The question and points asked were so polite, reasonable and general that I cannot believe anyone would take offence or avoid such a line of enquiry. No wait - but we know why of course. The much-loathed woman, the harridan of anti-trans rhetoric, the murderous, genocidal, bullying bigot, the most hated person on the internet. (She has taken your title Graham - sorry about that dear boy. Please step up your game.)
Her views are that toxic and that appalling that we dare not even ask the most innocent and banal subjects as her name is attached via a gossamer thin silver chord.
I have never heard of Mr Duffy before - he seems like an unremarkable, colourless man on the limited evidence of this 'interview'. Who was it who demanded that he shall not be probed on JKR? His manager? His mummy?
Whatever very limited patience I once had over these pitiful cowards has long evaporated.
It is pathetic. Think for yourself. Be adult, please, while you still can.
I sent this letter about 2 weeks ago to J. Mulville, as yet no reply (surprise!). Hatrick should be deluged with protest letters.
Dear Jimmy Mulville,
I’ve just learned that the proposal to make a musical based on Father Ted is now not going ahead. And that this is something to do with Graham Linehan’s support for women’s protected rights, and that he doesn’t believe humans can change sex. Well, I’m with him there. I also share his worry about the increasing numbers of unhappy young people who have been persuaded that their bodies are ‘wrong’, and that they need medication and surgery which will render them infertile and unable to experience orgasm or sexual pleasure. I support his campaign to protect children from unsafe practices.
I’m frightened by the concept of ‘no debate’ and the power of bullies to remove people from their jobs simply because they disagree with a belief system based on feelings and not science. I believe in free speech in a democratic society.
I believe especially in the right of creative people to produce work which might be provocative and controversial. As you did once. It was brave to do Father Ted when you did. The church in Ireland was still very powerful at that time. I, my friends and family, were staggered that you’d ‘got away with it’ and still can’t believe sometimes that it went out so long ago, challenging as it did the idiocy of the church and made up beliefs. It is my favourite comedy of all time, for those reasons yes, but mostly of course because it was, and remains, brilliantly funny. I know it off by heart and it still makes me fall about laughing. And I thank you for having the courage then to back it.
We must be careful of pandering to bullies who want to shut down creatives, to those who want to control what we can see and read; to those who demand there is only one right way to think. You know well what that can lead to. And who knows what they’ll demand of you next? I notice you still proudly (rightly) list Father Ted on your website, (and how is it you boast of that, but won’t proceed with something by the same author? Where’s the logic? Where’s the consistency?). How long before there’s a demand that you take that down; if there is that demand, will you give in?
It’s great that you’re supporting a girls’ education and support project, and an anti-trafficking charity. So you do know that females need particular protections then? And you know that those girls will always be female, and cannot become men? Or do you believe in magic? I can’t help thinking that, as intelligent people, you know in your hearts that Linehan is right, but you’ve opted for the easy way out.
“First they came for....etc”, you know the quote. You fearlessly challenged those who believe in transubstantiation 30 years ago, why pander now to those who believe a new version of it? Be brave again, please. Give us our musical.
I have not previously watched Father Ted. I shall now be making a point to watch it. I enjoy your columns, therefore, I shall no doubt enjoy watching your other creation.
I think the tide is turning but some people are so deeply captured I fear they’ll never see sense again. Even an intervention won’t work.
Comerford had a go at me the other day on Twitter and from the start was using nasty insinuations. What is this movement that has emboldened people to think they have the right to judge the morality of someone they don’t know, without having exchanged a word previously? It’s given people (mainly men) a cosh with which to attack women, to tell them that they, the men, are the real feminists (India Willoughby), just like t-women are the real women, we are a sub type, soon to have no legal or social status.
The most common cosh at the moment is that we are aligning with right wing fascists. This is where Matt Walsh doesn’t help, even though I appreciate what he highlighted. But they have a schtick going now where they’ve been told WE are a cult and we’ve been radicalised. On that basis all anti fascists are radicalised groups, all resistance fighters, all those opposing the aggressive imposition of a new order that overrides permissions, they are the real cultists, the real scary radicals. Everything about this movement is incoherent, a melange of rehashed slogans and secondhand principles repurposed to have only a sound bite ‘truth’; Ben Goldacre once coined the word ‘truthiness’. Nothing concrete, everything shifting so fast it gives only an impression of meaning. Catch it and there’s nothing there.
Bit of a ramble and preaching to the converted I know.
This will crumble and Father Ted will ride again!!
One day that clip will be in a documentary (one of many) asking how the hell did so many people get so scared of clowns who take Judith Butler seriously? And how did comedy executives cower at the prospect of upsetting porn addicts on twitter?
The fear of staging Father Ted makes the controversy surrounding "The Life Of Brian" (which was actually shown) look like a model of enlightened rationality.
