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Graham LOLnehan

Started by Hank_Kingsley, April 20, 2015, 01:13:37 PM

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Twed

#60
Oh, did he finally get bored with pretending to be into the socially aware battles that the kids are into?

I can't wait for "it's political correctness gone mad" Glinner. It will prove everything I've ever thought about the man.

"Robin Ince ‏@robinince  8h8 hours ago
@Glinner i suppose the idea is that you can be aware of a few things of different importance"

BURNED BY ROBIN INCE

Ptolemy Ptarmigan

Why is he sending tweets when he could be chatting to someone in a hospice?

Shaky

Quote from: Ptolemy Ptarmigan on October 27, 2016, 03:07:44 AM
Why is he sending tweets when he could be chatting to someone in a hospice?

I can picture the scene:

GLINNER

You're a brave, brave lad. What you're going through, it really puts everything into perspective. You, er, a fan of my work at all?

LITTLE TIMMY, CANCER PATIENT


No offence, but it's all been downhill since "Paris", to be honest.

GLINNER

Get ABSOLUTELY FUCKED, you rude, sick little bollocks. You are BLOCKED.

(starts dismantling Little Timmy's drip)

Glebe

Boys doing knitting? Whatever next!

IT'S POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD.

Crabwalk

Quote from: Twed on October 27, 2016, 02:52:56 AM
Oh, did he finally get bored with pretending to be into the socially aware battles that the kids are into?

I can't wait for "it's political correctness gone mad" Glinner. It will prove everything I've ever thought about the man.

"Robin Ince ‏@robinince  8h8 hours ago
@Glinner i suppose the idea is that you can be aware of a few things of different importance"

BURNED BY ROBIN INCE

And glinner's reply to that:

'@robinince see later tweets :)'

Later tweets containing even a small amount of contrition, clarification or humility = 0

Mark Steel's taken a pop at him too. THAT'll GET HIM RAGING!

biggytitbo

Quote from: Bobloblawslawbomb on October 27, 2016, 02:44:52 AM
Did anyone see this? Linehan wading into a fairly innocuous public appeal fronted by shappi khorsandi regarding gender inequality in toys with the absolute worst internet argument of 'There are more important things to think about than this'.

Why does he do things like this? He will always have enough goodwill in the bank with me (unless he goes full gervais of course) but he just comes across the cunt in exchanges like this, especially after the quite earnest reply from khorsandi.

https://twitter.com/Glinner/status/791325201132773376


Wow, I am blocked! I can't remember why, or having any interaction with him.

biggytitbo

Quote from: Crabwalk on October 27, 2016, 08:32:12 AM
And glinner's reply to that:

'@robinince see later tweets :)'

Later tweets containing even a small amount of contrition, clarification or humility = 0

Mark Steel's taken a pop at him too. THAT'll GET HIM RAGING!


Glimmer ought to take a few notes from Steel about how to be a genial and good humoured Twitter celebrity.


Blinder Data

He's clearly made a mistake here, but it seems he can never bring himself to admit when he's wrong.

The guy writes comedy for a living and thinks he can tell people what they can and can't do with their time.

Wind your neck in, pal.

phantom_power

The irony is that he later retweets about the government wanting to make a list of everyone who uses porn. Because that is on a par with refugee crises, fascist governments and all the other stuff he put above the Let Toys Be Toys campaign.

Ambient Sheep

Wow, what a wanker.

Again.

Thursday

#71
Quote from: Twed on October 27, 2016, 02:52:56 AM
Oh, did he finally get bored with pretending to be into the socially aware battles that the kids are into?

I can't wait for "it's political correctness gone mad" Glinner. It will prove everything I've ever thought about the man.

"Robin Ince ‏@robinince  8h8 hours ago
@Glinner i suppose the idea is that you can be aware of a few things of different importance"

BURNED BY ROBIN INCE

Yeah I became suspicious of him for that time he had a go at Dolly Parton and women who defend her https://twitter.com/Glinner/status/483271258575233024

Obviously there's that history with Linehan and CaB on his IT Crowd blog and earlier days of twitter, and I don't feel the same way about it now that I did then. I think it's understandable he didn't want lots of people calling his latest work shit and can see why he got to that no tolerance blocking policy. So I don't hold that against him, and I mostly just forget about him. Sometimes I'll see something from him that makes me laugh.

Then he does something like this and I realise he's still a massive prick.

tomasrojo

What prompted that business about Dolly Parton anyway? I don't really understand his point.

spamwangler

Quote from: tomasrojo on October 29, 2016, 09:15:34 PM
What prompted that business about Dolly Parton anyway? I don't really understand his point.

Is his point why is dolly pardon wasting her time on making her self look all glam when she should be tackling the big issues, like global warming head on?

