As a recognised face from Mock the Week, Have I Got News For You, 8 Out of 10 Cats, The Graham Norton Show and Live at the Apollo, Frankie Boyle is one of the most in-demand comedians working today....
Ronnie Corbett is at a loss when it comes to today’s popular types of comedy saying it’s ‘grosser’ and more ...
August 2, 2011
Katie Price is seeking a meeting between her son Harvey and stand-up comedian Frankie Boyle following his ...
June 16, 2011
Frankie Boyle has been voted the most offensive stand-up act in a vote from over 100 comedians.
The poll ...
April 14, 2011
Ofcom has upheld 500 complaints against Frankie Boyle and Channel 4 over the jokes he made about Katie Price’s son ...
April 4, 2011
Frankie Boyle’s Tramadol Nights could be facing the chop if rumours are to be believed.
The Daily Mail (here we go…) ...
January 18, 2011
Frankie Boyle has had words with fellow comedian Mark Watson over a blog post…written eight months ago.
Digital Spy ...
January 9, 2011
Comedian and co-writer of Frankie Boyle’s Tramadol Nights Tom Stade has offered his opinion on the Harvey joke ...
January 5, 2011
This week the anti-Frankie Boyle brigade have once again condemned Channel 4 after the comedian used the words ‘nigger’ ...
December 22, 2010
Frankie Boyle can add AIDS and cancer charities to his list of haters now after angering them in his latest Tramadol ...
December 15, 2010
Channel 4 is standing by its decision to repeat Frankie Boyle’s latest episode of Tramadol Nights which included a joke ...
December 12, 2010
Here’s some tabloid fodder for your. Who’s Frankie Boyle offended now? Only showbiz ex-couple Peter Andre and Katie ...
December 9, 2010
Kevin Bridges has out-sold Frankie Boyle and Billy Connelly in the DVD Christmas chart battle showing that the younguns ...
November 28, 2010
The extra nights of his I Would Happily Punch Every One of You in the Face tour start at the Plymouth Pavilions on ...
September 8, 2010
Frankie Boyle has managed to offend people - again - this time touching a nerve over the Cumbria shootings.
Just one ...
June 11, 2010
Frankie Boyle’s not happy (what’s new) – but this time it’s with the BBC.
In an open letter ...
May 4, 2010
The BBC Trust’s editorial standards committee has made an official apology over a joke Frankie Boyle made on the ...
April 29, 2010
Frankie Boyle is once again in the critical firing line after the comedian touched a nerve with one of his ...
April 12, 2010
Billy Connelly has complained that comedians that swear onstage are unfairly called “vulgarian and foul ...
January 27, 2010
The winners of the Loaded Laftas have been announced in London this lunchtime.
Justin Lee Collins has regained ...
January 27, 2010
The line-up for this year’s Magners Glasgow Comedy Festival have been announced today, with 360 shows and almost ...
January 21, 2010
Full Biography
As a recognised face from Mock the Week, Have I Got News For You, 8 Out of 10 Cats, The Graham Norton Show and Live at the Apollo, Frankie Boyle is one of the most in-demand comedians working today.
Frankie was born on August 16th 1972 in Glasgow and after taking English at the University of Sussex he began teacher training in Edinburgh. However at the same time he started doing stand up.
At the age of 23 he was regularly performing at student unions, leading him to abandon his teacher training and go full time. Obviously the years slogging on the circuit have paid off.
Frankie tends to have a morbid quality to it, and he is not afraid to go into places of questionable taste - one gag he delivered about the Queen's private parts caused a small outcry in the media and while we won't repeat it here, we will say that it was damn funny...
He also likes to point out the more ridiculous aspects of society, the media and politics which, while hardly being new territory for a stand up, are given a new twist thanks to Frankie's excellent delivery and one-liners.
He enjoyed a total sell-out run at the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival with his solo show, Morons I can Heal You which sold out its 13,000 tickets before the festival had begun.
In 2008, his first DVD was released, featuring a stand-up performance given at London's Hackney Empire, while he also appeared in the record-breaking downloadable content for computer game Grand Theft Auto IV, The Lost and Damned.
During the game Frankie performed parts of his recent tour within the game's virtual comedy club environment.
Frankie also writes a daily column for The Daily Record, a Scottish newspaper as well as Jimmy Carr's Distraction and TV Heaven, Telly Hell with Sean Lock.
Despite his success on London's huge comedy circuit, Frankie actually still lives in Glasgow with his partner, and the pair have one son called Thor, but he also has a daughter from a previous relationship.