splinter65 wrote: » He will be able to do stand up though. Plenty of people have no problem with his behavior and don’t know what all the fuss is about. Roy Chubby Brown and Bernard Manning et al were very successful for years. He’ll have no problem turning all of this into part of his act. I don’t find it funny myself but I’m not going to tell other people what they can laugh at. What I don’t want is to have it shoved down my throat on mainstream TV and radio and all over the media basically. Al Porter is not a main stream entertainer and should never have been pitched that way, his agent/manager and the TV/radio bosses need to take some responsibility here too.
Ash.J.Williams wrote: » He's very much a mainstream act
splinter65 wrote: » Absolutely not a mainstream act. If the whole family can’t sit down and watch it then it belongs in very late night TV or in private clubs and pubs where people choose to pay in to enjoy the act. Nothing about his appearance on LLS Valentines night was mainstream, his radio show was ridiculous for families in cars travellling home from school his Blind Date was a car crash. Not fair on him apart from anything else, he doesn’t have the comedic talent to modify his act to make him palatable to mainstream. Even if these allegations had not surfaced, I doubt if his “mainstream” career was going to go anywhere. When you can’t stop yourself from using the word “cock” in every sentence and you don’t have an act without the word “cock” then your pretty much snookered for prime time Saturday night TV.
Ash.J.Williams wrote: » It's the "bit of blue" end of mainstream... But it is mainstream
Ash.J.Williams wrote: » Alternative comedians don't usually discuss mickeys etc
Ash.J.Williams wrote: » He's a main stream act.... He never has and never will have a career in alternative comedy
Ballstein wrote: » The most astonishing thing for me is the way he was allowed to quietly step away from the panto. The man is an alleged sexual deviant who allegedly targets vunerable psychiatric patients and yet there wasn't a defeaning roar to have him removed from a setting that involved working intimately with children and intellectually challenged people i.e the people who attend panto's. If old Harvey had been lined up to play the ogre in some show in the Gaitey then the mob would have been outside with burning torches and forks.
everlast75 wrote: » Fixed your post for you. You might be right, and it is right that he stepped away from the panto and the radio show, but at the moment they are allegations and pitchforks and torches are a little away at the moment
_Brian wrote: » I 100% agree. The thing that scares me is aparrently this is being produced as it’s what the “general public” want as entertainment. That scares the hell out of me as it seems Irish people have become a bunch of idiots entertained by the lowest form of wit. I’ve seen so many posts online calling for Porter to still do the stupid panto “because it won’t be the same without him”
splinter65 wrote: » So your happy to sit preteens and pensioners in front of his Blind Date show? Everyone to their own but I think the preteens in particular are bombarded with enough pornographic rubbish without adults who care for them force feeding them more.
jack hackett wrote: » I used to love the old Cilla Black blind date and I was horrified to see that a good old fashioned family show was to be presented by that smutty filthy porter, he was a disgrace, every sentence that came from him was referencing mickeys etc, no way could you sit and watch that with your granny or your kid, hes a sex pest and he obviously couldnt help himself but i am delighted for today fm and tv3 to see if spectacularly backfire on them, one day i was listening to the radio show and he asked a caller hows your flute, now how in the name of high school football can that ever be acceptable for the middle of the day radio listening?
jack hackett wrote: » tv and radio stations will learn a hard lesson from this now and wont be so brave as to bring in a non mainstream guy like this again, it has badly backfired on tv3 and todayfm
Bambi wrote: » Do people look for the TV programs to watch with their grannies?
Kali Mushy Blackjack wrote: » Or maybe it's different for you? Are you from one of these fully enlightened families where a the da never starts whistling nonchalantly when a sex scene comes on and there's a teenager in the room? Bully for you if so.
Kali Mushy Blackjack wrote: » No, but I bring my almost 4 year old over to my ma's house every Saturday and we stay for tea, and then watch a bit of telly before heading home. Programs on between 5 and 7 on a Saturday are aimed at this kind of "something for everyone" kind of communal viewing - sure there may be a bit of inyourendo or double entendre, but nothing like what Porter was at on Blind Date. That kind of stuff makes it uncomfortable for everyone in the room. Or maybe it's different for you? Are you from one of these fully enlightened families where a the da never starts whistling nonchalantly when a sex scene comes on and there's a teenager in the room? Bully for you if so.
pilly wrote: » First off, Blind Date was on at 9pm on a Sunday, not between 5 and 7 on a Saturday, you've obviously never even seen what you're calling filth. Secondly, there was no more innuendo on it this time around than there was when Cilla Black did it. You genuinely are blatantly judging the programme based off your dislike of Al Porter or maybe gay people in general, I'm not sure? But I'll state it again, there was absolutely not once anything on Blind Date that I wouldn't be very comfortable to watch with my granny or children.
AustinLostin wrote: » No in fairness now, Blind Date was pretty bad in terms of the innuendo- definitely one you'd be embarrassed to watch with your granny, and no way would I put that on for kids. Fair enough you saying that you were fine with the show, but I saw plenty of stuff I wouldn't have been comfortable to watch with kids. I'm gay and I think my boyfriend is as well and we watched the first episode because on ex of one of our friends was on - that programme was really bad, and really made me dislike Al Porter before any of this started - nothing to do with his sexuality or the scandal, it was just a very bad crass unfunny show.
glenfieldman wrote: » No any chance of a screen grab ? or a PM ?
Bambi wrote: » I'm from a weird family where we don't all sit around staring at the telly like the ****ing Royles
