Graham Linehan

Screenwriter

Graham Linehan was born in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland on May 22nd, 1968 and is the Screenwriter. At the age of 55, Graham Linehan biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
May 22, 1968
Nationality
Ireland
Place of Birth
Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
Age
55 years old
Zodiac Sign
Gemini
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Actor, Comedian, Film Actor, Film Director, Screenwriter, Television Director
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Helen Serafinowicz, ​ ​(m. 2004; sep. 2020)​
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Graham Linehan Career

Career

When working at Hot Press, Linehan and Arthur Mathews met. They were in charge of segments in sketch shows including Alas Smith and Jones, Harry Enfield and Chums, The All New Alexei Sayle Show, The Day Today, and the Ted and Ralph characters in The Fast Show, among other sketch shows. They continued their collaboration with Paris (one series, 1994), Father Ted (three series, 1995–1998), and the first series of the sketch show Big Train.

They also wrote the "Dearth of A Salesman" episode for the television series Coogan's Run, which featured Gareth Cheeseman. They were listed as one of the 50 most amusing television shows by The Observer in late 2003.

Linehan has written for other publications, including Brass Eye. Dylan Moran co-wrote the first Black Book series, a series to which Mathews also contributed. Linehan has also contributed to Blue Jam and its television adaptation Jam.

Linehan wrote and directed The IT Crowd, a Channel 4 sitcom in which he attempted to move away from the burgeoning British trend toward mock-documentary comedies. Unlike many other series of the time, it was shot in front of a studio audience. He received an International Emmy for The IT Crowd in November 2008. The Walshes wrote and directed The Walshes in 2013. He co-wrote the first series of the BBC sitcom Motherland and supervised its pilot episode.

Linehan and Mathews also revealed plans for a Father Ted musical in 2018. Linehan said he was still creating the musical and that it would conclude as they had planned it before the lead actor Dermot Morgan's death in 2021. Linehan said that the musical had been cancelled by producers following the scandal surrounding his views on transgender rights in March 2022.

Both Linehan and Mathews have made cameos in their programs. Two Irish TV producers, Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan), also appeared on the sitcom I'm Alan Partridge as two Irish TV producers considering a deal for Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan).

Linehan has appeared in "Good Luck Father Ted" and two episodes of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, as "I love books" Guy, "Flight Into Terror," "Cigarettes, Alcohol, and Rollerblading," and "Chirpy Burpy Cheap Sheep." In four episodes of The IT Crowd: Messy Joe's Restaurant Musician; the blind sorcerer; as an observer of the audience for Jen's address in series three, episode four; and as Beth Gaga Shaggy in series four, episode three. He appeared in the Never Mind the Buzzcocks round. He appeared in the pilot of Little Britain, as well as in episode four, as a bystander who is trying to hypnotize from a distance. During a interview with Prime Minister Michael Stevens (Anthony Head), he appeared in series one, episode five, in which he played Roy Sloan (from Whizzer and Chips). Linehan was one of the writers interviewed by Charlie Brooker in a special interview segment of Brooker's Screenwipe magazine, as well as Brooker's Gameswipe in 2010. Linehan appeared on Have I Got News for You in 2011 and again in 2012, and he made his debut as a guest on the BBC show QI's 11th series (K series) in 2013, earning a score of 19.

For RTÉ One, Wildfire Films produced a documentary about Linehan, his life, and his work. This film explored the art, craft, and fierce market of creating contemporary television comedy. The programme featured interviews with several of the country's top television comedians and performers, including Steve Coogan, Matt Lucas, David Walliams, Paul Whitehouse, Griff Rhys Jones, and Ardal O'Hanlon, some of whom have worked with Linehan. It was directed by Adrian McCarthy and produced by Martha O'Neill and Adam Rynne. Linehan appeared alongside many others of the cast in Channel 4's Father Ted Night, an evening of the writer's favorite episodes as well as two retrospective documentaries.

Linehan appeared on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on June 6th to discuss his adaptation of the Ealing comedy film The Ladykillers for the West End stage. Linehan took issue with Today host Justin Webb over what he felt was the attempted staging of an artificial argument between himself and critic Michael Billington during this appearance. In an article published in The Guardian, he later expanded on his remarks by saying, "I'm talking about the very specific, very sophisticated, very Today program style of a host deciding to represent the opposing sides of a manufactured argument." It is a binary representation of politics, of life, and, as a result, it is also a dishonest one. Anything will be better, so replace it with something – it could be anything.

In the 2012 Adventure Time episode "Goliad," Linehan's children were led by Linehan, who was instructing the kids while taking the producers' instructions over the phone. Linehan intended to write a sequel and showed off different versions of the tale to the production team. This episode was never planned after Adventure Time ended in 2018.

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Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan and women's rights campaign group set to sue Belfast pub where staff asked them to leave over controversial views on gender

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 26, 2024
Following a women's rights march in Belfast last year, the comedian and activist gathered with his campaign group in Robinson's Bar in Belfast, Northern Ireland's capital. According to the Belfast Telegraph, Linehan, 55, is now suing the bar's owners and 22 others for "legally protected beliefs in biological sex." (Pictured from left: The Robinson's Bar in Belfast, Graham Linehan)

Talk about living the role!Anna pops out in a pink puffer jacket just like one she wears in Motherland

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 14, 2024
Anna Maxwell Martin, 46, of Glasgow, wrapped up against the cold in a pink Ganni puffer jacket, an almost identical representation of Julia Maxwell's costume on BBC's Motherland. Julia's trademark frown disappeared this week as mother-of-two Anna and her partner, Ferdy Unger-Hamilton, wore a shearling jacket by Axel Arigato and a baseball cap. The couple, who have been dating since 2022, strolled North London with Anna's rescue terrier, Bobby.

Labour's Rosie Duffield says she has been 'completely exonerated' by the party after being accused of anti-Semitism and transphobia over support for comedy writer's Eddie Izzard tweet

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 4, 2024
The allegations against her had been denied by the party's National Executive Committee, and nothing she had done had broken any Labour party law,' the MP said. The Sunday Times announced in November that Labour had launched an investigation after Ms Duffield liked a tweet by comedy writer Graham Linehan. Father Ted and The IT Crowd creator's sardonic post responded to Izzard's claim that as a trans woman, she may have been "killed by the Nazis." The Irish comedian had replied, "Yes, the Nazis, who had mainly ridiculed straight white guys with blonde (sic) hair."
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