or 4 years back and he was awesome: dropping amazingly funny gags about current affairs, and pushing taboos and boundaries in a funny and productive way that actualyl made some really good points. Just like on Mock The Week,

But as is the consensus on here he was jsut crap. A few baby forking jokes and c words aren't enough to make me laugh.

I reckon he's just got lazy and wants to cash in on his notoriety.

Cleat Eastwood

Thats the trouble with tv comedy it eats material like a beast and thats the double bind for most comics, they want to get the screen time and focus all their efforts on a slick routine and once theyve made it think they can take it easy.

I've got two friends who do stand up, one of whom just won an award, and because they are at the low end of the ladder they are constantly changing material. Maybe the talenteless haggis muncher should get back to basics.

On a different tack I thought Rhod Gilbert has stepped up the mark fantastically, really honed his tirades. But sean lock.....what have you done to your career.

Best live comics for me would be lee evans oral murray.

best of the little leaguers daniel kitson and john shuttleworth.

Stewie Griffin

Looked forward to his show last night, ended up having a text message conversation with my Sister about how sorry I was for wasting her time as I had told her it was on.

rick_chasey

I take it you were all fans of his during mock the week?


So much for the BBC straightjacket limiting his potential eh?

mr_poll

I enjoyed the stand up part of the show but the sketches didnt really hit the mark, butthen again this is new stuff for him so perhaps it was to be expected. However the Iranian Loose Women was good and the Knight Rider sketch had legs but was wasted.
I like Frankie Boyle, and expected more, so was disappointed - however its still better than most of the crap that passes for TV nowadays - 2 hours earlier my teenage daughter made me endure The only way is Essex, I think I would rather gouge my eyes out that see that program ever again.

guinea

Agreed, the Loose Women and the George Michael sketches were good. The others were pish.

The stand-up is fantastic in small doses, but shock after shock lost the impact. You find yourself becoming immune.

Again, I like Frankie Boyle, but this seemed like too much.

He needs a 5 minute blast once a day. Not a half hour episode a week.

AndyF16

Heckler1974 wrote:

AndyF16 wrote:

- stern Auntie Beeb punished him

I did not know that, was he asked to leave Mock the Week then?

not sure of the exact details or about MTW, but there was some hoo-haa about a Rebecca Adlington gag or somesuch Sachsgate type thing :roll:

Cleat Eastwood

The adlington gag was an old one, there was a poet/comic called Mark Miwurdz who years ago said that looking in the back of a spoon makes you look like pete townsend.....no hoohah over that one. Boyle recycles the joke and causes a kerfuffle, so i suspect it was just the angry heads annoyed at his joke about the queens fanny containing moths. and used any excuse to have a go at him.

andy162

Thought it started ok, having a pop at the fireman on the front row was funny. Mrs Andy questioned me as to why I was watching such sh1t & I had no come back. Turned it off & half time & went to bed. Won't be bothered by it next week.

I'm not really a big fan of stand up in general. Sean Locke is about the only one I don't mind, I prefer sketch shows. The more surreal & stupid the better. High hopes dashed in less than 15 minutes....

shockedsoshocked

Mock the Week, from what I can gather was largely scripted, as one of my friends lecturers at Uni was employed to write the material.

shouldbeinbed

Cleat Eastwood wrote:

The adlington gag was an old one, there was a poet/comic called Mark Miwurdz who years ago said that looking in the back of a spoon makes you look like pete townsend.....no hoohah over that one.

A multi millionaire not very vain bloke with decades of experience in a bitching industry being ripped by one of Linda Smiths mates that never made it particularly big. Or an 18 year old who happens to be good at swimming and thrust onto TV thru it being ripped by a huge profile comic on a popular mainstream TV show!! The hoohah was proportionate to the profile of the comment and the relative fragility (IYKWIM) of the 2 'victims'

I like FB and have paid to see him live but I though Tramadol Nights was poor

takethehighroad

andy162 wrote:

Thought it started ok, having a pop at the fireman on the front row was funny. Mrs Andy questioned me as to why I was watching such sh1t & I had no come back. Turned it off & half time & went to bed. Won't be bothered by it next week.

I'm not really a big fan of stand up in general. Sean Locke is about the only one I don't mind, I prefer sketch shows. The more surreal & stupid the better. High hopes dashed in less than 15 minutes....

High hopes dashed...by the wife.

UncleFred

It was rubbish, lasted as far as the knight rider sketch then turned it off and went to bed.

danlikesbikes

Yeah was a shame as he was great in mock the week & his stand up is pretty good too but thought the show was just rubbish

crumbschief

Yeah same here,i can't say i was surprised,he really seemed out of place to me doing that,at least he had a go though,i'd love to see him back on Mock The Week as he really shone there.