Frankie Boyle says Bromley life like a 'lobotomy made out of bricks'
10:24am Tuesday 19th March 2013 in News By Heloise Wood
Frankie Boyle says Bromley life like a 'lobotomy made out of bricks'
COMEDIAN Frankie Boyle has said life in Bromley is like ‘a lobotomy made out of bricks'.
The controversial comic made the statement on Twitter at about 11pm last night (March 18).
He tweeted from his official account @frankieboyle: “I lived in Bromley for a couple of years. It was like someone had made a lobotomy out of bricks.”
The town was the subject of last night’s BBC3 programme Snog Marry Avoid? - broadcast around the same time as Boyle commented on Twitter - with members of the public transformed from “fakery” into “natural beauties”.
The BBC website describes how host Ellie Taylor was transformed into a “walking, talking, living doll, as she takes on a look popular with the locals”.
Boyle is well known for his stint on panel show Mock the Week and has been criticised many times for his stand-up material.
In 2008 he said Olympic swimmer Rebecca Adlington was like "someone who's looking at themselves in the back of a spoon" and two years later he made jokes about Katie Price’s disabled son Harvey.
Click here to watch Snog Marry Avoid?
What do you think? Leave your comments in the section below.
Comments(20)
bnorther
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11:17am Tue 19 Mar 13
Gypo.Joe
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11:23am Tue 19 Mar 13
bnorther wrote:You mean he wuz a council tenant ?
Just ignore him he'll go away. He is from the Tenements in Glasgow......nuf said really
Well I never !
the wall
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11:34am Tue 19 Mar 13
Don't read it if you don't like it.
NS making news out of nothing.
goldenbroomboy
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11:54am Tue 19 Mar 13
Eagles_Man
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12:01pm Tue 19 Mar 13
Do people really still describe Frankie Boyle as a comic? Dropping him from Mock the Week was the best decision the BBC have made in a long time.
cookster
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12:29pm Tue 19 Mar 13
They both have a point mind...
hereallweek
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1:28pm Tue 19 Mar 13
Len Kivingstone
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4:09pm Tue 19 Mar 13
Mijoed
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5:21pm Tue 19 Mar 13
Frankie Boyle, meanwhile, is not so great and his sense of humour has dropped to insulting people and places rather than a gentle ribbing that even the victims can laugh along with.
Mangetout
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6:01pm Tue 19 Mar 13
Tonic
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10:42am Thu 21 Mar 13
Eagles_Man
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5:05pm Thu 21 Mar 13
Tonic wrote:Market Square? In that case half of them would have been from Lewishaminnit.
Snog, Marry, Avoid started off with some bizarre comments about cockneys. Er, it was Bromley, Kent, not Bromley-by-Bow. And the two women given make-unders in the show were from Hastings and Croydon. The only connection to Bromley was that the pod was set up in Market Square and there were a few vox-pops from people who may or may not have been Bromley residents. Half an hour of my life I'll never get back! Frankie Boyle: no comment. He doesn't deserve any more publicity.
Inspirationalady28
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5:54am Sun 24 Mar 13
“One, named Joe, posted a message on the internet saying: “Just ignore him he’ll go away. He is from the Tenements in Glasgow... nuf said really.”
Another wrote: “Do people really still describe Frankie Boyle as a comic? Dropping him from Mock The Week was the best decision the BBC have made in a long time.”
Harold_Monk
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2:53pm Sun 24 Mar 13
banjo8
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8:58am Mon 25 Mar 13
Gypo.Joe
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10:30am Mon 25 Mar 13
Yes it's called the on or off switch, technology amazing innit !
madras
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11:00am Mon 25 Mar 13
Gypo.Joe wrote:Switch? I think even my ancient TV now has a button to turn it on/off - thinking about it, it's so modern it even has a remote control - wireless, at that!
Just for all your information, if you don't like Boyle or anything else on the TV or radio, did you know there's a switch ?
Yes it's called the on or off switch, technology amazing innit !
Gypo.Joe
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11:17am Mon 25 Mar 13
madras wrote:Just call me old school Madras. In fact call me anything you like, just don't call me late fer dinner though ! ;)
Gypo.Joe wrote:Switch? I think even my ancient TV now has a button to turn it on/off - thinking about it, it's so modern it even has a remote control - wireless, at that!
Just for all your information, if you don't like Boyle or anything else on the TV or radio, did you know there's a switch ?
Yes it's called the on or off switch, technology amazing innit !
Eagles_Man
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2:03pm Mon 25 Mar 13
Gypo.Joe wrote:Except Boyle's usually on the BBC. We have to pay for him even if we don't watch him.
Just for all your information, if you don't like Boyle or anything else on the TV or radio, did you know there's a switch ?
Yes it's called the on or off switch, technology amazing innit !
glenn_london says...
10:46am Tue 19 Mar 13