Ever since being brought up by The Beatles, Frankie Boyle has been a tremendous liar. Join him on his adventures with his chum Clangy The Brass Boy and laugh as he doesn’t accidentally kill a student nurse when a party gets out of hand.
I don’t think anyone can have written an autobiography without at some point thinking “Why would anyone want to know this shit?” I’ve always read them thinking “I don’t want to know where Steve Tyler grew up, just tell me how many groupies he f**ked!”‘ So begins Frankie’s outrageous, laugh-out loud, cynical rant on life as he knows it.
From growing up in Pollokshaws, Glasgow (‘it was an aching cement void, a slap in the face to Childhood, and for the family it was a step up’), to his rampant teenage sex drive (‘in those days if you glimpsed a nipple on T.V. it was like porn Christmas’), and first job working in a mental hospital (‘where most evenings were spent persuading an old man in his pants not to eat a family sized block of cheese’), nothing is out of bounds.
Outspoken, outrageous and brilliantly inappropriate, Frankie Boyle, the dark heart of Mock the Week, says the unsayable as only he can. From the TV programmes he would like to see made (‘Celebrities On Acid On Ice: just like Celebrity Dancing On Ice, but with an opening sequence where Graham Norton hoses the celebrities down with liquid LSD’), to his native Scotland and the Mayor of London (‘voting for Boris Johnson wasn’t that different to voting for a Labrador wearing a Wonder Woman costume’), nothing and no one is safe from Frankie’s fearless, sharp-tongued assault.
Sharply observed and full of taboo-busting, we-really-shouldn’t-be-laughing-at-this humour, My Shit Life So Far shows why Frankie Boyle really is the blackest man in show business.
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Full of contradictions,
There’s no doubting that Frankie Boyle is a gifted comedian, although one of his greatest strengths is comic timing – something that doesn’t readily translate into written form. Having said that, there’s plenty here to make most people laugh. As you would expect, there’s also plenty that some people will find offensive.
Frankie expresses his views openly and honestly but his general dislike of almost everyone and everything does become irritating. He also makes no effort to come across to the reader as being in any way likeable.
Not too surprising that the reviews are so mixed – I found it ok if a little disappointing but I suspect that many people will either love it or hate it.
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|I can’t stop laughing!,
This is the funniest autobiography i’ve ever read. Bored of the same old, run of the mill celebrity drivel, i was hoping Frankie would deliver something different – which he has. Hilarious, rude and offensive, Frankie tells it like it is (even though we might not dare to say it). I bought this book this morning and read it in one sitting it’s that entertaining. Just a word of advice – don’t read it while eating or drinking. I exploded with laughter, covering my partner in a fine spray of beer. Enjoy.
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|Superb stuff,
I read 2 pages of the introduction when I saw it in a bookshop, and was laughing so much that I bought it there and then.
If you’re a fan of his stand-up or Mock the Week, you’ll definitely enjoy this – it’s written in exactly the same style – crude, cutting, and very very funny.
In summary, a hilarious alternative to standard, boring celebrity biographies.
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