Jakob Ingebritsen
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After that interview and shiteing on about a sore throat, yes, Ingebritsen is of dubious character.
Clearly a hard one for him to swallow.
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He wonât be biting on the gold tonight.
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Al Porter on the allegations that stalled his career. âIâm disappointed by my younger selfâ
Comedian, who discusses âincredibly dark timeâ in his life in his new show, tells RTĂâs Miriam OâCallaghan he has stopped drinking
Al Porter has said alcohol played a large role in his behaviour in 2017 when he was accused of inappropriately touching several men leading to an âincredibly dark timeâ in his life. The comedian, who is now sober, said his life would be far less complicated if alcohol had not been part of it when he was younger.
Speaking on Sunday with Miriam OâCallaghan on RTĂ Radio 1, the Tallaght comedian said he apologised to many of those who had accused him of inappropriate behaviour in the past.
âIâm disappointed by my younger self,â he said. The comedian said he thought his life could be âfun and party partyâ but realises now he was being âunprofessionalâ.
Porter said he was âdeeply immature, hugely immatureâ until the allegations were made against him, which snapped him back to reality in November 2017.
âI wish I had been a better colleague, a better friend, I wish that I had been just an all round better person and I think that itâs no one factor that caused everything to fall apart as it did - itâs a combination of factors.
âYou canât blame youth or you canât blame fame or money or drink or anything else, those are contributing factors to one big ego, one massive self-centred ego that was at the heart of all of that back then. And I suppose thatâs where I tried to emphasise over time that I blame myself,â Porter said.
âYou go, âIâm at the heart of this and ultimately the buck stops with me, Iâm responsible for my past, Iâm also responsible to my present and my future, and I was the reason that everything fell apart.â
Gay Byrne spoke to Porter after one of his shows in Vicar Street, when he was drinking on stage, downing a pint with members of the audience calling for him to down another.
âI think youâre going to need to look at that,â Byrne told Porter, with the comedian saying it was âalmost a prophetic statementâ.
âI think Gay could tell this isnât an intentional part of your act, you donât have control over this, you donât have a handle on it,â Porter told OâCallaghan.
The comedian said he feels that for those who met him when he was aged between 19 and 21, it may be some âsmall consolationâ to hear he is three years sober and âvery professionalâ now.
âI understand that person is listening going, âWell, you werenât when I met you and I still donât like youâ, and I understand that, and Iâm very conscious of that,â Porter said.
Having attended cognitive behavioural therapy for six years, Porter said his therapist recommended removing the âcrutchâ of alcohol from his life, and that since doing so, he has a better relationship with his family and friends.
âThereâs no cause for self pity, and thereâs no self pity in the show, I donât pity myself. I realised very early on that pity is due, not when youâre the idiot at the centre of it all, youâre the stupid person, youâre the person who caused everything to fall apart,â he said.
Porter admitted that he is trying to make amends with people over time, and has written letters to some, but âsome people didnât want themâ.
âThere are people who you speak to in person, thatâs often easier and more successful, and then there are some people who you say, Iâm not going to make contact with you because there is nothing I can say that I think is going to improve the situation,â Porter said.
âAnd you have to live with that because thereâs no closure there for either person or resolution, but I hope in those scenarios that how I live my life now and how I live it until the end is a response.â
When the allegations first came to light about Porter, he told OâCallaghan it was a âshock, and it shouldnât have beenâ.
âIt was such a shock, and so overwhelming that I was just numb to it for years, I mean, thatâs where the drink became even more, and the Xanax and Valium and anything you can do to numb yourself from it, and I kind of lived a bit of a non life for years, it was a purgatory, a purgatory of my own making.â
Porter said he stayed in his motherâs house, in bed with the curtains drawn. At times he felt it would be better for his family and friends if he was no longer there.
He said he discusses this period in a comic way in his new show. He recently performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, painting himself âas this pathetic loser at the centre of it allâ.
Porter said he gained weight at a rapid rate when his career stalled, and that regardless of how much light he makes of the struggles, âit was an incredibly dark timeâ.
Having gained so much weight, Porter told OâCallaghan he thought he should lose weight if he was going to take his own life.
âThey wonât have a suit to bury me in,â he said. âI was out jogging and my neighbours were saying âOh, youâre getting in shape, you must be going back on the TVâ, and I was thinking, âNo, Iâm killing myselfâ.â
Speaking of his gigs in Edinburgh, Porter said there was pushback on Twitter, but that he expected and understands it. However, he hopes that in time heâll win over his audiences.
âIâve been gigging, anybody whoâs gigging with me this year would be able to say that they gigged with somebody who was professional, and Iâm hyper-conscious, all eyes are on me, so Iâm hyper-conscious that everybody is comfortable.â
Has he admitted that those allegations were true? I thought he had contested it all?
I actually heard a bit of it in the van this morning, didnât know who it was.Said the drink wasnât to blame,but it was the drink he says.
A question. You go to meet a highly paid professional, in this case a consultant doctor. They come across as competent and cordial. However, they are wearing a really cheap suit which doesnât fit them, with the two jacket buttons closed but close to bursting, the suit also has multiple stains. For some reason they are wearing a face mask which is pulled down to underneath their chin for the entire meeting, and they have a sheaf of papers and letters at least three inches thick jammed into their arse pocket, which they sit on seemingly without noticing.The general aesthetic could be described as greasy. Do you trust them?
With medical advice or financial advice? What an odd fucking question
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Youâve described Tony Holohan
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Is it your own health or someone elseâs?
Thatâs all that matters really.
Itâs not uncommon for such folk to be extremely busy hence the apparent chaos around them.
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Online dating is a bit of a minefield alright Iâd say.
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Not as odd as yours.
fashion advice then. look at you following me around because I donât like Liverpool
Itâs mental 
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He went to a doctor. Of course it was for medical advice ffs.
you dull cunt
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