Dodgy Humour

I enjoy what some people would call a tasteless, or sick joke.

I think I finally found one that goes too far.

COMEDIAN Frankie Boyle has sparked anger again by mocking the family of missing Madeleine McCann. In an interview, Boyle said “there is no too far” in comedy before making a joke about the McCanns, whose daughter vanished on a family holiday to Portugal in 2007.

Boyle was asked if he was following the Leveson inquiry into press standards.

He said: “Yeah, I saw the McCanns on there and really wanted them to go, ‘Could you round it up in the next few minutes, mate? We’ve left the kids over in Starbucks’.

“Just to show they can still have a bit of a laugh.”

During a gig at the Hammersmith Apollo in 2010, Boyle said that some part of Gerry McCann must be pleased that Madeleine had gone “so he could use her room for a pool table”.

The Starbucks one doesn't seem too bad. But the other one is definitely too far.