Work! Consume! Die!

Book excerpt: Outspoken, acid-tongued, brilliantly inappropriate observations from controversial Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle "Charlie Sheen's life consists of going on huge drug benders with groups of porn stars. If he straightened himself out he could have a really mediocre career as a bit-part Hollywood actor. Playing the role of Martin Sheen's corpse. He's crazy like a fox! And also actually crazy. What a tragic waste, not being Charlie Sheen is. How majestic it will be for him to die, possibly quite soon, knowing that when they make a movie of his life, it will be a porno." Stand-up comedy's favorite pessimist, Frankie Boyle, offers his outrageous, laugh-out-loud, cynical rant on life as he knows it. He describes reality as viewed through a bloodshot eye pressed against a shit-smeared telescope, focused on hell. A no-holds-barred tour de force of comic writing, this is Frankie Boyle at his brutal, taboo-busting best?nothing more or less than the clanging call to arms of a dying mechanical God.