{"id":342216,"date":"2026-03-12T10:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T10:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/342216\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T10:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T10:33:11","slug":"failure-is-total-freedom-al-porter-on-rebuilding-his-life-and-career-after-hitting-rock-bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/342216\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Failure is total freedom\u2019 \u2013 Al Porter on rebuilding his life and career after hitting rock bottom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The \u2018most vetted comedian in Ireland\u2019 was in Wexford ahead of hitting the National Opera House with his latest show \u2018Algorithm\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Comedian Al Porter.&#13;&#10;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/91cc1b57-0406-4180-869f-4eb8e1d7194f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Comedian Al Porter.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">&#8220;There\u2019s no describing the place I&#8217;m in in my career. It&#8217;s very strange. I could still bump into somebody on the street who says, \u2018oh what are you doing now? Like, are you back gigging?\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Comedian Al Porter is very much \u201cback gigging\u201d. He\u2019s on his second national tour since his comeback and is writing and directing plays in the Olympia Theatre. As he sits in the lobby of a Wexford hotel, he\u2019s in good spirits and ready to perform a charity gig to send a local kids soccer team to a competition in Blackpool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u2018most vetted comedian in Ireland\u2019 was in Wexford ahead of hitting the National Opera House with his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,10489],"class_list":["post-342216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-padraig-byrne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}