![]() ![]() As has happened before in history – see the rise of any given totalitarian apparatus – spiteful losers morph into terrifying monsters wielding outsize power when they inject just the right combination of Toxoplasma gondii and battery acid into the brains of the least integral of humans who achieve their destiny in the formation of froth-mouthed mobs. Creatures with inert cortices, who lack any aesthetic taste, struggle into the black leather uniforms of wanna-be thought police and crack their whips of outrage over the heads of truly gifted creators like Linehan. Nobodies of negligible stature, elevated to high priests in the Church of Woke, shriek imprecations into the void. See for example here, and a condemnation of “Linehan’s descent into deplorability” here. These denunciations are hysterical, in both senses of the word “hysterical.” Online denunciations of Linehan are funny but they are also reflective of the unhinged psyches of Linehan’s accusers. After it was rebroadcast in 2013, Linehan was accused of transphobia. The combatants crash onto the stage where another character is delivering a speech she’s been anxious about. ![]() Eventually their fight breaks through a wall and into the resolution of another subplot in this episode. They are duking it out in a sterile laboratory as masked, white-coated workers look on. ![]() The two engage in highly choreographed, hand-to-hand combat typical of an action movie. April changes from sad to enraged and punches Douglas in the face. Douglas, apparently distraught and speaking in an exaggerated melodramatic style, insists that the two must part. At first she pleads in a hyper-feminine way for Douglas to recognize her as a woman. Douglas becomes uncomfortable dating April, and he breaks up with her. April – the character, not the actress who plays April – is a man who identifies as a woman. In an episode entitled “The Speech,” there is a comedic fight between Douglas (Matt Berry) and April (Lucy Montgomery). Linehan created The IT Crowd, a British sitcom that ran 2006-2010, with a farewell broadcast airing in 2013. Irish identity in the twenty-first century and Linehan’s jaundiced view of Catholicism are constant themes. The second half of the book addresses Linehan’s canceling and the extent of trans extremism in the UK. Much of the book is a meditation on the impact of the internet. Most of the book addresses Linehan’s comedy career and comedy and popular culture in general. On October 31, 2023, Eye Books Limited released, in the US, Linehan’s memoir, Tough Crowd: How I Made and Lost a Career in Comedy. The LGBT website Pink News, he reports, has published 75 hit pieces on him – they’ve published more since that tally. Friends and colleagues rejected and abandoned him. In recent years, Linehan has made public statements disagreeing with trans extremism. He has also won awards from the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain and the Irish Film and Television Academy. He’s the winner of five BAFTA awards, that is awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Graham Linehan is 55-year-old Irish writer and director of sitcoms. ![]()
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