It is interesting to look at how comedy is closely linked with the taboo, and in particular bad language.
But Frank Skinner is among the first to try to determine whether bad language is instrumental to comedy. His conclusion was that actually its funny without the bad language.
"I don't want people using so much swearing that there's a blanket ban because there won't be then any room for the clever swearing - the beautiful, eloquent swearing," he said.
Is it because bad language has now become common place, and acceptable, that it doesn't get the laughs anymore, unless it goes that step further, infact its more the material that now has to stoop to new lows, rather than the language that is used.
Frank,s moves to reduce the swearing in his act, seems like the voice of reason, at last, or is he just getting middle aged and dull? Does comedy have to shock to be funny, I think not, some of the best jokes are just the silly ones, and the best comedians, the Tommy Coopers of this world, who get the laughs before they even say a single word, now they are the really funny men.
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