Frankie Boyle slams claims he made offensive Holly Willoughby joke
Frankie Boyle has responded after he faced backlash for reportedly telling a joke about ‘raping Holly Willoughby’.
The Scottish comedian, who’s known for his controversial comedy, performed at Latitude Festival last weekend.
MailOnline reported that Boyle said of This Morning host Willoughby during his set: ‘I’d obviously kill her and rape her afterwards. I’m joking – I’d rape her first.’
However, Boyle said that this is ‘garbled nonsense’ and that people watching the full show would ‘struggle to be offended’.
‘More grief from the Daily Mail. The joke they “quote” is garbled nonsense, a concept and wording no comic would ever use. There is a very long routine in my current show which concludes that certain jokes are probably a product of toxic masculinity. You’d struggle to be offended,’ he wrote on Twitter.
‘Papers like the Daily Mail are outraged by “safe space” comedy and all for free speech, until it’s routines reflecting on things like stereotyping and toxic masculinity, or taking ideas into places where they can’t be used to churn out clickbait.
Boyle said on Grounded 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”.
‘But really, it’s that I saw him doing his routine about trans people and I thought it was very lazy.
‘I would like him 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.’
Metro.co.uk has contacted reps for Frankie Boyle for further comment.
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