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Scotland's Jesus: The Only Officially Non-racist Comedian (2013)

by Frankie Boyle(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Harper Collins

review 1: Frankie Boyle is the most edgy comedian Britain has today. A Bill Hicks for the 21st century. He also happens to be a nihilist pervert, so if you are easily offended, I'd advise you to stay away.I enjoyed the format of this book, where Frankie comments on the year's events, with chapters ranging from Celebrities and Politics to Health and War. As you can imagine, he leans towards the extreme left, but he is better described as anti-establishment. Nobody is safe from his poisonous arrows: politicians, the media, big corporations, the church etc, they all get a good old kicking up the arse. I may not agree with him on everything (hell, I probably don't see eye to eye with him on anything!), but he seriously challenges my views and my common sense (a term he probably would la... moreugh at).The jokes come thick and heavy. Almost the entire book reads as a sequence of setup-punchline-setup-punchline-setup-punchline... Most jokes are incredibly funny, clever and thought-provoking, but as you can imagine with such numbers, some jokes miss their target. The format can also get tiresome, so if I wasn't in such a hurry to start my next book, I'd probably have read this book in smaller doses.Still, Frankie Boyle's annual almanacs are becoming a habit of mine, so I'm looking forward to his next one next year :-)
review 2: Lots of laugh out loud moments - especially enjoyed his stuff stuff on celebrity culture.It reads largely like a stand-up routine, but that's fine. He does have something to say, so you're not wasting your time reading this. It's a good thing that there's honest comics like this out there. He has been labelled as offensive, but he's pretty wholesome, you know? If the guy can get a few people thinking whilst raising a few laughs that can only be a good thing. less

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