The past five days have seen Boyle deliver an absolute masterclass. On Wednesday he punched his thoughts about the Paralympics into Twitter. Weirdly enough, they were not lachrymose salutes to the games' abiding spirit of hope and endeavour but, for the most part, wisecracks that might have fallen from the mouth of any marginally offensive club comedian: "Austrian Paralympians seem a lot more able-bodied than most regular Scottish people… Apparently, the Saudi Arabian Paralympic team is mainly thieves… Sadly, our Paralympian in the high jump isn't expected to match his personal best. But I hear it doesn't count as it was 'Taliban assisted'."
Put another way, it was OK with a joke about a blind and autistic eight-year-old raping his mother – "simply absurdist satire", it insisted at the time – but to crack off-key gags about the Paralympics is apparently verboten.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/02/frankie-boyle-pseudo-media-storm
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