He's the Surrey-born comedian known best-known for his knack of provoking a strong negative response from his audiences.
Daniel O’Reilly, or Dapper Laughs as he's more commonly known, did this to the extreme in 2014 with one particularly sick joke about rape spelt the end of his TV career. It even forced him to publicly abandon the Dapper Laughs character in a tearful Newsnight appearance.
In a new interview he describes how being “cancelled” pushed him almost to breaking point, saying: ‘I'm sorry. Dapper Laughs is wrong… I don't want to do it no more’. I'd already worked out how much money I had, and how long that would last me. I just wanted to drink and use drugs and then die," he told podcaster Dodge Woodall.
But O’Reilly has revealed that sometimes audiences take more direct action when they object to his “lad banter” brand of humour. He said: “This old comedian had said to me, if someone heckles you go for their wives.”
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The idea behind that, he says, is that blokes in the audience will tend to be aggressive and have the confidence to heckle a comedian – while their wives will be nudging them and telling them to stop embarrassing themselves.
On one occasion O’Reilly recalls:" “This guy shouted out ‘you’re s***, get off’ and I just said to him ’Is that your wife?’. He was at the front…I said ‘is she your first wife?’ He said no this is my second wife I said ‘Yeah, she wouldn't have been my first choice either’.”
The furious bloke brushed past onstage security and decked the comedian before he could react “He sparked me clean out,” O’Reilly happily recalls, “there's a video of it somewhere…”
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While O’Reilly blamed the 2014 sexism controversy on his Dapper Laughs persona getting out of hand, and told Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis that he would lie “laying the character to rest.”
But later in that same year he brought the Dapper Laughs name back, and before trying to reignite his career in 2018 with a controversial Big Brother appearance.
Daniel previously told Daily Star that he is no longer a fan of his old jokes as they make him "cringe".
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He said: "I used to always say Dapper Laughs was a character, but really it was an exaggerated version of me when I was younger or maybe lad culture in general.
"But as I've got older, I look back on a lot of the stuff and I cringe and I think that's now because I've got daughters," he said.
On the brink of another relaunch in 2023, he’s said he’s free of booze and cocaine and now he’s older and more mature “I think I'm going to be funnier.” He also says he’s a much better fighter then he used to be.
Both of those claims could be put to the test in his “Out Of Character” tour of the UK which is set to start in January.
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