Channel 4 head of comedy Shane Allen told the press that "it's very much like Parkinson or Wogan, but with paedo jokes" and that the show would feature Boyle "in a studio, riffing off the audience a bit with some people challenging what he says". Boyle mentioned on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross that the original title of the show had been dropped, due to its offensive nature, and been renamed Tramadol Nights and aired from the end of November 2010. I also live in Glasgow so was clocking the real-life and not-so opaque references to real-life establishments. Felix taxis away with Tom and Sophie from Beloved Intelligence, who give him information on Chong and Marina.

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Donnie confesses to being an anarchist infiltrating the police, then a police officer infiltrating environmental activists. In terms of depression being a chemical illness, I don't think I had that – in fact, quite the opposite.The Times named it August's Book of the Month in the thriller genre, with Dugdale praising the "scintillating sentences and perfect lines of dialogue". Finding himself a suspect, Felix and his overweight neighbour, Donnie, also partial to mind-altering substances, decide to undertake their own investigation: “We were the two people least suited to investigating anything, but with the right drug combinations we could be whoever we had to be.

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There are red herrings along the way and also a few twists but the novel builds to a quite revelatory climax as Felix's past is revealed and he and Jan confront the killer.Just very grateful to have had six series of working with the funniest people in the business" (Tweet). Mikey – the manager of the Go-Go, who is in a relationship with the Scottish National Party (SNP) politician Gary Mount to gather intelligence for the British government. The title refers to an expression in Scottish English, communicative of an irresistible compulsion to do something, such as smoke a cigarette; or, as here, to drink alcohol. Imagine Withnail and I stumbling into a Bond movie co-written by William McIlvanney and Mick Herron, and that gives only a vague idea of the mashup that follows. Docherty – an activist who Felix remembers from his bizarre scripts that he pitched to BBC Scotland.

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Listening to Frankie Boyle for an hour or so is fine, but a stand-up routine of six hours or more is probably a bit more than I could cope with in one hit. On our penchant for military statues: “This was Britain, and if you killed enough foreigners they let you ride a metal horse into the future. Frankie Boyle’s compelling debut novel is a tale of murder and revenge, and of personal and political loss.Though enjoying some digressions, the reviewer saw much of it as "self-indulgent", including the simulation theory that is given much emphasis and "bafflingly explored" through a fictional pitch to BBC Scotland. When his best friend is murdered, however, he surprises himself by summoning the willpower to investigate, albeit ineptly. Docherty creates a distraction at a Burns supper charity event so Jane and Felix can meet Mount, but Brond takes them aside instead.