Graham Linehan
March 2024
February 2024
‘Why would you not want to be woke?’ Inside the TV comedy workshops infuriating the right-wing press
They’ve been called ‘a disaster for the arts’ and lambasted for ‘pursuing a heavily woke agenda’. So what actually happens at a comedy workshop? Our writer joins 30 working-class standups determined to break into TV
November 2023
August 2023
May 2023
‘Our red line is: are they funny?’: free speech comedy clubs and the battle over onstage offence
Graham Linehan and Dapper Laughs walk into a club ... It sounds like the setup to a bad joke, yet platforming comics who may cause offence is a winning formula. But can a night run by a GB News host claim to be anti-establishment?