Frankie Boyle Quotes

There's nothing more fun than making fun of what's sacred.

Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.

Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not funny. It's gotta offend somebody somewhere.

I'm not the voice of reason; I'm more the guy using these offensive topics as fodder to raise tension in a joke.

If I don't offend somebody, then I'm probably not funny.

Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.

What is satire if not a marriage of civil disobedience to a laugh track, a potent brew of derision and lack of respect that acts as a nettle sting on the thin skin of the humourless?

I need my comedy to offend. That's my personal views.

If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do; try to be shocking and dirty. They aren't really. It isn't enough to shock. It's easy to shock. Real surprise is what I'm after. Those early movies, we had drugs, which you weren't supposed to show. You weren't supposed to shoot up. We would make fun of hippies. I think that we were punk before there was punk.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

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.

In general, comedians are attracted to vice.

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.

We never really tried to shock for shock's sake on 'Family Guy'. If something was horribly offensive and shocking, we would put it in if it was also hysterically funny.

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.

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

People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement.

I have a theory, which is that the idea of a roast is to go to this forbidden, uncomfortable, almost performance-art-level shock place, but because we're so regularly shocked and offended today, the idea of an hour and a half of unbridled negativity is just so unappealing.

My audience expects me to push the limits, to be politically incorrect. I do that because for me, that's the only place where the fun is, when I get to push the boundaries and make people laugh at things that they probably didn't want to laugh at.

As comics if you aren't rubbing people the wrong way, to me, you suck.

I just knew it would get a big laugh when people saw the 'Flying Nun' throwing the bird to a highway patrolman.

If my mum or my wife says that something isn't funny, I know I've struck gold.