Ben Elton
Ben Elton
Benjamin Charles "Ben" Eltonis an English comedian, author, playwright, actor and director. He was a part of London's alternative comedy movement of the 1980s and became a writer on series such as The Young Ones and Blackadder, as well as continuing as a stand-up comedian on stage and television. His style in the 1980s was left-wing political satire. Since then he has published 15 novels and written the musicals We Will Rock Youand Love Never Dies, the sequel to The...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth3 May 1959
nice thinking people
I don't know what people who I've never met think about me. Some have written horrible things, some have written nice things - but I'm proud of the fact I've remained close to everyone I've ever worked with.
brother book writing
I loved writing 'Two Brothers' more than anything else I have written. It's the first book I've written that I've always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.
writing police done
If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was asked to write.
baseball oasis vote
I did not vote Labour because they've heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got a baseball cap.
past night kentucky
For the past seventeen years I have been experimenting with lager. I am a lager user and one drug leads to another. If you do lager, as night follows day, you'll end up doing Kentucky Fried Chicken.
people dull projects
I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed
race opera lasts
The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
atheist parent secular
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
world losing celebration
I resent the creation of a world in which beauty is a reminder of what we're losing rather than a celebration of what we have.
thinking morality difficult
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
real world earth
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
running mistake risk
I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running.
advice looks novel
My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!
beef yorkshire signatures
And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.