ITV2 drops Dapper Laughs' show after he tells a fan she was "gagging for a rape"

Thank GOD, finally some sense

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It's not been a good week for Dapper Laughs. First a petition was successfully launched against him to perform at Cardiff Students' Union due to his sexist jibes; then another one was started to campaign against his ITV2 show going ahead; he then announced he was making an album (where he takes the piss out of the homeless) and donating the proceeds to Shelter, a homeless charity; but it turns out they don't want his money and publicly took a stand by refusing to accept it. So then he had to apologise to everyone.

But now, ITV2 have confirmed that he has been dropped, and will no longer be given his 'On The Pull' show; the content of which we could only have dreaded. The mainstream TV channel announced their plans to withdraw the show from production earlier. A statement read:


The news that ITV2 have withdrawn from the deal comes after the petition to prevent it gained some serious momentum, with almost 65,000 supporters already. But it's not just this strong public uproar that has led to the necessary decision; it's also linked to the revelation that the so-called comedian told one female fan in the audience of a gig he did back in October that she was "gagging for a rape".

The horrendous incident reportedly took place at one of Dapper's sold out shows in London, on October 16th. His 'skit' started out as a pretty gross discussion with his live audience about his upcoming TV show, where he said: "I filmed six episodes, half an hour each, if it was a guide to rape, it would have done one five-minute episode, come on and go 'Oi Oi, I'm Dapper Laughs, go down the shops, get some rope, bit of duct tape, rape the bitch, well done, see you later'."

After that, it seemed like he did a bit of a 360 in his casual attitudes to rape, reminding the audience that "You can't rape women, no, you can't rape women", but by this point the crowd was so riled up with 'laddiness' that one audience-member embarrassingly shouted "yes you can!". Just the kind of thing we want to hear in this day and age.

But the sequence got worse when the comedian focussed in on one female member of the crowd, saying "she's gagging for a rape. Yep, we'll have a chat afterwards. She's having a chat about 'yeah, I get quite tight but I get a bit…' poor girl." Gross.

And he continued. "Do you want to come backstage after? Bring two of your mates, you'll need them."


So you can pretty much see why this animal of a character doesn't need a TV show broadcasted nationwide to spout any more of his crass bullshit. We're just glad ITV have finally caught on.

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