Thursday

Quote from: tomasrojo on October 29, 2016, 09:15:34 PM
What prompted that business about Dolly Parton anyway? I don't really understand his point.

It was during her Glastonbury set. I guess he was annoyed at people enjoying her music and the warmth of her crowd interaction.

tomasrojo

Ah right. I did assume most people who liked her liked her songcraft, personality and pure singing voice, as well as her mastery of several musical instruments. Not sure why her unfortunate later-life plastic surgery should put them off her.

Bhazor

#76
Glinner, mate. Twat.

Full disclosure. I think the "let toys be toys" thing is bollocks and has nothing to do with what children want and much more to do with the pursuit of upper middle class parents hoping to out progressive their rivals at the next dinner party. "Oh your Pomegranate plays with dolls, thats.... quaint. My little Meltonmowbary is only allowed to play with toy power tools. I've actually trained her to experience intense pain at the sight of pink. Yeah, it took some real work to break free from the shackles of our cishetronormativepatriarchalmegacorpiarchal society. But I think its worth it, you know I just think its good to buy toys that don't teach your little girl to be a whore. But if you want your girl to play with dolls you go right ahead."

But I do fancy Shappi and hate IT Crowd. So Shappi wins.

Noodle Lizard

Never quite understood the feminist argument against plastic surgery or other such body modification.  I understand it even less when it's used as cause not to admire an entertainer!  The man's an arse.

BeardFaceMan

So am I misremembering or didn't Linehan used to be a critic for Select magazine? ie he was paid for slagging off people and their work? And now all of a sudden when it's him getting his work criticized he acts like a big baby? I mean, apart from anything else he's just a raging hypocrite isn't he?

Gwen Taylor on ITV

Maybe Delaney should have reminded Linehan that facts are left-wing.

Puce Moment

I have to say that I have often found myself supporting Linehan for some of the rather needless criticism he has received, especially when it comes to blocking people on Twitter. People should block whoever they want whenever they want - who gives a fuck?

But for him to stoop to the 'there are worse things to worry about' argument has actually made me angry. It is such a cunty point to make.

I posted about Gene Wilder dying on Facebook, mainly about how much he meant to me as a child and teen (because he did - I have a signed copy of his autobiography, and he is my top five people I adore). Then someone I am friends with posted a link to the crisis in Aleppo, bemoaning those who are going on about Gene Wilder dying, when there are worse things to worry about. Fast forward a handful of weeks and he makes an almost identical post to mine about the illustrator Steve Dillon dying, and how much his illustrations in 2000 AD meant to him growing up. The lack of context and self-awareness around the use of the whole 'there is something out more worthy of anger and sadness' boils my piss into vapour.

Twed

Quote from: Puce Moment on October 30, 2016, 12:33:45 PM
But for him to stoop to the 'there are worse things to worry about' argument has actually made me angry. It is such a cunty point to make.
Not even 'stoop to'. It's not a recourse, but his initial line of attack. He opens with it—unprovoked—to attack somebody else. Probably because that's gone down so well with his attack dogs in the past when he was still able to masquerade as a left-wing figure.

Pauline Walnuts

Ignore me, I've got a bad case of the stupid.


bgmnts

Quote from: DrGreggles on April 21, 2015, 02:01:13 PM
I've met Linehan and he was a lovely, funny, self-depreciating man.
Maybe Twitter brings out the cunt in everyone, and that's why it shouldn't exist.

So you're saying there's more to Linehan dun dis?

Ferris

Quote from: bgmnts on September 22, 2018, 08:17:59 PM
So you're saying there's more to Linehan dun dis?

Lovely stuff.

DrGreggles

Quote from: bgmnts on September 22, 2018, 08:17:59 PM
So you're saying there's more to Linehan dun dis?

I'm increasingly of the opinion that I caught him on a rare good day...

Shaky

Quote from: DrGreggles on September 22, 2018, 11:36:28 PM
I'm increasingly of the opinion that I caught him on a rare good day...

Did you tell him you loved his work?

BritishHobo

I like that Linehan replied to every tweet but Shappi's.

I've said this before, but I find it fascinating that the kind of sensitivity to criticism that this thread is about comes most clearly from people like Linehan and Gervais, who are generally recognised as comedy giants, and who have loads of awards for sitcoms which are beloved and seen as classics. For some reason they seem more upset by criticism than any toiler with an unappreciated/disliked catalogue of work.

Sebastian Cobb

I don't know why Linehan is heralded quite as much as he is tbh. Father Ted was good and is immensely rewatchable but Black Books and the IT crowd seem to me like shitter versions of it with the settings switched around. It all becomes a bit colour by numbers after a while.

He's not going to be the last once-liberal comedian who turns into a fragile middle-aged reactionary curmudgeon either, it's a thing.