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Being Cancelled Made Me Confront and Beat Addiction - Dapper Laughs

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Daniel O'Reilly (AKA Dapper Laughs) is a British comedian and social media content creator. In 2014 his ITV series and live tour were cancelled following heavy public criticism and allegations of sexism. In this episode we discuss Dan's journey; the cancellation, his struggles with addiction and the road to recovery. Check out Dan on tour: https://www.laughsmerch.com/tour-dates SPONSOR: Shopify - sign up for a £1 per month trial at https://www.shopify.co.uk/trigger/ SPONSORED BY: ExpressVPN. Go to https://www.expressvpn.com/trigger/ and get an extra 3 months free on a one-year package! Join our Premium Membership for early access, extended and ad-free content: https://triggernometry.supercast.com OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Music by: Music by: Xentric | [email protected] | https://www.xentricapc.com/ YouTube: @xentricapc Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: [email protected] Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/#mailinglist Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod/ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod/ About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.

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0:00.0

You are kind of the OG cancelee.

0:04.0

You got cancelled long before that was talked about.

0:08.0

I am kind of like the poster boy for cancel culture.

0:11.0

Press got involved, pressured the homeless charities not to take my donations.

0:14.8

That is the most journalist thing to do. You know what? We're going to do the right thing.

0:18.5

We're going to prevent a homeless charity from getting money.

0:21.7

I didn't really know how to handle it at the time, my management certainly didn't, how do I stop it?

0:25.3

And they suggested news night, and that's how I ended up on news night in the

0:28.6

turntec saying sorry. The worst thing was, was the apology actually made it worse.

0:35.6

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1:06.4

Hello mate.

1:08.0

Hello. It's great to have you on the show and one of the reasons is you are

1:12.2

kind of the OG cancel

1:14.1

you got canceled long before that was sort of talked about and properly as well

1:20.0

and I also think there was kind of no blueprint for how to deal with that as well so you had to find your own way through.

1:27.0

We will talk about all of that. Tell people a little bit about what happened with you, you were doing the comedy character all of that

1:34.1

yeah I am kind of like the poster boy for cancel culture I think for many years as well after

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