Ronnie Barker

News: Ben Elton Defends Mainstream Sitcoms In TV Lecture

In a wide-ranging talk, given at the BBC as the inaugural Ronnie Barker Comedy Lecture, comedian Ben Elton has spoken out in defence of mainstream studio sitcoms such as Mrs Brown’s Boys and talked about his own career at the BBC from the Young Ones and Blackadder through to Upstart Crow via the less well-received The Wright Way.

Ben Elton To Give Inaugural The Ronnie Barker Talk BBC Comedy Lecture

Comedian and writer Ben Elton is to deliver the inaugural The Ronnie Barker Talk on BBC One. 

A passion project of Shane Allen, Controller, Comedy Commissioning at the BBC, the annual The Ronnie Barker Talk is a lecture on a comedy=related theme, named in honour of the late, legendary comedian, actor and writer Ronnie Barker OBE and has been developed with the approval of his family. 

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