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Tough Crowd - How I made and lost a career in comedy (Unabridged)
Written by Graham Linehan
Narrated by Graham Linehan
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Having cut his teeth in music journalism, Graham Linehan became the finest sitcom writer of his generation. He captured the comedy zeitgeist not just as the co-creator of Father Ted but also with The IT Crowd and Black Books, winning five Baftas and a lifetime achievement award. Then his life took an unexpected turn. When he championed an unfashionable cause, TV commissioners no longer returned his emails, showbiz pals lost his number and his marriage collapsed. In an emotionally charged memoir that is by turns hilarious and harrowing, he lets us into the secrets of the writing room and colourfully describes the high-octane atmosphere of a sitcom set. But he also berates an industry where there was no one to stand by his side when he needed help. Bruised but not beaten, he explains why he chose the hill of women and girls' rights to die on - and why, despite the hardship of cancellation, he's not coming down from it any time soon.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I first learned about Graham Linehan when I was editing the interview for a podcast that he was on and learned about the work he was doing to protect women and children's rights in the face of trans ideology which seeks to transform society by eliminating the sex binary. It's clear Graham cares deeply for those with gender dysphoria but understands that human beings as a species have only two sexes and the male sex has been given greater physical advantages which should preclude them from accessing opportunities and private spaces that are set aside for women to protect them from predatory men who wish to exploit transgender ideology for their own benefit. It's also interesting to note that those who are financing much of trans ideology in every institution in society are billionaires who stand to profit considerably by setting children on the path of medicalizing their bodies and destroying women's fundamental rights.
Graham is one of the most decent men who are speaking out to protect our daughters, mothers, sisters, aunts, grandmothers in a culture that clearly hates women and hates humanity. In the end only the 1% will truly benefit by this trans ideology. For the rest of society, it's destroying families and communities at an unprecedented rate. Progressive policies are anything but. We are regressing into tribalist factions and fighting it out while the billionaires are laughing all the way to the bank. All because so many don't have the courage to say the emperor has no clothes but Graham does. And I'm so grateful for that. For my daughter and granddaughter, I'm deeply indebted.