Comedy news: Frankie Boyle 'I'm not controversial'

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Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle has dismissed the idea that his brand of comedy is controversial. 

Speaking on the podcast for The Stand Comedy Club, Boyle, who has stoked controversy on a number of occasions throughout his career, said that he rarely receives complaints about his material.

The former Mock The Week star said: "There's not been any controversy in terms of gigs. I've done this to 100,000 people on the tour so far - this new tour - and almost no complaints, maybe two or three. 

"If people want to pretend that that's controversial so they can write a s**t story about it without f**king leaving their desk then fine. But no-one finds it controversial, I don't think."

In April the BBC apologised for a joke Boyle made about joining the Israeli army over two years ago. 

The BBC Trust, the body which acts as the final arbiter of complaints has upheld a finding against a joke Boyle made on Radio 4 comedy show Political Animal in June 2008 when Boyle compared Palestine with a cake being "punched to pieces by a very angry Jew".

Asked about whether his material pushed boundaries Boyle said: "I don't really f**king buy all that stuff, because whose boundaries? It's like the f**king boundaries of what you're allowed to say in polite society or something, which is like an operetta almost.

"There's nobody in that room there that would be f**king offended by anything and we would struggle to find someone in the street who'd be offended by any of it - admittedly we're in Glasgow.

"There's this thing of some mythical f**king society or average viewer somewhere that's going to be p*ssed off. I think people will find it funny, if they find it. F**k knows if they will or not."