Frankie Boyle Quotes

When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.

Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.

The best cartoons work by making fun of sacred cows, in trying to inflict the uncomfortable.

I find it really appalling when people talk about comedy.

I don't really see the point in offensive comedy.

I found myself often asking the question, "Who deserves to be made fun of?" Depending on your mood, the answer can be no one or everyone. It took me a while to understand the math of how those field pieces came together. I don't think that ridicule is ever funny, but there are times when that gets the biggest response.

People who do comedy really are the nastiest people on the planet.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I was getting into.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

With anything you put out there, you're going to offend somebody, but most people get that it's a joke, that I'm playing a character, and that I'm actually making fun of what I'm saying by saying it.

And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.

I didn't necessarily set out to think of a show to make fun of reality shows.

I think comedians have a function in society, which is to make fun of our icons.

I haven't watched 'Mad TV' a lot, but I have seen some stuff on there that is truly funny. You have to have some sort of attitude toward the subject, and they seem to have it. It depends on how much blood you want to draw.

As far as I can tell, comedians are pretty serious people, and that's why they make fun of things all of the time.

I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.

A joke is a joke. There's an expression - I don't know if you have it - that's 'adding insult to injury.'

I understand being less sexy than Osama bin Laden, but not less sexy than Carrot Top. That, I find offensive.

I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.

You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.

I am a writer—a comic and satirical writer. I am much better at poking fun at politicians who screw up than I am of telling them what to do.

Comedians are obsessed with justice and the truth.

It's hard to complain when you say, 'We're gonna go to the clip where Helen Hunt and Will Ferrell are on 'Saturday Night Live' making fun of your song.'