Graham Linehan in Exile

A review of 'Tough Crowd: How I Made and Lost a Career in Comedy'

It was Welsh comedy producer Griff Rhys Jones who sentenced Father Ted to Purgatory on Craggy Isle during a creative session with Graham Linehan.

“‘Every sitcom needs to have a trap,’ he told us. ‘Some reason that these incompatible characters don’t just stay as far away from each other as possible.’” Sustaining the unique chemistry of the show required…