Dapper Laughs
| Dapper Laughs | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | David Daniel O'Reilly |
| Born | London, England |
| Years active | 2013–14, 2015–present |
David Daniel O'Reilly, better known by his stage name Dapper Laughs, is a British stand up comedian, pick-up artist and social media participant from Clapham Common, London.
Dapper Laughs became known on the social networking sites Facebook and Vine, where he has around 2,407,000 and 575,000 followers respectively. In addition to this, he is active on social media sites such as Snapchat, Twitter and YouTube.
In 2014, Laughs released the single "Proper Moist". The song entered the UK Singles Chart at number 15. Starting in 2014, Dapper Laughs began his Moist Tour of the UK; his supporting act on the tour was fellow Viner Joe Charman. In July, he released "Take It To The Base". The music video was released on YouTube, but has since then been made private.
In September 2014, his show, entitled Dapper Laughs: On the Pull, began on ITV2, where he tried to increase the participants' chances of obtaining sex with women.
In November 2014, Laughs criticised the website UsVsTh3m on Twitter for what he viewed as an unfavourable review of his new album Proper Naughty Christmas. Laughs suggested that the review could hinder his goal of raising money for homelessness charity Shelter. As a result of UsVsTh3m highlighting the lyrics of one of the album tracks as offensive to the homeless, the charity posted on their official Twitter feed that they would be refusing donations from Laughs. Laughs later made an apology in a statement.
Laughs was heavily criticised in November 2014 when, soon after accusations that his ITV show On The Pull was degrading to women, he claimed that a female audience member at one of his live shows was "gagging for a rape." An online petition eventually gained 68,210 signatures with the hashtag #CancelDapper asked ITV to end the series. On 10 November, ITV announced they were not renewing the series for a second season as a result. A forthcoming Dapper Laughs tour was also cancelled.
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