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 https://www.mydadwroteaporno.com/ Feels weird to post a thread for a podcast that's for all intents and purposes over, but some people apparently have not yet experienced the works of Rocky Flintstone and this must be rectified. Hosted by Jamie Morton, James Cooper, and Alice Levine, this is the eye-streaming riff-through of an amateur, self-published porn story series by the retired Irish builder father of Jamie, accompanied by his two broadcasting-veteran friends who as a kitchen-table trio deliver some of the most gutbustingly witty live commentary I've ever heard. They begin with the existential horror of the very concept—your 60-year-old dad taking you aside one Christmas and handing you a manuscript of what you slowly realize with growing dread is a winsomely inept and impressively unsexy porno that he's been surreptitiously writing in his back patio—and rapidly develop a whole universe of injokes, real-life drama, callback commentary, and audience participation in the form of "footnotes" which grow to feature A-lister guests. Listen to this list from wikipedia: quote:Guests have included Hayley Atwell, Ben Barnes, Rachel Bloom, Charlotte Crosby, George Ezra, Josh Groban, Nicholas Hoult, Dan Levy, Joe Lycett, Stephen Mangan, Thomas Middleditch, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Daisy Ridley, Michael Sheen, Emma Thompson, Samara Weaving, Mara Wilson, and Elijah Wood.  The show went on for six "seasons" covering the six books in the Belinda Blinked series, two of which were produced after the podcast came out and started rippling its way through millions of inwardly smirking commuters' phones to the point where, as one anecdote had it, someone on a subway saw their neighbor listening to My Dad Wrote a Porno and suddenly gasping in abject horror at whatever hellacious piece of imagery she'd just heard—and the person said, "Let me guess... Jim Stirling?" and she nodded furiously. Jamie's style in reading develops into a whole virtuoso performance in its own right as he proceeds through the series, and he creates a whole range of insane character voices that are the source of as much comedy as anything in the text. With his two friends goading him on, they weather the pandemic and eventually take the show on the road to do major stage shows on a world tour and everything. There's apparently an HBO special now too. Anyone who wants to spend a few dozen commutes laughing so hard they have to fight to not careen howling off into a ditch, please indulge and post when you absolutely must burst out with anything from "pomegranates" to "Ian Snail". Oh god I'm already losing it again Data Graham fucked around with this message at 02:09 on Aug 18, 2023 |
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I don't think I've ever laughed at anything as hard as I did at whatever episode it was in season 5 or 6 when it was very important to know where something was in alphabetical order, and James couldn't alphabetize anything without singing the alphabet song. So he kept launching into a rapid-fire "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP..." over and over
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It was certainly the nagging question I had in my head the whole time — not "are the three hosts just inventing it all", that never crossed my mind (it's very much a "you couldn't make this stuff up" kind of deal), but rather "is Jamie's dad just having a laugh"? Like by Episode 3 or 4 they're already talking about how Rocky is flattered and humbled by all the attention and appreciation, but I could never pin down whether he quite understood that they were laughing at him rather than with him. And the hosts cover this too from time to time, because it's an extremely common listener sentiment it seems. And of course that distinction means they have to tread the line very carefully so it doesn't come across like pure mean-spirited mockery. Somehow they manage it, and the humor retains the "unintentionally funny, and he doesn't mind being the butt of the joke I guess" vibe pretty much the whole way through, Tommy Wiseau style.
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