Graham Linehan
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It's so rooted to the year.
Well, when it's mandatory, it's something completely different. Yes. Even more confusing.
Well, when it's mandatory, it's something completely different. Yes. Even more confusing.
Well, when it's mandatory, it's something completely different. Yes. Even more confusing.
And that's not art. I met a guy who was writing a biography of, I can't say who it is because it would get him into trouble, but a very famous figure in the 50s. And I believe he had a heart attack from dealing with sensitivity readers because the correspondence that he... Another dead white man.
And that's not art. I met a guy who was writing a biography of, I can't say who it is because it would get him into trouble, but a very famous figure in the 50s. And I believe he had a heart attack from dealing with sensitivity readers because the correspondence that he... Another dead white man.
And that's not art. I met a guy who was writing a biography of, I can't say who it is because it would get him into trouble, but a very famous figure in the 50s. And I believe he had a heart attack from dealing with sensitivity readers because the correspondence that he... Another dead white man.
But all the stuff, all the information that he unearthed, the letters, they were all using the F word for gay men or the N word and stuff like this. But this is the past. It is the truth. What's that story you tell in your book about Tom Stoppard? Oh, yeah. It was so funny.
But all the stuff, all the information that he unearthed, the letters, they were all using the F word for gay men or the N word and stuff like this. But this is the past. It is the truth. What's that story you tell in your book about Tom Stoppard? Oh, yeah. It was so funny.
But all the stuff, all the information that he unearthed, the letters, they were all using the F word for gay men or the N word and stuff like this. But this is the past. It is the truth. What's that story you tell in your book about Tom Stoppard? Oh, yeah. It was so funny.
But this was when Sonia Friedman, who was going to produce the TED musical, which, by the way, we have exactly the same kind of problems with theater in the UK in terms of funding. And the TED musical would have kept people employed for years, you know? Yeah. So it's just an outrageous act of censorship that they've destroyed it, you know.
But this was when Sonia Friedman, who was going to produce the TED musical, which, by the way, we have exactly the same kind of problems with theater in the UK in terms of funding. And the TED musical would have kept people employed for years, you know? Yeah. So it's just an outrageous act of censorship that they've destroyed it, you know.
But this was when Sonia Friedman, who was going to produce the TED musical, which, by the way, we have exactly the same kind of problems with theater in the UK in terms of funding. And the TED musical would have kept people employed for years, you know? Yeah. So it's just an outrageous act of censorship that they've destroyed it, you know.
But Tom Stoppard was, I was very flattered because I was following a meeting she had with Tom Stoppard. And she said, oh, he's complaining because he doesn't think there should be black people in the Warsaw ghetto, you know. And she said, but he's having them whether he likes it or not. And I thought, well, would you have Jewish people in a play about the Bronx? What are the rules here?
But Tom Stoppard was, I was very flattered because I was following a meeting she had with Tom Stoppard. And she said, oh, he's complaining because he doesn't think there should be black people in the Warsaw ghetto, you know. And she said, but he's having them whether he likes it or not. And I thought, well, would you have Jewish people in a play about the Bronx? What are the rules here?
But Tom Stoppard was, I was very flattered because I was following a meeting she had with Tom Stoppard. And she said, oh, he's complaining because he doesn't think there should be black people in the Warsaw ghetto, you know. And she said, but he's having them whether he likes it or not. And I thought, well, would you have Jewish people in a play about the Bronx? What are the rules here?
Is diversity only one way? Is it just visual diversity? You know what I mean? But it's extremely important.
Is diversity only one way? Is it just visual diversity? You know what I mean? But it's extremely important.
Is diversity only one way? Is it just visual diversity? You know what I mean? But it's extremely important.
Yeah, but you know, you were talking about Monty Python, but Terry Gilliam, because the Old Vic Theatre is now run by the people who sell its ice creams, had to take a Stephen Sondheim musical out to Bath to get it on.