Profile Graham Linehan: No laughing matter

Linehan has stopped looking for laughs. Instead, he’s agitating for a change to the Constitution

Linehan is calling on the government to repeal the Eighth Amendment

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Age:47

Appearance: dark-haired, casually attired

Newsworthiness: the Father Ted creator and his wife Helen have released a YouTube video in which they speak movingly about their personal experience of abortion

What a difference a decade makes. Back in 2005, Graham Linehan was known to his public for more or less one thing only: being the acclaimed co-author of a batch of hilarious TV comedies, from Father Ted to Black Books.

But in ...