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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
National
Ross Hunter

Graham Linehan comedy show moved to outside Scottish Parliament

THE comedy Fringe show featuring TV writer Graham Linehan has finally settled on a venue: outside the Scottish Parliament. 

Earlier this week, the Comedy Unleashed show featuring the comedian faced cancellation after Edinburgh venue Leith Arches refused to host Linehan due to his anti-transgender views. 

Linehan has previously claimed that the "gender identity movement" is "paedophilic" and said that "almost every central trans figure is a nonce".

The venue said they would "will not allow such views to violate our space”. 

Organisers then claimed to have secured a replacement venue only to announce that this, too, had fallen through. 

However, they told ticket-holders that they would be e-mailed the location of a third venue where the show would go ahead. 

Linehan and other comedians were seen outside Holyrood with a microphone and speakers, with a crowd gathering to watch the show go ahead. 

Andrew Doyle, the GB News presenter who organised the gig, tweeted a picture of a small makeshift stage erected outside the public entrance to the Scottish Parliament. 

He said: So @Glinner  and the other acts will do the gig on a small stage outside the Scottish parliament at Holyrood at 7:30pm.

"This show is happening, whether these activists approve or not". 

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