Dapper Laughs

A friend linked to this on Facebook, which made me laugh.

newsthump.com/2014/11/12/comedian-to-retire-controversial-katie-hopkins-character/

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Good meme from Digital Spy website ( men actually having an intelligent discussion about him and his 'comedy')

Good article on the Radio Times website with the Newsnight clip as well:

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I'm an English teacher. My A Level students (my GCSE students, come to that) would be able to put him straight on the meaning of satire. Whatever he thinks he's doing, it ain't satire in any way.

Article in the metro by Tom who set up the 68k strong petition:

metro.co.uk/2014/11/12/why-the-fall-of-dapper-laughs-is-an-important-lesson-learned-4945630/

I know him from over at a feminist group I belong to on Facebook

He thinks that saying women are 'the most powerful people on this planet' is the opposite of sexist.

I expect we're supposed to be powerful because we're a) sexy or b) mothers.

I saw the newsnight interview and agree he looked genuinely shaken but I get the impression he was sorry he was 'caught' and the negative backlash shocked him. I didn't get a sense of any understanding that he wasn't being viewed satirically by most of his audience or that he was contributing to a culture of sexualised misogyny.

I don't buy the 'satire' argument at all. If you compare this idiot's material to Simon Brodkin when he performs as Lee Nelson, you really notice the difference. Brodkin's character superficially portrays the same sort of 'laddish/chavy' culture and in a lot of his material you sit there thinking "Oh no, he's about to say something obnoxious and bigoted" but in the punch line he manages to pull it back and poke fun at the bigotry instead.

He's not my favourite comedian and I wouldn't say he gets it right every time, but I do admire him for his cleverness. He manages to both enact the behaviour and attitudes and lampoon it at the same time. Dapper Laughs just enacts it, and fails to incorporate any commentary on it, or to undermine it in any way.

Emily Maitliss was excellent on Newsnight, it's well worth a watch.

If you search for "Dapper Laughs dad" on Newsnight, you can see that his dad was trolling his son's critics on twitter (he's deleted the tweets but there are some screenshots).

I agree he looked genuinely shocked but I don't believe he thought it was satire or that the audience would take it as satire.

I am as yet to see the newsnight piece, but very pleased to hear that it's put an end to this "character".

My concern is that it wasn't quite as the story has been told, however, as why would a "character" encourage the abuse of people trying to take him down? (This was last week, he has since deleted the tweets - but search for "deleted tweets" and plenty of people took screen grabs of them!)

He was being interviewed on newsnight this evening about the second series of his show being cancelled. He has also cancelled his upcoming tour and was basically trying to distance himself from the whole dapper laughs "character".

If anyone is interested I would recommend watching it on I player. It was interesting. He looked genuinely shocked at the amount of public outrage his show had stirred up. It was strangely satisfying to see him confronted with some of his obscene material. Whether he genuinely felt it was satire or not, it felt like a victory that he realised how unacceptable it was.

He looked like a little boy who was having to grow up fast. I am sure he said at one point that his life/career had been ruined and his family were not happy with him. I found these quite child like comments. I thought he was going to cry towards the end of the interview.

I take no pleasure in his personal distress but on a wider level it feels positive that in this instance public opinion has put an end to broadcasting this misogynistic drivel.

Result!

His tour has been cancelled now

Nice to see the petition has worked

Just read he won't be doing a second season. Thank God!

www.theguardian.com/media/2014/nov/10/itv-drops-dapper-laughs-criticism-daniel-oreilly-misogyny

The interview linked to above was a complete piss take of dapper laughs. The same people who wrote it were then involved in the stuff last week criticising the album. They then became the target of all sorts of nasty hate stuff on twitter.
usvsth3m.com/post/this-is-what-happened-when-i-criticised-dapper-laughs-on-twitter

Satire is one of the best ways to challenge oppression. I think there's space for someone to do this really well.

He's not doing a second season.

Good, rapey twat.

www.itv.com/news/update/2014-11-10/itv-decides-not-to-continue-dapper-laughs-show/

Signed. What a load of depressing shit.

I agree, it is satire and piss-take all round-the interview, and probably DL as well.

But still, people think this kind of satire fine when women are the (actual or ostensible) targets. They wouldn't, I don't think, be so relaxed if the comedy were directed at other groups. And that is telling.