I said I’d be back with more podcast recommendations and so here we are, a mere week later, with My Dad Wrote a Porno. Apologies to those who read the title of this post and spat out their tea: be assured that it’s not my own Dad who has written a porno. (Oh GOD, the idea, I can’t even.)
My Dad Wrote a Porno, or MDWAP, is an incredibly funny series in which three friends tear apart an “erotic” novel written by one of their dads. If the idea of your own father (or mother) writing a saucy tome makes you want to be physically sick, then spare a thought for poor Jamie Morton whose dad not only wrote one (Belinda Blinked) but emailed him the chapters. Imagine.
Thankfully, Jamie decided to make the best out of a bad situation and turn his Dad’s book into a podcast, reading out a chapter a week whilst remaining impressively composed. And it’s hard to decide which is funnier; his Dad’s terrible writing or the hilarious running commentary given by his friends. They frequently stop him mid-sentence, aghast at some horrendous turn of phrase or cringeworthy description of genitalia. It’s hard to put into words quite how badly written the “erotic” novel actually is, but this is what makes the critique of it so very funny. It’s as though Jamie’s Dad (writing under his pen-name, Rocky Flinstone) has just poured out whatever – surprisingly vanilla – fantasy was lurking in his head at that particul...