The comedian reveals the rows, rivalries and excess behind comedy’s golden age – and how fame and drink changed his old friend ...

Ben Elton has insisted he is nothing like the brash, loudmouth stand-up comedian that made him famous in the 1980s. The writer and comedian got his television break appearing on Saturday Live and ...

Ben Elton was one of the most ubiquitous faces in British pop culture in the Eighties and Nineties, but he has expressed sadness about having dropped off the radar in recent years. Elton shot to fame ...

Anna Gare has credited Ben Elton with kick-starting her television career. The Junior MasterChef judge and former singer, whose sister Sophie is married to British comedian and writer Elton, said that ...

Ben Elton was there at the birth of alternative comedy and became inextricably identified with its combative, snarky, politically correct attitude. More than 40 years on, with his sitcom-writing ...

"The Wright Way is a sitcom that would have looked and felt badly dated in the 1970s," said The Guardian. The Independent suggested that the new BBC comedy is "occasionally so groan-inducing that you ...

The railways are in crisis, from mass cancellations to soaring prices. Comedian Ben Elton embarks on a northern rail misadventure. Is rail privatisation a failed experiment?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ben Elton (left) with Rik Mayall. The pair first met at Manchester University in 1977 - Karen Freedman Ben Elton came across Rik ...

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