I don't like leaving my dogs and I'm not one for musicals normally but I'd go wherever it's showing and many times over. It just feels like it would be a watershed moment. Father Ted and the Return to Sanity..
So sorry that my fave talented comedy writer and man of principle is treated in this way.
Cowardly and misguided actors, producers etc who are only too happy to 'virtue signal' for their own pocket and careers and bow down to their fears of luvvy-mob rule rather than stand up for reality against the 'woke mafia'.
Must say I would think many times before refusing £200k. Absolute respect Glinner .... if it wasn't so friggin tragic I'd suggest you get down to writing '1984, The Musical Comedy'!!!!
Graham write a comedy with Ricky Gervais or someone like John Cleese about office life in 2022. It would be a smash hit and then we can go and see Father Ted in peace. You can get the material from all your workplace LGBTQIA+ heretics who signed up to your substack to preserve their sanity
Well said ,Graham. Brilliantly written piece and all of these " virtue signalling" people ,of both sexes ,who accede to the demands of the woke brigade ,even although they know it's all lies ,should be utterly ashamed of their cowardice.They won't find another comedy writer who's half as good as you. In fact ,this cult has killed comedy stone dead 😭. Funny how the Wokerati in America have suddenly remembered what a WOMAN is ,and that SEX MATTERS ,in the light of the Supreme Court decision 🤔🙄. You can at least live with yourself ,unlike these cowering sychophants.♥️🙏👍
Everyone knows the difference between a man and woman...always have and always will.
The power exerted comes from the influence of gender surgery....to keep the money flowing everyone must follow gender ideology.
With JK and say people like Ricky Gervais, Dave Chappelle...(though I am sure they are doing their best). At the moment they are too big to cancel!
I think with you its a blatant "see we can cancel people however talented and successful you are".
You are being made an example of to stop others.
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Given the popularity in Ireland of Father Ted ( well apart from the church obvs ) , is it time for The Nolan Show to revisit and shine a light on these cowards and chancers ?
Sorry to those confused by the subhead. No, Joe Duffy is not standing in the way of the Ted musical. I'm just hoping he'll grant me a platform.
"Next question please"
The question and points asked were so polite, reasonable and general that I cannot believe anyone would take offence or avoid such a line of enquiry. No wait - but we know why of course. The much-loathed woman, the harridan of anti-trans rhetoric, the murderous, genocidal, bullying bigot, the most hated person on the internet. (She has taken your title Graham - sorry about that dear boy. Please step up your game.)
Her views are that toxic and that appalling that we dare not even ask the most innocent and banal subjects as her name is attached via a gossamer thin silver chord.
I have never heard of Mr Duffy before - he seems like an unremarkable, colourless man on the limited evidence of this 'interview'. Who was it who demanded that he shall not be probed on JKR? His manager? His mummy?
Whatever very limited patience I once had over these pitiful cowards has long evaporated.
It is pathetic. Think for yourself. Be adult, please, while you still can.
I sent this letter about 2 weeks ago to J. Mulville, as yet no reply (surprise!). Hatrick should be deluged with protest letters.
Dear Jimmy Mulville,
I’ve just learned that the proposal to make a musical based on Father Ted is now not going ahead. And that this is something to do with Graham Linehan’s support for women’s protected rights, and that he doesn’t believe humans can change sex. Well, I’m with him there. I also share his worry about the increasing numbers of unhappy young people who have been persuaded that their bodies are ‘wrong’, and that they need medication and surgery which will render them infertile and unable to experience orgasm or sexual pleasure. I support his campaign to protect children from unsafe practices.
I’m frightened by the concept of ‘no debate’ and the power of bullies to remove people from their jobs simply because they disagree with a belief system based on feelings and not science. I believe in free speech in a democratic society.
I believe especially in the right of creative people to produce work which might be provocative and controversial. As you did once. It was brave to do Father Ted when you did. The church in Ireland was still very powerful at that time. I, my friends and family, were staggered that you’d ‘got away with it’ and still can’t believe sometimes that it went out so long ago, challenging as it did the idiocy of the church and made up beliefs. It is my favourite comedy of all time, for those reasons yes, but mostly of course because it was, and remains, brilliantly funny. I know it off by heart and it still makes me fall about laughing. And I thank you for having the courage then to back it.
We must be careful of pandering to bullies who want to shut down creatives, to those who want to control what we can see and read; to those who demand there is only one right way to think. You know well what that can lead to. And who knows what they’ll demand of you next? I notice you still proudly (rightly) list Father Ted on your website, (and how is it you boast of that, but won’t proceed with something by the same author? Where’s the logic? Where’s the consistency?). How long before there’s a demand that you take that down; if there is that demand, will you give in?
