Frankie Boyle will be returning to our screens, as the Scottish comedian has been announced as the star of a new BBC Two show.
The show will take a satire look at topical subjects, much Mock the Week does, though no details on the format of the show have been revealed, Huffington Post reports.
It is thought to be centered around the upcoming general election, with Boyle being the choice of host based on his work on Frankie Boyle's Referendum Autopsy and Frankie Boyle's American Autopsy.
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BBC Two controller Patrick Holland made the announcement and said that there's an attempt "to make the channel feel more vital and relevant to the audience".
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Long ago, in 2009, Boyle quit Mock the Week, of which he was a regular, as he thought the BBC were "cravenly afraid of giving offence" and scared of "frightening the horses". He heavily criticised the show's production team and the BBC Trust after they investigated his risky jokes.
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Given the comic's long list of controversies, Holland was quick to outline that the upcoming show will be "challenging viewing", and said that it'll be "tightly edited".
The 44-year-old had some of his more hard-hitting jokes cut from Have I Got News For You last year when he hosted the show.
Some of the jokes did make it to television, such as his par on Britain First leader Paul Golding. However, fortunately for people like the Queen, the jokes aimed at her were cut from the show.
According to the Mirror, one of those jokes was: "It's very hard to tell if the Queen is unhappy with you. She hasn't really cracked a smile since Diana died."
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He also made quips about the royal family being a product of 'centuries of incest', as well as them being a promotional tool for fridge magnets. He then went on to say that convicted paedophile Rolf Harris' portrait of the Queen, which he painted in 2005, was one of the best decisions the Queen has made.
"The Queen keeping Rolf Harris's hands busy for a week is probably the best thing she's ever done," he said, the Mirror reported.
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Another topic that managed to crop up while the comedian was guest host on the popular BBC show was the Paris terrorist attacks last November.
Speaking of the newly elected London Mayor Sadiq Kahn being associated 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."
The joke was met by gasps by the audience, and an admittance from Boyle that it probably won't make the edit.
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