Frankie Boyle has slammed Ricky Gervais over his jokes about trans people.
But his comments provoked an immediate backlash among the After Life creator’s fans – who accused Boyle of hypocrisy given his track record on transgressive jokes.
The Glaswegian criticised Gervais as he poured scorn on his abilities as a stand-up during a BBC interview with Louis Theroux.
‘If you’re a stand-up watching him, you feel like, Oh, that’s someone doing a version of what we do ,’ he said.
‘But really, it’s that I saw him doing his routine about trans people and I thought it was very lazy.
Frankie Boyle slams Ricky Gervais for lazy joke about trans community
The Scots comic says he d like his fellow funny man to show trans people as much respect as he does animals , following the After Life star s controversial comments about Caitlyn Jenner.
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Frankie Boyle is branded a hypocrite for criticising Ricky Gervais s jokes about trans people after building a career out of offensive gags
Boyle, 48, told Grounded with Louis Theroux podcast that he found Ricky Gervais humour very lazy and criticised his jokes about transgender people
In 2018 Netflix special, Gervais targeted Caitlyn Jenner, who s trans, during set
Boyle was accused of hypocrisy on Twitter, as social media users unearthed trans jokes Boyle had made himself in the past
Many also referenced Boyle s previous jokes about Harvey Price, the disabled son of Katie Price, and Madeleine McCann
A woke BBC comedian has called out Ricky Gervais for telling insensitive jokes about ‘trans’ people.
Here’s the funny part. The woke BBC comedian whose name is Frankie Boyle built his career and his multi-million pound fortune telling jokes about disabled children trying to rape their own mothers and mocking the very ‘trans’ community he now considers sacrosanct.
In a recent interview, Boyle formerly a Glaswegian hard-man known for his edgy humour criticised Gervais (probably Britain’s most successful and best paid comedian) for his stance on trans issues.
Boyle told interviewer Louis Theroux:
“I would like [Gervais] to have the same respect for trans people as he seems to have for animals. I don’t think that’s a lot to ask.”
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