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Frankie Boyle gives BBC his vote with Scottish referendum ‘autopsy’

Media Monkey: Controversial comedian returns to the corporation with iPlayer-only show picking over the entrails of the independence vote
  
  

Frankie Boyle's Referendum Autopsy: iPlayer-only BBC show
Frankie Boyle's Referendum Autopsy: iPlayer-only BBC show. Photograph: BBC Photograph: /BBC

Frankie Boyle is back! The second most controversial man on television (there’s only one Jeremy Clarkson) returned to the BBC with a one-off programme reflecting on the Scottish referendum. The iPlayer-only affair features a variety of guests – “because many people consider me a cunt, the BBC have decided I can’t be trusted on my own”, says Boyle. He believes the BBC is capable of presenting Scotland accurately, despite recent criticism. “Doctor Who is Scottish and it’s difficult to think of a more archetypal Scottish character,” he adds. “An old man armed with a screwdriver dragging young women into a phone box. ‘They call me the Doctor. I’m taking you back to the 1970s.’” Like Mock the Week meets Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe, the most memorable contribution comes not from Boyle but the Scottish chap who yelled “Fuck her in the pussy” in the ear of Sky News correspondent Mark White while reporting live from George Square in Glasgow. Give that man his own show.

 

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