About Ben Elton:
Benjamin Charles "Ben" Elton is an English-Australian 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 You (2002) and Love Never Dies (2010), the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera.
Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.
Ben EltonPeople in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves
Ben EltonI think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.
Ben EltonI try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running.
Ben EltonYes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.
Ben Elton