COMEDIAN Frankie Boyle has sparked outrage after cracking a sick joke about Boris Johnson dying.

The controversial comic boasted that he "bought fireworks" to celebrate the Prime Minister's possible death as be battled coroanavirus.

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The Scots funnyman tweeted he had made "contingency plans" in the event the PM didn't survive the virus.

It comes after the Sun On Sunday revealed last week that doctors prepared to announce Mr Johnson's death as he fought the deadly bug.

Last night, Boyle tweeted: "Boris Johnson said contingency plans were made for his death.

"That’s true – I’d bought fireworks."

'SICK JOKES'

The PM was given oxygen treatment after being rushed to intensive care at St Thomas Hospital in April.

Mr Johnson revealed his plummeting health at the time had been "a tough old moment" as doctors mapped out a contingency plan.

He said: "They had a strategy to deal with a ‘death of Stalin’-type scenario.

“The doctors had all sorts of arrangements for what to do if things went badly wrong."

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He spent three nights in intensive care and received “litres and litres of oxygen” to keep him alive.

Social media users rounded on Boyle after he made the heartless gag about the Mr Johnson dying.

One person wrote sarcastically: "Kind and gentle left."

A second person said: "Wishing for someone to die. Such class."

Another tweeted: "Is this another one of your sick jokes!?"

And one told Boyle he would "be on the naughty step with Miriam Margolye", the Harry Potter actress who said she wished the PM had died from coronavirus.

In April, Piers Morgan branded Boyle a "disgusting human being" over a tweet from the comedian about plummeting newspaper sales.

In his interview with the Sun On Sunday, Boris revealed the reality of his plight quickly struck home when he was wired up to monitors and moved into intensive care.

He told how “the bloody indicators kept going in the wrong direction” and he realised there was no cure for Covid-19.

During his life-or-death struggle at St Thomas last month, he said he kept asking himself: “How am I going to get out of this?”

Mr Johnson welled up as he spoke about the  two weeks where he nearly lost his own life but recovered in time to see the birth of his new son Wilfred.

BRUSH WITH DEATH

He said: “It was thanks to some wonderful, wonderful nursing that I made it. They really did it and they made a huge difference.

“I can’t explain how it happened. I don’t know . . . it was just wonderful to see the . . . ”

He added: “I get emotional about it . . . but it was an extraordinary thing.”

Mr Johnson’s fiancee Carrie Symonds released the first picture of their son, who arrived just 17 days after his dad was discharged from hospital.

This month, OFCOM recieved nearly 250 complaints after Harry Potter star Miriam Margoyles said she wished Boris had died from coronavirus.

The actress made the controversial statements on the Channel 4 show, The Last Leg, last month when asked how she felt the PM had handled the Covid-19 crisis so far.

Viewers were disgusted with the comments and 241 complained urging the national media watchdog to investigate Channel 4.

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