Frank Skinner hates the GoCompare adverts.
Frank Skinner
The 64-year-old comedy star has confessed to being sick of the adverts, which feature singer-turned-actor Wynne Evans and have been running on TV for more than a decade.
Speaking on his 'Poetry Podcast', Frank explained: "They’ve taken the GoCompare man and they’ve tried to make him a three-dimensional character.
"So you get the bloke that plays him talking about his actual singing career.
"They’re trying to make it poignant. I mean, it’s a bloke with a moustache going ‘GoCompare!'
"That’s what it is. I don’t want to know his back story. We’re going to get the meerkats sitting around a green room, saying, ‘When I was back on the Tundra, I used to... ' Who cares about it? Get out!”
Meanwhile, Frank previously admitted that the British comedy scene has changed markedly since he started his career.
The stand-up star thinks he was initially seen as a bit of a "revolutionary" in the industry.
Speaking about the changing landscape, he explained: "When I started doing comedy, we were very much what was then called 'alternative comedy' and the two great centrepieces of that was non-sexist, non-racist.
"That was the big thing, which now seems absolutely basic, page one, but then was revolutionary."
Frank believes that racist material was considered "the norm" at the start of his career.
Discussing the changes he's witnessed, Frank said: "I did mainstream working men's clubs in Birmingham, and you would not believe the racism, for example, was absolutely the norm [for] friendly middle-aged entertainers.
"We were at the beginning of that and I think we started to expand it. So then you think, 'Well what about homophobia?'"
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