Jeremy Lloyd
Jeremy Lloyd
John Jeremy Lloyd, OBEwas an English writer, screenwriter, author, poet and actor, best known as co-author and writer of several successful British sitcoms, including Are You Being Served? and 'Allo 'Allo!...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth22 July 1930
born child failure
My first failure was to be born a child not wanted by his father or mother, as they parted shortly after I was born.
course says somebody
You never write a catchphrase; you never write something and say, 'This is going to be a catchphrase.' You just write the show, and then in the course of the show, somebody says something, and for some reason it gets a laugh.
began increasing life might number rainy result
As a result of my life on the road and the increasing number of rainy afternoons in cinemas, I began to get the idea that I might write a film.
arrived billy knew
I knew I had arrived when taxi drivers would say, 'You're that twit on the Billy Cotton Show, aren't you?'
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Friends often tell me how much their grandchildren enjoy 'Are You Being Served?' It doesn't matter that they were not even born when it was broadcast, or that they belong to a very different world.