For the confused people on my dash, Eurovision is an event where all the European countries have a musician and a song and they all battle it out like the Hunger Games. Only one will come out alive. They will become King of Europe and control the EU and everyone has to speak that language for the year until next Eurovision.
Twitter is like – it’s like I blinked into existence. I’ve been writing comedy for 20 years, but I only got invited on to Have I Got News For You” – which has been going for 22 years – “six months ago. It’s because suddenly I existed for a lot of people who otherwise wouldn’t have known me. Twitter has made me – it’s not only brought me out as an individual, but people don’t ask me about priests any more, people don’t ask me about Ireland – two things that are a part of my life, but priests are not a big part of my life. It’s been great to be able to talk about different things because of Twitter.
— Graham Linehan, the IT Crowd and Father Ted writer, talks about social networks, internet distractions and why so-called pirates are really fans (via guardian)
