The comedian on telling jokes in the 'woke' era, fame, fatherhood and football.
"The edge of inappropriate is the spiritual home of the best stand-up comedy," proclaims Frank Skinner in the programme notes for his new West End show, Showbiz.The 62-year-old, who has made a pretty good living walking the tightrope of comedic taste, is about to ride the bus to London's Garrick Theatre, as he speaks to the BBC, for the first night of a five-week residency, having road-tested it around the UK last year.
"When I started doing comedy," he adds,"We were very much what was then called 'alternative comedy' and the two great centrepieces of that was non-sexist, non-racist. "Unless you force people to do stuff, most people won't do it. So I think you can make a few interesting dramas about sexual predators, but the best way to stop it is to say to people, they'll lose their job.recently spoke of his distrust of righteous online trolls
He believes that in the age of Twitter, it would be hard for any comedian harbouring suspect personal views to fake it for long anyway.
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