Saturday, November 28, 2015

Cock jokes and comebacks

Thought (or hoped) you'd seen the last of Dapper Laughs, skulking off Newsnight in his black turtleneck? Well, you thought/hoped wrong. Meet Dapper 2.0, via this feature by Vice's Joel Golby.

On the one hand, he (or rather the man behind him, Daniel O'Reilly) appears to have gained a modicum of self-awareness and is now improbably proclaiming to be a "feminist" eager to educate his largely male fanbase about sexual consent.

On the other, his new DVD is called The Res-Erection (snigger) and Golby describes his new material as "lad-lite: not quite banter, not quite venom; two parts Jay from The Inbetweeners and one-part Marbella club night warm-up act, the background noise to a thousand simultaneous lads-night-out pre-drinking sessions". The leopard hasn't really changed its spots, then.

Apparently, the character was born out of the former cruise liner comedian "trying to find a place for himself in an intellectual comedy circuit once he made it back to land". What's particularly amusing is Dapper's declaration that "my fans don't watch 8 Out Of 10 Cats", as though that's some kind of bastion of intellectual comedy.

If he wants to learn how to do dick-based material in a sufficiently high-brow manner to appease Guardian readers, he really needs to watch a bit of Richard Herring.

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