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Matt Berry responds to transphobic ‘IT Crowd’ episode

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The IT Crowd many deemed transphobic.Commenting on ‘The Speech’, an episode from 2008 in which Berry’s character Douglas dates a transgender woman and breaks up with her after discovering she is trans, the actor has now said the episode looks “ridiculous and dated”.In an interview with Vulture, Berry went on to distance himself from the episode’s writing, which came from Father Ted creator Graham Linehan.“I don’t condone anything that that comedy portrayed, you know?” Berry said of the episode in question. “I don’t share any views that the writer has.”Super fun @Vulture profile of Matt Berry, but particularly great he went on the record – unequivocally so, after a bit of prompting – on Linehan: https://t.co/LvSL4FUyP3.

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