It’s great that you’re supporting a girls’ education and support project, and an anti-trafficking charity. So you do know that females need particular protections then? And you know that those girls will always be female, and cannot become men? Or do you believe in magic? I can’t help thinking that, as intelligent people, you know in your hearts that Linehan is right, but you’ve opted for the easy way out.
“First they came for....etc”, you know the quote. You fearlessly challenged those who believe in transubstantiation 30 years ago, why pander now to those who believe a new version of it? Be brave again, please. Give us our musical.
I have not previously watched Father Ted. I shall now be making a point to watch it. I enjoy your columns, therefore, I shall no doubt enjoy watching your other creation.
I’m in your corner Graham.
I think the tide is turning but some people are so deeply captured I fear they’ll never see sense again. Even an intervention won’t work.
Comerford had a go at me the other day on Twitter and from the start was using nasty insinuations. What is this movement that has emboldened people to think they have the right to judge the morality of someone they don’t know, without having exchanged a word previously? It’s given people (mainly men) a cosh with which to attack women, to tell them that they, the men, are the real feminists (India Willoughby), just like t-women are the real women, we are a sub type, soon to have no legal or social status.
The most common cosh at the moment is that we are aligning with right wing fascists. This is where Matt Walsh doesn’t help, even though I appreciate what he highlighted. But they have a schtick going now where they’ve been told WE are a cult and we’ve been radicalised. On that basis all anti fascists are radicalised groups, all resistance fighters, all those opposing the aggressive imposition of a new order that overrides permissions, they are the real cultists, the real scary radicals. Everything about this movement is incoherent, a melange of rehashed slogans and secondhand principles repurposed to have only a sound bite ‘truth’; Ben Goldacre once coined the word ‘truthiness’. Nothing concrete, everything shifting so fast it gives only an impression of meaning. Catch it and there’s nothing there.
Bit of a ramble and preaching to the converted I know.
This will crumble and Father Ted will ride again!!
Jesus... The badgering and the bullying.
Still going strong.
I'm sure the Ted Musical will happen. It feels like it'll be a watershed moment, for so many reasons.
Don't be afraid to send up the signal of there's anything the sane majority can do to help wrest this from the hands of these cowards.
There isn't a single person I've spoken to who wouldn't go see Ted.
One day that clip will be in a documentary (one of many) asking how the hell did so many people get so scared of clowns who take Judith Butler seriously? And how did comedy executives cower at the prospect of upsetting porn addicts on twitter?
The fear of staging Father Ted makes the controversy surrounding "The Life Of Brian" (which was actually shown) look like a model of enlightened rationality.
So sorry this is happening to you, Graham. Thank you for everything you continue to do.
I don't like leaving my dogs and I'm not one for musicals normally but I'd go wherever it's showing and many times over. It just feels like it would be a watershed moment. Father Ted and the Return to Sanity..
Plus, women like me, are being robbed of a musical delight, brightening up our oh so stolen lives!
What a miserable all round 'git' this male is--- alongside the rest---
So sorry that my fave talented comedy writer and man of principle is treated in this way.
Cowardly and misguided actors, producers etc who are only too happy to 'virtue signal' for their own pocket and careers and bow down to their fears of luvvy-mob rule rather than stand up for reality against the 'woke mafia'.
Must say I would think many times before refusing £200k. Absolute respect Glinner .... if it wasn't so friggin tragic I'd suggest you get down to writing '1984, The Musical Comedy'!!!!
Graham write a comedy with Ricky Gervais or someone like John Cleese about office life in 2022. It would be a smash hit and then we can go and see Father Ted in peace. You can get the material from all your workplace LGBTQIA+ heretics who signed up to your substack to preserve their sanity
Well said ,Graham. Brilliantly written piece and all of these " virtue signalling" people ,of both sexes ,who accede to the demands of the woke brigade ,even although they know it's all lies ,should be utterly ashamed of their cowardice.They won't find another comedy writer who's half as good as you. In fact ,this cult has killed comedy stone dead 😭. Funny how the Wokerati in America have suddenly remembered what a WOMAN is ,and that SEX MATTERS ,in the light of the Supreme Court decision 🤔🙄. You can at least live with yourself ,unlike these cowering sychophants.♥️🙏👍
Wicked good, Graham,
People living in fear of gender ideology!
In a capitalistic world...it can only be money.
Everyone knows the difference between a man and woman...always have and always will.
The power exerted comes from the influence of gender surgery....to keep the money flowing everyone must follow gender ideology.
With JK and say people like Ricky Gervais, Dave Chappelle...(though I am sure they are doing their best). At the moment they are too big to cancel!
I think with you its a blatant "see we can cancel people however talented and successful you are".
You are being made an example of to stop others.
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Given the popularity in Ireland of Father Ted ( well apart from the church obvs ) , is it time for The Nolan Show to revisit and shine a light on these cowards and chancers ?