Graham Linehan

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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 506. Europe Imploding | Andrew Doyle & Graham Linehan · 12 Dec 2024 podcast

Was that before or after the government cut off their funding for refusing to accept men? I think it was after. And, you know, I helped raise money for them and... I just thought as soon as some people saw it, they would go, what? A rat nailed to the door of a rape crisis center? A dead rat. A dead rat. What can we do to help? And there was none of that. No one stood up for me.

I just started the kind of propaganda piece, a paper, Pink News, has now published over 75 stories about me. They famously did 42 stories on J.K. Rowling in a single week, you know, so six stories a day for seven days.

Yeah, and as far as I could make out, it did not seem exclusionary. The feminism these women were practicing was basic feminism. You mean the kind that believes that women exist? That women exist.

That they have value, that sex is important, and that men shouldn't be allowed in women's sports and all this type of thing.

And especially the kind of men who would want to do it. Yeah, right.

Yeah. So, yeah, so it was almost instantaneous. I lost every job I got would just disappear within moments sometimes. I'm the shortest term director on any project, I think, when I was asked to direct Steve Martin's Only Murders in the Building. And then...

you know put down the phone and a few minutes later got an email saying actually someone else has stepped in and I suspect that the real reason for that was that he being excited announced to the to his colleagues we've got Graham Linehan and someone put up their hand and said he's a bigot And I think that that's basically what means I can't really work in the UK at the moment.

I had a musical based on Father Ted that would have made millions. And they just took it from me, refused to make it if my name is associated with it.

You see, I don't want to, you know, take over, but maybe we should get rid of, I should leave the rest of it, because there's so much.

I think it's, I don't know.

There's probably not even five good sitcom writers. No, there probably isn't.

The other was one called The IT Crowd, which was set, was about IT, an IT department. Because we wrote it in around 2005 and I noticed the internet becoming a thing. And I was always told, well, I went to an early Danny Simon course. He was one of the writers on Bilko and a lot of things that Woody Allen worked on. Neil Simon's brother, you know.

And he said a sitcom should always be about social change. So if you see something coming around the corner, write about it.

Yes, the one example he gave was Mary Tyler Marshall. Right, yeah, another great example. Although he used the phrase women's livers, which was very funny. He's this old guy by the way.

But, but, but so yeah, so I wrote the IT crowd, like we have an early parody ad for Facebook. It was so unusual to us. And I still feel that about the internet that we've still all got whiplash and we didn't know what it's done to us as a species. So Father Ted, The It Crowd, and? I'd say the one that might be well known is called Black Books.

The other is a show called Motherland that was quite successful recently.

I think it was about 2016 or 17.

Yeah, well, also I had a bit of, you know, Trump derangements. I don't know how you were when he won the first time, but I thought the world was going to end. I was fully taken in by it. by the way he was being portrayed. In fact, what was being done to him was about to be done to me.

Well, I always think of that Muhammad Ali line where he said, you know, the Vietnamese never called me no N-word. And I feel the same way about the left. You know, the right never called me a bigot. And they called me a bigot for basic things like saying, hey, you shouldn't be cutting the breasts off little girls. You shouldn't be... Yep, there's one non-hate crime incident.

We can keep piling them up. There shouldn't be men in women's prisons. It's actually against the Geneva Convention to put men in women's prisons. Yeah, but what is a man, sir? All over, yeah. There's a terrible story in Ireland. This bloke who was, you know, he had an awful childhood. He was forced by his father to rape his mother, and he was severely disturbed. His name was Barbie Kardashian.

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