Jimmy Carr has sparked criticism after displaying help for Graham Linehan following the latter’s anti-trans social media feedback.
Linehan, who co-created Father Ted and The IT Crowd, made headlines final month when he was arrested at Heathrow Airport on suspicion of inciting violence in relation to his posts on social media.
Whereas the Met Police didn’t affirm the id of the particular person arrested, they added that after being taken into custody, officers had develop into involved for his well-being and he was taken to the hospital. His situation was stated to be neither life-threatening nor life-changing, and he was later bailed pending additional investigation.
Writing on Substack, Linehan shared particulars of his arrest and claimed that he had been “arrested at an airport like a terrorist” (through The Unbiased). He then added that he was questioned by the police over posts made on X/Twitter in April, referring to him difficult a “trans-identified male” in a “female-only house”.
Now, comic and TV host Carr has voiced help for Linehan whereas within the US.
The second came about on stage in Minnesota as a part of Jimmy Carr’s Laughs Humorous Tour. Carr requested viewers members to submit questions – certainly one of which was: “Welcome to Minnesota, Jimmy. Do you’ve got any good jokes that will get you arrested at Heathrow?”
Responding, Carr stated: “Yeah! Graham Linehan… I fucking love Graham. As a result of whether or not you agree with Graham or J.Okay. Rowling or not, it’s important to admit the factor that’s in brief provide in our society is bravery…”
“You have obtained The First Modification…Cherish it.”
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— Jimmy Carr (@jimmycarr) October 27, 2025
He continued: “He misplaced his household, he misplaced his profession, he misplaced the whole lot. After which he was getting fucking arrested on the airport. Fucking insanity… You’ve obtained the First Modification. Fucking cherish it.”
Linehan has stated that Carr went to go to him within the midst of him “being cancelled” and trying to “save” his marriage and profession (as per Every day Mail).
Responding to Carr’s backing of the Father Ted creator, some on social media have criticised the 8 Out Of 10 Cats host.
“What’s courageous about ongoing, focused harassment of everything of a susceptible minority group,” one particular person wrote in response to Carr sharing a clip from the present on-line. “He was arrested for HARRASSMENT, not for his ‘opinion’,” one other added. “It’s a legal cost. Aren’t you Cambridge-educated?”
A 3rd responded: “So courageous being a bully.”
What’s courageous about ongoing, focused harassment of everything of a susceptible minority group?
— Jamie (@JamieCutteridge) October 27, 2025
He was arrested for HARRASSMENT, not for his “opinion.” How low can one be shifting the narrative – dangle on; LYING like a real SOB?
Once more, he was arrested for harrassment. It is a legal cost. Aren’t you Cambridge-educated? I might assume you possess *some* complete abilities.— CatEyedBlues (@CallMeCatFlake) October 27, 2025
So courageous being a bully. pic.twitter.com/pkeyFgyW6n
— stephen mc everton (@goodison2) October 27, 2025
Linehan himself additionally took to X to share a response to the comic’s on stage feedback, thanking him for backing him up.
“Delighted that Jimmy Carr has proven help,” he wrote. “I couldn’t count on him to defend me earlier as a result of the identical individuals who got here after me have been continually attempting to cancel him.
“They almost succeeded various occasions so I actually didn’t need his profession on my conscience.”
Delighted that Jimmy Carr has proven help. I hope it is now protected to say that he alone visited me after I was being cancelled and attempting desperately to avoid wasting my marriage and profession. He wasn’t even an in depth buddy, so it was exceptionally variety.
— Graham Linehan (@Glinner) October 26, 2025
I could not count on him to defend me earlier as a result of the identical individuals who got here after me have been continually attempting to cancel him. They almost succeeded various occasions so I actually did not need his profession on my conscience.
— Graham Linehan (@Glinner) October 26, 2025
In his Substack submit final month, detailing the arrest at Heathrow, the author shared: “The second I stepped off the aircraft at Heathrow, 5 armed cops have been ready. Not one, not two—5. They escorted me to a non-public space and informed me I used to be underneath arrest for 3 tweets.”
In response to Linehan’s declare that he was arrested by armed officers, the Met stated: “The arrest was made by officers from the MPS Aviation Unit. It’s routine for officers policing airports to hold firearms. These weren’t drawn or used at any level through the arrest.”
Linehan went on so as to add that after he was escorted to a cell, he was escorted to A&E because it was discovered that his blood strain was in “stroke territory” as a result of “the stress of being arrested for jokes was actually threatening my life”.
The Telegraph experiences that he has since been knowledgeable by the Crown Prosecution Service that, after a “cautious evaluate” of his posts on-line, there will likely be no additional motion.
BBC Information additionally shares that Linehan, with the help of the Free Speech Union, has stated that he will likely be suing the Metropolitan Police for wrongful arrest and a breach of his free speech rights.
Linehan has made headlines together with his anti-transgender views lately, being a vocal opponent of ideas together with gender self-identification and what he has described as “trans ideology”. These are rumoured to be behind a Father Ted musical being axed in 2022.
In 2018, Linehan was issued a verbal harassment warning by police after he was concerned in a web based row with a transgender activist.
