Graham Linehan: how the Father Ted musical got cancelled | SpectatorTV

Winston speaks with Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan, creator of Father Ted, The IT Crowd and Black Books. Graham took a stand as a women’s rights activist which led to Father Ted: The Musical being cancelled. He was also suspended from Twitter for writing “men aren’t women tho”. Winston asks why he took a stand, and how his comedy career unravelled.

// CHAPTERS
00:00 – Intro
00:38 – Early career in music and the inception of Father Ted
06:04 – Father Ted musical axed for controversial opinions
21:08 – Cancel culture in the creative industries and censored IT crowd episode
26:23 – Tavistock, Mermaids and hopes for the future
32:24 – Battle of Ideas speech and how has this ideology achieved so much, so quickly?
36:43 – Elon Musk and Twitter suspension

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