Inside Story: The Cancelling of Graham Linehan

A brief international firestorm was brought about by an easily avoidable situation.

Common Knowledge had contacted Comedy Unleashed about hosting an event during the Edinburgh Festival in May. After a bit of backwards and forwards, it was agreed that the 17th August would be a good date and the venue was booked.

However, the original venue lacked theatre style seating which, we were advised, did impact on the delivery of the comedy i.e…