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How Graham Linehan's gender activism led to career armageddon by Daniel Boffey

What began as a nasty Twitter spat seven years ago has led to a peculiar metamorphosis for the comedy writer It was as he was lying on a hospital trolley, after surgery to treat testicular cancer in 2018, that Graham Linehan picked up his phone and first definitively waded into the issue of trans rights. According to his memoir, Tough Crowd: How I Made and Lost a Career in Comedy, and subsequent media interviews, the…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32AM on September 4, 2025

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