He starts with one liners including actors and locations, he also shows physicality to explain the one liner. He then goes on to add humour to the news referencing to devastating events such as Hiroshima. He focuses on certain groups such as Al Qaeda and then gingers however he often relates back to Scotland.
He talks about the London 2012 Olympics implying competition with Germany after the world wars; this too is a one liner. Already I'm starting to see a pattern of one liners and a type of 'splatter' effect where by the comedian focuses on one subject of his act depending on how many laughs they get, and for Frankie this also depends on his knowledge of it to keep to his theme of black humour and be as offensive as possible.
This pattern continues until, I notice once he has his audience 'warmed up', he brings in more offensive, sexual jokes including themes of incest.I once again see the splatter effect. Surprisingly Frankie doesn't swear as often as I previously thought he did which means he too, as Jeremy Lion, uses swearing, and timing of this, effectively. He continues to focus on groups, this time homosexuals.
In the final part of this video, which I thought would happen more often, Frankie explained events that had happened to him.
In conclusion, Frankie Boyle uses dark humour extremely yet effectively however I believe he is able to do this and get a positive reaction from the audience because of who he is and his reputation and so I wouldn't be able to do so in my routine however I think I would be able to swear effectively and well timed. I think it also helps that Frankie Boyle is Scottish and so has a very distinctive accent, I found this can be used comically on Tuesday when I bled humour in Ali's specific unit lecture by adding a voice into a monologue, as well as this I added swearing at certain points which also got a positive reaction.
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