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"Incisive,
Insightful,
Interesting
and
Important.
Oh, and
Funny.
Laugh
out-loud,
ain't that
the truth,
stop you're
killin' me,
funny."
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I
first heard Mike Dugan at Jongleurs, a comedy club at
Camden Lock, North London. He came on late when half
the audience was ripped, sat down on a barstool and
started to talk. He looked like a nice guy, a distinct
disadvantage in that
part of London where nice guys
don’t finish last, they finish up toast. But Mike's
opening lines resonated with the audience: ‘I was
the youngest child in my family and by the time they
had got around to me it was pretty much ‘No heroin
in the living room’. ‘Michael, you’re not using
the good spoons, are you?’” That got a big laugh
and it soon became apparent that Mike Dugan had
something important to say on a subject that is
normally taboo in North London: relationships.
“I have one piece of advice for men,” he said and
every male was riveted. ‘If you break up with a
woman, you had better do it smoothly, or you will
never get another good one again. Women have an
intelligence network that rivals the CIA. They make
the Internet look like two tin cans with string
tied between them. I guarantee if you screw over a
woman tonight, by tomorrow morning you'll be on a
shit list in Afghanistan....” There followed a
wonderful half-hour of philosophizing on trust,
responsibility, intimacy, commitment, masculinity,
role models, lap dance clubs, marriage, cheating and
pornography, sprinkled with some snappy
one-liners, such as: “Sex between two people is
beautiful – provided you can get between the right
two people…” and “Women are basically
researchers. Especially in bed. That only looks like a
negligee: it's really a lab coat... ” At
the end
guys with bullet-heads and no ears were
looking mistily into the eyes of their girlfriends.
Now Mike Dugan has placed his philosophy between the
covers of a book, Men Fake Foreplay… And Other
Lies that are True.The
book
expands and develops his stage show in interesting and
thought-provoking
ways.
The
punchline is so wise it hurts: “I didn't have to
figure out women in order to be happy. It was
never
about finding the right woman. It was about
becoming the right man.” Men Fake Foreplay
isn’t a cynical, exploitative tome designed to make
women feel neurotic and vulnerable.
Rather, it celebrates “la difference”
and gives us all hope that maybe one day we’ll be
able to behave a little better towards the opposite
sex. I wish I’d read it when I was 16.
- Peter Thompson
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"About midway through Dugan's one-man show, it becomes apparent that the humor is mainly an enjoyable delivery
system for an important message. The Emmy Award-winning writer and performer uses a keen sense of the comic
to open up the topic of male sexual fantasy and where it collides with male sexual responsibility."
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"Always brutally humorous and often
brutally honest, Mike Dugan's show fully reassesses the
age-old
battle of the sexes
... Dugan's show has a rarely heard but important
sociological message."
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Fearing that
respect for the opposite sex—and the healthy
relationships that result from it—might be
easing itself into extinction, Dugan crafted
Men Fake Foreplay, a humorous look at the
forces that keep men and women together and
the cultural paradigms that have a nasty habit
of driving them apart ... Read
More ...
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"A candid, often sardonic, sometimes surprising, nearly always hilarious take on the battle of the sexes ...
thoughtful and probing ... Dugan is a terrific performer, smart, funny, insightful." |
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It's not easy
being a man these days. "We're in a world
that's designed to teach men to do the easy
thing, not the right thing," says comedian
Mike Dugan. "And the easy thing, and the
right thing, are rarely the same thing.
To me, a man has to learn how to overcome
adolescent impulses and appetites in a world
whose media culture is all about men continuing
to live in their appetites ..."
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