Frankie Boyle tells BBC 'I was bored'
Boyle denied he left the show after being rapped over the knuckles about his Rebecca Adlington comment
Tuesday, 27, Oct 2009 12:14
By inthenews.co.uk staff..
Comedian Frankie Boyle has said his reason for leaving the BBC show Mock the Week was because he was "bored".
Boyle, 37, denied he left the show after being rapped over the knuckles following a comment he made about swimmer Rebecca Adlington's appearance.
Instead, he told The Mirror, "It's a question of how boring people want TV to be now.
"People aren't going to be happy until you boil it down to just cooking and f***ing property shows. F***ing hell, it's so f***ing boring already! Those jokes weren't that risqué anyway. There was no malice in them."
Boyle joked on the show that Ms Adlington resembled "someone who's looking at themselves in the back of a spoon". The BBC Trust ruled afterwards that the comment was both "humiliating" and "offensive".
The BBC has stepped up efforts to ban such comments since the 'Sachsgate' scandal earlier this year, when radio DJ's Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand prank called actor Andrew Sachs.
But Boyle says the BBC has gone too far the other way, and is now "boring".
He was quoted in The Mirror as saying: "I was bored, simple as that. I'd done lots of them, about 60 shows, and it certainly felt like it! I just felt I'd done it to death, then they could get someone else new in. But it was good fun and they guys are great. There was no f***ing animosity about it or anything.
"I don't think it's even PC as such. I think it's just dull people who want dull TV and the people in charge who want to talk down to the people who watch it. I feel there's much more of a division between the people who make things now and the people who watch them."