Comedian Frankie Boyle denied punctuating material with racist references or making "gratuitous" use of stereotypes of black people.
He told the High Court yesterday characters he played might express racist views but he did not.
He was giving evidence on the third day of a trial in London after suing the Daily Mirror for libel after a newspaper article described him as a "racist comedian".
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