I feel that shows like ‘Ted’ and ‘The IT Crowd’ are very much more enjoyable watching with friends around a telly. Graham Linehan Read Quote
Audience laughter, when it’s deserved, acts as a sort of fairy dust that makes funny moments not just funny, but joyous. Graham Linehan Read Quote
Conflict is entertaining and it’s the stuff of drama – or comedy – but too much conflict, or conflict that’s at too high a pitch can get annoying. Graham Linehan Read Quote
I go up to my office and sit down in front of my computer and turn on the internet and then I don’t work – that’s the end of work for the day. Graham Linehan Read Quote
Of course, I’m not saying that news interviews can’t be adversarial. Sometimes, you have to be nasty Columbo or we’d never get to the truth. Graham Linehan Read Quote
I like shows where the female characters are as funny as the male characters, not just commenting on how funny the male characters are. Graham Linehan Read Quote
So I don’t think that the default mode of aggressive interviewing is useful, because politicians just build a defence against it. In fact, they thrive on ‘Today’ because they know what’s going to happen. Graham Linehan Read Quote
Whenever I write for television, I plan the story on whiteboard wallpaper in my office, using a system created by the American writer Dan Harmon. It’s remarkably simple: a character wants something; they enter a new world and adapt to it; they get what they want, re-enter the old world and change. Graham Linehan Read Quote
People tend to group together their favourite sitcoms and feel that they all took place in one spot named ‘the past’, but in fact all these sitcoms are spread over a long period of time, and all the terrible sitcoms that were on have been justifiably forgotten. Graham Linehan Read Quote
