Victim of Cancel Culture, an Interview With Comedian Graham Linehan (Video)

This is an amazing interview with one of the best comedy writers out there. He is the writer of two UK comedy series, which are both among my personal favourites. The IT Crowd, and Father Ted. Father Ted is more, sort of folksy/provincial than The IT Crowd, which one should not watch without oxygen nearby as the danger of suffocation from uncontrollable laughter is quite real. Father Ted is kinda like an 80s CBC show, like The Beachcombers except funny. Still, it has a certain charm with 2 of the episodes being screamingly funny. Specifically Speed III and Are You Right there Father Ted?

This interview is about how he was cancelled for having a counter-revolutionary view. And you can see and hear his great intellect whirring as they ask questions like, “Why do you think this happened to you” and then more pointedly, “why did this happen to you?” Different questions but both being answered in a way that showed great insight, but insufficient knowledge.

Readers of this site will have the answers. And one of the consistent tells that the people valiantly trying to hold back the tide in this interview that we can hear, is the expression of a number of events as being ironic, when we know they are not. DEI for example, we know as a dialectical line of effort to destroy the merit principle. Failure to understand this leads to a false belief that it is an attempt to correct injustices in our system, when in fact it is a weapon against our system altogether with the added defence built in that all who oppose it are to be cancelled. Aufhaben der Kultur. This is the missing key here, or one of them.

His comparison to cancel culture with scientology is also very insightful and a worthwhile analogy, but incomplete. His off the shoulder quip about those who cancel others as being regime police was actually spot on. But the giggles afterwards make me think they don’t actually get that. If they had, they would have grown pale in the face instead of laughed.

Graham, like JK Rowling, was establishment left before he became one of the revolution’s victims. As the old joke goes, ‘A conservative is a leftist who’s been mugged’.

Even so, this is an amazingly insightful interview and an excellent look at the state of the revolution from one of its victims. I hope you all enjoy and comment.

Link to his book