Ben Elton

Person · Open Library

Works

23

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Film & TV

Acting

Already a successful comedian, Ben Elton turned to writing situation comedies during the 1980s and penned BBC classics such as "The Young Ones" (1982), "Black-Adder II" (1986), "Black Adder the Third" (1987), "Blackadder 4" (1989) and during the 1990s "The Thin Blue Line" (1995). He provided lyrics for Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, "The Beautiful Game", which was nominated for Best Musical at…

Known for

• Not Only Fred Dagg But Also John Clarke — Self2025
• The Chris McCausland Show — Self2024
• Blackadder: The Lost Pilot — Self2023
• Ben Elton: The Great Railway Disaster — Self2023
• Blackadder: A Cunning Story — Self - Contributor2023
• Ben Elton: Live — Self2022
• Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg2022
• The BRITs at 40 — Self2020
• Have You Been Paying Attention? — Panellist2019
• The London Studios: Home of the Stars — Self2018

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1959

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,198

Total plays

13,807

Benjamin Charles "Ben" Elton (born 3 May 1959 in London) is a British comedian, author, playwright and television director. He was a leading figure in the British alternative comedy movement of the 1980s, as a writer on such cult series as 'The Young Ones' and 'Blackadder' and as a successful stand-up comedian on stage and TV. He was a high-profile frontman of 1980s left-wing political satire. Since then he has published over twelve novels and more <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ben+Elton"

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using <b>lme4</b>

   · 2015 · cited 73,397x

2. Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

   · 2012 · cited 52,854x

3. HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements

   · 2015 · cited 21,526x

4. Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome

   · 2009 · cited 19,788x

5. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,411x

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Quotes

• “No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.”
• “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.”
• “The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.”
• “Lies are as important as truth, for without lies, the truth is worthless.”
• “Leave a message, don't leave a message. live, die, it's all the same dream.”
• “Things get shaped straight and thin for reasons of aerodynamics. Missiles and skyscrapers are shaped the way they are on the soundest principles of engineering, not as monuments to the dick. In fact, so is the dick. The dick is shaped like a dick because that is the most efficient shape for a dick to be. That's why it's dick shaped. I mean a dick shaped like a table would cause all sorts of practical spatial problems.”

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Wikidata facts

Official website

benelton.net

Image

Ben Elton cropped.jpg

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