There is a comedian in the UK called Daniel O’Reilly who has a character called Dapper Laughs. As I’m in Japan, I had not heard of him or the apparent outrage he has been causing in the UK where his TV show has been slammed for being misogynistic and emblematic of “lad culture”. When I looked at some of his You Tube clips I didn't think they looked that bad.
Some people have been saying that he is the victim of snobbery, and that if he had been an Oxbridge graduate like Sacha Baron Cohen or Al Murray then he would have the support of the established Comedy Aristocracy, but because he's obviously not posh it's assumed that his act can't possibly be ironic, and/or what's much worse is the plebs and the proles will start acting like him because they are so stupid.
A group of comedians wrote a patronizing letter about how what he does cannot be considered "boundary pushing" and how the comedian behind it is obviously some mixed up and confused bloke who should be battling against gender inequality instead of "reinforcing" it.
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I think that it looks surprisingly puritanical and the idea that their target and his followers are too thick to know any better.
Anyway, Danny O'Reilly had his TV show axed after pressure from various groups including from fellow comedians. He appeared on Newsnight to confess his behaviour to the inquisitor and said that he had "killed off the character".
http://ift.tt/1wUgU4d
All seemed well, and that perhaps he had atoned for his sins after all and could now go forth with a pure soul.
Until… he brought back the character with a NSFW video on You Tube in which Dapper Laughs returns from the dead and mocks the comedian for having “no balls” and for groveling in a black polo neck jumper.
http://ift.tt/1wJxl3R
So what does everyone here think?
Some people have been saying that he is the victim of snobbery, and that if he had been an Oxbridge graduate like Sacha Baron Cohen or Al Murray then he would have the support of the established Comedy Aristocracy, but because he's obviously not posh it's assumed that his act can't possibly be ironic, and/or what's much worse is the plebs and the proles will start acting like him because they are so stupid.
A group of comedians wrote a patronizing letter about how what he does cannot be considered "boundary pushing" and how the comedian behind it is obviously some mixed up and confused bloke who should be battling against gender inequality instead of "reinforcing" it.
http://ift.tt/1xmDt3P
I think that it looks surprisingly puritanical and the idea that their target and his followers are too thick to know any better.
Anyway, Danny O'Reilly had his TV show axed after pressure from various groups including from fellow comedians. He appeared on Newsnight to confess his behaviour to the inquisitor and said that he had "killed off the character".
http://ift.tt/1wUgU4d
All seemed well, and that perhaps he had atoned for his sins after all and could now go forth with a pure soul.
Until… he brought back the character with a NSFW video on You Tube in which Dapper Laughs returns from the dead and mocks the comedian for having “no balls” and for groveling in a black polo neck jumper.
http://ift.tt/1wJxl3R
So what does everyone here think?
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