Dara O Briain 'Guilty Pleasures' - Live at the Apollo Series 6 Episode 3 Preview - BBC One

More on this programme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wlg99

Dara O Briain thinks that if you're going to have a guilty pleasure it should be something that you genuinely feel guilty about!

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[Tifflet]

after watching this people will be avoiding him if they see him on the tube, could be a ploy to guarantee himself a seat hehe

[SamOwenI]

good old dara obrien! what a legend

[lovetosing228]

lol sooooo funny, he's such a great comedian I'm so glad he came around

[Superdofagnes]

@catscanflyhigh I think I can rightly say that no one thinks molestation is now suddenly is less bad than it was before ;)

[detination101]

i should point out catscanflyhigh is a homeopathy believer, and he took offense to one of these vids, so thats why hes now been a dick on them all.

[catscanflyhigh]

@TheSorrow1O1 Wow. I am not against freedom of speech. I wasn't offended by this. Just because you take something as a joke doesn't mean it has no effects in the way you think etc. It still plants ideas in the mind and alters your perceptions. Do you have any evidence it doesn't do those things? What suffices as evidence? I mean of course this is a theory not a fact. Just because i disagree with what he says doesn't mean i don't think he should be allowed to say it.

[TheSorrow1O1]

@catscanflyhigh

Well no it doesn't because the majority of people take a speech or lecture seriously whilst the MAJORITY of people don't take comedy seriously. Do you have any evidence that it does any of those things ? Anyway you come off as the most boring, over-sensitive, bubble-child I've ever met. Thank god we don't live in a world run by people like you who would probably get rid of free-speech to avoid being upset. Don't bother replying.

[catscanflyhigh]

@TheSorrow1O1 Did you honestly just say this has no effect on society? Comedy doesn't exist as an island separate from the rest of the world. It has just as much an affect as a speech or a lecture. Just this short clip has 13,316 views alone and so the audience is easily large enough for there to be considerable effects on the society in which we live. I've already said the negative things this does: strengthens the gender divide, supports stereotypes, reduces the seriousness of molestation etc

[TheSorrow1O1]

@catscanflyhigh

The only negative consequences I can see is that it may offend a minority of over-sensitive people but that's barely a reason to stop doing something. Comedy like this has no effect on society. The majority of people laugh at it, a minority will get offended because they've been brought up in a little bubble but that's about it. Please list these negative consequences you speak of because I don't believe there are any.

[catscanflyhigh]

@TheSorrow1O1 People can laugh at dark humour, that doesn't mean it doesn't do those things i said. Just because it's comedy doesn't mean to say it has no affects other than the immediate ones of laughter. This kind of "dark comedy" supports stereotypes and strengthens the gender divide. Sure, people may find it funny. Sure, women might find it funny. That doesn't mean it doesn't have any negative consequences.

[TheSorrow1O1]

@catscanflyhigh

No because if you knew what a joke is you'd know that things said in a joke aren't supposed to be taken seriously, which is exactly what you did. And if it genuinely did those things (and it isn't just that you are extremely sensitive) why were the majority of the laughs from women ? Were they willingly laughing at being 'demoralized and degraded' ? No because the audience is actually mature and not full of ignorant kids who don't know what dark humour is.