Graham Linehan
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Aug 2025
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Or Chappelle.
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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 506. Europe Imploding | Andrew Doyle & Graham Linehan · 12 Dec 2024
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Thank you.
Well, I was, for most of my adult life, I was a sitcom writer, comedy writer, and quite a successful one. You know, got a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Comedy Awards. Standing Ovation, I think I've won about five BAFTAs personally, one Emmy. Done about five sitcoms, three of which are kind of, you know, near household names.
Father Ted was the main one. Father Ted actually was so influential that... They say it had a little bit to do with the Irish church releasing its hold in the 90s on Ireland, you know, just because we weren't very satirical. We were very silly. We were always a surreal and silly show. And so that had more effect.
something I am in two minds about now, and actually kind of just helped limit the church's influence to some extent by simply throwing a banana peel in their way. So everything was going great. I was asked to write an accompanying book play for a Peter Schafer farce, which I love, called Black Comedy, which has got the most extraordinary premise.
And that was the first thing, I think, oh, and I was supposed to go and teach comedy in Australia. That was the first.
That was the first thing that went. They said they couldn't... I heard something I heard over and over again, that it was security problems. They couldn't afford the security. You'd hear that a lot. Then the... Security for you or for the people that you were going to offend? Well, that's the thing. That was the first time I said, can I speak to my accusers? Can I...
Can I see if I can... I know, yeah. I was very... How old-fashioned can you get?
Well, this was the very earliest days when I still felt that there were people of good faith within things like gender ideology, and they... If you just explained certain things, they would... Like, for instance, one of the things that I started talking about, because I was paying attention to women who were being bullied offline, who were called TERFs, you know, and...
I was trying to figure all this out, but I saw that women were getting death threats and rape threats for even discussing it. And one of the earliest things I saw was actually a Canadian story that the Vancouver Rape Relief had a dead rat nailed to their door because they wouldn't accept men in their sessions, you know, or whatever they're called.
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