Graham Linehan’s Book

Apparently Shane McGowan spent his final month at home binge watching Father Ted. Two Irish legends..

Good idea 🤶 @XenaEcoWarriorPrincess . A great present for an aspiring writer or comedian. He goes into some detail about the tricks and pitfalls of writing for TV. As well as the wretched politics....

Just finished. A moving and poignant read, nostalgic and funny.
Thank you Graham for your bravery and courage I am still working mine up. A fine example of sticking to your principles.

On a practical note, it's a really good eye opening introduction to the uniformed so great Xmas present.

He was on Sky News last night. A segment on cancelled comedians doing stand up. The part I saw was Graham saying 'they were changing the meaning of the words Woman and Mother and I didn't like that'.

I agree; I think I got a lot more out of his book for listening to him telling the story.

He’s got a great turn of phrase; I think he could turn his hand to novels - perhaps his unsuccessful film script about the men mistaken for Gertrude Stein & Alice B Toklas might make an amusing comic novel á la Wodehouse 🤔

This is where audiobooks can really come into their own. I just finished listening to it, Graham is a talented narrator, it's great to hear it as he wrote it and he has a nice voice. It was an enjoyable listen - well, considering the sad stuff.

Just ordered from my ( very woke) local library. Fingers crossed they do actually buy it as they keep refusing other people who've ordered it.

Received my (signed) copy from Eye today, really enjoying it so far. Thanks Graham!

My signed copy arrived from the publishers today!!

I just finished reading my copy. I loved it, and the way he speaks about his father towards the end of the book brought a tear to my eye.

Got it on Audible last night. Although I have a signed copy of the book my eyes aren't great so being able to listen to it makes me very happy. That Graham is the one reading it is just an added bonus.
Thanks Graham :)

Just bought my audio copy. Looking forward to hearing Graham telling his story!

Tough Crowd is currently featured as a bestseller on Audible under Politics and Activism. And it's sitting at the top of popular new releases above Britney Spears.

I'm sure we can look forward to news reports of him only selling three audio books to appear in Pink News shortly. 😏

In my experience, I'm not in any danger from other men in the toilets, not an issue for me, it's just that they kind of ming a lot of the time. (due to a small proportion of the users NGAF about keeping them naice for everybody)

He's got some very eloquent turns of phrase in the second half when talking about gender woo which I've earmarked. Fantastic writer. I've also been watching his obscure 1994 sitcom Paris on YouTube and giving it a go. The wonderful James Dreyfus is in it!

Many of their “arguments” are inside out, back to front and upside down (or simply hypocritical). E.g. Transwomen are too scared of other men to use the men’s toilets - but have no understanding or empathy that’s exactly why many of us don’t want them - MEN - in women’s single-sex spaces.

Yes, the main thrust of their claims seems to be based on people supposedly hating trans people, wishing calamity on them and/or wanting them to cease to exist.

The simple reality is that we don't want them to take rights from other people (women and girls) to add to their own; we just believe that everybody should have the same/equivalent rights.

It's interesting how nobody ever tries to accuse women of being misandrists for not wanting any men to use female facilities, except when it comes to a very small sub-section of entitled men.

Many of their “arguments” are inside out, back to front and upside down (or simply hypocritical). E.g. Transwomen are too scared of other men to use the men’s toilets - but have no understanding or empathy that’s exactly why many of us don’t want them - MEN - in women’s single-sex spaces.

Of all the TRA arguments to choose to pursue when criticising people who are standing up for women against gynophobes, the bold accusations that they are 'denying science' simply leave you speechless!

Inane, poorly informed DARVOs are all these people have.

Re reading ..there's actually a couple of people he doesn't name. In some cases I'd say he doesn't want to judge people who are not financially secure themselves . And maybe a couple of golden bridges?

My local library has just agreed to stock..I am well happy!

I just downloaded his Audio book 📚

Your reply kept me awake trying to remember the cat and mum story until I remembered the piano! As a family we have had so many wtf moments recently that I have to admit it didn’t make me laugh as much as it would have in the past just because it doesn’t seem that unusual/surreal.

It reminds me of the time I had to detail everything that was happening throughout the night on charts (so doctors could correlate human movements/the environmental conditions with the monitor readings on a very expensive piece of medical equipment we had taken home and was attached 24/7) and the cats brought in a live mouse that was doing a wall-of-death around the bedroom at 2am and so I was marking the time of each rotation it went over the bed! I had met the very strait laced consultant who analysed the traces and who I think had already decided I was a bit bonkers - so was cringing about handing back the charts. I think if I was to write a book of the last few years, no one would believe it.

But then again, Linehan wouldn’t haven’t believed he would write this 10 years ago.

I've just caught up with some of the Amazon reviews. There's always something afoot when an item gets a lot of 5-star reviews, a lot of 1-star reviews and nothing or very little in between.

My particular favourites are the accusations of GL showing 'Zero science' and of his 'Unhinged conspiracy theories'!

Of all the TRA arguments to choose to pursue when criticising people who are standing up for women against gynophobes, the bold accusations that they are 'denying science' simply leave you speechless!

100% agree especially on the first half. Any young person thinking of a career in writing for TV or radio : just read this book. The distilled essence of what you will be taught on a film or media course and probably much better.

Not too many surprises in part 2 for people on FWR. But yeah he names names. He's not selling any alibis....

There's a one star review on Waterstones calling it 'absolute tosh'. From somebody who was allegedly (kindly) bought it by her dad. It amused me!