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Disruptors

Dapper Laughs: Controversial Cancelled Comedian Talks Making Millions & Being an Entrepreneur

Disruptors

Rob Moore

Careers, How To, Business, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Marketing, Investing, Education, Entrepreneurship

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Rob is joined by the controversial comedian Dapper Laughs. An early victim of cancel culture and media controversy Dapper has navigated personal grief, hardship and scrutiny during his career. Rob and Dapper discuss his mistakes, how he coped with his fathers death and making millions along the way. Make sure to listen to the full interview to get Dappers take on the the UK’s energy crisis and some choice words for those in charge… Dapper reveals to Rob: His side of the story as to why he was cancelled What it felt like to be scrutinised by the media and hated by the public How he makes more money than most famous comedians on TV His regrets for things he’s said in the past His suicidal thoughts and drug use after the death of his father Mental health for men and creating his own support networks How much he was paid for Celebrity Big Brother How his decisions impacted his relationships with his partner and daughters Also featured… Why we should be careful of cancelling people and stifling free speech What dapper thinks of Andrew Tate What makes Dappers comedy different to Sacha Baron- Cohen How he deals with haters and trolls Is Will Smith in an abusive relationship? Getting Knocked out by Harvey from So Solid Crew in MMA Why Dapper believes in aliens… BEST MOMENTS “I've got my finger on the pulse of the work working class” “I ended up on news night, my father had died. I was just a broken man and just said, Look, I quit,  just leave me alone.” “I couldn't give a f**k. I make more money than most famous comedians anyway, so I couldn’t give a shit.” “I had suicidal thoughts after my father passed away cause I was heavily into cocaine use.”   VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter   https://robmoore.com/podbooks  rob.team ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “The Disruptive Entrepreneur” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything” disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

Whatever you're going through now is building you for what's next.

0:03.2

It's the way of life's checking that you deserve what's next, right?

0:06.2

And that you can handle it.

0:08.8

Dapper, I've got a quote from you.

0:10.6

Oh, shit. That's how we started.

0:13.0

That could go anywhere.

0:14.2

Go on.

0:15.2

I lost my career, home and dad,

0:17.2

binge-drawn drink and drugs to numb the pain and nearly took my life.

0:20.6

Yeah.

0:21.6

Tell us about that.

0:22.6

It sounds like probably the most awful thing that could ever happen to anyone,

0:26.0

but looking back on it, apart from my father dying,

0:28.6

it's probably the best thing that ever happened to me in my life.

0:30.6

I think going from success,

0:34.4

you know, from a normal lad to getting some fame, some online fame,

0:38.8

and then a TV show and sort of achieving everything I've been working towards

0:42.8

for like 10, 11 years in comedy and there's a comedian.

0:46.2

To having it snatched away from me,

0:49.2

I will lose in it or lose in your money, lose in your house,

0:52.2

losing all my brand deals,

0:55.2

my manager, my job basically.

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