Editing Graham Linehan (section)

=== Memoir ===
Linehan's memoir, ''Tough Crowd: How I Made and Lost a Career in Comedy'', was published in October 2023.<ref name="The Sunday Times-2023">{{Cite news |date=29 October 2023 |title=The Sunday Times Bestsellers List |work=[[The Sunday Times]] |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/sunday-times-bestsellers-list-book-sales-chart-fnxjm0bnl |access-date=29 October 2023 |archive-date=29 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029043659/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sunday-times-bestsellers-list-book-sales-chart-2023-wtf0fg8v7 |url-status=live }}</ref> The month before publication, it had the second-highest number of pre-orders for a book on Amazon.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Freeman |first=Hadley |date=2023-09-23 |title=Graham Linehan: comedy genius whose trans views cost him everything |language=en |work=[[The Times]] |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/graham-linehan-trans-views-comedy-career-family-9rfdpzlpz |access-date=2023-09-23 |archive-date=23 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230923202203/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/graham-linehan-trans-views-comedy-career-family-9rfdpzlpz |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-10-13 |title=The problems with Graham Linehan's memoir Tough Crowd |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/graham-linehan-tough-crowd-book-trans-b2428578.html |access-date=2023-11-01 |website=[[The Independent]] |language=en |archive-date=14 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231014175454/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/graham-linehan-tough-crowd-book-trans-b2428578.html |url-status=live }}</ref> It reached number ten on the ''[[Sunday Times]]'' bestseller list after it was published.<ref name="The Sunday Times-2023" /> Linehan wrote of his childhood, career, and his five years as an anti-[[transgender]] activist.<ref name="Sturges-2023">{{Cite news |last=Sturges |first=Fiona |date=2023-11-01 |title=Tough Crowd by Graham Linehan review – all joking aside |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/01/tough-crowd-by-graham-linehan-review-all-joking-aside |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231101143134/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/01/tough-crowd-by-graham-linehan-review-all-joking-aside |archive-date=1 November 2023 |access-date=2023-11-01 |work=[[The Guardian]] |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

Reviewing ''Tough Crowd'' in ''The Guardian'', Fiona Sturges wrote that while Linehan's account of his comedy career has "verve and charm", the memoir "reads less like the story of a man heroically cleaving to his principles than a document of a peculiar and self-defeating obsession, a sad coda to a once towering talent".<ref name="Sturges-2023" /> In ''[[The Critic (modern magazine)|The Critic]],'' Ben Sixsmith described ''Tough Crowd'' as "very entertaining" with "some valuable insights into comedy", but that Linehan "admits to losing his rag in a way that might not always be productive".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sixsmith |first=Ben |date=12 October 2023 |title=Tough crowd, tough man |work=[[The Critic (modern magazine)|The Critic]] |url=https://thecritic.co.uk/tough-crowd-tough-man/ |access-date=29 October 2023 |archive-date=29 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029150053/https://thecritic.co.uk/tough-crowd-tough-man/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In ''[[The Irish Times]]'', Houman Barekat wrote that it had "two distinct narratives" and was "a discomfiting read not because it contains hard-hitting home truths, but because its author clearly hasn't worked through his issues".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Barekat |first=Houman |date=25 October 2023 |title=Tough Crowd by Graham Linehan: comic writer to culture warrior |newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2023/10/21/tough-crowd-by-graham-linehan-an-incomplete-understanding-of-manliness/ |access-date=29 October 2023 |archive-date=29 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029150052/https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2023/10/21/tough-crowd-by-graham-linehan-an-incomplete-understanding-of-manliness/ |url-status=live }}</ref> For ''[[The Spectator]],'' [[Debbie Hayton]] wrote that it was "a book of two halves" that "may well appeal to two completely different audiences", concluding that "if they want to understand the man they need to read it all".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hayton |first1=Debbie |title=No laughing matter: accusations of transphobia wrecked Graham Linehan's life |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/no-laughing-matter-accusations-of-transphobia-wrecked-graham-linehans-life/ |access-date=9 November 2023 |work=[[The Spectator]] |date=11 November 2023 |archive-date=9 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231109073825/https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/no-laughing-matter-accusations-of-transphobia-wrecked-graham-linehans-life/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Louis Chilton of [[The Independent|''The Independent'']] described it as "a strange, sad read{{nbsp}}... that crumbles under the slightest scrutiny".<ref>{{cite news |last=Chilton |first=Louis |date=13 October 2013 |title=The problems with Graham Linehan's memoir Tough Crowd |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/graham-linehan-tough-crowd-book-trans-b2428578.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231014175454/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/graham-linehan-tough-crowd-book-trans-b2428578.html |archive-date=14 October 2023 |access-date=14 October 2023 |work=[[The Independent]]}}</ref>