Al Porter Scandal

splinter65 · 25-11-2017 04:56PM

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

There are two types of comedian... Mainstream and alternative... Al never was and never will be alternative. Micky jokes have been mainstream since day one. Look at all the pussy jokes for example in are you being served. It's just in this case behaviour went unchecked....ever hear funny Fri on Joe Duffy? Also mainstream... There you will hear slanty eyed Chink jokes and "funny accents" and casual racism... Mainstream comedy is lowest common denominator comedy

Your kidding yourself. If your happy to sit your child down in front of Al Porter doing the YouTube routine posted only a couple of pages back, or if you think his streaking on stage while someone else is performing including waving his hairy arse at the audience is comparable to Mrs Slocombe whining to Ms Brahms about her pussy needing a good comb then your powers of delusion are a lot better then mine.

weldoninhio · 25-11-2017 05:07PM

splinter65 wrote: »

Your kidding yourself. If your happy to sit your child down in front of Al Porter doing the YouTube routine posted only a couple of pages back, or if you think his streaking on stage while someone else is performing including waving his hairy arse at the audience is comparable to Mrs Slocombe whining to Ms Brahms about her pussy needing a good comb then your powers of delusion are a lot better then mine.

I think you are using the literal meaning of mainstream and the other poster is using the comedic grouping meaning of mainstream.

Mainstream comedy in no way means family friendly, ok for children comedy. It just means straight-forward joke based comedy some of which is ok for kids, some of which is extremely blue, as opposed to alternative comedy.

It’s the same word, just in different contexts

Ash.J.Williams · 25-11-2017 05:17PM

splinter65 wrote: »

Your kidding yourself. If your happy to sit your child down in front of Al Porter doing the YouTube routine posted only a couple of pages back, or if you think his streaking on stage while someone else is performing including waving his hairy arse at the audience is comparable to Mrs Slocombe whining to Ms Brahms about her pussy needing a good comb then your powers of delusion are a lot better then mine.

I would never subject any of my family to mainstream comedy.. You are correct

LadyMacBeth_ · 25-11-2017 06:10PM

Do people think the kids will even get the jokes? That's what I don't understand about outraged adults wanting to shelter children, sexual jokes went right over my head when I was a child, kids don't notice. It's the adults who have a hissy fit about it being unsuitable.

Muahahaha · 25-11-2017 06:17PM

Does anyone know if the Hotpress interview he did a few days before the allegations broke has been published yet?

Guy:Incognito · 25-11-2017 06:20PM

Muahahaha wrote: »

Does anyone know if the Hotpress interview he did a few days before the allegations broke has been published yet?

I think one of the articles that was quoting it said it came out yesterday.

_Dara_ · 25-11-2017 07:30PM

JupiterKid wrote: »

Al Porter is a talentless idiot but if these allegations are true, he's just fanning the flames of homophobia that gay men = sex pests which angers me as a gay man myself.

And there are plenty of homophobes in this little country of ours who would seize on the connection between gay men as pervs/sex pests/order sastra or worse.

Absolutely. Gay people have been trying to shake off that unfair perception for years. Like Spacey, he is playing into the prejudices of homophobes.

Ash.J.Williams · 25-11-2017 07:36PM

_Dara_ wrote: »

Absolutely. Gay people have been trying to shake off that unfair perception for years. Like Spacey, he is playing into the prejudices of homophobes.

I get the impression the majority of the twitter mob are homophobes seizing an opportunity to vent

Grayditch · 25-11-2017 09:37PM

A clever Al Porter would head off to Spain for a month or three and let it all blow over (inster Al Porter blow joke here).

Nobody will bother him or take photos of him, sure he's only barely recognisable in Ireland as it is. Most people I know have said "Who's Al Porter?" I'd say 50% of the people who know of him now only know of him because of the allegations.

So ultimately... He's either known as the pretend sex pest who's now a sex pest... Or just known as the sex pest.

colm_mcm · 25-11-2017 10:04PM

Grayditch wrote: »

A clever Al Porter would head off to Spain for a month or three and let it all blow over (inster Al Porter blow joke here).

Nobody will bother him or take photos of him, sure he's only barely recognisable in Ireland as it is. Most people I know have said "Who's Al Porter?" I'd say 50% of the people who know of him now only know of him because of the allegations.

So ultimately... He's either known as the pretend sex pest who's now a sex pest... Or just known as the sex pest.

Weather might be a bit hot with the suit?

25-11-2017 10:07PM

PowerToWait wrote: »

Clearly an absolute monster, evil incarnate I think it's fair to say, who definitely would have gone on to be worse than Savlle, if those brave victims hadn't stopped his galloping predatory ways.

steady on now there jaysus will ye. he never raped anyone, dead bodies, children, the handicapped, the hospitalized and bed ridden etc, to the knowledge of most.... I wouldn't go putting him up as aspiring to break your jimmy saville bench mark as yet FFS!!

He's a horn dog who abused his position and allegedly assaulted people and sent nude photos and the likes..I'm sure you're kidding with the evil incarnate remarks..are they not reserved for the stalins, hindleys, hitlers, idi amins and john venables of this world no??

Cienciano · 25-11-2017 10:15PM

splinter65 wrote: »

There are a limited number of posters active on this thread but to me it is alarming how some have argued that his act could definitely be described as mainstream entertainment and one in particular insisted that he is in effect a family entertainer, suitable for all the family.
It’s alarming because I don’t know now if I’m being prudish and over protective or is it the case that these people are ludicrously over liberal?

Who said he's a family entertainer?

splinter65 · 25-11-2017 10:28PM

Cienciano wrote: »

Who said he's a family entertainer?

