To think "dapper laughs" is a vile human being?

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I honestly dont understand how anyone finds him funny?

Taking the piss out of the disabled, being racist.

Some of the light hearted stuff- fine. But he just takes things too far

He was on the Reggie Yates programme wasn't he? The one about misogyny / rapists etc.

It was the first time I'd ever heard of him - took a strong dislike to him. Seems to have quite a following though.

I doubt he makes rape jokes to highlight women's issues. I don't think he has much respect for women.

There's a difference between jokes about racism to highlight the plight of South Africa (or whatever) and plain old racist jokes.

I think people like him actually encourage young kids to make racist jokes. Lots of people aren't going to intelligently think 'oh yes he is lampooning racists. Racism is therefore wrong'.

I don't think he is a fantastic comedian as he's too one-dimensional. I do however think his act is a fantastic send-up of that type of man.

He is clearly a "massive pisstake" using "lampooning" to make social statement. I'm not saying his humour is highly intellectual or that deserves it is on the same level as Spitting Image or Private Eye, but I think to act a caricature so well takes intelligence and skill.

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I've just read an interview about him (yes, I am on company time!) and he comes across as intelligent and misquoted.

"O’Reilly recalls what happened: ‘A woman at the side of the stage said, “Dapper, don’t worry about that. My friend Lucy loves you, she’s gagging for a rape.” I leaned down and said, “What’s that? She’s gagging for a rape?” Next thing you know the headlines are “Dapper Laughs tells fan she is gagging for a rape”. I was mortified.’"

"I ask O’Reilly if there are any lines he thinks comedians shouldn’t cross, to which he offers a blunt but perfectly formed metaphor: ‘I’ll put it this way, right. I wouldn’t complain about a restaurant that serves a dish I have no intention of eating. If you don’t like a comedian, don’t go and watch him… There’s things I wouldn’t speak about. I’d never be racist. And I’ve never, actually, written a joke about rape. I don’t find it funny. My family’s been affected by sexual violence..."

"Just because there’s a group of feminists out there who don’t like the way some lads behave, there are also masses of groups of women who love naughty, cheeky lads – who love attention from men. Again, I think it’s a class thing. The majority of the girls that I grew up with were worse than the lads. They talk about worse things than lads. And they’re probably naughtier than lads. Just because feminists don’t enjoy it doesn’t mean other women don’t."

Of course that final quote can be twisted and blamed on 'patriarchal society' but there are plenty of girls who do like the lads' lads his act is lampooning. Ever watched 'the only way is Essex'? Those girls fall over men like Dapper's persona.

I'm afraid I can't see "Well, lots of girls fancy them" as any sort of intelligent justification for ... anything!

Plus absolute cringe at a woman fan saying she was "gagging for a rape" and thinking that was funny

Is he still saying it's just a character?

He didn't seem that bright when Reggie Yates interviewed him. He's certainly nowhere in the same league as Frankie Boyle.

"I don't think he is a fantastic comedian as he's too one-dimensional. I do however think his act is a fantastic send-up of that type of man."

The trouble is though that sometimes people don't get that it's a send-up, they think it's someone else who thinks like them and they use it as validation. I've got a vague memory of Harry Enfield saying he stopped doing his 'Loadsamoney' character when he realised too many people saw him as a role model not a parody.

I saw a teenaged boy and girl watching a Dapper Laughs video together on his phone - he was showing her 'how funny it was'. She said she didn't get it and seemed very uncomfortable.

Being told that 'lots of girls like it' and 'if you don't like it you don't have to watch' is just reinforcing to women and girls that they are expected to put up with this sort of shit without complaint.

I don't know much about him. But my son, who is a leftie, feminist student thinks he is quite funny and gets quite irritated that people fail to grasp that he is playing a character. Like Al Murray right? Surely everyone realises he is not really a Little Englander pub landlord.

I think it's easier to see with Al Murray. Dapper Laughs shows no sign (and he didn't when interviewed) of being just a construct - more like an excuse when he was being criticised. Al Murray is clever with the Pub Landlord character.

I think to act a caricature so well takes intelligence and skill.

Unless it's not much of a stretch from who you really are......

Quite.