Al Porter Scandal

josip · 20-11-2017 01:11PM

From the Olympia

STATEMENT – OLYMPIA THEATRE PANTOMIME

PAT EGAN MANAGEMENT & SPOTLIGHT PRODUCTIONS

Due to recent developments, Al Porter is standing aside from his role in this year’s Pantomime Polly and the Beanstalk at the Olympia Theatre.

A replacement star will be announced shortly.

Pat Egan Management / Stuart O’Connor, Spotlight Productions

splinter65 · 20-11-2017 01:15PM

Wibbs wrote: »

"filth" eh? I'm picturing Mary Whitehouse here. :pac:

Part of Julian Clary’s appeal and success on TV was that the innuendo and the double entendres were just subtle enough to go over your grannies head so you could sit watching him, sniggering away to yourself and no one was being offensive.
Al Porter is a one trick pony in-your-face blue comic whose act belongs in a venue where people choose to pay to go to be entertained in that way.
It is filth.
I now think that TV3 and Today FM made serious mistakes in hiring him and they will hopefully not make the same mistake again.

jack hackett · 20-11-2017 01:16PM

josip wrote: »

From the Olympia

Porter and the beanstalk

jack hackett · 20-11-2017 01:18PM

splinter65 wrote: »

Part of Julian Clary’s appeal and success on TV was that the innuendo and the double entendres were just subtle enough to go over your grannies head so you could sit watching him, sniggering away to yourself and no one was being offensive.
Al Porter is a one trick pony in-your-face blue comic whose act belongs in a venue where people choose to pay to go to be entertained in that way.
It is filth.
I now think that TV3 and Today FM made serious mistakes in hiring him and they will hopefully not make the same mistake again.

Absolutely 100% correct and the most correct assessment I have seen on this thread.

jooksavage · 20-11-2017 01:25PM

splinter65 wrote: »

Part of Julian Clary’s appeal and success on TV was that the innuendo and the double entendres were just subtle enough to go over your grannies head so you could sit watching him, sniggering away to yourself and no one was being offensive.

"That's a bad cough. You should suck a fisherman's friend"

darkdubh · 20-11-2017 01:26PM

Wibbs wrote: »

"filth" eh? I'm picturing Mary Whitehouse here. :pac:

Or this lad. "Bloody filth!"

wakka12 · 20-11-2017 01:34PM

God his apology was so patronising. Basically saying its all your fault you didn't recognise sexual assault as my style of humour and now Im losing my job due to your over reactions

20-11-2017 01:40PM

splinter65 wrote: »

Al Porter is a one trick pony in-your-face blue comic
I now think that TV3 and Today FM made serious mistakes in hiring him and they will hopefully not make the same mistake again.

well put. There is no complexity or intelligence whatsoever in his routine. It's just cheap tack based on the idea that gay men are desperate and want to f*ck everything they see. I'm not "offended" by it, it's just sh*t. But producers have lapped it up for some reason - the whole Late Late Valentines thing that Porter was on was driven by this brand of comedy and Blind Date too. It wouldn't surprise me if that sort of rubbish was done away with now off the back of this scandal.

threein99 · 20-11-2017 01:44PM

jack hackett wrote: »

Where does Nanny Pat stand on all of this?

jooksavage · 20-11-2017 01:49PM

Olaf Tyaransen did an interview with AP for the Hot Press last week just before the allegations came out. Tweeted an hour ago to say "his words may come back to haunt him."

Beechwoodspark · 20-11-2017 01:59PM

jooksavage wrote: »

Olaf Tyaransen did an interview with AP for the Hot Press last week just before the allegations came out. Tweeted an hour ago to say "his words may come back to haunt him."

Sounds ominous

pjohnson · 20-11-2017 02:01PM

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Sounds ominous

Olaf sounds like he is from Westeros

Don Kiddick · 20-11-2017 02:04PM

pjohnson wrote: »

Olaf sounds like he is from Westeros

Surely he's from Arendelle ?

cloudatlas · 20-11-2017 02:04PM

blue note wrote: »

People were racing into this thread to say he was completely unfunny and simply a rubbish comedian well before his apology. Now, a significant amount of it was surely posting in the hope of getting lots of thanks, but it came across as nasty to me. Basically that people were delighted they could now have a go at him, rather than what he did.

