Ever since being brought up by The Beatles, Frankie Boyle has been a
tremendous liar. Join him on his adventures with his chum Clangy The Brass
Boy and laugh as he doesn't accidentally kill a student nurse when a party
gets out of hand. I don't think anyone can have written an autobiography
without at some point thinking "Why would anyone want to know this shit?"
I've always read them thinking "I don't want to know where Steve Tyler
grew up, just tell me how many groupies he f**ked!"' So begins Frankie's
outrageous, laugh-out loud, cynical rant on life as he knows it. From
growing up in Pollockshaws , Glasgow ('it was an aching cement void,
a slap in the face to Childhood, and for the family it was a step up'),
to his rampant teenage sex drive ('in those days if you glimpsed a nipple
on T.V. it was like porn Christmas'), and first job working in a mental
hospital ('where most evenings were spent persuading an old man in his
pants not to eat a family sized block of cheese'), nothing is out of bounds.
Outspoken , outrageous and brilliantly inappropriate, Frankie Boyle, the
dark heart of Mock the Week, says the unsayable as only he can. From the TV
programmes he would like to see made ('Celebrities On Acid On Ice: just like
Celebrity Dancing On Ice, but with an opening sequence where Graham Norton
hoses the celebrities down with liquid LSD'), to his native Scotland and
the Mayor of London ('voting for Boris Johnson wasn't that different to
voting for a Labrador wearing a Wonder Woman costume'), nothing and no one
is safe from Frankie's fearless, sharp-tongued assault. Sharply observed
and full of taboo-busting, we-really-shouldn't-be-laughing-at-this humour,
My Shit Life So Far shows why Frankie Boyle really is the blackest man in
show business.

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