At least one poster has said that they would be happy to sit down with family and watch him on TV.
So a family entertainer.
You’ll have to go back over the thread yourself and see. I’m not singling anyone out.

Rubberchikken · 25-11-2017 10:30PM

Watched the video from.post #1495.
I've never seen or heard of this guy before and the idea that people paid money to see him and Rte put him on the national station on Christmas eve or any night makes me wonder where the hell people's brains are.
Creepy and uncomfortable to watch. How anyone ever found him worth watching is a mystery.

blade1 · 25-11-2017 10:58PM

Rubberchikken wrote: »

Watched the video from.post #1495.
I've never seen or heard of this guy before and the idea that people paid money to see him and Rte put him on the national station on Christmas eve or any night makes me wonder where the hell people's brains are.
Creepy and uncomfortable to watch. How anyone ever found him worth watching is a mystery.

He was on Live at the Apollo one night and got a good reaction from the crowd so there must have been a niche in the market for him.
I suppose look at Jimmy Saville.
If they let him have a career entertaining, anything is possible.

PeterParker957 · 25-11-2017 11:02PM

splinter65 wrote: »

Cienciano wrote: »

Who said he's a family entertainer?

At least one poster has said that they would be happy to sit down with family and watch him on TV.
So a family entertainer.
You’ll have to go back over the thread yourself and see. I’m not singling anyone out.

I'm old enough to remember watching Larry Grayson on a Saturday night. Sane sort of act.

I'd not be an Al Porter fan at all but it's not like you need to put his stuff on after 11pm!

25-11-2017 11:07PM

blade1 wrote: »

He was on Live at the Apollo one night and got a good reaction from the crowd so there must have been a niche in the market for him.
I suppose look at Jimmy Saville.
If they let him have a career entertaining, anything is possible.

Sure the English love a bit of blue, they practically invented it.

Paully D · 25-11-2017 11:29PM

blade1 wrote: »

He was on Live at the Apollo one night and got a good reaction from the crowd so there must have been a niche in the market for him.
I suppose look at Jimmy Saville.
If they let him have a career entertaining, anything is possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJNOrU2iFyk

Grayditch · 25-11-2017 11:35PM

Paully D wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJNOrU2iFyk

Interesting name on the uploader...

Cienciano · 25-11-2017 11:53PM

splinter65 wrote: »

At least one poster has said that they would be happy to sit down with family and watch him on TV.
So a family entertainer.
You’ll have to go back over the thread yourself and see. I’m not singling anyone out.

I didn't notice anyone saying that

blade1 · 25-11-2017 11:54PM

Grayditch wrote: »

Interesting name on the uploader...

Also, most of the comments on YouTube before the story broke were positive.
Then after the story all negative.
I have no sympathy for him but there seems to be a fair bit of jumping on the bandwagon and kicking him when he is down.

Grayditch · 25-11-2017 11:58PM

That Apollo performance isn't even that bad. He has shocking bad comedic timing and ends every risky comment immediately with "EEEEEHHH", but that video isn't the worst.

He really phoned it in on RTE by the looks of it.

Ralf and Florian · 26-11-2017 12:17AM

Paully D wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJNOrU2iFyk

Someone in the comments says he stole the Fathers Day joke from another comedian but doesn't say who. Anyone know if this is true, comics stealing jokes is a bugbear with me.

splinter65 · 26-11-2017 01:33AM

Cienciano wrote: »

I didn't notice anyone saying that

It’s no more than 3 or 4 pages back.

KKkitty · 26-11-2017 02:03AM

Ralf and Florian wrote: »

Someone in the comments says he stole the Fathers Day joke from another comedian but doesn't say who. Anyone know if this is true, comics stealing jokes is a bugbear with me.

If it's the Father's Day joke I'm thinking of I'm almost certain I've heard it before with a different location obviously.

CatFromHue · 26-11-2017 04:27AM

Ralf and Florian wrote: »

Someone in the comments says he stole the Fathers Day joke from another comedian but doesn't say who. Anyone know if this is true, comics stealing jokes is a bugbear with me.

It was one of the twitter accusations, that he stole others jokes.

I don't know if it's true though.

Canis Lupus · 26-11-2017 04:35AM

Ralf and Florian wrote: »

Someone in the comments says he stole the Fathers Day joke from another comedian but doesn't say who. Anyone know if this is true, comics stealing jokes is a bugbear with me.

You going to write a stern letter to the ombudsman for Stand Up Comedians?

everlast75 · 26-11-2017 05:50AM

We can argue about whether he is mainstream or not mainstream all day.

Can we not just agree he's just not funny?

pilly · 26-11-2017 08:16AM

splinter65 wrote:

At least one poster has said that they would be happy to sit down with family and watch him on TV. So a family entertainer. Youâ€™ll have to go back over the thread yourself and see. Iâ€™m not singling anyone out.

It's me your talking about, just haven't got the balls to say so.

I was referring to Blind Date when I said I'd be happy to watch him with the family.

As opposed to people who haven't even seen it jumping up and down saying it's filth.

As another poster says above it's simply people jumping on a bandwagon. If TV3 had a load of complaints about Blind Date it would have been pulled.

Such bull**** on this thread.

26-11-2017 08:38AM

pilly wrote: »

I was referring to Blind Date when I said I'd be happy to watch him with the family...

Are you sure they can't catch stupid through the tv screen? Is it 100% safe?

I'm not even talking about Porter, but the people who go on such a show. I can't watch it because their sheer stupidity, narcissism and banality depresses me, bit like First Dates.

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