Al Porter- second chances

Dont forget rubbish like Killinaskully, damo and ivor, bridget and eamon.

Killinaskully was OK. It was at least a bracket above the other sitcoms you mentioned. I may be biased, however, because I really love the original character Dan is based on from D'Mother.

"Up again a wall in the middle of a field..."

Remember though he is/was pure gold for RTÉ a few years ago because of the overbearing campness he exudes.

Now if he did a reverse Michael Jackson, and darkened his skin, and also became trans, he would hit the trifecta of RTÉ boxes to be ticked, and have a well paid career for the rest of his days regardless of any past indiscretions…

I don't but it don't change the fact that you are blinded and begging him to be finished etc when the indicators seem to suggest his comeback is in motion.

The answer is no.

(go back and review the cases against the list you provided)

Absolutely not, there is no way it would happen.

But I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that had his alleged victims been women, Porter would not get the same hatred here as he does.

And I'll use three recent enough examples to show why I think that.

Remember the Ulster rugby rape case. The men involved were found not guilty after a trial, and around here there was a huge backlash towards the accusor (a woman), everything from she was drunk and she should not have gotten into the situation, to she should be charged with a false rape allegation for ruining the careers of these guys.

A few years later there was a rape case in Cork (I think) where a man got a very long sentence for sexually assaulting a girl that admitted she was very drunk. Again the same opinions, it was a harsh sentence, she should have known better etc.

Finally the more recent case of Rory Gallagher the former Derry football manager who had to step down over domestic abuse allegations. He had never been convinced but there was a lot of rumours, and there was a fair share of opinion around here that because he was never convicted of anything there was no more to be said about it.

But Porter gets none of the "benefit of the doubt" that the men in the three examples above got.

Why ?

I think it's because he's a annoying, gay, camp, so called comedian, and not a strong macho mans man like the rugby or GAA men, and the victims are not drunk girls that should know better, so men don't see him as deserving of any benefit of the doubt.

Is that the rehab of his image done at this stage? Seems so.... 🤮

Before I clicked on the link I said it will be a woe is me, mental health goon fest… and it is…

problem with Al is he’s a pretty unfunny comedian. Playing hugely on his character, the outrageous, gay, camp, bitchy eccentric….but in reality he’s a bit of a creep and who has in fairness more baggage than a fully loaded 747….but one curiously who seems to be at great ease… attracting free publicity and column inches quite easily in fairness which I find very very odd indeed. And despite everything he’s had a pretty easy and fairly tame ride from much of the press…especially as of late….there almost now looks like a concerted effort to rebuild him amongst the ideals of success and respectability…by that same press who will no doubt benefit from the ‘comeback’…

there is something unbelievably off about the chap I find…not just his past behaviours, indiscretions and general seediness….

This sums it up perfectly.

Who is this guy? There must be a hundred other hopefuls out there dying for just 5 mins on national radio and they put this creep on. He obviously has good connections.

A lot of echoes of Jimmy Saville treatment here. Clive James summed up Saville, in what seems a tame quote now, ‘he was a man well disguised, who would have thought a man who looked so weird was a weirdo.’

Porter leans into this goofy/camp persona to be non-threatening and innocent when he is far from it. A predator and vile individual.

Whatever about adults paying for his brand of sub missus brown “tits, fanny, mickey and arse” smut that went out of fashion around 1969...

It is absolutely crazy that a Christmas pantomime aimed at children think it is “ok” to have this Kavanagh guy anywhere near it.

The BBC do not promote the hell out of the likes of Roy Chubby Brown, or Jethro , or Mike Reid (all ultra “blue” comics) yet RTÉ cannot get enough of Porter/Kavanagh?

Is it the gay camp angle?

If it was straight tits and fanny smut would Miriam and co be so enthusiastic ???

creep 🤮