Yes there were because the lads had come out on twitter with their accounts. He is a ****e comedian.

up4dabah · 20-11-2017 02:04PM

Absolutely delighted that we don't have to listen to that voice anymore. It was like an icepick in my ear every day in work. I only knowof him from his radio programme and couldn't believe he was a comedian. There was zero humour in his show.

Beechwoodspark · 20-11-2017 02:16PM

mistersifter wrote: »

well put. There is no complexity or intelligence whatsoever in his routine. It's just cheap tack based on the idea that gay men are desperate and want to f*ck everything they see. I'm not "offended" by it, it's just sh*t. But producers have lapped it up for some reason - the whole Late Late Valentines thing that Porter was on was driven by this brand of comedy and Blind Date too. It wouldn't surprise me if that sort of rubbish was done away with now off the back of this scandal.

It's pure laziness on the part of the RTÉ production staff. "Al porter is available on Friday-yeah, whatever, that'll do".

That seems to be standard out in donnybrook.

LollipopJimmy · 20-11-2017 02:20PM

His statement yesterday says a lot about the man. Thinking that 'flamboyancy' is a good enough excuse for this kind of behavior.
He is young enough to go on and do something else, maybe retrain and work in IT or something

josip · 20-11-2017 02:22PM

(Nothing to do with the sex pest stuff)
I've never heard or watched him on Radio/TV so don't know what he's like on those.
I've seen him in the Olympia Panto and thought he was very good, most of the humour wasn't sexual innuendo.
Lots of spontaneity and a natural fit for Panto.

Cienciano · 20-11-2017 02:30PM

blue note wrote: »

People were racing into this thread to say he was completely unfunny and simply a rubbish comedian well before his apology. Now, a significant amount of it was surely posting in the hope of getting lots of thanks, but it came across as nasty to me. Basically that people were delighted they could now have a go at him, rather than what he did.

Every thread on AH about a comedian since I started using boards.ie (in about 2005) has lots of posts about how they're not funny. It's not an al porter thing, it's an AH thing about comedians. Start a thread about any comedian and in the first 25 comments 10 will be about how they're not funny.

Grayditch · 20-11-2017 02:31PM

Cienciano wrote: »

Every thread on AH about a comedian since I started using boards.ie (in about 2005) has lots of posts about how they're not funny. It's not an al porter thing, it's an AH thing

It's a people thing.

Agricola · 20-11-2017 02:42PM

Had to laugh at "decades in the entertainment industry"

He really has his head firmly wedged in his arsé

josip · 20-11-2017 02:49PM

Agricola wrote: »

Had to laugh at "decades in the entertainment industry"

He really has his head firmly wedged in his arsé

That's what decades in the entertainment industry will do to you

TallGlass · 20-11-2017 02:49PM

Agricola wrote: »

Had to laugh at "decades in the entertainment industry"

He really has his head firmly wedged in his arsé

Decades, sure how old is the fella :pac:

testicles · 20-11-2017 02:52PM

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Ulysses Gaze · 20-11-2017 02:56PM

TallGlass wrote: »

Decades, sure how old is the fella :pac:

He's been in Showbusiness since he was 4 so he has, apparently, 2 decades of experience.

Agricola · 20-11-2017 03:08PM

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

He's been in Showbusiness since he was 4 so he has, apparently, 2 decades of experience.

mad muffin · 20-11-2017 03:28PM

I suppose there’s nothing for him but to take up the heroine, move to Thailand and work in seedy bars. Doing tricks on the side to help pay for his habit.

He’s persona non grata forever more…

Cienciano · 20-11-2017 03:32PM

If the pics circulating on whatsapp are real, porter is screwed

splinter65 · 20-11-2017 03:33PM

He’ll find a way back in if he takes up the sackcloth and ashes for a bit and levers himself back onto the chat show circuit wearing a scruffy t-shirt and unwashed hair, being very mea culpa and hinting darkly at how mental health demons/substance abuse issues drove him to become a monster.
But his ludicrous statement yesterday which basically accused everyone of being a dry ****e showed that he’s not really there yet.

splinter65 · 20-11-2017 03:38PM

Cienciano wrote: »

If the pics circulating on whatsapp are real, porter is screwed

Who is supposed to have taken these snaps?

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