THE comedy Fringe show featuring TV writer Graham Linehan has finally settled on a venue: outside the Scottish Parliament.
Earlier this week, the Comedy Unleashed show featuring the comedian faced cancellation after Edinburgh venue Leith Arches refused to host Linehan due to his anti-transgender views.
Linehan has previously claimed that the "gender identity movement" is "paedophilic" and said that "almost every central trans figure is a nonce".
The venue said they would "will not allow such views to violate our space”.
Organisers then claimed to have secured a replacement venue only to announce that this, too, had fallen through.
However, they told ticket-holders that they would be e-mailed the location of a third venue where the show would go ahead.
Linehan and other comedians were seen outside Holyrood with a microphone and speakers, with a crowd gathering to watch the show go ahead.
Our replacement venue for Comedy Unleashed at the Edinburgh fringe has now also cancelled on us. So @Glinner and the other acts will do the gig on a small stage outside the Scottish parliament at Holyrood at 7:30pm This show is happening, whether these activists approve or not. pic.twitter.com/0ubOe40AZz
— Andrew Doyle (@andrewdoyle_com) August 17, 2023
Andrew Doyle, the GB News presenter who organised the gig, tweeted a picture of a small makeshift stage erected outside the public entrance to the Scottish Parliament.
He said: So @Glinner and the other acts will do the gig on a small stage outside the Scottish parliament at Holyrood at 7:30pm.
"This show is happening, whether these activists approve or not".
