During tonight’s episode of The Final Leg, Frankie Boyle savaged Matt Hancock.
The 50-year-old Scot has never shied away from criticising the most divisive political personalities of the day, and ex-Health Secretary Matt Hancock is no different.
This week, regular panel show hosts Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe, and Alex Brooker were joined by Frankie, Josh Pugh, and AJ Odudu to reflect on what has been a busy week in news.
In it, we saw Matt Hancock’s, eh, WhatsApp pandemic diary, which was released to The Daily Telegraph by journalist Isabel Oakeshott.
What followed was a series of discoveries that did not exactly cast the pandemic’s poster boy in the greatest light.
Hancock subsequently stated that the texts were a “major violation of trust” by Oakeshott, whom he hired to ghostwrite his book, Pandemic Diaries.
But Frankie has now chimed in on the debate, giving his own unique take on the politician.
While discussing the disgraced MP, the comic said, ‘Even his hairline is trying to abandon him.’
Ouch.
But that wasn’t all; in typical Frankie flair, he had a few more lines up his sleeve.
He pondered, sarcastically, why Hancock opted to lie in the ground’surrounded by worms’ on national television in an attempt to make the people forget he’d ‘killed their grandma’.
We can’t decide whether to laugh or weep, just as Hancock believed it would be suitable to go on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here while sitting as a real-life Member of Parliament.
Frankie’s jokes were not limited to super-snogger Hancock, as he also compared Labour leader Keir Starmer to ‘the image in the frame when you purchase it’.
He also stated the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak – who is 5 foot 7 – was ‘too small’ to be able to do anything in office, as he envisaged the No. 10 occupant being afraid at night in case he was ‘taken by an owl’.
We can’t unsee any of this now, Frankie says.
After this week’s revealed WhatsApp exchanges, Oakeshott termed Matt’s no public interest stance ‘ridiculous’.
Speaking to TalkTV, she said: ‘What a ridiculous defense. For someone who’s as intelligent as Matt Hancock to issue a statement saying there is no public interest in these revelations is patently absurd. And he knows that very well.’
The Last Leg airs Fridays at 10pm on Channel 4.
Source My Celebrity Life.