Frankie Boyle @ King George’s Hall, Blackburn

9:00am Monday 26th November 2007

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THE second instalment of East Lancashire's big weekend of comedy saw another major name and another sold out show at King George's Hall.

Frankie Boyle may have only been on stage for just over the hour but he left a lasting impression on all who were there.

The Glaswegian has mastered the art of making comedy dangerous, irreverent and straying into areas in search of a laugh which most comedians would run a mile from.

A Frankie Boyle show has an element of danger from the first minute to the last.

Often you could sense the audience pause and think 'should we laugh at this?'

Invariably the unanimous collective decision was 'yes we should'.

Boyle stalked around the stage sipping from a water bottle rather like a Bond villain, biding his time before unleashing another joke on the willing masses.

He cleverly interspersed topical humour with brief interludes chatting with the audience, almost as if to lull them into a false sense of security.

No one was safe from his savage humour - from the royal family to celebrities.

To start the evening Martin Bigpig had been the ideal warm-up act laying into the audience and giving them a taste of what was to come.

But it was Frankie Boyle who provided the real fireworks.