The British cult-hit podcast My Dad Wrote A Porno is making its small screen debut. Hallelujah.
HBO are adapting the podcast for a comedy special of its live show, due to hit our screens in 2019.
The podcast launched in 2015 after Jamie Morton found a series of adult novels written by his real-life father under the pseudonym Rocky Flintstone. Naturally, Morton decided to read the “Belinda Blinked” novels aloud with his mates James Cooper and Alice Levine – and My Dad Wrote A Porno was born.
Since then, the podcast has amassed more than 100 million downloads, with listeners tuning in to hear about the sexual adventures of Belinda Blumenthal, a 30-something woman with a high libido and “tits like pomegranates.”
“My Dad Wrote A Porno shows the extent of just how embarrassing dads can be, in the best possible way,” says Nina Rosenstein, executive vice president at HBO Programming. “James, Jamie and Alice transformed a very awkward situation into an undeniably hilarious experience that we’re excited to share with our audience.”
We spoke to Morton last year about who he’d like to play Belinda Blumenthal…
After reading the books, how long was it before you could look at your dad again?
It’s been quite a journey, and truthfully, there are still moments I struggle to look him in the eye.
How did your mum react to your dad’s alter ego?
She’s had to implement strict rules with Rocky. For example, he can only write in the garden shed, or “pavilion” as he calls it.
What is the most horrific line you’ve read?
The end of Season 2 has been the roughest. The phallically challenged Texan billionaire Jim Stirling had a dodgy penis enhancement. There was blue semen and flaking skin. Some of it even got stuck in poor Belinda’s teeth as she was going down on him. I apologise to everyone who had to endure it.
What exactly are “vaginal lids”?
For the longest time I convinced myself that “vaginal lids” was just a typo. He must have meant “lips”. Right? Surely. Then, a few chapters later these pesky lids pop up (or open) again and I had to just shake my head in disbelief. My guess is as good as yours.
Rocky has a penchant for comparing breasts to round fruit, writing, “Her tits hung freely like pomegranates.” Have you been able to eat a pomegranate since?
Funnily enough I have avoided pomegranate like the plague ever since I opened my dad’s magnum opus. Thankfully I was never a huge fan, but now, whenever I see it sprinkled on some hummus, I just think “that’s so, so wrong”. Bananas are [also] out, zucchini, even eggplant.
Who would you like to see play Belinda Blumenthal?
I think Gal Gadot would kill it as Belinda. After all, Dad’s heroine is somewhat of a wonder woman herself.
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