Frankie Boyle: If I Could Reach Through Your TV And Strangle You, I Would

Frankie Boyle: If I Could Reach Through Your TV And Strangle You, I Would

DVD Rating: ****

Reviewed by: Jeff Robson

Read Jeff Robson's film review of Frankie Boyle: If I Could Reach Through Your TV And Strangle You, I Would

Excellent sound and picture quality and there are subtitles and scene selection options – so you can read exactly how vivid his audience insults are, or jump straight to the most offensive sections. The extras are comprehensive too. Training montage shows him working some of the material prior to the tour at a series of small venues, while Vallium-Fuelled Publicity Thing is a webcast where he answers online questions – interesting for the moments when he becomes more serious about the various media furores but repeating some of the riffs from the main show and a tad overlong.

Finally there’s Endomorph, a hard-to-categorise mini album by Glasgow-based musician Nigel Buckland, played against the ‘superhero comic’ backdrops found throughout the menu. It takes a similarly ‘no prisoners’ approach to the main act, satirising cement-headed chavs, earnest balladeers and elfin songstresses with equal vim and precision.

They’re all good value for money stuff but a long watch taken as a whole. And do not attempt to take them all in at the same sitting as the main show – unless your bile duct needs a serious replenishing.

Reviewed on: 16 Nov 2010
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Frankie Boyle’s latest (and, he says, last) stand-up tour, filmed at the Hammersmith Apollo.
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Product Code: C4DVD 10336

Region: 0

Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1

Extras: Training Montage, Valium-fuelled Publicity Thing, Endomorph


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