Comedy event cancelled at the Fringe because of Glinner?

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I hadn't seen anything about this on X/Twitter previously, but apparently some activists have been putting pressure on the venue and they've cancelled an upcoming event called Comedy Unleashed because one of the comedians is Graham Linehan. How utterly pathetic. https://twitter.com/UnleashedComedy/status/1691476377793409024?s=20 Seems to be organised by/associated with Andrew Doyle, aka Titania McGrath.

Your view on this is very much out of step with the vast majority, and the clatter of scales falling from thousands more eyes as a result of the venue’s discrimination is deafening…. it is such a delicious own goal I’m not surprised you’re so furious. Oh well.

Interesting re-use of the dog image from the Hayden thread, donna….. It appears your deflection techniques have not improved!

Definitely a new thread!

9 years ago - Reuters and Gires event.

Thanks WarriorN ArabellaScott for those links. It looks like Cath Leng has deleted that tweet about Mark Thompson (who I thought was dreadful at the BBC) but there was a reply that linked to a very informative James Kirkup article. I've read the archived Charles Moore about impartiality too. I need to watch the YouTube link later. It all certainly explains a lot.

Graham has said in the past that both are right.

Both might be right/okay to use but surely a real fan would say it the same way as the genius master himself. You really are hung up on this aren't you 😂

Thanks everyone for such a "good" read 💡☀

I don’t think the pretence that mispronouncing TV presenter is a long time fan of Graham’s still holds anyway!

It's like the old Jewish joke about how to define chutzpah - when a man who is on trial for murdering his parents throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan.

Thanks @HirplesWithHaggis that is a car crash! The link still seems to be a clip though, the start of the interview isn't there. Probably in a dungeon somewhere..

Brilliant @TonTonMacoute !

I went looking for a fuller copy, but it seems to have been taken down everywhere. However, I did find but it's run with commentary from "Miss Freda Wallace", the TW who allegedly briefed the interviewer, and it's a bit stop/start. I watched about half of it but stopped when Tatchell came on.

I went looking for a fuller copy, but it seems to have been taken down everywhere

That's what I found last night, Hirpleswithhaggis when I saw the post asking for a link. I'd only watched it myself a couple of hours before. Lots of people had tried to upload it to YouTube but every time there was a disabled due to copyright message

It's a sign that Talk TV realise what a disaster the interview was.

I don't think that's true Reality, they all expect a Labour government who will roll over and let them tickle their tummy, and it's quite likely that will happen.

Two years from now we're going to have online GPs selling hormones and blockers alongside Ozempic with a new birth certificate thrown in.

Without the EHRC proposed changes to EQ2010 the exceptions will mean absolutely nothing.

You think public opinion has changed but apparently we all hate our lives so much that we're going to vote in these men's puppets to make things better.

They will be sharp elbowing their way to the front of the NHS queue, who will great them as the only group of people entitled to be addressed as women.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/19/my-cancellation-has-trapped-me-in-one-of-my-own-sitcoms/

Graham gets a byline in the Telegraph.

And just the usual reminder you can read paywalled articles by either going into Airplane Mode or using the website archive . ph

Graham Linehan’s short article is well worth the read. Very poignant.

All the comments I read were cheering him on and/or thanking him

Yes I'vve just read it on archive.ph - its is so sad. And in fact Suzanne Moore had an article in the Telegraph I think, in which she wrote about this and used (at least I think they were) some of Glinner's jokes from the event. I thought were a bit well, not that funny. (I know comedy is quite individual.) But I am sorry he doesn't seem to have got much out of it. And that the personal persecution has taken something else away from him.

But she quoted the jokes to compare them to some by Frankie Boyle (which are really gross) and the irony that he has never been cancelled.

I know its not nice to mention people's appearance but for some reasons the pictures of Glinner in Edinburgh made me think of Just William. But I realised I dont really know who that is / was but the image / pose struck me. So I looked him up.

And I know it is an old fashioned children's book and nothing at all to do with what Glinner has been going through but thought this quite apt:

A notable feature of the stories is the subtle observance of the nature of leadership. William often has to reconcile his own ambitions with the needs of the individuals within the Outlaws. His strength of personality means that his leadership is never questioned. William rarely exercises his power over the Outlaws without conscience.

I've got an archive link to the Suzanne Moore's Telegraph article on Glinner's cancellation.

https://archive.ph/4pdqo

I initially posted it in the wrong thread.

Ah! So that’s Freda Wallace! I only watched for 3 minutes, because I saw the interview minutes last week before it was pulled, and it was so excruciating first time round I couldn’t see how the execrably amateur Wallace was going to make it any better. Isn’t Wallace allegedly the person Rosanna Lockwood was on the phone to before the interview?

Thanks for the archive link, @IcakethereforeIam - those Glinner jokes weren’t great!

Graham’s writing is lovely; modest, reflective and quietly humorous, with not one wasted word, and with no rancour or spite whatsoever.

Yes.

would be nice if he could get a regular opinion column.

Very perceptive @IwantToRetire . There is something a bit innocent yet stubborn about Graham - it's as if he just blundered into all this and is still capable of being shocked by the insanity. I think this is why children love the Dougal character so much. He knows something they do and which we have forgotten : grown ups are sometimes very silly and don't know everything.

'It's a bit mad , Ted!'

The Stand, who cancelled Joanna Cherry’s talk, are holding a fundraiser for LGBT Youth Scotland.

id not want it cancelled, but I’d like to see the charity in court. Sam cowie is interesting