[lostalex]

Originally Posted by Omah

Those shows mock blind, autistic children, too .....

South Park has 2 main disabled characters (Timmy and Jimmy) that they regularly mock (but they are really mocking stereotypes of disabled people, not disabled people in general). The Dave Chappelle Show has done plenty of skits that are much more racially controversial Frankie Boyle's show, including a skit in which a blind black man (he doesn't know he's black cause no one's told him, and no one knows he's black cause he's wearing a hood) is the leader of the KKK calling for a genocide. Plenty of "N" words.

Also Howard Stern comes to mind. He uses the "N" word often. But whenever he uses it, he's using it to mock RACIST people, which is exactly what Frankie Boyle was doing.

The key to this type of comedy, is that they use the offense to mock the REAL racists, and to point out the ABSURDITY of it. The joke is on the BIGOTS, not on the victims of bigotry.

Mocking Ignorance is funny.

I've seen all the shows, and i don't believe for 1 second that Frankie Boyle is some sort of hateful bigot with an agenda. In fact i believe the exact opposite is true. He's a very tolerant man with absolutely no political agenda. His only agenda is ridiculing the absurd.