{"id":97993,"date":"2023-08-26T07:43:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T07:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/?p=97993"},"modified":"2023-08-26T07:43:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T07:43:13","slug":"graham-linehan-feels-like-hes-living-through-one-of-own-tv-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/world-news\/graham-linehan-feels-like-hes-living-through-one-of-own-tv-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham Linehan feels like he&apos;s &apos;living through one of own TV shows&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Famed sitcom writer Graham Linehan says he feels like he&#8217;s &#8216;living through one of his own TV shows&#8217; after the Father Ted and The IT Crowd creator had his Edinburgh shows cancelled over his gender critical views<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Graham Linehan, 55, feels like he has become a character in Father Ted<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Comedian has been vocal on his stance on the transgender debate<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>READ MORE: Linehan breaks down in tears and vows to beat &#8216;evil trans activists&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He co-wrote one of TV\u2019s most iconic sitcoms about the misadventures of three disgraced Irish priests living in a parish on the fictional Craggy Island.<\/p>\n<p>But now comedian Graham Linehan says he feels like he has become a character in Father Ted \u2013 after coming under relentless fire over his stance on the transgender debate.<\/p>\n<p>Linehan, 55, was due to do a stand-up gig in Edinburgh last week, only for Leith Arches to cancel his show. He finally performed outside the Scottish parliament on Thursday, after a second venue had pulled out.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u2018There\u2019s some steep irony in being a sitcom writer and then experiencing 48 hours where you feel you\u2019re living through an episode yourself.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Five years ago, when I could still secure work in television, I took obscene delight in putting my characters through various forms of social torture.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/21\/01\/74540495-12427263-image-a-95_1692578298495.jpg\" height=\"826\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Graham Linehan, 55, says he feels like he has become a character in Father Ted \u2013 after coming under relentless fire over his stance on the transgender debate<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/21\/01\/74540497-12427263-image-a-96_1692578302559.jpg\" height=\"637\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Much-loved British sitcom Father Ted ran for 25 episodes between 1995 and 1998. Linehan said\u00a0\u2018there\u2019s some steep irony in being a sitcom writer and then experiencing 48 hours where you feel you\u2019re living through an episode yourself&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/21\/01\/74540501-12427263-image-a-97_1692578315207.jpg\" height=\"446\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Linehan won an Emmy Award in 2008 for best comedy for his sitcom The IT Crowd. Now the comedian thinks &#8216;karma is playing out&#8217; after he &#8216;took obscene delight in putting my characters through various forms of social torture&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Now, I can\u2019t help feeling some sort of karma is playing out. Being a character in one of my own shows is not as fun as it sounds.\u2019<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0Graham Linehan went from creating Father Ted and IT Crowd and helping to make Alan Partridge a huge success to losing his marriage, fortune and family because of his stance on trans issues\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>Linehan, who was banned by Twitter in 2020 for saying \u2018men aren\u2019t women\u2019, admitted his Holyrood gig wasn\u2019t his best.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u2018As a protest it worked great. But as comedy, meh. I tried to dive into my act but the weight of the past few days, the past five years, hung over me.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Linehan was welling up in tears near the end of his routine in Edinburgh, telling the audience: &#8216;I&#8217;ve never seen anything as insane as the last two days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And I keep asking people what I&#8217;ve said wrong and what I&#8217;m saying wrong in this fight about women&#8217;s spaces, about children being mutilated in and sterilised in gender clinics and about the women who are being harassed and threatened for standing up.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The audience then broke out in applause, as the visibly emotional Linehan continued: &#8216;Comedy is my first love, it&#8217;s the thing I love to do, but I have not been allowed to do that for five years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And this is just what I decided I would do&#8230; a couple of silly jokes, and they can&#8217;t even let me do that.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>A fan shouted from the crowd: &#8216;We&#8217;ve got your back Graham&#8217;. Audience cheers and applause followed. Linehan responded: &#8216;I know you do and it really helps.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/21\/01\/74383119-12427263-Graham_Linehan_holds_the_award_in_the_Comedy_category_for_The_IT-a-99_1692578373181.jpg\" height=\"770\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Linehan holds the award in the Comedy category for The IT Crowd at the 36th International Emmy Awards November 24, 2008 in New York<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/21\/01\/74383081-12427263-Helen_above_with_whom_Linehan_created_the_hugely_popular_comedy_-a-100_1692578376424.jpg\" height=\"591\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Helen (above), with whom Linehan created the hugely popular comedy series Motherland, was threatened and her address released online. They separated during lockdown<\/p>\n<p>Linehan was responsible for two of Britain&#8217;s most popular sitcoms &#8211; and even enjoyed a hilarious cameo as an Irish TV executive in one of the best-loved episodes of Alan Partridge.<\/p>\n<p>He won an Emmy Award in 2008 for best comedy for his sitcom The IT Crowd. But 12 years later, his 16-year marriage to the comedy writer Helen Serafinowicz came to end as a direct result of his trans battles, reported The Times.<\/p>\n<p>The pair have one son together.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Mail in 2022 he said: &#8216;Politicians can&#8217;t answer simple questions because these people [trans activists] have persuaded them it&#8217;s complicated and difficult. It&#8217;s not. All you have to do is stick to the principles we all know: the birds and the bees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;People are terrified of getting into the debate, terrified of saying something wrong. If you disagree with them \u2014 if you say it denies biology or that it [the right to self-identify] is a gift to sex offenders and conmen who are able to completely erase any mention of who they previously were \u2014 they will try to destroy you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;m not talking about trans people. I&#8217;m talking about trans rights activists. They tried to destroy me. They have taken everything from me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They took my family, my ability to earn a living. I haven&#8217;t considered suicide but that&#8217;s what I believe they want me to do.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You know, I&#8217;m so cancelled that there were two shows called Cancelled and I wasn&#8217;t asked to appear on either of them.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12427263\/Famed-sitcom-writer-Graham-Linehan-says-feels-like-hes-living-one-TV-shows-Father-Ted-Crowd-creator-Edinburgh-shows-cancelled-gender-critical-views.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famed sitcom writer Graham Linehan says he feels like he&#8217;s &#8216;living through one of his own TV shows&#8217; after the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Graham Linehan feels like he&amp;apos;s &amp;apos;living through one of own TV shows&amp;apos; 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