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#334. Dapper Laughs Comedian on Tour & Cocaine Culture - Dan O'Reilly (Part 2)

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5857 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Dan O’Reilly is back for a Part 2 and opens up about the highs and lows behind the name Dapper Laughs, from viral fame to addiction, controversy and rebuilding his life from scratch. He talks honestly about the sesh culture that gripped a generation, the spiral that nearly cost him everything and the comeback that took real graft to achieve. He shares the reality of touring, the pressure of social media, fatherhood, sobriety and why he refuses to hide who he is anymore.


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career enders, I call them.

0:01.3

I come straight out and go bang.

0:03.2

And if they go, oh, woo, woo, then I'm like, all right, that's, that's, that's where

0:06.5

we're at.

0:06.9

Let's dial it down. What's going on? How long are you being together? And she was like, it's my stepdad. It was fucking unbelievable. And I just stopped the show and I was just like, who's shouting, turn the lights up, brought the lights up and he's like,

0:19.0

you're fucking,

0:20.1

mate.

0:20.3

Didn't really have any comedy to come back with

0:21.9

so I just meant, let's fucking go outside then.

0:23.6

As soon as the show was finished, I was like, go check if that. And this would be amazing, then you post it and you go, what have I done? Fuck. British, Big Point. James O'Brien. I'm a bit more nervous about putting my stand-up out

0:38.3

It's not because of the content of it because it's because what I love

0:41.3

This is gonna get me in trouble on here I fucking know it is

0:43.3

And I've been writing a section in my tour about first times

0:47.3

And

0:49.3

See that's what I didn't want to say it That's what I what they want to say! That's what they want to say!

0:58.4

Welcome to the Eventful Lives podcast.

1:00.5

I'm your host Dodge and I'm the founder of Bournemouth Sevens,

1:02.9

the world's largest sport and music festival.

1:05.0

On this podcast, I speak to proper characters of all lived eventful lives.

1:09.0

Do us a favour and hit that follow button and be sure to check us out on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok at Dodge Woodall where we've now had over 100 million views. Dan, welcome back to the show, mate. It's good to be it, mate. Yes, have it. I'm buzzing. I remember, I think it was, was it two years ago? Yeah, it was about two years ago the last time to come on and we had a proper laugh on that one. So we've been back and forward for a couple of years and now you're finally here. Yeah, man. Yeah, I'm still sober. I was sketchy back then, when I? You were actually a year clean. I was bang on a year when I walked in here. That's right. a year cleaning we're celebrated. And I remember looking at you, going, he's not 100%.

1:46.4

He's not 100% but fucking what you went through and got through to do, 365 day sober. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, the funny thing is that about a year, you got the bug, the sobriety bug. You're going around telling everyone you're sober. but in the back of your mind you're like, I need a session.

2:02.6

You're like, and especially on a year, because you're going around telling everyone you're sober but in the back of your mind you're like I need a sish. You're like and especially on a year because you're like how the fuck am I going to celebrate? Do you know what I mean? Let's roll away back. Yeah. What do you miss about not getting on the sish? Oh mate, fucking what a question that hit me with, man. Probably seeing my

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