Ten top black comedies

In 2007 novelist and short story writer Ray French tagged his top ten black comedies for the Guardian. One title on the list:The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe

Meet Francie Brady: "When I was a young lad 20 or 30 or 40 years ago I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs Nugent." The narrator's tragic descent into isolation, madness and violence is told