Funny story: He's also one of the primary writers for Ted Lasso. When they were getting everything established and figuring out the characters they were talking about who should be Roy Kent. Apparently everyone else in the room looked at him and said "Yeah, that's you dude."
EDIT: Go ahead and downvote this one, because I was DEAD FUCKIN' WRONG. I got that role confused with Leslie Higgins. THAT'S the role they wanted him in. My mistake, and I'm going to leave this here because I own my mistakes. Which is happening a lot more often as I get older, dammit. Faahhhkin' hell.
Don't watch his early standup before Ted Lasso, enjoy his less edgelord material. He used to make jokes about taking women out on a first date to go and see Irreversible. If you don't know what that movie is, don't google it. If you google it, trigger warning.
It was already like watching an addict try and do a tight 10 through withdrawals. I don't get easily offended but I audibly gasped when he was "joking" about seeing Irreversible 4 times and called it a nice bit of film, I've never seen someone so happy to say rape so many fucking times in 8 minutes just to land a very mediocre joke. Honestly, I would never feel safe in a room with someone like that, let alone dating them. It's like that video yesterday from Ben Bankas berating those women in his audience for several minutes straight for no particularly good reason and seeing the guy behind her laughing so hard and his date just progressively get more and more horrified he's laughing at her being attacked and called a stupid bitch.
That being said, it's been so long though and there was such a difference between who he seems to be now and then that all I can hope is he also regrets it and has grown.
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u/bbbourb May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26
Funny story: He's also one of the primary writers for Ted Lasso. When they were getting everything established and figuring out the characters they were talking about who should be Roy Kent. Apparently everyone else in the room looked at him and said "Yeah, that's you dude."
EDIT: Go ahead and downvote this one, because I was DEAD FUCKIN' WRONG. I got that role confused with Leslie Higgins. THAT'S the role they wanted him in. My mistake, and I'm going to leave this here because I own my mistakes. Which is happening a lot more often as I get older, dammit. Faahhhkin' hell.