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TRIGGERnometry

Backstabbed By The Entire Comedy Industry - Graham Linehan

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Graham Linehan is a writer and director who has created or co-created some of our most beloved shows including Father Ted, Black Books and The IT Crowd. Tough Crowd - Available here and in all good bookshops: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tough-Crowd-Made-Career-Comedy/dp/B0CLMFP9PT/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=graham+linehan&qid=1702894912&s=books&sr=1-1 Signed copies (while stocks last) available here: https://www.eye-books.com/books/tough-crowd SPONSOR: Go to https://givesendgo.com and raise money for anything important to you. SPONSOR: Try Factor today and get 50% off by using code: TRIGGER50 at https://factormeals.com Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Locals! https://triggernometry.locals.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Music by: Music by: Xentric | [email protected] | https://www.xentricapc.com/ YouTube: @xentricapc Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: [email protected] Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/sign-up/ Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod/ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod/ About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.

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0:00.0

Did you not have a self-preservation instinct which is I am destroying my career here?

0:05.7

Again I just thought who would disagree with this? The Father Ted musical has been cancelled because of them.

0:12.7

This would have sold out.

0:14.7

Yeah, who puts us out is basically printing money?

0:17.6

The other day I had to hide my car in case it's repossessed.

0:21.6

That's how bad I'm my money situation is at the moment.

0:27.0

Again what have I said that is so terrible to deserve that kind of treatment?

0:32.0

As someone puts it, the patriarchy in stilettos.

0:36.0

Graham Linhen,

0:37.0

Hello.

0:38.0

What a journey has been for you, I mean you're back on the show of course, but the first time in the flesh.

0:42.0

It's been years of what must feel like an arduous

0:46.2

battle for you expressing your concerns about trans ideology losing a hell of a lot of opportunities, some would say your career to a large extent.

0:56.8

And here you are probably feeling, certainly in terms of what you were saying quite vindicated.

1:00.6

Yeah, well you kind of have to tell me.

1:04.0

I don't, I always think every, every shocking news story I hear about, you know,

1:10.0

rapists in women's prisons or men and women's sports, I always used to think, oh, this is the one.

1:15.8

This is the one that will show people that it's, that it's, it's like when Martina Navratilova broke cover and started talking about fairness in sports.

1:26.7

I thought, oh, it's over, it's over.

1:28.9

She's like a lesbian icon.

1:31.0

So, and of course they just monstered her exactly the same way that they monstered

1:35.8

everybody who goes into this debate so yeah I you'd really have to tell me whether it's turning around or not, but if it is, I'm very happy to hear it.

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