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Dapper Laughs: laddish banter banned from Cardiff Uni Dapper Laughs: laddish banter banned from Cardiff Uni
(about 3 hours later)
Name: Dapper Laughs.Name: Dapper Laughs.
Age: Thirtyish/old enough to know better.Age: Thirtyish/old enough to know better.
Appearance: If David Brent were a member of a boyband … Appearance: If David Brent were a member of a boyband …
Dapper Laughs? What is that? That’s not a thing. Can that be a thing? It’s a person. Sort of. It’s a douchebag. Dapper Laughs? What is that? That’s not a thing. Can that be a thing? It’s a person. Sort of. It’s a douchebag.
Explain. He’s a persona created by former cruise-ship entertainer Daniel O’Reilly. He is an internet sensation – 79m Vine viewings, 1.6m followers on Facebook, 360,000 on Twitter and so on – who recently broke into the mainstream with a series on ITV2 called Dapper Laughs: On the Pull. Explain. He’s a persona created by former cruise-ship entertainer Daniel O’Reilly. He is an internet sensation – 79m Vine viewings, 1.6m followers on Facebook, 360,000 on Twitter and so on – who recently broke into the mainstream with a series on ITV2 called Dapper Laughs: On the Pull.
ITV2’s not great, but that doesn’t automatically make him a douchebag. No, it’s the endless rape jokes, suggestions of how best to catcall and otherwise harass attractive women and generally reduce them to compliant holes in which to push your prick, and to insult those who have offended you by not being “fuckable enough”. ITV2’s not great, but that doesn’t automatically make him a douchebag. No, it’s the endless rape jokes, suggestions of how best to catcall and otherwise harass attractive women and generally reduce them to compliant holes in which to push your prick, and to insult those who have offended you by not being “fuckable enough”.
I see. And his references to the sexually unpredatory men he “helps” on the show as “gashless” and “fanny driers” (he himself is “the Moisturiser” because every woman who sees him automatically becomes “pretty moist”, his catchphrase). I see. And his references to the sexually unpredatory men he “helps” on the show as “gashless” and “fanny driers” (he himself is “the Moisturiser” because every woman who sees him automatically becomes “pretty moist”, his catchphrase).
Gotcha. Or his Vine videos showing him pointing a shotgun at a one-night stand who hasn’t left first thing in the morning. Or his suggestions for persuading a girlfriend to have a threesome: “Pick a friend you don’t like and I’ll spunk in her hair.” Gotcha. Or his Vine videos showing him pointing a shotgun at a one-night stand who hasn’t left first thing in the morning. Or his suggestions for persuading a girlfriend to have a threesome: “Pick a friend you don’t like and I’ll spunk in her hair.”
Right. Has no one objected to any of this? Comedian Lee Kern wrote an open letter to ITV2 saying it had created “a rapist’s almanac”. TV critic Michael Hogan called him “less of a legend, more of a bell-end”. And Cardiff University students have got up a petition calling for his booking by their student union for him to perform there on his Socially Unacceptable Tour in February to be cancelled. They succeeded.Right. Has no one objected to any of this? Comedian Lee Kern wrote an open letter to ITV2 saying it had created “a rapist’s almanac”. TV critic Michael Hogan called him “less of a legend, more of a bell-end”. And Cardiff University students have got up a petition calling for his booking by their student union for him to perform there on his Socially Unacceptable Tour in February to be cancelled. They succeeded.
How has he got to where he is? Because it’s just “banter”. Because he’s “a proper lad”. Because you don’t get the joke. Because women ARE just walking vaginas; humourless walking vaginas. Because irony. Because the world is full of douchebag. Because douchebag bring in youth advertising money. How has he got to where he is? Because it’s just “banter”. Because he’s “a proper lad”. Because you don’t get the joke. Because women ARE just walking vaginas; humourless walking vaginas. Because irony. Because the world is full of douchebags. Because douchebags bring in youth advertising money.
Do say: “Give me that petition.”Do say: “Give me that petition.”
Don’t say: “And if she’s looking at me and playing with her hair/By the end of the night she’ll need a wheelchair.” (from Dapper Laughs’ hit single Pretty Moist).Don’t say: “And if she’s looking at me and playing with her hair/By the end of the night she’ll need a wheelchair.” (from Dapper Laughs’ hit single Pretty Moist).