My Dad Wrote a Porno on Tour
The internet's sauciest podcast is also a live blue revue. On the self-explanatory My Dad Wrote a Porno, British humorists Jamie Morton, James Cooper and Alice Levine provide real-time commentary on an actual series of erotic-fiction novels penned by Morton's father under a pseudonym, with the trio hilariously dissecting each increasingly ridiculous line of purple prose. Onstage, the trio pull up the love seats and invite you to join them for X-rated storytime, as Morton reads out passages from the Belinda Blinked collection while Cooper and Levine react (often in horror). But don't get too cozy in your seats — the trio have been known to pull audience members onstage to read some of the books' steamiest scenes. Don't worry, you won't have to do anything unseemly.
My Dad Wrote a Porno Background
Parents primarily exist to embarrass their kids — but not if those kids can embarrass them first. Sometime in the early 2010s, British television writer Jamie Morton was gifted a manuscript of his retired father's debut novel — a work of erotica titled Belinda Blinked that he had written under the pen name of Rocky Flintstone. (No, really.) Gobsmacked by his father's surprising hobby, Morton shared the book with his friends James Cooper and Alice Levine (a BBC 1 personality), and they soon realized that their incredulous reactions to its asinine plot and ridiculously overwritten bedroom scenes would make for an amusing podcast. My Dad Wrote a Porno debuted in 2015, with each episode providing a moment-by-moment account of a chapter in the book. And as Papa Flintstone continued to produce more volumes of the Belinda Blinked saga, the podcast returned for additional seasons. Over the past half-decade, My Dad Wrote a Porno has generated more than 250 million downloads, toured a stage production around the world, spawned an HBO special, and welcomed celebrity guests like Elijah Wood and Emma Thompson.
