Hello and

this is a show for instance kitchen.

and this is a show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people.

Our brilliant guest today I'm delighted to say he's a comedy writer behind some of the

most beloved shows in the history of television.

Graham Linhen, welcome to Trigonometry.

Thank you.

Thank you very much for asking.

It's a pleasure to have you on.

I did mention, obviously, in the intro that you wrote Father Ted,

Black Books, the IT crowd,

you were part of the team behind a whole bunch of other shows.

But more recently, you've also become

very controversial and problematic,

which is one of the reasons we're extra delighted to have you understand. controversial and it's problematic

but before we get into that we had a bunch of questions just about comedy

for you as well.

So it seems to me, Graham, and this is someone genuinely is a massive

fan of your work that you operating what could be seen as a golden age of

comedy you know the 90s the early naughtys where there was lots of money to be made and dare I say it people

were a lot braver now.

How do you think the comedy landscape has changed over those last 10 to 15 years? Have we become better, more progressive, or have things got

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