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Fringe event featuring Graham Linehan cancelled after backlash

A COMEDY show at the Edinburgh Fringe featuring Father Ted creator Graham Linehan has been cancelled due to the writer’s views on transgender…

The National (Scotland)

‘Our red line is: are they funny?’: free speech comedy clubs and the battle over onstage offence

Graham Linehan and Dapper Laughs walk into a club ... It sounds like the setup to a bad joke, yet platforming comics who may cause offence is a winning formula. But can a night run by a GB News host claim to be anti-establishment?

The Guardian - UK

Anti-trans activist Graham Linehan posts Barry Humphries email in response to comedy festival tribute

Linehan was responding to a tribute posted by Melbourne International Comedy Festival for the entertainer who passed away over the weekend

Irish Mirror

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Father Ted creator loses TV career and marriage and on anxiety medication over tweets

Graham Linehan, who created sitcoms Father Ted, IT Crowd and Black Books, has revealed how his divisive tweets against transgender rights which saw him suspended from Twitter, before his profile was reinstated

Daily Mirror

Katherine Parkinson: ‘I used to think it was not a big deal being sexually fulfilled... But it’s massively important to your entire being’

The ‘IT Crowd’ and ‘Here We Go’ star is playing Beatrice in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’. She talks to Jessie Thompson about using wit as a defence, problematic Shakespeare plays and why female desire is a feminist issue

The Independent UK

NSW Liberal candidate likens anti-trans activism to opposing the Holocaust

Katherine Deves apologises for comparing stance on trans rights to being part of ‘French resistance’

The Guardian - AU

Father Ted creator sobs on BBC as he claims he was 'cancelled' and 'lost everything' for transgender comments

The Dubliner teared up as he explained how his wife and family had left him over his previous comments

Irish Mirror

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