Why camp comedy really suits Al Porter

Though only 22, the suave Tallaght man is already making an impact, writes Richard Fitzpatrick.

AL PORTER was born to entertain. All he needs are lights. “Open the fridge and I’ll do 20 minutes,” he says. Heralded as the new ‘king of camp’, Porter, although still only 22, has been a comic lead at the Olympia Theatre’s annual pantomime for a decade. He’s also done hit musicals,and is familiar from such TV shows as Republic of Telly and The Savage Eye.

“I come from a long line of soldiers in my family,” he says. “My father was a flight sergeant in the air corps. I wasn’t a particularly sporty child. We didn’t really know what to do with me.