Rhys Ifans praises date rape in controversial outburst

I suspect these comments were very premeditated and designed to court controversy.

Either that or Rhys obviously forgot the number one rule when dealing with live media - engage brain before opening mouth.

Comedians make jokes like this, and much worse, all the time. I suppose it's about where you can and can't get away with making this type of joke.

To me, that is what it was intended to be, a joke.

i'm sure was intended as dark 'Welsh' humour.. my concern is the growing number of tabloid fodder's using heavy subjects such as 'rape' to gain exposure.

It's irresponsible but in the context it was clearly a joke. Very dark humour, admittedly...

eh..misleading

Oh my goodness, people need to quit taking themselves so seriously and get a sense of humor. While some may not want to laugh at what he said, the comments were clearly meant as a joke. It is utterly stupid for anyone to pursue the issue further. It's like if some child were playing with a plastic gun and people got bent out of shape because humans kill each other with real guns.

I can't imagine he was being totally serious. It's his sense of humour. I think by now people should sort of get this by now and not be so sensitive when he makes stupid comments like this. It's not like he's running for public office and using this as his campaign slogan.

It's an off the cuff quip, I hardly think it's his manifesto on rape.
as for the paedophilia joke Frankie Boyle made a similar one on Mock the week in a recent series. It actually a pretty old joke, I've heard and told myself.

having a dark sense of humour does not indicate a lack of morals. Making a joke about a subject does not indicate support for it.

Joan Rivers jokes about her husbands suicide. Do you think she wanted him to kill himself, or that she's happy? Off course not.

There must be no subjects taboo for humour.

"Do 'celebrities' have a responsibility not to make jokes like this?" absolutely not. He's not in Westlife.

I think this is being taken out of context.

He is just an unattractive man desperately trying to be funny and provocative to get some attention. In addition to being tactless, his jokes are not even remotely witty.

It's observational humour insofar as to say, most news stories of Date-rape are women being the victims, and little to none about men being raped. A similar trend can be seen about domestic violence (if you watch Cop Reality shows it suggests that all domestic situations is the man beating the woman, and none about women beating men.
It's still somewhat crude but it's only a joke and should not be seen as an aspect of his personality but more of the Celebrity character, his fame has relied on tasteless homour.
Oh and to the writers of the article why not Twin Town (1997) a far better film with him as a lead role and not supporting.

Funny or not.....weird humor or not.....I work everyday with women and teens who are victims of date rape so sorry I cannot see the humor.

Who cares? He can say what he wants to say. I hate that people in the spotlight like artists and actors always have to watch what they say. It's stupid.

He was just being a comedian, it's called observational humour. Of course, date rape would never be enjoyable, as it involves getting heavily drugged and loosing motor skills.

the title is misleading.

Political correctness is sucking the life out of everything. You can't please all the people all of the time.

It is disgusting. I am voting it down for only one reason, well two really, one being why give the &(*^&%&% the air time and two why give the *&^%$(*& the airtime.

Ifans's sense of humor is like a KKK member dropping in on an NAACP meeting. If he wasn't famous, the anti-rape and anti-prostitution activists would already have whupped his ass.