About book Scotland's Jesus: The Only Officially Non-racist Comedian (2013)
Knowing the blunt speech of Frankie Boyle, I had an inkling of what I was letting myself in for. However, I found it pretentious, boring and a need for popularity. He always has to go one step too far, just as you begin to think he isn't so bad. I read the first three chapters and then skipped to the celebrity chapter-to see what he thought of whom; Katie Price, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift being just a few selected names. So, in total I read four chapters, gaining nothing but his hatred to this, that, and the other... Let’s be honest, if you don't realise what this book is going to be like, then you've not been paying attention. This is Frankie Boyle being Frankie Boyle. Not the sanitised version from Mock The Week, but the full bloodied version. He talks about everything that upsets or interests him. From the nature of comedy, to the takeover of the world by corporations, from Royalty to the Scottish independence, this is him taking the world apart. He's not the left wing comic of the Ben Elton school, I'm not sure he can actually be politically classified like that. He's more like the apolitical scholar. Sitting on high and shooting down his targets his acerbic wit that in turn amuses, shocks or just makes you think. The world could do with more like him
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Pure poisonous vitriol, beautifully written. I don't know how I feel about this book.
—kenzaO
where the fck has he been all my life.fantastic.
—hbesst
Frankie Boyle tells it how it is... great book!
—lsun
