Graham Norton

The BBC presenter spoke about the term in relation to the announcement that comedian John Cleese will be a host on GB News, in a role where he plans to air ...

You can’t just say ‘Oh I’m a comedian, I say what I like, if you don’t like it you’re just part of woke/cancel culture’.” Helen Davies said she felt that “the world has gone completely insane”, adding: "It’s comedy. Half the stuff from Monty Python wouldn't be allowed and probably Fawlty Towers as well today. I think the word is the wrong word. I think the word should be ‘accountability’. The Monty Python star said: “There’s a massive amount of important information that gets censored, both in TV and in the press.

The popular TV host said that 'cancellation' should be replaced with 'accountability' - and that experts should be weighing in on controversial subjects ...

Talk to psychiatrists. Talk to doctors. It’s the Michael Gove thing about ‘enough of experts’ – no, please can we have some experts! You don’t need to attach a Kardashian to a serious subject. Norton was then pressed with regards to how his comments can be applied to Rowling, who said that she had recently been met with 'anger, rage and attempts at censorship' due to her stated views on the transgender community. The subject should be enough in itself.

UK TV host Graham Norton quits Twitter after cancer culture and JK Rowling comments on trans issues sparks heated debate.

“Old blokes are an ‘easy target’,” she said. “I’m very aware as ‘bloke off the telly’, your voice can be artificially amplified. “All I’m painfully aware of is that my voice adds nothing to that discussion. she asked, a woman who is ‘deluged with … I’m complaining that you conflate my view with support for rape and death threats. Talk to psychiatrists. Talk to doctors. [Another saying](https://twitter.com/jayrotoole/status/1581941816558948352) “what a world we live in when you can’t even say, ‘listen to the experts’, without being hounded off Twitter”. I think the word should be ‘accountability’.” I think the word is the wrong word. Talk to the parents of trans kids. “And if people want to shine a light on those issues, and I hope people do, then talk to trans people.

Graham Norton has deleted his Twitter account after a backlash to comments made at the Cheltenham Literary Festival. The TV host was credited for giving one ...

He said: “When I’m asked about it, I become a part of it. “Talk to trans people, talk the parents of trans kids, talk to doctors, talk to psychiatrists, to someone who can illuminate this in some way.” The TV host was credited for giving one of the “most sensible takes on cancel culture” in the video and called for more experts to be used in the debate on trans rights.

The comedian was asked about the Harry Potter author's views at an event at the Cheltenham Literature Festival earlier in October.

On Monday (18 October), Twitter users noticed Graham Norton had deleted his Twitter account. [Rowling herself entered the fray ](https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1580609449105891329)by attacking comments made by the singer Billy Bragg in defence of Graham Norton. All I’m painfully aware of is my voice adds nothing to that discussion and I’m embarrassed I’m somehow drawn into it. She argued this situation seemed to be about something “more” than the reaction to what John Cleese has previously said, given JK Rowling is a woman. Describing Cleese as “an easy target” given he is a middle-aged man, Frostrup attempted to draw equivalence with the treatment of JK Rowling. [JK Rowling’s views](/culture/what-terf-meaning-explained-where-it-came-from-jk-rowling-one-3651482) at a Cheltenham Literature Festival event on 11 October.

For several years now, Rowling has been surrounded by controversy due to her gender beliefs and a series of anti-transgender tweets posted in 2020.

You may mock, but takes real bravery to come out as an Old Testament prophet." Talk to someone who can illuminate it in some way," he added. When questioned on Rowling's position on trans rights, Norton had said: "When I'm asked about it, I become a part of it.

Soon after 'Harry Potter' writer JK Rowling criticized Graham Norton over comments about transgender people made in a recent interview, the Irish actor and ...

You may mock, but takes real bravery to come out as an Old Testament prophet." Talk to someone who can illuminate it in some way," he added. When questioned on Rowling's position on trans rights, Norton had said: "When I'm asked about it, I become a part of it.

So Graham Norton has been held to account. That's what he'd call it, right? He's left Twitter, apparently after getting a load of flak for comments on the ...

And find Brendan on Instagram: [@burntoakboy](https://www.instagram.com/burntoakboy/) [John Cleese](spiked-online.com/2022/10/12/why-is-graham-norton-defending-cancel-culture/) has said, too – Cleese being one of the men ‘of a certain age’ that Norton alluded to in his cancel-culture chat at Cheltenham. Watching woke types who go on and on about fatphobia and [classism](https://www.spiked-online.com/tag/class/) (which they don’t actually care about) rushing to Norton’s defence is interesting, is it not? [social media](https://www.spiked-online.com/tag/social-media/), Mr Norton. [celebs](https://www.spiked-online.com/tag/celebrity/) are fine with cancel culture because they know it is primarily aimed at people with supposedly ‘unfashionable’ views – like, erm, that people with penises are men – whereas they hold ‘fashionable’ views only, all the correct-think, and thus they’re safe. Subscribe to the podcast [here](https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-brendan-oneil-show/id1436524071). [Free speech](https://www.spiked-online.com/topic/free-speech/) has consequences, as he himself would say, and in this case the consequence has allegedly been a ‘barrage of abuse’ so intense that Norton felt he had to flounce off Twitter. You don’t need to be an expert to know that someone with a cock is a man and shouldn’t be in women-only spaces. He was subjected to a ‘ [barrage of abuse](https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/17/graham-norton-twitter-trans-rights-jk-rowling/)’, says Pink News. Will he agree that it’s not very nice to bombard men of a certain age with such censure and opprobrium that they decide just to shut their gobs for the sake of the quiet life? The most striking thing in that Norton / Frostrup exchange is what Norton didn’t say. [hounded off Twitter](https://metro.co.uk/2022/10/17/graham-norton-deletes-twitter-account-after-cancel-culture-comments-17579187/)’, they say.

The popular broadcaster and author was subjected to a barrage of abuse on social media over the weekend following his comments at Cheltenham Literature Festival ...

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Irish presenter Graham Norton, put on the spot in a recent interview, said that we should spend more time listening to trans people and experts—and made it ...

Bringing in trans youngsters and their parents confronts abstraction with humanity, and it's easier to dismiss people you've never really met. But more than that, it's because "listen to trans people and their parents" — as reasonable, rational and uncommittal as it seems — lands a direct hit on how anti-trans rhetoric thrives in British media. Irish presenter Graham Norton, put on the spot in a recent interview, said that we should spend more time listening to trans people and experts—and made it clear that random celebrities such as himself shouldn't be leading the discussion.