Frankie Boyle’s jokes about the Queen were cut from the latest episode of Have I Got News For You (Picture: BBC)

Frankie Boyle’s jokes aimed at the Queen were reportedly edited out of Thursday’s episode of Have I Got News For You.

Controversial comedian Boyle was a guest host on the topical panel show and didn’t hold back on his humour, aiming a string of jokes at Her Maj.

The Mirror say most of his jibes were cut from the episode before it was broadcast ‘despite raising laughs’.

One joke that was removed was about artist Dan Llywelyn Hall painting a second picture of the Queen after his first attempt was criticised.


Boyle, referencing Rolf Harris’ portrait of her in 2005, said: ‘The Queen keeping Rolf Harris’s hands busy for a week is probably the best thing she’s ever done.’

Frankie’s gags raised a laugh at the recording of the episode from team captains Ian Hislop (pictured) and Paul Merton (Picture: BBC)

Another deleted jibe concerned David Cameron’s ‘fantastically corrupt’ comment at a Buckingham Palace reception, which went: ‘Even the Queen seemed to give him a look like “No”. It’s very hard to tell if the Queen is unhappy with you. She hasn’t really cracked a smile since Diana died.’



He also said the royal family were ‘the products of centuries of incest’ employed ‘to try to sell fridge magnets’, which made the broadcast.

Frankie Boyle’s barbs included saying the royal family’s purpose is to ‘sell fridge magnets’ (Picture: PA)

Touching on the Paris attacks from earlier this year in another censored gag, he brought up accusations London Mayer Sadiq Khan faced about association with Islamist fundamentalists.

He said: ‘If sharing a stage with extremists made you an extremist, the Eagles Of Death Metal would be the most wanted men in the world’, at which the audience apparently ‘gasped’.

Frankie apparently added: ‘That probably won’t make the edit.’

The BBC declined to comment.

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